Partnerships for the Goals

Dans le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 et dans Notre Programme commun, nous faisons le constat qu’il y a, au coeur de l’élaboration des politiques publiques à l’échelle mondiale, un anachronisme néfaste : nos modèles et mesures économiques égligent de nombreux aspects qui permettent de préserver la vie et contribuent au bien-être de l’être humain alors qu’elles accordent perversement une valeur disproportionnée aux activités qui appauvrissent la planète. Les propositions présentées dans ce document ne visent pas le remplacement du produit intérieur brut. Elles ont plutôt pour objet d’esquisser une voie en vue de l’élaboration d’indicateurs complémentaires qui donnent davantage de place à ce qui est important pour les personnes, la planète et l’avenir.

En la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y “Nuestra Agenda Común” se reconoce la existencia de un anacronismo perjudicial en el corazón de la formulación de políticas mundiales, que nuestros modelos y mediciones económicas pasan por alto muchos aspectos que sostienen la vida y contribuyen al bienestar humano, mientras que otorgan un valor perversamente desproporcionado a las actividades que agotan el planeta. La intención de las propuestas presentadas en este informe de políticas no es sustituir al producto interno bruto (PIB), sino describir a grandes rasgos un camino hacia parámetros complementarios que se centren de forma más integral en lo que importa a las personas, al planeta y al futuro.

Сегодня мир располагает знаниями и ресурсами, необходимыми для выполнения обещаний, сформулированных в Повестке дня в области устойчивого развития на период до 2030 года. Однако преобразующие изменения в необходимых масштабах просто не могут быть реализованы без участия и вклада широкого круга сторон. Особенно это касается 1,2 миллиарда ныне живущих молодых людей. Молодежь — это ключ к поиску новых решений, которые позволят сделать решительный прорыв, срочно необходимый для нашего мира. Молодые люди, которым в будущем предстоит взять на себя ответственность за планету, могут также потерять больше всех, если отсутствие безопасности и неравенство в обществе усугубятся и если тройственный планетарный кризис продолжится с той же силой. В последние годы молодежь стала движущей силой социальных изменений, реализуемых через мобилизацию общественности, — она добивается принятия мер по защите климата, выступает за расовую справедливость, способствует достижению гендерного равенства и требует уважения достоинства для всех. Имеются также бесчисленные примеры того, как молодые люди выступают в качестве инициаторов инновационных изменений во многих сферах, таких как предпринимательская деятельность, технологии и наука.

Lack of fiscal space and the risk of sovereign debt distress remain key stumbling blocks to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries. Because the allocation of concessional funds and debt relief is essentially reserved to Low Income countries (LICs), official financing strategies and mechanisms to support developing countries provide insufficient support to non-LICs that may need and deserve special consideration concerning official financing. This paper discusses how official financial support allocation could consider countries’ vulnerabilities in critical dimensions, with special reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It explores how a multidimensional vulnerability indexes (MVI) could be used to expand the access of vulnerable countries to official financing, including concessional financing, and facilitate constructive debt restructuring when they need it.

وقد أقُرَّ في خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 وفي تقريري المعنون “خطتنا المشتركة” بوجود مفارقة ضارة في صلب عملية صوغ السياسات على الصعيد العالمي، وهي أن نماذجنا ومقاييسنا الاقتصادية تتجاهل العديد من الجوانب التي تحافظ على الحياة وتسهم في رفاه الإنسان، وتمعن في الوقت ذاته وعلى نحو غير سليم في إضفاء قيمة مفرطة على الأنشطة التي تستنزف الكوكب. والقصد من وراء المقترحات المعروضة في هذا الموجز السياساتي ليس هو الاستعاضة عن الناتج المحلي الإجمالي وإنما هو رسم مسار لوضع مقاييس تكميلية تركز تركيزا أكمل على الجوانب التي تنطوي على أهمية بالنسبة إلى الناس والكوكب والمستقبل.

