Goal 17 : Revitalize
the global partnership for sustainable development
A successful sustainable development agenda
requires partnerships between governments, the private sector
and civil society. These inclusive partnerships built upon principles
and values, a shared vision, and shared goals that place people
and the planet at the centre, are needed at the global, regional,
national and local level.
Urgent action is needed to mobilize, redirect and unlock the
transformative power of trillions of dollars of private resources
to deliver on sustainable development objectives. Long-term
investments, including foreign direct investment, are needed
in critical sectors, especially in developing countries. These
include sustainable energy, infrastructure and transport, as
well as information and communications technologies. The public
sector will need to set a clear direction. Review and monitoring
frameworks, regulations and incentive structures that enable
such investments must be retooled to attract investments and
reinforce sustainable development. National oversight mechanisms
such as supreme audit institutions and oversight functions by
legislatures should be strengthened.
Facts & figures
- Official development assistance stood at $135.2 billion in
2014, the highest level ever recorded
- 79 per cent of imports from developing countries enter developed
countries duty-free
The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about
3 per cent of export revenue
- The number of Internet users in Africa almost doubled in
the past four years
- 30 per cent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active
online for at least five years
- But more four billion people do not use the Internet, and
90 per cent of them are from the developing world
Goal 17 targets
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Strengthen domestic resource mobilization,
including through international support to developing countries,
to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
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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 per cent of ODA/GNI to
least developed countries
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Mobilize additional financial resources
for developing countries from multiple sources
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
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Adopt and implement investment promotion
regimes for least developed countries
Technology
- 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
- 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
- Fully operationalize 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
- 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
- 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
- Significantly increase the exports of developing countries,
in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’
share of global exports by 2020
- Realize 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
- Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through
policy coordination and policy coherence
- Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
- Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish
and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable
development
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
- Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development,
complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize
and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources,
to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals
in all countries, in particular developing countries
- Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and
civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing
strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
- 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
- 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
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