The Task Force
The Secretary-General has called for a comprehensive rescue plan for both people and the planet, emphasizing the urgency of accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leveraging global, regional, and country-led initiatives to maximize synergies between these initiatives and the SDGs will be critical to scale and accelerate progress within the next seven years.
The UN Task Force on Leveraging Partnerships towards the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda is being established with the goal of establishing synergies between existing global, regional, and country-led initiatives and the SDGs.
Objective
The overarching objective of the Task Force is to contribute to accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by promoting synergies and leveraging the available resources of relevant global, regional, and country-led initiatives.
Functions
The Task Force will provide a platform for dialogue to drive greater alignment and coherence in UN action and facilitate engagement with those global, regional, and country-led initiatives, in support of the SDGs.
The Task Force will adhere to the principle of national ownership, align with countries’ UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks, and will be demand-driven at the request of Member States.
The Task Force will play a complementary role in supporting the momentum of existing UN mechanisms or UN-led initiatives on SDG partnership building, such as the 12 High Impact Initiatives (HIIs) selected by the 2023 SDG Summit on crucial dimensions of SDG acceleration, and in the lead up to the Summit of the Future and beyond.