Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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

Industries, Innovation & Infrastructure


Goal 9 seeks to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Economic growth, social development and climate action are heavily dependent on investments in infrastructure, sustainable industrial development and technological progress. In the face of a rapidly changing global economic landscape and increasing inequalities, sustained growth must include industrialization that first of all, makes opportunities accessible to all people, and second, is supported by innovation and resilient infrastructure.

Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, global manufacturing – considered an engine of overall economic growth – has been steadily declining due to tariffs and trade tensions. The manufacturing decline caused by the pandemic has further caused serious impacts on the global economy.

This is primarily due to high inflation, energy price shocks, persistent disruptions in the supply of raw materials and intermediate goods, and global economic deceleration.

While LDCs in Asia have made considerable progress, African LDCs would need to change the current trajectory and accelerate progress significantly to attain the target by 2030. However, medium-high and high-technology industries demonstrated robust growth rates.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Western Asia

2012 Amman Jordan K g

Regional Centre on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development for the Near East

1983 Amman Jordan E g

Regional Commission for Fisheries

RECOFI 1999 Cairo Egypt E gy

Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications

RCC 1991 Moscow Russia D g

Regional Conference on Migration

RCM 1996 San José Costa Rica E g

Regional Convention on Fisheries Cooperation among African States Bordering the Atlantic Ocean

1991 Rome Italy T g

Regional Cooperation Agreement for the Promotion of Nuclear Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean

ARCAL Agreement 1984 Vienna Austria F g

Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia - Information Sharing Centre

ReCAAP ISC 2004 Singapore Singapore E g

Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology

1972 T g

Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology in Asia

RCA 1972 Daejeon Korea Rep F g

Regional Cooperative Program for the Technological Development and Modernization of Coffee Cultivation in Central America, Panama, Dominican Rep and Jamaica

Guatemala Guatemala E g

Regional Dialogue on the Information Society

2004 Lima Peru F

Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa

RERA 2002 Windhoek Namibia E

Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action

REGATTA Panama Panama F

Regional Information Service Centre for Southeast Asia on Appropriate Technology

RISE-AT 1995 Chiang Mai Thailand G

Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Centre

RITSEC Cairo Egypt E

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Centre - Wider Caribbean

REMPEITC-Carib 1994 Willemstad Curaçao E g

Regional Maritime University, Accra

RMU 1983 Accra Ghana E g

Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes

ReNAPRI 2012 Lusaka Zambia F j

Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements

CITYNET 1987 Seoul Korea Rep F y

Regional Radio Convention for Central America, Panama and the Canal Zone

1938 T g

Regional School for Aerial Navigation and Management

1960 Dakar Senegal E g

Regional School of Sanitary Engineering and Hydraulic Resources

1965 Guatemala Guatemala E

Regional Secretariat for Gender, Science and Technology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

RESGEST Jakarta Indonesia K

Regions of Climate Action

R20 2010 Geneva Switzerland C

Regions4 Sustainable Development

Regions4 2002 Brussels Belgium F

Règlement of Navigation and Police Applicable to the Danube between Galatz and the Mouths

1911 T g

Regulations Concerning the Granting of Rhine Navigation Certificates of December 14 1922

1925 T g

Regulations for Maritime Hunting Operations in the Waters of the South Pacific

1952 T g

Regulatory Assistance Project

RAP 1992 Montpelier VT USA G

RehabiMed

2009 Barcelona Spain G

Remanufacturing Institute

TRI 1997 Lewisburg PA USA G j

Remote Area Medical

RAM 1985 Knoxville TN USA N

Rencontres Africaines

RA 1991 Sophia Antipolis France N

Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis

1969 Bagnolet France N

Rencontres européennes - Europoésie

1990 Vitry-sur-Seine France N

Rencontres Francophones Transport-Mobilité

RFTM S c

Rencontres philosophiques de l'UNESCO

Paris France S c

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership

REEEP 2002 Vienna Austria F

Rensselaerville Institute

Delmar NY USA N j

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

RAMICS 2015 Lyon France C

Research Data Alliance

RDA 2013 Didcot UK C

Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy

1978 Brussels Belgium G

Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

RITE 1990 Kyoto Japan G

Réseau européen de recherche et d'innovation dans l'enseignement supérieur

RERIES Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium E

Réseau francophone de la régulation des télécommunications

FRATEL 2003 Paris France F g

Réseau international des Cités des métiers

2001 Paris France F

Réseau méditerranéen des écoles d'ingénieurs

RMEI 1997 Marseille France F y

Réseaux ferroviaires Européens Développement social et Solidarité dans les Gares

Gare Européenne et Solidarité Sofia Bulgaria F

Resolution Recommending the Construction of New Intercontinental Railways

1902 T g

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