The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG 17.16.1 Number of Countries Reporting Progress in Multi-Stakeholder Development Effectiveness Monitoring Frameworks that Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 17.17.1 Amount of United States Dollars Committed to Public-Private and Civil Society Partnerships
SDG 17.16.1 Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the sustainable development goals - information is available from Ireland's official published information on SDGs.
The Target for SDG 17.16 is to "Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilise and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries."
The Department of Finance will engage with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and encourage cooperation amongst these institutions to maximise available resources and ensure their effective allocation, mobilise the private sector and encourage engagement with civil society in support of sustainable development.
The publications on Ireland's UN SDGs Indicators data is a series from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). These publications monitor and report on how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The CSO and government departments and organisations collaborate to bring together data required in these reports for Ireland’s SDGs. The SDG Data Governance Board meets on a quarterly basis.
The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) has overall responsibility for promoting the SDGs and overseeing their coherent implementation across government, including the development of the National Implementation Plans and reporting frameworks.
Ireland will present its second Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in July 2023. The VNR report will comprise a high-level data section and a more detailed appendix. An SDG National Stakeholder Forum will be held in April 2023 to discuss the VNR report. Attendance and discussion will include the business sector, civil society, education sector, government departments and state agencies, local government, youth sector and individual members of society.
The CSO, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri-Ireland) established a project team in April 2017 to engage with a combined UN Statistics Division (UNSD)/Esri research exercise with a goal to develop and deploy a new approach for monitoring the UN SDG Indicators using geographic information systems.
The result of this exercise is a new website, Ireland's Hub for Sustainable Development Goals, hosted on OSi's Geohive platform, which is Ireland’s Central Portal for all SDGs and contains indicators data on the 17 UN SDGs for Ireland.
SDG 17.17.1 Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure - information is available from the World Bank and Eurostat.
The indicator SDG 17.17.1 by the World Bank Group defines the term Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) as “Any contractual arrangement between a public entity or authority and a private entity, for providing a public asset or service, in which the private party bears significant risk and management responsibility." The full definition is defined in the UN SDG metadata repository in the SDG 17.17.1 metadata document.
The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Project database has data on over 6,400 infrastructure projects in 137 low- and middle-income countries. The database is the leading source of PPI trends in the developing world, covering projects in the energy, transport, water and sewerage, ICT backbone, and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) sectors (MSW data includes projects since 2008). Projects include management or lease contracts, concessions, greenfield projects, and divestitures.
The data is presented in a variety of ways useful to researchers, policy makers, journalists and others. Data can be viewed here on the World Bank PPI database.
The Eurostat SDG database provides information from the OECD for EU SDG_17_20.
The indicator shows the total official and private EU financing to developing countries. These consist of net disbursements of Official Development Assistance (ODA), Other Official Flows (OOFs), private flows (mainly foreign direct investment, FDI), grants by private agencies and NGOs and officially supported export credits. ODA consists of grants or concessional loans undertaken by the official sector with promotion of economic development and welfare in the recipient countries as the main objective. OOFs are transactions which do not meet the conditions for eligibility as ODA, either because they are not primarily aimed at development, or because they have a grant element of less than 25%. Private flows include direct investment, bonds, export credits and multilateral private flows. Grants by private agencies and national NGOs consists of funds for development assistance and relief, together with any additional contributions in kind, including, for instance proceeds from charity Christmas card sales or special appeals (for example, for disaster relief). Developing countries are considered to be those on the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list of aid recipients. The values are given in current prices. See Table 9.1.
The Eurostat published data for Ireland's ODA differs slightly from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official ODA of €868m and €976m in 2020 and 2021, respectively, shown in Table 9.1. Detailed DFA ODA is shown in SDG 17.2.1 in the Finance chapter.
