SDG #17 is to “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”

Within SDG #17 are 19 targets, of which we here focus on 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

Target 17.9 has one indicator:

• Indicator 17.9.1: Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

The countries who’d received the most development cooperation in the form of technical help as of 2021 were:

• Mexico

• Peru

• Colombia

• Sudan

• India

• Pakistan

• Indonesia

Each received over a billion dollars of technical help in 2021. 

Asia received $14 billion in 2021, Africa $10 billion, Latin America and the Caribbean $8 billion, and the least developed countries $8 billion. Each of these regions saw an increase of annual technical help equal to a couple billion dollars over the SDG period.