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The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
| Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development | |||
| Goal 17.1 | Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection | ||
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| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | A Better World | Strengthening governance is a policy priority in A Better World and includes the ambition to strengthen domestic resource mobilisation and tax administrations in developing countries. | |
| Goal 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 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA |
A Better World; Global Ireland 2025 |
In Global Ireland 2025, Ireland reiterated the commitment to expand Official Development Assistance and make progress on delivering the United Nations target of allocating 0.7 percent of Gross National Income (GNI) for Official Development Assistance by 2030. A Better World provides the framework for this expansion and commits to reaching the furthest behind. | |
| DFIN |
Ongoing Engagement with IFIs |
The Department will engage with IFIs and encourage cooperation between MDBs to maximise available resources and ensure their effective allocation. | |
| Goal 17.3 | Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | A Better World | Strengthening governance is a policy priority in A Better World and includes the ambition to strengthen domestic resource mobilisation and tax administrations in developing countries | |
| DFIN | Ongoing Engagement with IFIs; A Better World; The Global Island | Taking guidance for the Domestic Resource Mobilization Initiative; the Department will engage with IFIs to strengthen domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) and tax administrations in developing countries. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
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DFIN DFA |
Ongoing Engagement with IFIs | The Department will engage with IFIs to ensure governance, policy, strategy and programme performance of each institution promote debt sustainability in developing countries. | |
| Goal 17.5 | Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | A Better World | Strengthening governance is a policy priority in A Better World and includes the ambition to work with partner governments to help promote inclusive growth and trade. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | A Better World | A Better World commits to strengthen Ireland's approach to research and learning for development. This includes by working with Irish and international research partners to create knowledge for development and promoting research consortia, led by Irish institutions with international partners, including in developing countries, to develop strong research portfolios and profiles. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DETE | Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Statement of Strategy 2021-2023 | Goal 4 of DETE’s Statement of Strategy sets out to “deepen and extend Ireland’s global business and trade in a fair and sustainable manner supportive of high labour standards and grow further the all-island economy”. In order to achieve this the strategy sets out the need to work with the EU to ensure that the WTO is at the heart of a global, rules-based, multilateral trading system, delivering on its negotiating, dispute settlement and trade capacity building and outreach remits. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 17.13 | Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFIN | Finance Statement of Strategy, 2021-2023 | A stable macroeconomic environment and sound public finances. | |
| Goal 17.14 | Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DECC | Second National Implementation Plan for the Sustainable Development Goals 2022-2024 | The Second National Implementation Plan for the SDGs aims to build on the structures and mechanisms from the first Plan and to develop and integrate additional approaches in areas identified through review and consultation as requiring further action. It sets out Ireland’s SDG implementation strategy for 2022-2024 and forms part of a series of consecutive Implementation Plans, each building on the previous iteration, to work towards achieving the SDGs. | |
| Goal 17.15 | Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFIN | Ongoing Engagement with IFIs | The Department will engage with IFIs and encourage cooperation between MDBs to maximise available resources and ensure their effective allocation, mobilize the private sector and encourage engagement with civil society in support of sustainable development. | |
| Goal 17.17 | Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DCEDIY | DCYA National Strategy for Children and Young People's Participation in Decision Making, 2015-2020, a constituent strategy of Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures | To ensure children and young people have a voice in their individual and collectives everyday lives across the five national outcomes. 7 related objectives and identified within the strategy to achieve this goal | |
| DECC | Le Cheile 23 - Department of Environment, Climate and Communications Statement of Strategy 2021-2023 | The vision of the Department for 2021-2023 is to strive towards a climate neutral, sustainable and digitally connected Ireland. Strategic Goal #3 specifically is: transition to a circular economy - protecting and restoring our environment through sustainable resource use. | |
| DFIN | Finance Statement of Strategy, 2021-2023 | ||
| Goal 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 17.19 | 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 | ||
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective | |
| DFA | The Global Island; A Better World | The Global Island, Ireland's foreign policy, commits Ireland to promoting a fairer, just, secure and sustainable world. A Better World provides the framework for delivering on these commitments, prioritising reduction of humanitarian need, climate action, strengthened governance and gender equality. | |
| Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | |
| 17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection | 17.1.1 Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source |
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| 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 |
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 | 17.3.1 Foreign direct investment, official development assistance and South-South cooperation as a proportion of gross national income |
| 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 | 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 | 17.5.1 Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries |
| 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 | 17.6.1 Fixed Internet 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 | 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 | 17.8.1 Proportion of individuals using the Internet |
| 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 | 17.9.1 Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 17.12.1 Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States |
| 17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development | 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 | 17.15.1 Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation |
| 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 | 17.16.1 Number of countries reporting progress in multistakeholder 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 | 17.17.1 Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure |
| 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 |
17.18.1 Statistical capacity indicator for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring |
| 17.18.2 Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics | |
| 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 |
17.19.1 Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries |
| 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 | |
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