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The world today is more interconnected than ever before. Improving access to technology and knowledge is an important way to share ideas and foster innovation. Coordinating policies to help developing countries manage their debt, as well as promoting investment for the least developed, is vital to achieve sustainable growth and development.

A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society. These inclusive partnerships built upon principles and values, a shared vision, and shared goals that place people and the planet at the centre, are needed at the global, regional, national and local level.

Long-term investments, including foreign direct investment, are needed in critical sectors, especially in developing countries. These include sustainable energy, infrastructure and transport, as well as information and communications technologies.

Urgent action is needed to mobilize, redirect and unlock the transformative power of trillions of dollars of private resources to deliver on sustainable development objectives.

The public sector has to set a clear direction. Review and monitoring frameworks, regulations and incentive structures that enable such investments must be retooled to attract investments and reinforce sustainable development. National oversight mechanisms such as supreme audit institutions and oversight functions by legislatures require strengthening.

Strengthening global solidarity is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. An integrated approach is crucial for progress across the multiple goals.

With things happening around the world like: New Blue Economy Opportunities For Timor-Leste; The Rapidly Emerging Pathways for Government Debt Instruments in Cambodia; UN agencies in Belarus joining efforts to promote new budgeting tools for sustainable development – It is clear that a lot more can be done and is being done.

What part are you ready to play to get us to that position of progress for the Sustainable Development Goals?

ACTION TARGETS

Financing can stimulate growth—but only if it is used well. Governments' ability to borrow affordably is mainly dependent on national actions, including good governance, public financial management, and institutional frameworks.

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

We are often told that there is a scarcity of resources, and that our job is to secure for ourselves, and for our own organizations, as much of the available resources as possible, and that if others lose out in the process then that’s too bad.

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Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.

It is a very liberating thought to join the dots between resources in new ways – including thinking differently about what the word ‘resource’ even means – and this requires creative capacities which most of us have in abundance but rarely draw upon.

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Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.

What if we gave ourselves the permission to completely redraw the connections between the ‘resources’ available to meet the SDGs?

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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.

What if we approached every single one of our encounters as opportunity to create new ideas, and what if the best and most interesting ideas emerged from the most unlikely sources? What new connections might emerge then?

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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.

We highly recommend a reflective approach across the whole partnering cycle. In practice this means careful consideration and planning before any engagement event with partners.

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Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020.

The process of partnering refers to the ways of developing and managing partnerships, with a constant eye on engagement, on inclusivity, on relationship and trust building, and on co-creation.

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

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a fundamental shift in thinking in international development, recognizing the interconnectedness of prosperous business, a thriving society and a healthy environment.

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

For countries to deliver a sufficiently high quality of life to all their citizens, while operating within sustainable natural resource limits. No country is currently able to achieve this! When it comes to the 2030 Agenda, we are all developing countries.

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

Most of us work in operating environments that encourage a sense of competition and separation, rather than collaboration and cooperation.

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Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 percent 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.

Rather than starting from an assumption of competition and scarcity, what happens if we start with a different assumption: This cardinal premise – of sufficiency rather than scarcity of resources.

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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.

It rarely occurs to us to even think about the possible connections between, say, an industrial development strategy and infant nutrition, or between a musical composition and algae farming.

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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.

All of the ideas, people, technologies, institutions and resources that are required to achieve the SDGs are already available, and the task is how do we engage them and combine them in new and transformational ways?

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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.

An effective partnering practitioner is highly attuned to their context in the broadest sense.

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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.

For effective partnership individuals must understand their institutional environment from a partnering perspective and identify potential blockages in order to put in mitigation actions as early as possible to prevent them from slowing their partnership.

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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.

Very few organizations are institutionally optimized to support partnering and, in most cases, there are considerable blockages that slow down or even prevent partnership development.

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Enhance policy coherence 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.

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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.

‘Progress’ tends to happen both through the coincidence of the availability of the right set of resources to solve problems or take advantage of opportunities and through positive feedback loops.

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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.

The 2030 Agenda, through engaging and working with all societal sectors in a bottom-up approach (informed and supported by ‘top- down’ experience, technology, finance and coordination globally), is a way of being far more deliberate and targeted in accelerating a society’s ‘natural’ organic development process towards sustainability.

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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.