SDGs Goal 17. Partnerships for the Goals

In order to tackle issues such as economic inequality, climate change, and gender equality, in 2015, the United Nations launched the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and proposed 17 core goals for global governments and enterprises to move towards sustainable development. The seventeenth goal is “strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. What are the indicators and core spirit of this goal? What are the examples and reflections at home and abroad?

  

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

17.1.1 Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source 

17.1.2 Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes 

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 gross national income for official development assistance (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  

17.2.1 Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI) 

17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources 

17.3.1 Foreign direct investment, official development assistance and South-South cooperation as a proportion of gross national income  

17.3.2 Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

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  

17.4.1 Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services  

17.5 Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries  

17.5.1 Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countrie 

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 

17.6.1 Fixed Internet broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed 

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 

17.7.1 Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies 

17.8 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 

17.8.1 Proportion of individuals using the Internet

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 NorthSouth, South-South and triangular cooperation  

17.9.1 Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

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  

17.10.1 Worldwide weighted tariff-average  

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  

17.11.1 Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports 

17.12 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  

17.12.1 Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States 

17.13 Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence  

17.13.1 Macroeconomic Dashboard 

17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development   

17.14.1 Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development 

17.15 Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development 

17.15.1 Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation  

17.16 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 

17.16.1 Number of countries reporting progress in multistakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships  

17.17.1 Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure 

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  

17.18.1 Statistical capacity indicator for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring 

17.18.2 Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics  

17.18.3 Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding  

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   

17.19.1 Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries 

17.19.2 Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 percent birth registration and 80 percent death registration

 

Source: Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development