Partners for Sustainable Development
By Sami Al-Hakimi Working on many aspects of the Millennium Development Goals over the past 15 years has taught us how important people’s participation and ownership is to make change sustainable. This important lesson learnt from the Millennium Development Goals is now reflected in the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, which is universal, transformational, holistic and people-centered, and will leave no one behind. "We need people to be part of identifying the problems, and to be part of building the solutions" In some ways, volunteerism’s nature as an industry dependent on the participation of people makes it sustainable. Volunteerism and volunteers are the ultimate renewable resource for sustainable development goal delivery across all thematic areas, whether on specific goals such as those on health, gender, education, sustainable consumption or environmental protection, or as a cross-cutting means of implementation that engages p