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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PARTNER FOR THE WELL-BEING<br />
OF EVERYONE AT ANY AGE<br />
SARTEX is a Tunisian company that has shown its socially<br />
responsibility by having participated in the UN <strong>Global</strong> Compact<br />
since 2005, and it is now putting its focus on the UN’s<br />
Sustainable Development <strong>Goals</strong> (SDGs).<br />
By Rachid Zarrad, SARTEX<br />
This universal commitment confirms<br />
the involvement of SARTEX in a CSR<br />
certification process. We support and<br />
defend the 17 SDGs, and we are acting<br />
in a global context toward achieving<br />
projects that have a direct impact on<br />
improving the quality of life of Tunisian<br />
citizens in our region.<br />
Action no. 1: Acquisition of a<br />
medical scanner for the regional<br />
hospital<br />
Aware that the well-being of a community<br />
starts with the development<br />
of public health institutions that offer<br />
quality services, the Zarrad Foundation<br />
equipped the Hadj Ali Soua regional<br />
hospital in Ksar Hellal with a high-tech<br />
scanner-imaging unit in <strong>2018</strong>. The goal<br />
is to offer faster and cheaper access to<br />
scans to the entire community.<br />
An investment of about 1.5 million<br />
Tunisian dinars will undoubtedly allow<br />
a population of more than 100,000<br />
citizens to live healthier lives at lower<br />
costs. Previously, patients were obliged<br />
to travel tens of kilometers for such tests.<br />
Thanks to new scanner installations in<br />
April <strong>2018</strong>, so far 80 citizens have been<br />
able to benefit from faster and cheaper<br />
access to these medical scans.<br />
Action no. 2: Support for El Amal<br />
– the association for children with<br />
mental deficiencies<br />
Our CSR policy guides us to make more<br />
effort to help the most affected and<br />
needy people in certain social demographics,<br />
in particular activist associations<br />
advocating for the well-being of<br />
people with disabilities or who have<br />
mental health issues.<br />
Acquisition of a Medical Scanner for the Regional Hospital<br />
These young people without normal<br />
lives became our priority because they<br />
are marginalized by society and, unfortunately,<br />
by their parents sometimes.<br />
We owe them not only respect but also<br />
moral and financial support.<br />
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