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in 2015, the official wording is: "Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development". The Goal has 17 targets to be achieved by 2030, broken down into five categories: finance,

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and systemic issues. Progress towards targets will be measured by 25 indicators. SDG 17 refers to the need for the nonhegemonic and fair cross sector and cross country collaborations in pursuit of all the goals by the year 2030. It is a call for countries to align policies. SDG 17 is a vision for improved and more equitable trade, as well as coordinated investment initiatives to promote sustainable development across borders. It is about strengthening and streamlining cooperation between nation-states, both developed and developing, using the SDGs as a shared framework and a shared vision for defining that collaborative way forward. It seeks to promote

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, and help

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increase their exports to ensure a universal rules-based and equitable

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that is fair, open and beneficial to all. With US$5 trillion to $7 trillion in annual investment required to achieve the SDGs, total official

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reached US$147.2 billion in 2017. This, although steady, is below the set target. In 2016, six countries met the international target to keep official development assistance at or above 0.7 percent of

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. In 2017, international remittances amounted US$613 billion, with 76 percent invested in developing countries. The

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for sustainable business is also growing. In 2018 global green bonds reached US$155.5billion, up to 78 percent from 2017.

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brought on by conflict or natural disasters have continued to demand more financial resources and

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. Even so, many countries also require official development assistance to encourage growth and trade. The global progress map for SDG 17 shows that significant and major challenges remain in the majority of the world. Many regions of strong economic status perform very poorly, like the

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and much of

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Background

A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the

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and

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations to be implemented by the year 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals are related to: Poverty, H

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, H ealth,

Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...

Gender Equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

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, Economic Growth,

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on all levels,

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, Responsible Consumption,

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, Marine Life,

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, and International Partnership (SDG 17). Sustainable Goal 17 targets long-term investments to empower sectors and companies in need, more adaptable in developmental countries. Its main aim reaches improving the following aspects of a country that include: energy, infrastructure, transportation systems, IT infrastructure to different communications technologies channels. The framework of development covers evaluating and following up with rules and regulations, the sector's structure to attract more investment projects to the country and thus improving its economical standards. This partnership is translated through full assistance of all regional, local and international communities to increase the economical and social growth rates of a certain nation. Total-government-revenue-of-gdp 2017

Targets, indicators and progress

SDG 17 has 19 targets and 24 indicators. Below is the list of all the targets with a short version and a long version of the titles.Ritchie, Roser, Mispy, Ortiz-Ospina
"Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals." (SDG 17)
''SDG-Tracker.org, website'' (2018) No data is available yet for the following indicators: 17.5.1, 17.6.1, 17.7.1, 17.13.1, 17.14.1, 17.17.1. For all the other indicators, data and world maps are available to visualize progress.

Target 17.1: Mobilize resources to improve domestic revenue collection

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Target 17.1 is formulated as: "Mobilize resources to improve domestic revenue collection: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection." This target has two Indicators: * Indicator 17.1.1: Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source * Indicator 17.1.2: Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

Target 17.2: Implement all development assistance commitments

Target 17.2 is formulated as: "Implement all development assistance commitments: 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.2.1 is the "Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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donors' gross national income (GNI)".

Target 17.3: Mobilize financial resources for developing countries

Target 17.3 is formulated as: "Mobilize financial resources for

: Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources." This target has two Indicators: * Indicator 17.3.1: Foreign direct investment, official development assistance and South-South cooperation as a proportion of

* Indicator 17.3.2: Volume of remittances (in

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s) as a proportion of total

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Some of the implications of

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are related to the fall of remittances from $554 to billions by 2019 to US$445 billion on 2020, This situation will affect low and middle income countries as well as poor households.

Target 17.4: Assist developing countries in attaining debt sustainability

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Target 17.4 is formulated as: "Assist developing countries in attaining debt sustainability: Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing,

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and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.4.1 is the "Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services".

Target 17.5: Invest in least-developed countries

Target 17.5 is formulated as: "Invest in least developed countries: Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.5.1 is the "Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries". "Global foreign direct investment is expected to decline by up to 40% in 2020."

