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Reimagining Development Institutions for the SDG Era: Pathways to Impact

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Partnerships for the Goals

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Development institutions – The structures and processes through which initiatives to achieve positive change are designed, implemented, and negotiated. Development institutions guide the nature and practices of development organizations.

Impact pathways – The processes through which an impact or significant positive outcome is achieved. Impact pathways may be conceptualized according to one or more theories of change, in which actions create outputs, outcomes, and ultimately impacts.

Introduction: Old Institutions, New Challenges

Development studies is finally overcoming the constraints of its postcolonial framing. Its vertical division of the world into categories of “developed” or “underdeveloped,” North or South, is shifting to explore the potential for horizontal relationships for change (IDS 2017). In practice the playing field for development action has widened, and the definition of “development” has deepened. With the Sustainable Development Goals (UN 2015), social...

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  1. Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Australia

    Robyn Eversole

  2. Universidad ORT Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Nicolás Gambetta

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Economics and Management Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Marco Tortora

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Eversole, R., Gambetta, N. (2019). Reimagining Development Institutions for the SDG Era: Pathways to Impact. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_48-1

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