End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Target 1.a: Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, to implement programmers and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.
Resources for development comes from a variety of sources, including public budgets, donors (e.g. loans or grants from international institutions), the private sector (e.g. domestic or foreign investment, philanthropic activities) or a combination of these sources. An important factor for mobilizing those resources is the creation of an enabling environment that attracts potential donors and investors and provides the means for businesses of all sizes to establish and to thrive.
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Target 4.4:
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Skills for entrepreneurship must include those necessary to conduct basic commercial transactions, establish businesses, resolve business disputes (off- or online), assist businesses to compete in domestic and international markets and implement strategies for addressing financial distress and insolvency. Moreover, a competitive business advantage may be gained from an understanding of the public procurement market, e-commerce and the identification and prevention of commercial fraud. I.B.O goals of direct relevance to these and other issues.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Target 5.c:
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
I.B.O projects may be of particular relevance to achieving gender equality, such as those aimed at reducing the legal obstacles faced by micro and small enterprises during their life cycle, since many such businesses are run by women. In addition, I.B.O work in the area of empower youth & women e- commerce contributes to diversification and the achievement of more inclusive access to economic, educational and other opportunities and thus to the reduction or removal of obstacles that women and girls often face with regard to access to education, business opportunities, credit and justice.
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
– By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.
– Portion of population with primary reliance on green energy and technology.
– By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, specifically, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.
Target 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation
Target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
The work of I.B.O capacity building on commercial dispute resolution, security interests, insolvency law, e-commerce, public procurement and privately financed infrastructure projects, contract law and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are all relevant in this context. This work aims at simplifying the establishment and operation of small-scale enterprises, including by facilitating access to secured credit and dispute resolution mechanisms, providing legal frameworks for international sales and simplifying the procedures available to address financial distress and insolvency. See targets 8.3 and 8.10 for discussion of related issues.
Target 9.a: Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
Infrastructure is the cornerstone of the economy in any society, and a prerequisite to the achievement of all SDGs. Financing infrastructure projects often requires a mixture of domestic resources, and international aid.
Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices, and promoting appropriate legislation, policies, and action in this regard.
I.B.O projects goals “generating inclusive, sustainable and equitable development, economic growth, and employment, generating investment and facilitating entrepreneurship”, to “peace, stability and the well‐being of all people,” to “universal economic cooperation among all States on a basis of equality, equity, common interest and respect for the rule of law” and to “advancing good governance, sustained economic development and the eradication of poverty and hunger.” It encourages States to use UNCITRAL standards in implementing commercial law reform. UNCITRAL, through its secretariat, assists States to understand, use, enact, interpret, and apply its standards.
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
– By 2030, ensure access to adequate, safe and affordable housing, and basic services to all.
– By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transportation systems for all. Improve road safety, notably by expanding public transportation, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, people with disabilities, and older people.
– By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization, and capacity for participatory, integrated, and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
– By 2030, significantly reduce the death rate, and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product (GDP) caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor, and people in vulnerable situations.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Target 12.7: Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
The General Assembly (UN) has recognized that the rule of law is not only about criminal law and transitional justice. It is also about mature rule-based commerce, which UNCITRAL facilitates and which has long been recognized as a stabilizing factor and a factor important for mobilizing resources for development, including for such rule-of-law fundamentals as due process and a strong judicial and legal infrastructure, in addition to access to well-trained lawyers and judges. I.B.O work is also capacity building who work in the field of access to justice (normative protection, capacity to seek remedy, and capacity to provide effective remedies) and to legal and procedural transparency.
Target 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
Target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Target 17.1: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
Target 17.14: Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.
Target 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.
Target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.