Global Partnerships Week 2017: Partnership Practitioners Forum

This year's forum will bring together partnership practitioners and leaders to engage in discussion on common challenges and best practices, identify new partnership opportunities, and coordinate on collaborative solutions. This year, GPW will focus on the role of partnerships in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals. 

SESSIONS WILL INCLUDE 

Partnership-Building Workshops:

  • Governance & Legal Issues
  • Fostering Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Negotiation
  • Practical Management
  • Measuring & Utilizing Metrics

SDG-Themed Breakout Sessions:

  • Human Rights (SDGs 4, 5, 6, 10, 16)
  • Economic Opportunity & Employment (SDGs 1, 4, 7, 8, 9) 
  • Human & Natural Environment (SDGs 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15) 
  • Health (SDGs 2, 3, 6, 11)
  • Infrastructure (SDGs 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)

Plenary Session:

  • Goal 17 in 2017: Partnerships to Achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Organization Name
U.S. Department of State in collaboration with Concordia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and PeaceTech Lab
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