Global Sustainable Development Summit 2021

SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

To help reduce and combat poverty on a national level, our primary goal is to do away with and combat extreme poverty. One of the primary goals is to ensure that poor people have access to social protection, resources, and opportunities.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 1

MSMEs create employment that lift people out of poverty.

Informal enterprises engage poor and marginalized populations Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practices to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

This goal has seven separate targets. The overall goal is to bring hunger to an end, to end all forms of malnutrition, and to boost productivity among farmers, especially those with small-scale operations. Other targets focus on international cooperation to promote agricultural research, food security, and global trade of agricultural goods.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 2

Smallholder farmers and agricultural-focused MSMEs directly contribute to the goal.

MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practices to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

This has 13 objectives. Targets cover a wide range of issues from maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality, to epidemics, non-communicable diseases, substance abuse, tobacco control, road accident deaths, and pollution (UHC). Research targets additionally promote global cooperation on vaccine and medicine development, healthcare financing, and risk management.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 3

MSMEs are healthcare providers.

MSMEs are bridging the healthcare gap

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs

SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

The goals seek to provide universal and equitable primary and secondary education, as well as increasing access to early childhood education (ECE) and vocational and tertiary education. Sustainable and gender-inclusive construction are important for the targets. Also in the long-term, reducing global mistrust is a means to further educational development.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 4

MSMEs as providers of technical and vocational education.

MSMEs as complementary formal education providers.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

This goal has nine targets. The initiatives call for ending gender-based discrimination, eliminating violence against women, making female participation in decision-making a priority, and improving the ability of women to gain access to economic resources, technology, and reproductive health services.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 5

A significant proportion of MSMEs are women-owned/led.

MSMEs employ women

Inclusive finance can bridge the gender gap.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

This goal has eight targets. They focus on ensuring universal and equitable access to safe water and sanitation, improving water quality, and achieving water efficiency in sectors, as well as protecting water-based ecosystems and promoting integrated water resource management.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 6

MSMEs deliver water and sanitation services.

Agricultural and food supply chain MSMEs can conserve water.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

This goal has five targets. They focus on ensuring energy access for all, promoting renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing international cooperation to promote clean energy research and technology and energy infrastructure.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 7

MSMEs have the potential for becoming more energy efficient.

MSMEs can be incentivized by larger enterprises to integrate sustainable practices in their operations

MSME finance can contribute to Goal 7

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

This goal has twelve targets. These priorities are national economic growth, decent work, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and a global strategy on youth employment.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 8

MSMEs contribute to GDP and economic growth

MSMEs create jobs and have the potential for promoting decent work and entrepreneurship

MSMEs finance is a target for Goal 8.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

This goal has nine targets, all of which address three different areas: providing resilient infrastructure, industrialization, and promotion of research and innovation.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 9

Small-scale industrial enterprises are directly relevant to the goal.

MSME finance for small-scale industrial enterprises will contribute to the goal.

MSMEs promote innovation

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

This goal has ten targets. This goal are focused on increasing the incomes of low-income groups, ending discrimination, promoting social, economic, and political inclusion, facilitating safe migration, and reducing remittance fees (LDCs).

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 10

MSMEs promote economic inclusion and have the potential to regenerate under-served geographic areas.

MSMEs provide incomes to low income and marginalized groups.

Increasing productivity of MSMEs can help bridge wage inequality.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

This goal has ten targets. They focus on providing decent housing, road systems, waste management, and reducing the impact of disasters in urban areas. Urban standards, policies, and planning are being promoted.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 11

MSMEs provide employment and economic growth in cities.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

This goal has eleven targets. It promotes sustainable management of natural resources, sustainable lifestyles and consumption behaviours, sustainable business practises, and sustainability reporting for businesses. Public procurement and international cooperation on research and development promote sustainable consumption and production.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 12

MSMEs as a group have significant cumulative social and environmental impacts.

SDG Target 12.7 under this goal promotes public procurement practices that are sustainable. MSMEs have the potential to adopt sustainable business practices.

MSMEs can contribute to sustainability reporting

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

This goal has five targets. They encourage resistance to the impact of climate change, which results in an increased level of planning and increased global cooperation to support climate change mitigation and build countries' capacity to confront climate change.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 13

MSMEs have the potential to make vulnerable populations and households climate-resilient.

MSMEs are heavy energy users and have the potential to contribute to mitigation.

MSMEs can contribute to the adaptation of economic activities/sectors.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

This goal has ten targets. They encourage a reduction in marine pollution, sustainable management of marine and coastal ecosystems, regulation of overfishing, protection of marine ecosystems, and promotion of research to address ocean acidification. They also support international cooperation, research, and capacity building in the field of marine technology.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 14

Small-scale fishery and marine-based enterprises are directly relevant to the goal.

Building MSME capabilities to promote sustainability of value chains.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

This goal has twelve targets. They focus on sustainable management of inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands, combat deforestation, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, and preserve biodiversity in mountain ecosystems. The goals call for an end to poaching and trafficking of protected species, protection against invasive species, ecosystem-based planning, and global cooperation on conservation.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 15

Agribusinesses and smallholder farmers have a critical role to play in conserving land-based ecosystems.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

This goal has twelve targets. Ending all types of violence, exploitation, trafficking, and violence against and torture of children are targets. Targets call for rule of law, call for less illicit financial and arms flows, less corruption, greater transparency in institutions, more participatory decision making, and birth registration that is done in a non-discriminatory

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 16

MSMEs have the potential for promoting good governance principles.

MSMEs have a role in conflict/violence prevention.

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.

SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

This goal has nineteen targets. It calls for domestic resource mobilisation, overseas development assistance (ODA), trade and investment promotion, and debt sustainability. International cooperation on access to science, technology, and innovation, capacity building, and improved policy and institutional coherence are all supported by the goal.

MSMEs contribution in achieving SDG 17

MSMEs account for a large share of added value in international trade when indirect linkages are taken into account.

MSMEs are a source of partnership to implement SDGs MSMEs are a source of data for SDG monitoring and reporting.

MSMEs have a role in conflict/violence prevention

Individual MSMEs have the potential to adopt actions in their business practice to contribute to the goal.

New business models/solutions of MSMEs that will help achieve the SDGs.