Global Goals Yearbook 2018
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic. Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations. We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance. The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring. When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting. The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic.
Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations.
We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance.
The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring.
When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting.
The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
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lack of resources, these children go untreated,<br />
resulting in troubled adulthoods.<br />
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat<br />
climate change and its impacts<br />
The provision of healthcare services is an<br />
energy-intensive undertaking. The health<br />
sector is a massive consumer of water,<br />
food, medications, technology, and other<br />
resources. Most often, improvements in<br />
the delivery of healthcare require an increase<br />
in energy consumption. Hospitals<br />
at this crucial time must renew the oath<br />
of “do no harm” to the communities<br />
in which it operates. Manila Doctors<br />
Hospital, for the past 12 years, has doubled<br />
its efforts in decreasing its carbon<br />
footprint. Systematized and enhanced<br />
recycling, coupled with the responsible<br />
management of non-reusable waste, has<br />
become a part of the corporate discipline<br />
and culture. Styrofoam has been completely<br />
banned in the hospital. Proceeds<br />
from the recyclables program help fund<br />
disaster response, medical missions, and<br />
the environment program of the hospital.<br />
Manila Doctors Hospital’s endeavors in<br />
environment protection were recognized<br />
by the International Hospital Federation<br />
Awards 2017, held in Taipei, Taiwan.<br />
This provided us a platform to share our<br />
approach with the hopes that others can<br />
learn something from our experience.<br />
SDG 17: Partnership for goals<br />
Partnership is instrumental in how<br />
Manila Doctors Hospital is able to fulfill<br />
its commitment in contributing to these<br />
four SDGs. It recognizes the invaluable<br />
role of collaboration in avoiding duplication<br />
of programs and maximized the use<br />
of resources in achieving a wider reach<br />
and stronger impact. One of the most<br />
palpable result is how the combined efforts<br />
of the hospital and the members of<br />
its Corporate Social Responsibility Circle<br />
of Partners were able to provide much<br />
needed critical medical care and surgical<br />
intervention – specifically in the area of<br />
ophthalmology – for patients residing<br />
in the farthest island province in the<br />
Philippines.<br />
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