Target 17.6: Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation

Target 17.6 is formulated as: "Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation: 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.6.1 is the "Fixed Internet broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed". (this indicator used to be Number 17.6.2) In 2020 it was proposed to delete the former Indicator 17.6.1 (Number of science and/or technology cooperation agreements and programmes between countries, by type of cooperation).

Target 17.7: Promote sustainable technologies to developing countries

Target 17.7 is formulated as: "Promote sustainable technologies to developing countries: Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favorable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed. This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.7.1 is the "Total amount of funding for developing countries to "promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies" Share of individuals using the internet

Target 17.8: Strengthen the science, technology and innovation capacity for least-developed countries

Target 17.8 is formulated as: "Strengthen the science, technology and innovation capacity for least developed countries: Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation

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mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.8.1 is the "Proportion of individuals using the Internet". Despite the increase of the global share related to internet access the digital divide persist.

Target 17.9: Enhanced SDG capacity in developing countries

Target 17.9 is formulated as: "Enhance SDG capacity in developing countries: 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.9.1 is the "Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through north–south, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries".

Target 17.10: Promote a universal trading system under the WTO

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Target 17.10 is formulated as: "Promote a universal trading system under the

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: 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.10.1 is the "Worldwide weighted tariff-average".

Target 17.11: Increase the exports of developing countries

Target 17.11 is formulated as: "Increase the

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s of developing countries: Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries' share of global exports by 2020." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.11.1 is the "Developing countries' and least developed countries' share of global exports".

Target 17.12: Remove trade barriers for least-developed countries

Target 17.12 is formulated as: "Remove

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s for least developed countries: 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.12.1 is the "Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States".

Target 17.13: Enhance global macroeconomic stability

Target 17.13 is formulated as: "Enhance global

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stability: Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.13.1 is the "Macroeconomic Dashboard".

Target 17.14: Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

Target 17.14 is formulated as: "Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.14.1 is the "Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development".

Target 17.15: Respect national leadership to implement policies for the sustainable development goals

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Target 17.15 is formulated as: "Respect national leadership to implement policies for the sustainable development goals: Respect each country's policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for

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and sustainable development." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.15.1 is the "Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation".

Target 17.16: Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development

Target 17.16 is formulated as: "Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development 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." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.16.1 is the "Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that "support the achievement of the sustainable development goals".

Target 17.17: Encourage effective partnerships

Target 17.17 is formulated as: "Encourage effective partnerships: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships." This target has one Indicator: Indicator 17.17.1 is the "Amount in

s committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure.

Target 17.18: Enhance availability of reliable data

Target 17.18 is formulated as: "Enhance availability of reliable data: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and

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, 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." This target has three indicators: * Indicator 17.18.1: Statistical capacity indicator for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring * Indicator 17.18.2: Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics * Indicator 17.18.3: Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding By 2017 only the half of the funding required for data and statistics ($690 million) was mobilized.

Target 17.19: Further develop measurements of progress

Target 17.19 is formulated as: "Further develop measurements of progress: By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement

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, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries." This target has two indicators: * Indicator 17.19.1: Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries * Indicator 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 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

Custodian agencies

Custodian agencies are in charge of reporting on the following indicators: * Indicator 17.1.1 and 17.1.2:

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(IMF) * Indicator 17.2.1 and 17.9.1: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) * Indicator 17.3.1: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and

UN Conference on Trade and Development The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

(UNCTAD) * Indicator 17.3.2, 17.4.1 and 17.17.1:

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(WB) * Indicator 17.5.1:

(UNCTAD) * Indicator 17.6.1:

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(UNESCO-UIS) * Indicator 17.6.2:

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

(ITU) * Indicator 17.7.1:

United Nations Environmental Programme The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...

-Climate Technology Centre and Network (UNEP-CTCN) * Indicator for 17.8.1:

(ITU) * Indicator 17.10.1, 17.11.1, 17.12.1 and 17.13.1:

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(WTO),

International Trade Centre The International Trade Centre (ITC) () is a multilateral agency which has a joint mandate with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations (UN) through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The he ...

