Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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The United Nations calls its 17 Sustainable Development Goals "the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all." With a target of achieving them by 2030, the goals are all interconnected and address the global challenges we face.

Goal 17 is "Partnerships for the Goals." As the UN puts it: "A successful development agenda requires inclusive partnerships — at the global, regional, national and local levels — built upon principles and values, and upon a shared vision and shared goals placing people and the planet at the centre."

This series includes stories of sisters working collaboratively to build a better world.

India's farmers prevail in national protest, Catholic sisters rejoice

Dec 16, 2021

By Thomas Scaria

Catholic nuns are rejoicing in the success of an historic yearlong protest by India's farmers against federal reforms that deregulated crop prices and opened fields to corporate interests.

Insecurity, lack of resources challenge Congo sisters' health care work

Dec 01, 2021

By Rose Namulisa Balaluka

COVID-19 worsened the blanket of insecurity and fear in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the Daughters of the Resurrection in Bukavu — teaming up with other congregations — persist in their health care mission.

Young women work together to present at UN forum

Sep 02, 2021

By Martha A. Kirk, Tatum Spriester

When we sisters started the Women's Global Connection ministry, we didn't know that the seeds would blossom with young people in conversations with participants all over the world. In 2021, young women worked together for successful presentations at the UN's NGO CSW Forum.

LCWR's Lifetime Achievement Award winners have spent decades advocating for others

Aug 12, 2021

By Dan Stockman, Gail DeGeorge

On Aug. 13, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will hand out three Lifetime Achievement Awards, the first time the organization has given the award. The inaugural recipients are an economist, an advocate and a world traveler.

Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

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India's farmers prevail in national protest, Catholic sisters rejoice

Insecurity, lack of resources challenge Congo sisters' health care work

Young women work together to present at UN forum

LCWR's Lifetime Achievement Award winners have spent decades advocating for others

African sisters take path from donor-dependent to self-reliant

Walking with women on their way to freedom

Making the fight against trafficking a priority for 25 years

Sisters fight Nigeria trafficking with networking, advocacy and collaboration

UNANIMA International members adapt homelessness solutions during COVID-19

UN takes up issue of homelessness in development meetings

Migrants benefit from Mercy Sisters' ministry of presence

Celebrating a five-year collaboration of beauty and joy

Sisters count on the 'multiplication factor' of lay partners in their ministries

Welcome of the heart: Sisters build bonds in collaborative effort to assist immigrants

Across US, sisters among those in solidarity with immigrants at Lights for Liberty events

Partnership doesn't require replacement

A new chapter for a Felician convent

AmeriCorps partnership expands sisters' service and transforms members

Nuns and Nones: Unlikely partners tackle the big questions

Q & A with Sr. Begoña Iñarra, seeking anti-trafficking cooperation between Africa, Europe

Partnerships strengthen sisters' clean water projects worldwide