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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

SDGs in Saudi Arabia

    Description
    Description
    As the youth of the city of Al-Ahasa, we have come together to implement the 17 SDGs in Saudi Arabia starting from our city. We want to raise more awareness about them in schools, spread valuable knowledge in the community through our partners, and start a base for a youth team that shall focus on continuing the work on the next 14 years. We will use volunteering as our primary tool to get things done, and our main goal is to have our whole country become part of this youth-led movement. We commit to giving our all for this project.
    Expected Impact

    1. As mentioned above, our 17 teams will be under one umbrella, and they will be working together towards one goal. 2. The community of Al-Ahasa city is ready to help and volunteer. 3. Media coverage will play a huge role in letting the country know about our project and how it's going. 4. With the expansion of the sponosors, and partners, we hope to gain more volunteers who shall continue on this work. 5. We are introducing new programs to the community so we can benefit as many people as possible from this movement. 6. We aim for a sustained world at the end, and we want to make a positive change within our country first so we can reflect it on the world as a whole. 7. We shall have monthly meetings with our team members to discuss progress and ways of doing things better. 8. We will also hold trainings for our team to make sure that they are educated enough about this project and cause.

    Capacity

    1. Our partners are giving us meeting rooms and auditoriums to hold our meetings, trainings, and events. 2. We have spoken with several newspapers as mentioned above about full media coverage. 3. We will have a media team to keep our social media accounts full of continuous updates on our progress.

    Governed

    1. We will build an online identity for our movement on social media websites to spead the word about the start of this initiative in the city.2. We will start an online form for choose 17 youth from the city who shall lead one goal each. The selection process will be based on essay questions, and then an interview to test how qualified these youth are to carry on this mission. 3. Then we shall select team members for each goal who shall be led by that leader whom we chose previously, and they will undergo the same process. 4. With the help of our sponsors, each Goal's team will start setting up community events, and also visit to specific organizations to have them adopt the implementation the goal in their work environment. 5. One organization at a time, we shall have a big number of supports covered. Then we can move to more cities and expand. 6. With our media sponsors, we will have continuous media coverage of our movement in both Arabic and English, and in Online and Paper newspapers as well. 7. We hope to reach out to the Saudi Ministries on the long run to discuss with them the implementation of the goals within the government.

    Partners
    1. Al-Ahsa Volunteerin Team
    2. Ex365Events
    3. Alkifah Co
    4. Hzat karak Caffee
    5. ARAS Gulf Co

    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

    17 Youth Teams
    Full Coverage of the City
    Starting to expand to more cities
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    We want organization to give to this initiative to people who in need.
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    Timeline
    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Al-Ahsa Volunteering Team
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    Al-Ahsa, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
    Website/More information
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    Countries
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
    Contact Information

    Razan Alaqil, Project Leader