Agenda Urbana de Arteixo

17.1 Strengthen the mobilization of domestic resources, including through the provision of international support to developing countries, in order to enhance national capacity to collect tax and other revenues.

17.2 Ensure that developed countries fully comply with their commitments regarding official development assistance, including the commitment of many developed countries to achieve the target of allocating 0.7% of gross national income to official development assistance to developing countries and between 0.15% and 0.20% of gross national income to official development assistance to least developed countries; providers of official development assistance are encouraged to consider setting a target of allocating at least 0.20% of gross national income to official development assistance to least developed countries.

17.3 Mobilize additional financial resources from multiple sources for developing countries.

17.4 Assist developing countries in achieving long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at promoting debt financing, relief and restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of heavily indebted poor countries in order to reduce excessive indebtedness.

17.5 Adopt and implement systems for promoting investment in favor of the least developed countries.

17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation in and access to science, technology and innovation, and increase knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including by improving coordination among existing mechanisms, particularly at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.

17.7 Promote the development of environmentally sound technologies and their transfer, dissemination and diffusion to developing countries on favorable conditions, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.

17.8 Fully operationalize, by 2017 at the latest, the technology bank and capacity-building support mechanism for science, technology and innovation for least developed countries and increase the use of enabling technologies, in particular information and communications technology.

17.9 Increase international support for effective and targeted capacity-building activities in developing countries to support national plans for the implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation.

17.10 Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system within the framework of the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda.

17.11 Significantly increase exports from developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the share of least developed countries in world exports by 2020.

17.12 Achieve timely and sustainable duty-free and quota-free market access for all least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple and contribute to facilitating market access.

17.13 Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and coherence.

17.14 Improve policy coherence for sustainable development.

17.15 Respect the regulatory margin and leadership of each country to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

17.16 Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and exchange knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, particularly developing countries.

17.17 Encourage and promote the establishment of effective partnerships in the public, public-private and civil society spheres, leveraging the experience and resource acquisition strategies of partnerships.

17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity-building support provided to developing countries, including least developed countries and small island developing States, to significantly increase the availability of timely, reliable and high-quality data disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnic origin, migration status, disability, geographical location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.

17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop indicators that measure progress on sustainable development and complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity building in developing countries.