SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Revitalizing the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals can only be achieved with the active participation of every government, agency, organization and citizen. It requires the establishment of effective and inclusive multi-actor partnership and collaborations between all stakeholders: governments, the private sector and civil society.

Sustainable Development Goal number 17 includes ninteen targets divided into 5 general topics: finance, technology, capacity building, trade and systemic issues.

As presented by the United Nations, the following topics and targets that cover SDG 17 are mentioned below:

Finance

Strengthen the domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.

Technology

Promote development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.    

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 inter-regional 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.

Systemic Issues

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.