A/RES/70/1
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Means of implementation and the Global Partnership
60. We reaffirm our strong commitment to the full implementation of this new
Agenda. We recognize that we will not be able to achieve our ambitious Goals and
targets without a revitalized and enhanced Global Partnership and comparably
ambitious means of implementation. The revitalized Global Partnership will
facilitate an intensive global engagement in support of implementation of all the
Goals and targets, bringing together Governments, civil society, the private sector,
the United Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all available resources.
61. The Agenda’s Goals and targets deal with the means required to realize our
collective ambitions. The means of implementation targets under each Sustainable
Development Goal and Goal 17, which are referred to above, are key to realizing
our Agenda and are of equal importance with the other Goals and targets. We shall
accord them equal priority in our implementation efforts and in the global indicator
framework for monitoring our progress.
62. This Agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals, can be met within
the framework of a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development,
supported by the concrete policies and actions outlined in the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda supports, complements and helps to contextualize
the 2030 Agenda’s means of implementation targets. It relates to domestic public
resources, domestic and international private business and finance, international
development cooperation, international trade as an engine for development, debt and
debt sustainability, addressing systemic issues and science, technology, innovation
and capacity-building, and data, monitoring and follow-up.
63. Cohesive nationally owned sustainable development strategies, supported by
integrated national financing frameworks, will be at the heart of our efforts. We
reiterate that each country has primary responsibility for its own economic and
social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies
cannot be overemphasized. We will respect each country’s policy space and
leadership to implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable
development, while remaining consistent with relevant international rules and
commitments. At the same time, national development efforts need to be supported
by an enabling international economic environment, including coherent and
mutually supporting world trade, monetary and financial systems, and strengthened
and enhanced global economic governance. Processes to develop and facilitate the
availability of appropriate knowledge and technologies globally, as well as capacitybuilding, are also critical. We commit to pursuing policy coherence and an enabling
environment for sustainable development at all levels and by all actors, and to
reinvigorating the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
64. We support the implementation of relevant strategies and programmes of
action, including the Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action, the SIDS
Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Vienna Programme of
Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, and
reaffirm the importance of supporting the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the
programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, all of which are
integral to the new Agenda. We recognize the major challenge to the achievement of
durable peace and sustainable development in countries in conflict and post-conflict
situations.
65. We recognize that middle-income countries still face significant challenges to
achieve sustainable development. In order to ensure that achievements made to date
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