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Partnership for the formation of Ghana Philanthropy Network

    Description
    Description
    The three outfits are in the process of establishing the Ghana Philanthropy Network to complement in broader terms the ongoing engagements on enabling environment for philanthropy to make contributions to the Government of Ghana's SDGS priorities and the policies needed to drive these priorities.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    Ghana Philanthropy Network would employ the under-listed methods:1. Holding stakeholder dialogues on nurturing indigenous philanthropy and making traditional giving and corporate social responsibility more strategic.2. Involving high net-worth individuals, corporate foundations, and the growing middle class who are sympathetic to the philanthropic cause to act as champions and the fulcrum for raising local resources to support government's SDG priorities3. Advocate for philanthropy to be part of national development planning processes, prioritization and implementation of the SDGs4. Defining philanthropy in the Ghanaian context that would be fit for purpose. This would inform the changes that is required at the point of registration5. Capacity building for members6. Data gathering to identify potential entry points that would inform strategic philanthropy in the local context.

    Capacity

    The Ghana Philanthropy Network intends to have a one-stop 'philanthropy center' to provide:1. Capacity building in data collection for local foundations (including latest modes of data visualization)2. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as well as impact assessment training to be able to document success and failures of ongoing and future interventions3. Experiential sharing forum for peer learning where foundations will share experiences of what worked and vice versa in some of their interventions in the MDGs to help shape their work on the SDGs4. Activate knowledge sharing between much more experienced global foundations on philanthropy management and accountability5. Will provide project advisory services for foundations6. Communications training (including producing newsletters and infographics)7. Provide resource center where foundations can source for information in the history and the latest trends of strategic giving and how that could shape their programs on the SDG implementation.

    Governed

    The organization would be headed by a Coordinator who will be responsible for running the 'philanthropy center.' In addition to coordinating the activities of the Ghana Philanthropy Network (GPN), the Coordinator will be responsible for harnessing the power of philanthropy to collaborate with government to achieve national development priorities which includes the sustainable development goals.Engagement with government on development programs, especially those that are SDG related.Registering and engaging foundations and high net worth individuals (HNWIs) to design their giving around the SDGs.Convening stakeholder meetings and roundtable discussions on philanthropy and national development.Help to structure traditional and informal forms of giving to shape the discuss on indigenous philanthropy and the SDGS

    Partners
    SDG Philanthropy Platform UNDP-Ghana, African Women Development Fund, and African Philanthropy Network

    Goal 17

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

    Goal 17

    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
    Create a data hub of all social investments (including those related to the SDGs).
    Create proper regulatory framework which should lead to a change in the registration processes
    Document all forms of indigenous philanthropy and how that could be tailored in supporting the SDGs
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    Timeline
    17 May 2021 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
    Entity
    United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Ghana
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    Accra, Ghana
    Website/More information
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    Countries
    Ghana
    Ghana
    Contact Information

    Pearl Darko, Coordinator, SDG Philanthropy Platform, UNDP Ghana