Arab Coalition for SDGs

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Description

This intervention is a result of several brainstorming sessions between civil society organizations, calling for the need to establish a platform that consolidates civil society efforts nationally through forming national civil society coalitions for SDGs. These national coalitions will together form a regional platform whereby each country’s national team will be represented. The regional platform will have its own bylaws, governance structure, and strategic framework. As a future step, the regional platform will enroll in pertinent networks and alliances devoted to achieving the SDGs.

Expected Impact

The methodology for establishing the Arab coalition for SDGs is focusing on networking the CSOs, CBOs, and Associations and Unions in each country and give them awareness about the SDGs, especially the seventeenth goal. Then Forming National Civil Society Coalition in each country, and finally by mobilizing the efforts the Arab Civil Society Platform for SDGs will be established. 
Role of National Coalition 
The following are examples of the type of roles the national coalitions will undertake: 
1. Map out existing civil society efforts towards reaching the SDGs, and produce periodical progress reports reflecting these achievements 
2. Carry out monitoring and social accountability efforts to ensure local government and public authorities are aligning their work, resources, and strategies with SDGs 
3. Advocate the national government to re-align their policies, programmes, and ultimately resources to the realization of SDGs 
4. Networking and forming regional and global coalitions to exchange and streamline the efforts on SDGs 
 
A consortium-led approach will be followed whereby a number of prominent CSOs will come together with the mandate to fulfill the objectives and activities of this intervention.

Governed

- The Arab regional coalition will have representation of all countries within the Arab region 
- The regional representation will be based on national-level teams delegated by each country 
Towards establishing the above-illustrated vision, a phased and gradual process needs to follow. Accordingly, and through this intervention, a 12-month pilot phase will be implemented. Through this pilot, 5 countries will be participating from the Arab region 
A set of specific objectives will be followed: 
1. Formalize the national SDG coalition, ensure their diverse composition, and reinforce their role in their respective countries 
2. Support to national-level action that ensures a systematic process of evaluating, planning, budgeting, and mainstreaming of SDGs in programmes and services 
3. Exchange of best practices and innovative models of mainstreaming of SDGs in public, private, and civil society initiatives 
4. Conduct regional-level meetings to discuss and formulate the vision and strategic framework for setting up the Arab SDG regional platform 
5. Carry out a lobbying campaign and a parallel awareness campaign to promote the vision, strategic framework, and detailed action steps to broaden the structure of the regional platform

Partners

Palestinian Coalition for SDGs
Jordanian Coalition for SDGs
Tunisian Coalition for SDGs
Lebanese Coalition for SDGs
Moroccan Coalition for SDGs

SDGS & Targets

Goal 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

17.1

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.1.1

Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source

17.1.2

Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

17.2

Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

17.2.1

Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI)

17.3

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.1

Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.2

Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

17.4

Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

17.4.1

Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services

17.5

Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

17.5.1

Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries

17.6

Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

17.6.1

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed

17.7

Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

17.7.1

Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies

17.8

Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

17.8.1

Proportion of individuals using the Internet

17.9

Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

17.9.1

Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

17.10

Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

17.10.1

Worldwide weighted tariff-average

17.11

Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

17.11.1

Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports

17.12

Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

17.12.1

Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

17.13

Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

17.13.1

Macroeconomic Dashboard

17.14

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.14.1

Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development

17.15

Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

17.15.1

Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation

17.16

Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.16.1

Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

17.17

Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

17.17.1

Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

17.18

By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

17.18.1

Statistical capacity indicators

17.18.2

Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

17.18.3

Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding

17.19

By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

17.19.1

Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries

17.19.2

Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

Name	Description
17.14	Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

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Timeline

01 January 2019 (start date)

01 January 2030 (date of completion)

Entity

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SDGs

Geographical coverage

Arab region

Website/More information

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Countries

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Contact Information

Motasem Zayed, Executive Director

pcs.jenin@gmail.com, suzanabufarha.pcs@gmail.com