ABSTRACT
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim at transforming our world. The more open and inclusive process of developing the goals led to a much broader, one-world agenda in comparison to the earlier Millennium Development Goals which only focused on the developing world. While the inequality goal in the SDGs in particular remains contentious, broad endorsement of the program now provides an aspirational framework for global governance. There are numerous inadequacies in assessing compliance: reporting is from voluntary national assessments with states choosing how to prioritize their goals; monitoring is not easy given the plethora of indicators; and there is no effective way of tracking international organizations, nonetheless, numerous efforts at implementation are now underway. The book has seven chapters focusing on five individual SDGs and one “missing” SDG on migration, and another seven chapters looking at the overall factors needed for successful partnership and institutional innovation to implement the Goals.
