SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

This Learning World focuses on understanding the role and importance of global partnerships in order to achieve the SDGs and create a just and livable world for everyone, everywhere. The Learning World provides ideas and components that you can integrate into your teaching: An interactive boardstory with complementary exercises, a glossary with the most important terms of the Learning World, additional exercises to consolidate and further reflect on the contents of SDG 17 as well as examples of the connections between this SDG and others.
Boardstory for interactive learning
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The Learning Objectives outline the key competencies students will develop by completing this Learning World. They also highlight connections to other topics, encouraging further exploration and discussion beyond this module.
Learning Objectives
Acquiring competencies for sustainable development is part of a lifelong learning process. The boardstory and exercises provided in this learning world initiate this process and help students gain knowledge, reflect and think critically, and take meaningful action. After completing this unit, it is recommended to foster the development of the desired competencies for sustainable development e.g. by teaching further learning worlds. Thus, expanding students’ skill sets further.
With this in mind, the learning objectives of this specific learning world first and foremost aim to develop a basic understanding of the respective SDG and related connections for students aged nine to eleven. Gaining and expanding competencies for sustainable development further is desirable, but can only be achieved through continuous immersion and persistence.
Following the interaction with this Learning World, the students will be able to:
explain that we can share values and responsibilities based on human rights and to experience a sense of belonging to a common humanity.
analyze the concept of global citizenship and evaluate its feasibility in the absence of a global government.
explain the importance of partnerships especially because of difficulties in implementing the SDGs, e.g. due to their voluntary character and a lack of binding commitment from each government.
explain the role of financing and existing power structures and dependencies between countries in global cooperation.
underline the importance of global multi-stakeholder partnerships and shared accountability for sustainable development, e.g. by recognizing the importance of cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation, and knowledge sharing.
reflect upon and collaborate to create action plans for improved school environment.
Connection to other SDGs
The 17 SDGs complement each other and should not be viewed in isolation. As such synergy effects can occur, for example an improvement in one of the SDGs can in turn have a positive effect on another. At the same time, prioritizing measures for one SDG can also lead to another goal being neglected. The following overview provides examples of connections between SDGs which can be used to open up new conversations and linking points to take the topic beyond this learning world.
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SDG 01: No Poverty
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SDG 02: Zero Hunger
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SDG 03: Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 04: Quality Education
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SDG 05: Gender Equality
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SDG 06: Clean Water and Sanitation
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SDG 07: Affordable and Clean Energy
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SDG 08: Decent Work and Economic Growth
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SDG 09: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDG 13: Climate Action
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SDG 14: Life below Water
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SDG 15: Life on Land
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SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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SDG Dilemmas
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SDG Wedding Cake Model