Multi-Stakeholder partnerships (SDG#17) as a means of achieving sustainable communities and cities (SDG#11).

As social and ecological problems escalate, involving stakeholder groups in helping solve these

recognizes the importance of partnerships and collaborative governance. However, organizing

for ensuring collaborative action. Understanding the relationship between implementation

the context of sustainable community plan implementation, the larger research project of which

achieve results. To date we have the data from a survey completed by 111 local governments

integrated environmental, social and economic topics are considered, including climate change,

plan implementation in local authorities around the world there is scant empirical data on the

costs and savings to the local governments that implement in partnership with their communities.

created and implemented in a diversity of communities around the world, are integrated in the

act as motivators of resource investment by the local government in community sustainability,

and result in savings for the local government.