National Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Ireland

This chapter outlines the Irish government’s approach to creating top-down multi-stakeholder partnerships for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The research presented in the chapter explores the perceptions of non-state actors on the possibilities and barriers of following such a partnership approach in implementing the SDGs in Ireland. In doing so, it also evaluates the successes and failures of the Irish government’s approach toward including diverse non-state actors in implementing the Goals and its implications for other nations on building top-down SDG partnerships.