Event

Webinar: How can multi-stakeholder partnerships address SDG interlinkages?

Name: Webinar: How can multi-stakeholder partnerships address SDG interlinkages?
Start: 2024-03-11T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-03-11T11:30:00+01:00

UNECE Regional Forum 2024 online side event

The 2023 SDG Summit political declaration urges all relevant actors “to better address interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs between the Sustainable Development Goals, enhancing policy coherence for sustainable development. This side event to the Regional Forum on sustainable development for the UNECE region aims to shed light upon how partnerships can address interlinkages as a means to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda.

11 March 2024 at 10:00 CET

ending at 11:30 CET

Online only

Event contact

Linn Järnberg

Fish-eye aerial shot of earth. Image sequence taken by drone above a community field in Wales. — Photo: Louis Reed / Unsplash

In this webinar, speakers from academia as well as partnership practitioners will share their experiences about whether and how partnerships address SDG interlinkages and the implications this has for making partnerships building blocks towards transformations and achievement of the 2030 Agenda. The discussion will combine novel research on multi-stakeholder partnerships with examples of partnership practice across the SDGs.

The session will be moderated by Karin Bäckstrand, Professor, Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and the Institute for Future Studies.

Agenda

Segment I: State of Play

Governing SDG Interlinkages – How Can Synergies and Trade-Offs Be Understood and Managed?
- Linn Järnberg, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
Are Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Addressing SDG Interlinkages?
- Montserrat Koloffon and Cornelia Fast, PhD Candidates, VU Amsterdam

Segment II: Making Partnerships More Synergistic, Effective, and Legitimate

Addressing Synergies and Trade-Offs Through Partnerships in Practice
- Dave Prescott, Creative Director, The Partnering Initiative.
Broad-Based Partnerships for More Collaborative, Inclusive, and Multi-Sectoral Management of SDG Synergies and Trade-Offs
- David Horan, Fellow at Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, and Assistant Professor at Trinity School of Business, Trinity College Dublin
Reflections
- Magdalena Bexell, Associate Professor in Political Science, Lund University

How to attend

This side event to the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE region will be held online on Monday, 11 March 2024, from 10:00 am to 11:30 am CET.