Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is an international multi-stakeholder organisation working on sustainable development; supporting the increased involvement of stakeholders in international and national governance processes. The organisation played a key role in the preparations for and follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. It is the lead organisation in the development and facilitating of multi-stakeholder processes for sustainable development.
In October 2004 Stakeholder Forum became, after seventeen years, a free-standing organization in its own right. It took the opportunity to rename itself, feeling that Stakeholder Forum for a Common Future looked back to the Brundtland Report in 1987, while Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future looked forward.
Initially Stakeholder Forum was UNEP-UK, hosted by IIED from 1987 to 1992, and then UNED-UK from 1993 to 2000. It acted as the National Committee for UNEP in the UK and the first Northern Focal Point for UNDP. In 2000 it became an international multi-stakeholder organization called Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future hosted by UNA-UK (1993-2004).
Stakeholder Forum is now an independent organization with a small staffed secretariat based in London and staff, partners and consultants around the globe.