Goal 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes international cooperation to achieve sustainable development. It focuses on building strong foundations for sustainable development, particularly through international collaboration. This goal is considered crucial as it plays a significant role in supporting and creating an enabling environment for the achievement of other SDGs, particularly Goals 16 and 15. Goal 17 highlights cooperation between countries in various areas such as financial and technological support, trade and investment cooperation, knowledge and technology sharing, and building sustainable development infrastructure. It also emphasizes the importance of building resilience and preparedness to act swiftly in emergencies and threats. Additionally, Goal 17 promotes national and global policy coherence to ensure that sustainable development is achievable worldwide. In practice, Goal 17 facilitates cooperation among countries and organizations to support sustainable development in all aspects of human life and the world.

Subgoal 17.1

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

Subgoal 17.2

    Developed countries shall undertake official development assistance (ODA) commitments in full, including commitments by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) for ODA to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 percent of GNI for least developed countries. Donors should consider setting a target to provide at least 0.7 percent of GNI as ODA to least developed countries.

Subgoal 17.3

    Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.

Subgoal 17.4

    Assist developing countries in achieving 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.

Subgoal 17.5

    Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.

Subgoal 17.6

    Enhance North-South, South-South, and triangular regional and international cooperation on access to science, technology, and innovation, and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, particularly at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.

Subgoal 17.7

    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.

Subgoal 17.8

    Significantly increase 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, in support of the achievement of sustainable development goals.

Subgoal 17.9

    Strengthen international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation.

Subgoal 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.

Subgoal 17.11

    Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the share of least developed countries' exports in the global market by 2023.

Subgoal 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 through ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple and contribute to facilitating market access.

Subgoal 17.13

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

Subgoal 17.14

    Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development at the national, regional, and international levels, on the basis of strategies for pro-poor and gender-sensitive development, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.

Subgoal 17.15

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

Subgoal 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 sustainable development goals in all countries, particularly developing countries.

Subgoal 17.17

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

Subgoal 17.18

    By 2023, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including 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.

Subgoal 17.19

    Build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product within the country and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries, including least developed countries and small island developing states, by 2030.