Target 17.1
Improve domestic tax and revenue systems
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
Goal 17 · 19 targets
Partnerships for the goals
The finance, knowledge, trade, data and partnerships needed to put the goals into practice.
The targets
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Target 17.2
Meet international aid commitments
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...
Target 17.3
Raise funding for developing countries
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.
Target 17.4
Help countries manage debt
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...
Target 17.5
Encourage investment in poorer countries
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.
Target 17.6
Share science and 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...
Target 17.7
Share environmentally sound technologies
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.
Target 17.8
Build technology capacity in poorer countries
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...
Target 17.9
Support countries to deliver the goals
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,...
Target 17.10
Make global trade fair and open
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.
Target 17.11
Support exports from developing countries
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020.
Target 17.12
Remove trade barriers for poorer countries
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...
Target 17.13
Support global economic stability
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence.
Target 17.14
Coordinate sustainable development policies
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
Target 17.15
Respect countries' own development choices
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Target 17.16
Build global partnerships for the goals
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...
Target 17.17
Bring public, business and community partners together
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resources strategies of partnerships.
Target 17.18
Improve data on who is being left behind
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...
Target 17.19
Measure progress beyond GDP
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.