“A stronger commitment to partnership and cooperation is needed to achieve the SDGs. Attaining the Goals will require coherent policies, an enabling environment for sustainable development at all levels and by all actors, and a reinvigorated Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. Towards this end, United Nations Member States have identified the following areas as critical: resource mobilization, technology, capacity-building, trade, policy and institutional coherence, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and data, monitoring and accountability. Meeting the means of implementation targets is key to realizing the Agenda for Sustainable Development, as is the full implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Incremental progress has been made in these areas, but more is needed.”

Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017

Targets:

FINANCE

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

  • 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  

• 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.

  • Indicator 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.

  • Indicator 17.3.1 Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
  • Indicator 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.

  • Indicator 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.

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

TECHNOLOGY

• 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.

  • Indicator 17.6.1 Fixed 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.

  • Indicator 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.

  • Indicator 17.8.1 Proportion of individuals using the Internet  

CAPACITY-BUILDING

• 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 North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation.

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

TRADE

• 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.

  • Indicator 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.

  • Indicator 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.

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

SYSTEMIC ISSUES

Policy and institutional coherence

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

  • Indicator 17.13.1 Macroeconomic Dashboard

• 17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.

  • Indikátor 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.

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

Multi-stakeholder partnerships

• 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.

  • Indicator 17.16.1 Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder 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.

  • Indicator 17.17.1 Amount of United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

Data, monitoring and accountability

• 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.

  • Indicator 17.18.1 Statistical capacity indicators  
  • Indicator 17.18.2 Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statisticsy  
  • Indicator 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.

  • 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