Background
The importance of participation by all actors is emphasized throughout the 2030 Agenda. The Preamble highlights “a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.”
The 2030 Agenda recalls how the Sustainable Development Goals are “the result of over two years of intensive public consultation and engagement with civil society and other stakeholders around the world, which paid particular attention to the voices of the poorest and most vulnerable.”
Delivering the SDGs in the next decade will demand ambition, decisiveness and a sense of urgency. The Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals will demand the mobilization of everyone, everywhere, grounded on a level of ambition that supercharges ideas into concrete, bold and implementable solutions.
Our Work
The Division for SDGs (DSDG) supports and facilitates the participation of stakeholders from different sectors and levels in the implementation and follow up of the 2030 Agenda.
DSDG facilitates and promotes the contribution of stakeholders from different sectors at the global level, including at special events at the United Nations high-level political forum and at global conferences and events related to sustainable development.
DSDG also develops publications and other research materials and tools and provides capacity building opportunities for national governments and stakeholders to support knowledge exchange, identify good practices and to strengthen stakeholders’ engagement in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
Major Groups and Other Stakeholders
Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS) were integral to the development and adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and have been actively working towards its implementation, through projects, initiatives, advocacy, knowledge-sharing, and monitoring. MGoS often work in partnership with other sectors, including governments.
The UN DESA Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development (OISC) is responsible for supporting the participation of Major Groups and Other Stakeholders at the United Nations high-level political forum and other intergovernmental processes.
Check this page for more information about Major Groups and other stakeholders.
Resources
- An Overview of SD2015: Delivering on the Promise of the SDGs
- What is a Good Practice? A framework to analyse the Quality of Stakeholder Engagement in implementation and follow-up of the 2030 Agenda (available in English, Spanish and French).
- Stakeholder Engagement and the 2030 Agenda: A Practical Guide (available in English, Spanish and French).
- Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Strengthening stakeholder engagement for the implementation and review of the 2030 Agenda
- Survey: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Preparations of the Voluntary National Reviews, stakeholder engagement and partnerships for SDG implementation and follow-up (regional snapshots available, LAC snapshot in Spanish).
- Multi-stakeholder engagement in 2030 Agenda implementation: A review of Voluntary National Review Reports (2016-2019)
- How should civil society stakeholders report their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
- Country Reports: Strengthening the multi-stakeholder dimension of national development planning and SDG mainstreaming
Global Online Stakeholder Consultations
- 2026 UN Water Conference - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation on the Themes for the Interactive Dialogues
- 2025 UN Ocean Conference - Stakeholders Inputs to the 2025 UN Ocean Conference Declaration
- UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026-2035) - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- 2025 ECOSOC Partnership Forum - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- 2025 UN Ocean Conference - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation - Inputs to Ocean Action Panels Concept Papers
- The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) - 2nd Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- 2024 ECOSOC Partnership Forum - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation Report
- The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Regional Snapshot Pacific Region
- The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Regional Snapshot Caribbean Region
- The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Regional Snapshot AIS Region
- Global Stakeholders Online Consultation for the SDG 7 Review at 2023 HLPF
- United Nations 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum – Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- United Nations 2023 Water Conference - Second Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Proposed Themes for Interactive Dialogues
- Global Online Consultation: SDGs under review at the 2022 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)
- United Nations 2023 Water Conference - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Themes for the Interactive Dialogues
- 2022 UN Ocean Conference - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Inputs to concept papers of interactive dialogues
- United Nations 2022 ECOSOC Partnership Forum - Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
- Thematic E-Consultation for the United Nations High Level Dialogue on Energy
Regional, Subregional, National and Online Capacity Building
Achieving the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs in each country will depend on collaborative partnerships between governments and non-State actors at all levels, and at all stages of the programmatic cycle-planning, consultations, implementation, monitoring and reviews. Click to read more.
- Report of the Sub-Regional Stakeholder Capacity Development Workshop
- Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Strengthening stakeholder engagement for the implementation and review of the 2030 Agenda (A partnership between DESA and UNITAR
Other research
- LinkedSDGs: a tool extracting key concepts related to sustainable development from text documents and links them to the most relevant sustainable development goals, targets, indicators and series.
- 2030 Agenda Partnership Accelerator Learning Library: guidance, tools and assessments for individuals and organizations seeking to build effective multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
Events