当今世界拥有实现《2030年可持续发展议 程》承诺所需的知识和资源。但是，如果没有 广泛行为体的支持和贡献，以所需的规模实 现转型性变革是根本不可能的。对于生活在 当今世界中的12亿青年人来说尤其如此。青年是找到新解决办法、确保实现我们世界 所迫切需要的突破的关键。作为地球未来 的守护者，如果社会变得更加不安全和不平 等，如果地球三大危机继续有增无减，他们 也将遭受最大的损失。近年来，青年人通过 社会动员成为社会变革的推动力，包括推动 气候行动、寻求种族正义、促进性别平等和 要求人人享有尊严。青年人在商业、技术和 科学等众多领域推动创新变革的例子也不胜 枚举。

Twenty-five developing economies, the highest number since 2000, spent over 20 percent of their government revenues in 2022 on total external debt servicing. The average low-income country spends about 2.3 times more on interest payments than on social assistance. Due to the economic shocks during 2020-2023, we project that 165 million people fell into poverty using the $3.65-a-day poverty line—the entirety of those living in low- and lower-middle-income economies. A pause in debt payments would allow developing economies weighed down by debt to mitigate some social effects of these shocks, using resources earmarked for debt servicing. This policy brief presents simulations that show that the annual cost of mitigating the additional 165 million poor would reach US$14.24 billion, or 0.009 percent of global GDP and a little less than 4 percent of total public external debt service in 2022—if the income losses among the already poor prior to the shocks are also included, the mitigation cost would reach US$107.11 billion, or 0.065 percent of the world’s GDP and around a fourth of total external public debt service.

UNDP has been tracking debt vulnerabilities across developing economies and the availability and appropriateness of international relief measures. Accompanying UNDP's latest Debt Insights update, this UNDP Development Futures Series policy brief presents a snapshot of the current situation and outlook and discusses the needed international policy priorities. Central debt vulnerability indicators remain highly elevated and have continued to worsen across many countries, thereby intensifying a trade-off between development spending and a high and rising debt service burden, with especially devastating consequences in the poorest of countries. For countries that have restructured debt, economic costs have been substantial due to protracted negotiations pending a more formalized and predictable restructuring regime, and deals have delivered inadequate and uncertain relief. If support for debt relief is not stepped up, the situation could easily morph into longer-term solvency crises in more countries. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) this year is an opportunity to tackle debt by focusing on ensuring easier access to an effective debt restructuring process, agreeing to a large-scale debt relief initiative for the poorest countries and on ways to lower the cost of borrowing. If the conference fails to deliver, poor countries could be in for another lost decade of development.

This policy brief explores how Governments can assess competing policy priorities, manage trade-offs and enhance synergies to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, drawing from expert contributions to Chapter 2 of the World Public Sector Report 2023: Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic. Renewed efforts in enhancing policy coherence are required to leverage synergies at different levels and unleash the transformations needed to achieve the SDGs. However, public entities face challenges in identifying and leveraging SDG interdependencies and translating relevant plans into action. The brief highlights actionable ways to support integration and address existing barriers to unlock SDG progress in a way that contributes to building trust, enhancing resilience and advancing innovation.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously off track. The prevailing “gap-filling” approach to SDG financing has proven inadequate, failing to deliver the scale, impact or equity required. Global efforts remain fixated on mobilizing additional financing rather than embedding the SDGs at the core of economic and financial systems. Blended finance, often heralded as a silver bullet, has fallen short: public resources dominate blended deals, often de-risking private initiative in lower-risk, lower-impact projects. To redirect this trajectory, the international financing architecture must be reshaped around the SDGs. First, the SDGs must be placed at the centre of economic planning, supported by robust public investment pipelines. These pipelines enable the public sector to guide and strategically mobilize private investment toward high-impact, mission-driven projects. Second, SDG-anchored conditionalities should be embedded across public-private ventures to ensure concessional public finance actively steers investments, rather than merely subsidizing private returns. Third, mechanisms to socialize risks and rewards must be introduced, reinvesting returns to scale transformative SDG financing. Finally, while mobilizing additional financing remains critical, an equally pressing challenge lies in effectively utilizing significant public funds already available in budgets and development bank balance sheets.