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Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17)

SDG 17 recognises that no goal is reached alone. 91探花 works with governments, international organisations, non-profits, businesses and other universities, and it uses those partnerships to turn research and campus practice into shared action.

The progress report below sets out JGU's work against SDG 17 for 2025–26. The associated pages describe the partnerships, dialogues, reports and education programmes behind it.

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals| Sustainable Development Goals: Progress Report | Reporting Year 2025–26

1. Introduction & Institutional Commitment

Sustainable Development Goal 17 calls for strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing global partnerships for sustainable development.

JGU works with national and international organisations, governments, NGOs and business, with 600+ partnerships across 83+ countries. It is a signatory to the CANIE Accord and belongs to the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative, Nature Positive Universities and UN Academic Impact. In 2025 it held 34 active externally funded projects with partners including the International Growth Centre at LSE, the Research Council of Norway, UNICEF and Oxford Policy Management, and study-abroad and South–South immersion programmes extend the network to universities in Asia, Europe and North America.

This report presents JGU's progress, key initiatives, and impact under SDG 17 across the following areas: knowledge sharing and science cooperation, global multi-stakeholder partnerships and public, civil society and private partnerships.

2. Key Figures at a Glance

Indicator Achieved
Active externally funded SDG projects (2025) 34
SDG research projects initiated 13 (2025)
Funding for ongoing SDG projects USD 3,420,782
Global partnerships / countries 600+ / 83+
Policy bodies citing JGU research 140 governments/bodies
Fellowship applications / countries represented 500+ / 35+ (2026)
Electives mapped to SDG 17 10

3. Policy & Governance

JGU's partnerships are guided by the university's sustainability framework and its Office of Sustainability, which coordinates membership of global networks, reports on the SDGs each year and tracks partnership-based research funding. The policies on responsible sourcing, local stakeholder engagement and academic freedom set the terms on which JGU works with suppliers, communities and scholars.

Policy objectives:

  • Build long-term partnerships with governments, NGOs, businesses, other universities and local communities.
  • Share knowledge, data and good practice across borders, with attention to the Global South.
  • Report openly on progress against the SDGs.

Oversight & responsibility:

The Office of Sustainability, the Office of Institutional Advancement & Strategic Global Engagement (IASGE) and the Office of Academic Governance coordinate JGU's partnerships and its reporting on them.

4. Key Initiatives & Projects: Progress Against Targets

JGU's progress is reported against all nineteen UN SDG 17 targets. Many of these concern national governments, development finance and trade. Where a target falls outside a university's reach, this is stated plainly. Target wording follows the United Nations.

Target 17.1: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments and tax authorities. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.2: Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.3: Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.

JGU's contribution: JGU brings in external funding for research, with 34 active externally funded projects in 2025 worth USD 3,420,782, from partners that include the International Growth Centre at LSE, the Research Council of Norway, UNICEF, Oxford Policy Management, the Ministry of MSME, Equality Now, Cultural Survival, the New Venture Fund and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. This is research funding within India, not finance for other developing countries.

Target 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.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments and international financial institutions. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.5: Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.6: Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.

The Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship draws on JGU's 600+ partnerships in 83+ countries to promote the exchange of knowledge and good practice in SDG research. In 2025 it received 300+ applications from 30+ countries and selected 100+ fellows; in 2026 it received 500+ applications from 35+ countries and selected 150+ fellows. The Office of Institutional Advancement & Strategic Global Engagement (IASGE) runs South–South immersion programmes with Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, UPGRIS and HUTECH in Indonesia and Vietnam. JGU also belongs to the United Nations Academic Impact and the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative.

Target 17.7: Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.

JGU's contribution: JGU plans to invest in piezoelectric tiles for energy harvesting and Direct Air Capture systems through multinational partnerships. It does not run an institutional programme to transfer technology to developing countries.

Target 17.8: Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns the United Nations and governments. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 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.

JGU's study-abroad partnerships with Harvard, Columbia Law School, UPenn, Pace University, Seattle University, Oxford and UNITAR, and its South–South immersion programmes in South-East Asia, build the skills of students from many countries. The Centre for Water, Ocean Governance & Sustainability Law supports legal professionals and policymakers in India and other developing countries. JGU's Sulitest TASK partnership extends sustainability literacy assessment to students and staff.

Target 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.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. JGU research on investment treaties, investor disputes and the WTO has been cited by policy bodies.

Target 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.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments and trade. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.12: Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 17.13: Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. JGU's research on monetary policy, microfinance and financial management has been cited by CGAP, the World Bank and other policy bodies.

Target 17.14: Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.

