Role of Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development for a Resilient Future

Abstract:

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved by the global community in 2015as a collaborative plan to achieve a sustainable future. The achievement of sustainable development goals needs successful global linkages and partnerships (SGD-17) that can organize resources, share technologies, knowledge, and collaborate efforts between countries and organizations. However, global partnerships and linkages experience several barriers and challenges that hinder their effectiveness and impede advancement towards digitalization, green technologies, and regional diversification. This research intends to make up this gap by addressing aforementioned problems through examining role of global linkages to achieve sustainable development goals, identifying the main challenges and barriers in achieving these objectives, and to recommend polices and suggestions to strengthen these linkages and maximize their impact. To achieve the objectives of the study, a thorough review of academic literature, government reports, industry databases and policy documents, questionnaire survey and expert interviews were carried out to understand the present level of knowledge about global linkages and sustainable development goals. The data was obtained by using well-structured questionnaires through experienced professionals working as academic research, government official, NGOs and private sector professionals working in the construction industry. An online questionnaire was floated among different groups from which 128 returned and 32 were rejected, as the respondents have no understanding about sustainable development. Mean Item Score through SPSS was used to analyze the data.

• Periodical: Construction Technologies and Architecture (Volume 13)
• Pages: 163-172
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-5E86o7
• Online since: July 2024
• Authors: Shakeel Ahmed*, Nafees Ahmed Memon, Aftab Hameed Memon, Zulfiqar Jattak, Syed Abdullah Shah
• Keywords: Barriers, Global Partnership, Roles, Strategic Policies, Sustainable Development Goals

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