SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
There is an expectation that the private sector can and should play a significant role in promoting and supporting the delivery of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This SDG calls for stronger collaboration on finance, technology, capacity building, and trade—alongside a major scale-up in the impact of partnerships of all kinds. Achieving this requires well-functioning mechanisms for transferring knowledge and expertise, to prevent duplication and enable learning from experience.
Mining companies contribute valuable expertise to partnerships that address sustainable development challenges. By sharing lessons learned, they can help catalyse broader collaboration and demonstrate the potential for collective progress toward the SDGs.
| What companies need to know to manage impacts or make a positive contribution |
- How planned mining investments can align with local, regional and national development plans.
- The presence (or absence) of platforms and mechanisms to catalyse and support partnering and collaboration in areas of operation.
- How partnering experience can be leveraged from previous company experience to optimise performance in new areas.
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| Industry action may involve: |
- Undertaking local stakeholder mapping and conducting a gap analysis across the SDGs at an operational level.
- Exploring opportunities to work collaboratively with other companies and wider stakeholders to maximise SDG contribution.
- Engaging with other development actors to join, strengthen or create platforms to catalyse and support collaborative working to achieve SDGs.
- Avoiding unilateral social investments, without first exploring opportunities for partnering to heighten positive impact.
- Working collaboratively with local authorities, communities and others to maximise chances of post-closure sustainability.
- Following established good practice standards for partnering - and learn from experience – before engaging in partnerships.
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