17 Partnerships to achieve the Goal

To address global challenges, it is necessary to mobilise several resources from different stakeholders, namely governments, civil society, private sector, academia, and citizens to come together and establish strong multi-stakeholder partnerships and cooperation at the global, regional, national and local levels.

Technology development, financial resources, and capacity building provided by stakeholders should be used effectively to achieve all SDGs. Capacity building refers to empowering individuals and organisations to enable them to support themselves. Official Development Assistance (ODA) refers to financial aid provided by developed countries for developing countries and it is a measure for aid flow. To build strong and global partnerships, communication is essential, so investments in communication infrastructure are essential to increase internet access and broadband connections.

International cooperation is crucial to support national plans, data collection, and statistical research to fulfil Agenda 2030, to promote investment and help developing countries to increase their exports. Besides, investments in education and learning in developing countries is essential to promote development in the long term.

SDG 17, has a macro perspective about SDGs, however education and in particular vocational training can contribute to the achievement of this SDG, providing students with knowledge, skills, and competencies important for the establishment of partnerships, such as the capacity for mobilisation, negotiation, and cooperation. Schools, in particular vocational schools, are an example of the importance of establishing partnerships mainly with the private sector, to develop internships with students among other activities.

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Finance

17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilisation, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.2 Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 percent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.3 Mobilise additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

Technology
17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.7 Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.8 Fully operationalise the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

Capacity building
17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

Trade
17.10 Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.11 Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.12 Realise timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

Systemic issues
Policy and institutional coherence
17.13 Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.15 Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16 Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilise and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

Action Area

Network acting

To address the uncertainty and complexity of global challenges, individuals need to have the knowledge, abilities, and skills to establish partnerships at all levels (local, national, international). Individuals should have the capacity to look for synergies, build stronger multi-stakeholder partnerships, and join or create networks to share knowledge, expertise, and financial resources. Individuals can contribute to this SDG through the participation in a youth network or movement for SDGs, or the participation in activities involving different partnerships (local authorities, private sector, among others).
Awareness raising

International cooperation programmes are included in SDG 17. In this case, the establishment of partnerships between different international stakeholders is essential for more effective cooperation. To promote international cooperation, citizens can have a role in influencing policies of the government, business, or multilateral organisations (for example, the United Nations) with a global impact on issues as ODA or policy coherence. Besides this, citizens can work as change agents for sustainable development and international cooperation, developing projects of fundraising to support education in developing countries.
Conscious and proactive action

Currently, with technological development in particular in the areas of communication, people are more connected and closer despite the physical distance. Greater access to information allows citizens, as consumers, to make more informed decisions able to reflect concerns about social justice and sustainability. Besides, easy travel allows for the easier establishment of partnerships and relationships with international organisations. As consumers, individuals can buy fairtrade products and be concerned with the product supply chain to ensure that they take ethical principles into account. As citizens, they can choose to do solidary and sustainable tourism or integrate international volunteering programmes to contribute to the global common good.

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The learner understands global issues, including issues of financing for development, taxation, debt and trade policies, and the interconnectedness and interdependence of different countries and populations.
The learner understands the importance of global multi-stakeholder partnerships and the shared accountability for sustainable development and knows examples of networks, institutions, campaigns of global partnerships.
The learner knows the concepts of global governance and global citizenship.
The learner recognises the importance of cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation, and knowledge sharing.
The learner knows concepts for measuring progress on sustainable development

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The learner is able to raise awareness about the importance of global partnerships for sustainable development.
The learner is able to work with others to promote global partnerships for sustainable development and demand governments’ accountability for the SDGs.
The learner is able to take ownership of the SDGs.
The learner is able to create a vision for a sustainable global society.
The learner is able to experience a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing values and responsibilities, based on human rights.

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The learner is able to become a change agent to realise the SDGs and to take on their role as an active, critical and global and sustainability citizen.
The learner is able to contribute to facilitating and implementing local, national and global partnerships for sustainable development.
The learner is able to publicly demand and support the development of policies promoting global partnerships for sustainable development.
The learner is able to support development cooperation activities.
The learner is able to influence companies to become part of global partnerships for sustainable development.

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Organisations must work together with governments, academia, civil society, and citizens to develop solutions and mobilise resources to support sustainable development. To promote SDG 17, organisations can act within their network through raising awareness, supporting international cooperation and development, and through a corporate social responsibility that takes into account business ethics.

Regarding awareness-raising, organisations can support international cooperation programmes and contribute to international fundraising campaigns through the mobilisation of financial and material resources and in this way accomplish sustainable development goals.

Corporate social responsibility should embrace business ethics principles that promote trustworthiness, respect, fairness, solidarity values in the workplace, and all the relations that organisations establish. Within a corporate social responsibility strategy, organisations can search for partnerships to encourage their employees to be involved in SDGs initiatives, for example, in volunteering work.

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United Nations - SDG Knowledge - SDG17

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