ITC contributes directly to 10 Global Goals for Sustainable Development in the following ways.
GOAL 1
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- Reduce proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty.
- Create sound policy frameworks based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies.
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GOAL 2
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- Double productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women.
- Provide access to knowledge, markets and opportunities for value addition.
- Ensure sustainable food production systems.
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GOAL 4
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- Ensure youth and adults have relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
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GOAL 5
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- Ensure women’s full and effective participation in business and trade and equal opportunities.
- Support women’s equal rights to economic resources.
- Enhance use of enabling technology to promote the empowerment of women.
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GOAL 8
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- Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation.
- Promote policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.
- Encourage formalization and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
- Increase Aid for Trade support.
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GOAL 9
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- Ensure a conducive policy environment for industrial diversification and value addition.
- Increase access of SMEs to financial services and integration into value chains and markets.
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GOAL 10
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- Achieve income growth of the bottom 40%.
- Implement special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with WTO agreements.
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GOAL 12
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- Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
- Support companies in adopting sustainable practices and integrating sustainability information into their reporting cycles.
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GOAL 13
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- Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
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GOAL 16
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- Support effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
- Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making.
- Ensure participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
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GOAL 17
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- Ensure a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the WTO.
- Support significantly increased exports of developing countries, doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020.
- Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries.
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