A Time For Transformative Partnerships: How Multistakeholder Partnerships Can Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This executive summary describes a report developed by the World Resources Institute in collaboration with P4G, the Global Green Growth Institute, and the World Economic Forum. The report provides a roadmap for governments, businesses, and civil society organizations to utilize multistakeholder partnerships to accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through systemic, long-term, and disruptive transformation.

• To accelerate SDG action, partnerships must align their design with the three characteristics of transformation: they must be systemic (affecting systems like water, energy, or food), long-term and sustained, and disruptive to the status quo.
• Partnerships seeking transformation typically operate along a continuum that involves either changing external policies and practices or launching commercial products and services that address the SDGs.
• An evaluation of 41 SDG-focused partnerships identified four specific success factors that distinguish partnerships with high transformation potential from those with low potential: a clear understanding of the system of interest, agreement on joint vision and goals, a performance tracking system integrating systems thinking, and the leveraging of external stakeholders.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). A Time For Transformative Partnerships: How Multistakeholder Partnerships Can Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.wri.org/research/time-transformative-partnerships

Chicago

World Resources Institute. A Time For Transformative Partnerships: How Multistakeholder Partnerships Can Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/time-transformative-partnerships.

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@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendtime, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{A Time For Transformative Partnerships: How Multistakeholder Partnerships Can Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/time-transformative-partnerships}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }