The implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) requires collaboration between actors from different sectors. One way of facilitating exchange between different actors are forums. This article investigates the contribution of different types of forums for SDG implementation. We use the case of Switzerland’s implementation of SDG 6 in the Global South to explore this question and rely on a small-N comparison of four forums. Based on a broad set of different empirical sources such as interviews, document analysis, and survey data, we characterize the forums according to important dimensions emphasized in forum research and use the forum characteristics to explain three types of first-order forum outputs: participation patterns, information exchange, and trust and procedural fairness. We observe that a mix of different forum characteristics accounts for different forum outputs. One forum that is actively promoting networking opportunities, for example, manages to reach many participants that are not reached by other forums. Furthermore, our results indicate that new types of forums that focus more on the implementation of the Agenda 2030 in general rather than single SDGs might become crucial to foster information exchange among actors.

《 2030年议程》和《 17个可持续发展目标》的实施要求不同部门的行为者之间进行合作。论坛是促进不同参与者之间交流的一种方式。本文研究了不同类型的论坛对实现SDG的贡献。我们以瑞士在全球南方实施SDG 6的情况为例，探讨这个问题，并依靠四个论坛的小N比较。基于访谈，文档分析和调查数据等广泛的不同经验来源，我们根据论坛研究中强调的重要维度对论坛进行特征描述，并利用论坛的特征来解释三种一阶论坛输出的类型：参与模式，信息交换以及信任和程序公平。我们注意到，不同的论坛特征混合在一起导致了不同的论坛输出。例如，一个积极地促进交流机会的论坛设法吸引了许多其他论坛无法达到的参与者。此外，我们的结果表明，更多类型的论坛更侧重于总体上实施《 2030年议程》，而不是单一的可持续发展目标，对于促进参与者之间的信息交流可能至关重要。