SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

SDG 17 refers to the need for cross sector and cross-country collaboration in pursuit of all the goals by the year 2030. It is a call for countries to align policies. SDG 17 is a vision for improved and more equitable trade, as well as coordinated investment initiatives to promote sustainable development across borders. It is about strengthening and streamlining cooperation between nation-states, both developed and developing, using the SDGs as a shared framework and a shared vision for defining that collaborative way forward. It seeks to promote international trade, and help developing countries increase their exports to ensure a universal rules-based and equitable trading system that is fair, open and beneficial to all.

Lebanon 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, strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection and 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.

Beirut Arab University is committed to partnership work across its research, teaching and community engagement work locally, nationally and internationally. These partnerships are developed through Memorandums of Understanding, shared curricula, joint research projects and community engagement collaborations. BAU engages in these partnerships at a local level (local third sector, government and business), nationally (informing government policy and evaluating programmes), and internationally (partnerships with HEIs and NGOs globally, particularly in Europe, Asia and Africa); supporting partners with their research, teaching and knowledge exchange needs, as well as in social impact measurement relevant to the SDGs.