JGU research is cited 187 times by policy bodies, including 140 governments and bodies in over 35 countries, and more than 60% of the policy-cited publications relate to the SDGs. This carries evidence on sustainable development into policy in many countries.

Target 17.15: Respect each country's policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments. It is not addressed through institutional action.

Target 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.

JGU is a signatory to the CANIE Accord (Climate Action Network for International Educators) and belongs to the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), Nature Positive Universities (700+ institutions, founded by UNEP and the University of Oxford) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). It has 600+ partnerships in 83+ countries.

Target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.

JGU's 34 active funded projects include partnerships with government (the Ministry of MSME and the Haryana State Commission for Women), international bodies (UNICEF), non-profits and foundations (Equality Now, Cultural Survival, the New Venture Fund) and research and consulting partners (the International Growth Centre at LSE, Oxford Policy Management and the Research Council of Norway with the University of Oslo). Further partners are WWF India (Centre for Environmental Law), Sukoon, the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) and Sulitest.

Target 17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.

JGU's contribution: JGU tracks its SDG research output with SciVal, reports its emissions under the GHG Protocol and measures sustainability literacy with the Sulitest TASK assessment. It does not run a programme of statistical capacity-building for developing countries.

Target 17.19: By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries.

JGU's contribution: this target concerns governments and statistical bodies. JGU supports measurement of sustainability progress through its annual Sustainable Development Report and SDG-wise progress reports.

Key data:

Indicator 2025
Active externally funded SDG projects 34
SDG research projects initiated 13
Funding for ongoing SDG projects USD 3,420,782
Global partnerships / countries 600+ / 83+
Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship, 2025 300+ applications; 30+ countries; 100+ selected
Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship, 2026 500+ applications; 35+ countries; 150+ selected

Key initiatives:

Global sustainability memberships:

JGU is a signatory to the CANIE Accord and belongs to the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), Nature Positive Universities (700+ institutions) and UN Academic Impact (UNAI).

Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship:

Draws on JGU's 600+ partnerships in 83+ countries; the 2026 round received 500+ applications from 35+ countries and selected 150+ fellows.

Externally funded SDG research:

34 active funded projects with partners including the International Growth Centre (LSE), Research Council of Norway, UNICEF, Oxford Policy Management (Indo-German Support Project for Climate Action in India, INR 55,16,500), Ministry of MSME, Equality Now, Cultural Survival, the New Venture Fund and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Global South cooperation (IASGE):

Immersion programmes with Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, UPGRIS and HUTECH build South–South partnerships.

Study-abroad partnerships:

Harvard, Columbia Law School, UPenn, Pace University, Seattle University, Oxford and UNITAR.

Sulitest and external knowledge partners:

3-year pioneer partnership on TASK; WWF India Centre for Environmental Law; Sukoon; ISEP University Partner.

5. Programmes, Research & Curriculum

  • 10 electives mapped to SDG 17.
  • Study-abroad and immersion programmes with partner universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
  • Sulitest TASK assessment, with a three-year pioneer partnership, open to students and staff.
  • Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship for young Ph.D. scholars and faculty members.

6. Community, Partnerships & Outreach

  • International bodies: UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, UNCTAD, World Bank and WEF cite JGU research.
  • Government and NGO partners as listed above.
  • Networks: CANIE, HESI, Nature Positive Universities and UNAI.
  • Local community: free healthcare for underprivileged neighbours and construction workers, a free shuttle for employees, and community collection drives for e-waste, paper and textiles.

7. Events & 91探花 Timeline

Distinguished Public Lecture: 'The Climate Emergency' - 10 March 2026

Delivered by Sir David King, Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, with a special address by Zack King, CCAG Director.

QS 5 Stars certificate at India–UK Roundtable, House of Lords - 24 September

Overall QS 5 Stars rating conferred at the roundtable on UK–India higher education.

8. Awards & Recognition

  • QS 5 Stars overall rating (conferred at the House of Lords roundtable).

9. Future Commitments & Roadmap

JGU will join the Scholars at Risk (STAR) Network in 2026, partner with NGOs on community-led collection drives, build long-term partnerships with residents, schools and non-profits, alongside its continuing work with Sulitest.

JGU's partnerships are broad and visible: 600+ partnerships across 83+ countries, 34 active externally funded projects, memberships in CANIE, HESI, Nature Positive Universities and UNAI, and policy citations from bodies such as UNESCO, the WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank. Together they turn JGU's research and campus practice into shared action with governments, NGOs, industry and other universities. Planned engagement with the Scholars at Risk Network in 2026 and multinational collaboration on climate technologies promise to widen that network further.