SDG17 Strong Global Partnership for Achieving SDG and Need of Post Pandemic Corrections and Going to Moon, Mars and Beyond

SDG17 Strong Global Partnership for Achieving SDG and Need of Post Pandemic Corrections and Going to Moon, Mars and Beyond

What does the SDG17 Talks about? YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/k0oY3by1RWU Problems existed, aggravated during Pandemic on Achieving SDG17: • As per the OECD website https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/official-development-assistance.htm the Official Development Assistance (ODA) which are the “Gold Standard” since 1969 as a foreign aid for the developing countries used for the economic development and for the welfare, that too, on concessional basis, its data shows that it has increased and reached USD 161 Billion in 2020. It, represents 0.32% Gross National Income (GNI) but it’s still short of 0.7% of GNI i.e. ODA Grant Equivalent as Percentage. • It means that It should have been USD 350 Billion Almost that Developed Countries should have spent as Official Development Assistant (ODA) to developing countries as per their 0.7% of their Gross National Income (GNI). • In 2020, Remittance Reached USD 540 Billion in Low and Middle Income Countries. It went down by almost 2% from 2019. • In Pandemic 3.7 Billion people didn’t have connectivity in spite it was needed. Huge investment is need of the day. • Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decreased by 40%. It was USD 1.5 Trillion in 2019 and it went down to less than USD 1 Trillion. • 63% countries don’t have enough funds to face challenges posted by Pandemic. • I have a suggestion here, “There are huge budgets for weapons of mass destructions, why can’t half of them be diverted to this SDG cause and going to Moon, Mars and Beyond?” Dr. Ashish Manohar. You can find it in many of my interviews and discussions I’ve spoken that. • “Any kind of War is a Waste of Time. Simply because, it takes more time to build devastated cities, destructed places and broken trust and shattered human minds after the wars. In place of Wars using Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), humane human must work together positively for humanitarian cause, and plan to invest same money in Achieving MDG and Going to Moon, Mars and Beyond, in place of planning all human destruction and shaking hands with Dinosaurs fossils.” Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude, 2007.

