SDG 17 emphasizes the importance of partnerships for global development and focuses on facilitating and strengthening financial links between countries. Remittances are monetary transfers sent by workers living abroad to their families at home. The ability to find employment abroad and send money home is critical for many of the world’s most economically disadvantaged people.
Source:The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 (worldbank.org)
This last goal continues to grow as more organisations, groups, volunteers, stakeholders, partnerships and back the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. If you are interested in the finer details of how partnerships and collaborations are assessed and decided you can find the SDG partnership guidebook here.
You can discover more about the partnerships and commitments that have already been formed here or by clicking the image below. The image below shows how many partnerships had been established and within which area of the SDGs as of 6 September 2021.