A partnership is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance in their mutual interests. International development assistance stood at 135.2 billion USD in 2014, the highest level ever recorded. 79% of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free. The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3% of export revenue.
The number of internet users in Africa almost doubled in the past 4 years. 30% of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years. But more than 4 billion people do not use the internet, and 90% of these live in the developing world.
Why Education is crucial to achieving SDG-17
Quality education allows engagement with organizations and individuals working on various topics that relate to the global goals. With international support, effective and targeted capacity-building activities can be implemented in developing countries allowing them to support national plans to implement all the SDGs including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation. (Access to Learning objectives for SDG-17)
By means of physical activity and diverse play among peers with different abilities, the meaning of partnership is introduced. They sing together, go on walks in partnerships, and play in small groups, thus developing positive social and emotional behaviours. (Access Educational materials here)
At this level, creative collaboration can be promoted through work in teams designing mini projects that support better partnerships later in life. Learners communicate their ideas, listen to and work with others to solve problems, thus showing sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings. (Access Educational materials here)
A broad understanding of sustainable development is developed at this stage, including knowledge about current inequalities, poverty and environmental degradation. The key role that partnerships play as a means to achieve it is promoted, thus creating the right environment for creative collaboration and team work in designing mini-projects to support, take action and help in achieving the SDGs. (Access Educational materials here)
Pedagogical Resources
- Building Successful School Partnerships - Whether you already have a school partnership, or are thinking about developing one, this guide will help you ensure that everyone gets the most out of it.
- English And Global Citizenship - English teachers encourage learners to explore diverse identities and cultures, think critically about their place in the world, build relationships and live positively and dynamically with those around them.
- Education For Global Citizenship - This guide is to inspire and inform further thinking, discussion and curriculum development around Global Citzenship issues.
Ideas for Classroom Activities
- Global Citizenship In The Whole School - Learners consider justice, equity, and sustainability with these assembly ideas on Global Citizenship themes. Topics include reducing waste, cooperation, our links with others, diversity, and local and global news.
- Global Citizenship In The Whole School Early Years - Classroom activities on Global Citizenship themes for teachers of children under 5 touch on develop the importance of friendship and similarities between people, and build self-esteem feelings of responsibility towards our world.
Multimedia Educational Resources
- Come Celebrate SDG 17 Partnership For The Goals With Earnie Earth & Eco Boys And Girls - Poster
- Global Music Lesson Plans - These lesson plans and audio files and songs celebrate music from across the globe.
Get Inspired
- Unfolding the Power of ESD- Lessons learned and ways forward - This report contains key messages on the future development of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), based on the knowledge exchange and creative co-thinking of 120 policy makers, researchers and practitioners at the conference “The Power of ESD - Exploring evidence & promise”, held in Visby, Sweden, from 24 until 26 October 2012.
Pedagogical Resources
- Heroes For Change - The “Heroes for Change” comic introduces the Global Goals and invites children to become superheroes themselves, by taking action to end poverty, inequality and climate change.
- Global Citizenship In The Classroom - This guide includes some reflection points which can be used individually or with colleagues to deepen your thinking and classroom practice around global citizenship.
- Science And Global Citizenship - Through a global citizenship approach, learners make connections between the local and the global and share their learning with others as they consider vital questions about global challenges.
Ideas for Classroom Activities
- What To Do With The Global Goals In My Daily Life - This resource aims to help learners to identify creative ways of implementing the Global Goals, understand how to build on each other’s ideas and use creativity in sustainability projects.
- Working Together To Achieve The Global Goals - This resource gives information about the Global Goals, their complexity and strategies for achieving them, ways students can contribute and stresses the importance of working together to achieve them.
Multimedia Educational Resources
- What Are The Different Types Of Aid? - This animation unpacks bilateral, multilateral and non-government organisation (NGO) aid. This includes humanitarian relief, community development and the role of advocacy.
- The Miniature Earth - If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this.
- Gaokao Fever: Primary - Getting 'Gaokao fever' - are these the world's toughest exams?
Get Inspired
- New York City Department of Education 2012-2013 Annuall Sustainability Report - The Sustainability Initiative seeks to transform the DOE into a more sustainable and efficient public entity regarding facility operation and maintenance and student environmental education. This report highlights the developments and progress made during the 2012-2013 (Fiscal Year ’13 or FY13) school year as the DOE Sustainability Initiative underwent its third year of existence.
Pedagogical Resources
- Partnerships - Why They Matter - Why does SDG 17 matter and, as partners what do we would need to do to achieve the agenda, and ensure the resources needed are effectively mobilized and monitored?
- The United Nations Matters - This resource aims to develop students’ awareness and understanding of the United Nations system and the global issues it tackles. It has five lessons that can be used together or independently.
Ideas for Classroom Activities
- Get Connected – Global Citizenship - This resource helps students investigate the effects of globalization and how to be a global citizen through case studies, activities, role-play and analysis of organizations, like World Vision and the United Nations.
Multimedia Educational Resources
- The Miniature Earth - If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this.
- SDG 17 Partnerships - This video presents the need for citizenship to engage in efforts to promote partnerships.
- Financing For Development - UN Women called for participation and contributions from civil society women’s groups in the lead up to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (July 2015)
Get Inspired
- It's about sustainability. Annual Sustainability Report Fayette County Public Schools - This model supports the national movement towards broader, more inclusive problem-solving in all areas of sustainability to equip schools for 21st century excellence. It pursues its aim in various ways: by reducing environmental impact and costs; by improving the health and wellness of schools, students and staff; and by providing environmental education, which teaches many disciplines, and is especially good at effectively incorporating STEM, civic skills, and green career pathways. The following is a summary of accomplishments and progress made by the Sustainability Team from January 2014 to December 2014.
