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In 2015, UN member states approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a transformative global agenda that integrates the economic, social and environmental pillars of development within 17 intricately interdependent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to the 2030 Agenda is a pledge to meet the Goals for all, leaving no one behind, and endeavouring to reach the furthest behind first. The Development Co-operation Report 2018 unpacks the meaning of this pledge with a specific focus on the unique role and added value of development co-operation and official development assistance (ODA). This report responds to demand from members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee for greater clarity on how to answer the pledge.
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This overview responds to the question: what does the pledge to “leave no one behind” mean in practice? It discusses how inclusive, equitable and sustainable development should be the primary objective of policies, investments and partnerships to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Pathways to lift at least 730 million people out of extreme poverty and up to 2.3 billion people out of fragility between now and 2030 need smarter, context-specific development strategies. This in turn demands innovative partnerships with agents of change, more disaggregated data to identify the poorest, most marginalised and vulnerable people and understanding the intersecting drivers of disadvantage and exclusion. The chapter defines how leave no one behind can be achieved and discusses the readiness of development co-operation to play its unique role. It calls for renewing and reforming development co-operation in three ways: (i) a new narrative spelling out the benefits of leaving no one behind for everyone; (ii) deliberately mainstreaming inclusive, equitable and sustainable development through portfolios; and (iii) a smarter use of official development assistance as an integral part of broader efforts to increase the volume of financing to achieve the SDGs for all.
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