SDG17 Targets and Indicators • Target 17.1: This Target discusses about: • Domestically making economy strong • If required collaborate internationally • Developed nations should come forward to help developing nations • Improving Domestic Tax Collection • Improve more possibilities of Revenue Generation • Creating more jobs and entrepreneurship avenues and thus increasing number of individuals and businesses, institutions and organisations paying taxes • Indicator 17.1: Total Government Revenue Generated / GDP • Indicator 17.2: Proportion of Domestic Budget Funded by Domestic Taxes Target 17.2: With official development assistance commitment the Developed Countries should help the: • All Developed Nations should devote their 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) as a Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Developing countries with target of 0.7% of ODA/GNI • All Developed Nations should devote their 0.15 to 0.2% of Gross National Income (GNI) to the Least Developed nations as a Official Development Assistance (ODA) • Indicator 17.2.1: As per the Organisation for Economic Cooperation for Development (OECD): • Proportion of ODA/GNI to Developing Nations by the Donor Country / Net Assistance to a particular country • Proportion of ODA/GNI to the Least Developed Nations by the Donor Country / Net Assistance to a particular country • Total ODA to Developing Countries / Development Assistance Committee Donors’ GNI • Total ODA to Least Developed Countries / Development Assistance Committee Donors’ GNI Target 17.3: Mobilizing additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources • Indicator 17.3.1: • FDI • South-South Cooperation as a ODA/ GNI to promote the best practices among the developing nations • Indicator 17.3.2: Remittances in USD/ GDP Target 17.4: Avoiding, Reducing, Relieving the poor countries falling into the Debt Trap and taking appropriate measures for that • Indicator 17.4.1: Debt Service as a promotion of Export of Goods and Services Target 17.5: Adopt and Implement Investment Proportion Regimes for Least Developed Countries • Indicator 17.5.1: Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries including least developed countries. • 39 out of 48, i.e. 81% LDC have Investment Promotion Agencies working full time since 2014, as per the UNCTAD: https://stats.unctad.org/Dgff2016/partnership/goal17/target_17_5.html • In some countries Special Economic Zones (SEZ) as a one stop shop have been established… as we all know. Target 17.6: Enhancing North-South, South- South and Triangular regional and International cooperation on Science, Technology, knowledge on mutually agreed terms and mechanism generated by UN • Indicator 17.6.1: Fixed Internet Broadband Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants by Speed Target 17.7: Promoting the Development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to Developing and LDC on favourable, preferable terms and conditions, mutually agreed • Indicator 17.7.1: Total Amount of Funding for Developing Countries to promote Environmentally sound technologies via: • Transfer, • Development, • Dissemination, • Diffusion. Target 17.8: Keeping Technology Development at full speed especially ICT, and capacity building of Least Developed Countries and by fully operationalising the Tech Bank and innovation • Indicator 17.8.1: Proportion of the individuals using the Internet Target 17.9: For Implementing All the Sustainable Development Goals capacity building of Developing nations via cooperation from the: • Developing Nations via UN support system • South-South • North-South • Triangular • Indicator 17.9.1: Dollar Value of financial and technical assistance committed to developing countries via above mentioned mechanism. Target 17.10: Promoting rules, regulations, based legal, equitable Multilateral Trading System to bring all nations at par under WTO via conclusions and negotiations as per the Doha Development Agenda: • https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/update_e.htm . • Indicator 17.10.1: Worldwide Weighted Tariff-Average Target 17.11: Significantly increase the Export from Developing Countries, and Doubling the Export of Least Developed Countries by 2030. • Indicator 17.11.1: • Developing Countries Export/ Total Global Export • Least Developed Countries Export/ Total Global Export • Target 17.12: LDC and Developing Countries should face least barrier and should get quota free, duty free access into developed countries as per the guidelines of WTO • Indicator 17.12.1: Weighted Average Tariffs faced by: • Least Developed Countries (LDC), • Small Island Developing States (SIDS), • Developing Countries Target 17.13: Enhancing Global Macroeconomic Stability via: • Policy Coordination and • Policy Coherence • Indicator 17.13.1: Macroeconomic Dashboard • Example: Jobs Macro Data Dashboard on the World Bank website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2017/02/02/jobs-macro-data-dashboard Target 17.14: Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development • Indicator 17.14.1: Number of countries with mechanism in place to Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Target 17.15: Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development and establishing multi stakeholder partnership • Indicator 17.15.1: Extent of use of country owned results framework and planning tools, by providers of development cooperation. Target 17.16: Enhancing Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Complemented by multi stakeholder partnership that mobilise and share: • Knowledge, • Financial Resources, • Technological, • Expertise, Indicator 17.16.1: Number of countries (Out of 193 UN Members in 2022) reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring framework that support the Achievement of SDG Target 17.17: For Infrastructure development Encouraging and Promoting Partnership among: • Public – Public • Public – Private • Civil Society By Using: • Partnership Data • Experience By keeping track on the work via: • Monitoring and • Accountability • Indicator 17.17.1: Amount in USD committed for Public – Private Infrastructure Parentship Project Target 17.18: Where we stand in the SDG? • This question requires Data Collection and this pointers talks about that. • By 2020, • LDC, • SIDC, • Needs a capacity building support to collect high quality, reliable, timely data on: • Income, • Gender, • Age, • Race, • Ethnicity, • Migratory Status, • Disability, • Graphical Location, • Other characters relevant to that nation • Indicator 17.18.1: Statistical Capacity Indicator for SDG 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 that have national statistical plan that is fully funded and implemented by, source of funding Target 17.19: By 2030, Build on the prior work and develop measurement of SDG that complement GDP, and support Statistical Capacity Building in developing countries • Indicator 17.19.1: Dollar Value spent on making all the resources available for Statistical Capacity Building in Developing Countries • Indicator 17.19.2: Proportion of Countries that have following records registered on time: • 1. 100% Births, • 2. 80% Deaths, • 3. Have Conducted Population census in last 10 years, and • 4. Have conducted Housing Census in last 10 years. So, these are 17 Goals and 169 Targets and Indicators: • They all if implemented can make human life and life on Mother Earth at par with heavens  • They can make Sustainable Goals a reality • I just want to add let’s make them Universal Goals, i.e. wherever humans may go they will strive to Achieve Sustainable Goals, may it be Moon, Mars and Beyond or in any dimension. • “Mother Earth can be a Super Base of Humanity to expand in multiple places and dimensions in the Infinite Universes, let’s make it Humane too, if not like Heavens”. Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude, 2006 in the presentation, “Mobility of Engineers in the Interstellar Era.” • May God Bless Humanity. • Sarve Pi Sukhinah Santu, Sarve Santu Niramaya Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu Ma Kashcit Dukhkh Mapnuyam. • Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwarah. Guru Sakshat Parabrahma Tasmai Shree Guruve Namah. • Hari Om Tat Sat. • Thank you very much. • If you have any suggestion kindly let me know, will try to implement for making better contribution to humanity. Dr. Ashish Manohar, Soulution Master, Solution Master, India