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Table 1
Summary of the selected projects and main findings relevant to SDGs implementation in Sunway University Malaysia
SDG
Projects
Partners
Relevance/Implication
Findings/Outcome
SDG 17:
Partnership for the
goals
ASEAN ministers
workshop 2017 on SDGs
ASEAN
• To empower ASEAN members to
improve their development plans and
reorder their implementation priorities
to achieve SDGs
• National strategies to achieve SDGs are
presented and shared to formulate a
regional mechanism to implement the
UN SDGs
• More than one hundred participants took
part, including several ministers, senior
government officers, NGOs and the
public
Executive training course
on leaders in sustainable
development: empowering
leaders to elevate the
region to the forefront of
global SDG achievement
• Columbia University
• Sunway University
• ASEAN
• To commit to the adoption of UN 2030
Agenda and to collectively pursue the 17
SDGs and 169 targets
• To equip leaders in Malaysia and
countries in the ASEAN region and
beyond, with the insights and
customised approaches for sustainable
development programming, policy
interventions and multi-stakeholder
collaborations
• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia
University led a team of top experts in
Sustainable Development practices to
teach this course
• A total of more than 40 participants took
part in this training course, more than
the anticipated participation
• At the end of the course, the participants
will (i) grasp new perspectives and
develop a solid appreciation of the key
opportunities for countries and
organisations, (ii) gain access to
institutional frameworks and tools that
can be immediately applied to SDGs
and (iii) leverage upon a collaborative
environment that promotes partnerships
between participants from the public and
private sectors
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