Description/achievement of initiative
Global Development Partners, Inc. is committed to providing equal economic growth opportunities to all, especially those who are living in the developing countries and have been excluded from the local financial and economic growth programs and opportunities. Several of our organizational goals and operating philosophies are closely aligned with the UN Sustainable Development goals. We are a Profit with Purpose organization. Our purpose includes economic development in developing countries, gender equality, access to education and availability of capital to small entrepreneurs and gender equality.
Implementation methodologies
Our executives and team members visit developing countries and sit down with the community leaders, small business owners and budding entrepreneurs to understand their challenges and goals. We also host educational and training seminars to help small and medium size businesses set the right foundation for growth. In the absence of local financial support systems, we provide foreign investments and growth capital, along with ongoing coaching to make sure that these small businesses are successful and they add economic value to their communities and countries. Due to the wide variety of industries we are involved in, our work impacts agriculture, climate change, job creation, financial systems, education and technology. We actively seek to support gender equality and female entrepreneurship by giving women and girls the opportunities they currently do not have in the developing countries.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Providing coaching and consulting services for capacity building, giving access to computers and software programs to small business owners, providing training on the use of technology and creating shared resources model between several businesses to lower the cost of capacity building, especially in the area of transportation and logistics.
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
Members of our team regularly visit developing countries and look for the areas where Global Development Partners, Inc. can play a role in making a difference. We primarily focus on entrepreneurship but the impact of our work expands into industrial development, agriculture growth, sustainability, climate change and gender equality as well as leveling the playing field for small business owners in developing countries who are at a clear disadvantage, due to the lack of education, business knowledge, access to growth capital and other support systems necessary for them to be successful and add value to their communities and countries by creating new jobs and shifting the import/export balance. We have funded and supported small businesses ranging from female owned chemical manufacturing businesses to small farmers focusing on organic produce and livestock in the Caribbean region. Our plans are to expand to other regions of the world where our work can support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Partner(s)
Global Development Partners, Inc.
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.b - Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
Goal 2
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
Goal 4
4.4 - By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
Goal 5
5.5 - Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.a - Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Goal 10
10.1 - By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
10.2 - By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
10.4 - Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
10.a - Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements
10.b - Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes
Goal 17
17.1 - Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.3 - Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.4 - Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.5 - Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.10 - Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.11 - Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.15 - Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability