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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CREATING NEW PROSPECTS<br />
IN TANZANIA WITH<br />
RENEWABLE ENERGIES<br />
The Weidmüller Group has been advocating sustainable development around the world for many<br />
years now as well as assuming social responsibility in its capacity as a family-owned company.<br />
Working together with the “Club der guten Hoffnung” (Club of Good Hope) – the network for<br />
business partnerships organized by the International Catholic Mission Society missio in Munich –<br />
the company has been supporting an education project in Tanzania since 2015, which has created<br />
strong employment prospects and the basis for the acquisition of knowledge by<br />
supplying the region with electricity and training in the field of renewable energies. In so<br />
doing, the company is not only providing the local population with financial support, but it is<br />
also creating opportunities for them by means of education as well as helping them to learn<br />
how to help themselves.<br />
By Carsten Nagel, Weidmüller Group<br />
All that is left to do is tighten a screw and<br />
connect three cables and voilà! The teenager<br />
proudly shows off the recently assembled<br />
photovoltaic system. The young<br />
student had sat through many hours of<br />
assembly lessons in the Mbeya Trade<br />
School in Tanzania and had practiced<br />
a great deal beforehand to ensure that<br />
he could correctly assemble the various<br />
parts. This represented a milestone that<br />
opens up new prospects, as there are<br />
parts of this country that do not have<br />
access to electricity. This is backed up by<br />
the fact that less than 25 percent of the<br />
population of Tanzania is supplied with<br />
electricity, with this figure dropping to<br />
just under 10 percent in rural areas. The<br />
country is faced with many challenges:<br />
Although the economy is on the upswing,<br />
the population is growing, and general<br />
mobility is increasing, the number of<br />
social injustices also seems to be rising.<br />
Young people are finding it difficult to<br />
climb onto the first rung of the career<br />
ladder, as there is not a well-regulated<br />
education system in place, like there is<br />
in Germany, and some of the country’s<br />
schools do not offer a quality education.<br />
Mbeya Trade School – training<br />
center for young people<br />
In order to address these challenges, the<br />
International Catholic Mission Society<br />
missio in Munich is working together<br />
with its catholic partners in Mbeya, a city<br />
in the southwest of the country, to support<br />
a wide range of help organizations.<br />
Mbeya has a population of just under<br />
500,000 and is one of the top 10 largest<br />
cities in Tanzania, as well as being one<br />
of the country’s most important transport<br />
hubs. The diocese began building<br />
the training, advice, and rehabilitation<br />
center here in 2015, the aim of which is<br />
to provide new opportunities to young<br />
people living on the streets. Part of this<br />
complex is made up of the Mbeya Trade<br />
School, which mainly operates in the<br />
education and training segment. The<br />
school currently offers courses in electrical<br />
installation, car mechanics, carpentry,<br />
metalwork, and tailoring – in particular<br />
for school dropouts, that is, students who<br />
otherwise would not have the option of<br />
receiving an education.<br />
Creating the conditions for<br />
accessing knowledge<br />
Weidmüller has been supporting the<br />
International Catholic Mission Society<br />
missio’s project to build an integrationand<br />
further-education center in Mbeya<br />
since 2015. One of the many facets of<br />
this project is a pilot training course on<br />
solar energy and photovoltaics. “The<br />
support we provide is part of our global<br />
social commitment, which comes under<br />
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<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Goals</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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