Changes happen when all voices are heard. And when it comes to achieving sustainable development goals then collaboration is a must. Partnerships for goals aims for collaboration of various organizations across the countries and brings people together which helps in turn to solve critical global problems. Partnerships act like a network which connects international communities, non-profit organizations, and government bodies with the respective SDG goals. Global partnerships have always helped to make innovations faster, increase the efficiency, open new channels for communication, and increase productivity to attain SDG’s. We all have witnessed the importance of global partnerships during the pandemic times. Sustainable development goals are the goals which are meant to be achieved together and for that we need strong and strategic global partnerships.
What is the 17th SDG?
SDG 17 asks for a global partnership to achieve sustainable development. It’s about strengthening and streamlining cooperation between nation-states, both developed and developing, using the SDGs as a shared vision for defining and putting forward in a collaborative way. It is important for everyone to be involved and build partnerships for achieving these sustainable development goals. How to implement these goals? The answer to this question is given by the 17th SDG. Through the 17th SDG all countries can come together to attain these global goals.
Why is the 17th SDG important?
Partnerships are crucial instruments in achieving all the SDG. We need to focus on the 17th SDG a bit more as if there will be significant progress in the 17th SDG then only we will be able to achieve the rest 16 SDGs. The air belongs to everyone so it’s up to every nation to make air cleaner and that comes from cutting back CO2 emissions. If only half the world is working towards this goal while the other half pumps out greenhouse gases, then it will be impossible to achieve. Global challenges require global solutions. We need people with different skills, ideas and customs to work together and solve problems that affect all of us. And we all have a role to play, helping the UN foster new and existing partnerships everywhere to achieve their seventeen SDG by the year 2030.
Partnerships between nations give us hope so even the problem of climate change can be solved. Strong global partnerships and cooperation is must to attain all SDGs. Their aim is to make these goals universal. Public private partnerships pose important challenges but also offer great opportunities.
But partnerships are not simple. They require equality and mutual respect. This is the challenge of taking some effort on all the other 16 goals together. To achieve this objective by 2030 we need comprehensive partnerships — at the global, regional, national and local levels — built upon principles and values, and upon collaborative goals and synergistic visions placing people and the planet at the centre.
The biggest challenge of this SDG is maintaining these partnerships peacefully. After a decade because of various geopolitical reasons we can see the disturbances in the relations among the countries but these shouldn’t affect these global partnerships in any form which is a bit difficult. The internal disputes many times hamper the progress of these partnerships.
Internationally we require strong cooperation so that all countries can recover from the pandemic, build back better and achieve these goals.
Union doesn't only create strength. It also avoids the weakness and defeat that individuals cause. Carrying out alliances and collaborations between the different sectors of the planet is fundamental to achieve the rest of the SDG's.
The best example that I can give about global partnerships is the GAVI - the vaccine alliance which has helped all the countries tremendously to fight COVID-19. Partnerships like the E-waste coalition, the ICCP(International Climate Change Partnership), the CoM SSA(The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa) and many more are playing a crucial role in solving global problems.
What are the targets of the 17th SDG?
1. Mobilization of Domestic resources:
To eradicate poverty and to boost economic growth, financing in domestic investments, social programmes through domestic resources is necessary.
2. Implement all development assistance commitments:
ODA (Official Development Assistance) should be given to least developed countries to enhance global partnerships. ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries.
3. Giving financial aid to developing and least developed countries:
Promote sustainable technologies to developing countries. Giving debt relief and assistance to developed countries to help in attaining long term debt sustainability. Increasing financial resources for developing countries. Implementing investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.
4. Fostering Technologies:
Giving access to science, technology and innovation and increasing exchange of information to collectively work on our common visions. Innovative technologies in capacity-strengthening, a mechanism for least developed countries, amplify the use of new technology, in particular the information and communications technology sector.
5. Trade:
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, fair and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization. Removing trade barriers for least developed countries. Giving priority to developing countries and helping them in increasing their exports.
6. Enhance reliability of data:
The surge in the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data segregated on the basis of income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts. By 2030, take some crucial steps to make an analysis of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries.
7. Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development:
Strengthen global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence. Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
8. Encourage effective partnerships:
Encourage and provide a helping hand in building public-private and civil society partnerships, developing on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships. Enhance partnership for which is 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, especially the developing and least developed countries.
How can you and I help?
Many times we think about how common people’s participation can help in
building global partnerships but the fact is each one of us can contribute immensely. During the pandemic we followed the guidelines and helped our co-workers similarly our small action towards these goals can help in establishing peaceful global relations. Few initiatives that we all can take are:
1. Follow the local news. Keep yourself up to date with SDG's. We can be part of them by staying active on social media by spreading the awareness of SDG among masses.
2. Share our concerns with friends and families and unite to take a common action. Take part in campaigns which will help to make the world a better place.
3. Participate and contribute in achieving SDG goals.
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