Tesco delivery – Marmite back in stock – only got 500g, should be enough for a couple of weeks.
The final SDG is number 17 “Partnerships for the goals” or to be less concise “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”.
This goal is as much about the structure around achieving the other goals as anything else. The specific targets are:
Finance
- Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
- 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
- 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
- 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
A lot of this is outside our control. We all see calls to support charities, and they are normal really good causes. The issue around this goal is making sure we address ALL the goals. They are inter-related and each of them is important. If we invest all of our funds in climate change and nothing in hunger that would be a disaster.
National funding is reducing and trade wars make it hard to deliver specific goals. Private support is good, but they seldom take a holistic picture and instead focus on narrow subjects. They then do not align with the funding pattern needed.
Recently there has been a fuss about the government reshuffle of responsibilities for aid. However, in real terms the UK has increased giving by over 20% since the conservative government has taken power, and double that of the Blair era. Not what you might think? One of the really important things we can do is to be aware of the facts.
The first hotel we stayed at in Nicaragua had a notice board.
You can see that they have assessed their activities against the SDGs. One thing we can all do is to assess our workplaces against the goals. Give it a try – you might find things that can be changed.
There are also charities that try to link their activities against the goals. Like CEPAD:
I think tomorrow I’ll focus on becoming aware of how the UK measures up – making ourselves aware of facts is important.