(ITC) and

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(UNCTAD) * Indicator 17.14.1: United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) * Indicator 17.15.1 and 17.16.1: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (

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) and

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(UNDP) * Indicator 17.18.1 and 17.19.2: Department of Economic and Social Affairs- Statistics Division (DESA-UNSD) * Indicator 17.18.2 and 17.18.3: PARIS 21 * Indicator 17.19.1: PARIS 23

Monitoring and progress

High-level progress reports for all the

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are published in the form of reports by the

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. The most recent one is from April 2020.United Nations Economic and Social Council (2020
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Report of the Secretary-General
High-level political forum on sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (E/2020/57), 28 April 2020 Despite the efforts to implement the support the implementation of the SDGs, this process has been fragile and has faced different challenges. From the absence of data to trade tensions and

, these challenges represent a threat for the progress made.

Links with other SDGs

The success of the 2030 agenda requires inclusive partnerships to achieve the common goals adopted. These partnerships need to be set at the different constituencies (local, national, regional and global level) and consider the Sustainable Development Goals'principles, vision and values to place people and planet first now more than ever to recover from crisis and build back while achieving the SDGs. More often than not, the actualization of the SDGs, at the global level, depends on the effectiveness of the

official development assistance Official development assistance (ODA) is a category used by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to measure foreign aid. The DAC first adopted the concept in 1969. It ...

. The Official development assistance needs to leverage on international collaboration for the public financing of the developing countries that remained unfulfilled by the donors. It is the responsibility of the official development assistance to ensure that, most developing countries are supported in areas of water and sanitation related activities and programs rather than making use of their domestic resources, tariffs and public finance obtain through taxation.

Challenges

Impacts and responses to Covid-19 pandemic

The UN Secretary-General gave a development of strategy that spread out a dream for how the global network can show a powerful, organized reaction to the

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. The 2020 Financing for Economical Advancement Report traces measures to address the effect of the unpacked worldwide back down and financial crisis, particularly within the world's poorest nations. To support the poor communities they also started a UN Reaction and Trust Fund. Unfortunately, remittances to low income countries are expected to fall and global investment is expected to decline by 40% owing to the pandemic.

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(WHO), in collaboration with the UN Establishment advanced a first-of-its-kind Solidarity Reaction Support to permit enterprises and people to contribute to WHO's

reaction.

Partnerships with private finance

There are concerns that Target 17.17 could undermine the rest of the SDGs. Indeed, according to a 2018 UN Report,Extreme poverty and human rights*, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 35/19
NYC, 26 September 2019 "in terms of costs, private finance is more expensive than public finance, and public-private partnerships can also incur high design, management and transactional costs due to their complexity and the need for external advice". In addition, negotiations of these public-private partnerships can cause project delays of some years.

Organizations

United Nations organizations

The following United Nations organizations are involved in SDG 17, being custodians of one or several indicators: *

(IMF) * Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) *

(UNCTAD) *

(WB) * UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNTAD) *

(UNESCO-UIS) *

(ITU) *

-Climate Technology Centre and Network (UNEP-CTCN) *

(WTO) *

(ITC) *

(UNCTAD) * United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) *

(UNDP) * Department of Economic and Social Affairs- Statistics Division (DESA-UNSD) * PARIS 21

The "Business Avengers"

17 of the world's largest corporations are part of those dedicated to achieving the

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. The opportunities for this "business avenger" concept include collective impact and employee engagement. The organization Salesforce.org (social impact center of

Salesforce Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, a ...

company) has committed to supporting SDG 17.

US Based Organizations

In the US there are over fifteen thousand tax-exempt organizations working on issues related to UN SDG 17, according to data filed with the Internal Revenue Service –IRS and aggregated by X4Impact. X4Impact, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Giving Tech Labs, created a free online interactive too
UN SDG Partnerships in the US
This online tool enables users to see indicators related to Official Development Assistance (ODA) Spending and local spending on issues related to the other SDGs nationally and by state, as well as relevant information for over fifteen thousand tax-exempt organizations in the US working on issues related to UN SDG 17. The nonprofit data in the tool is updated every 15 days while the indicators are updated annually.

References

External Links

UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform – SDG 17

“Global Goals” Campaign - SDG 17

SDG-Track.org - SDG 17

UN SDG 17 in the US
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