Global status in 2025

The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 reports that official development assistance fell by 7.1 per cent in 2024 after five years of growth, that debt-servicing costs for low- and middle-income countries reached a record USD 1.4 trillion, and that the annual SDG financing gap in developing countries stands at an estimated USD 4 trillion — making private-sector partnership and investment more consequential, not less.

Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025.

European and Albanian context

No single organisation delivers the 2030 Agenda. For NOVARIC®, partnership means structured collaboration with employers, educational institutions, public authorities, civil-society organisations and international frameworks — the UN Global Compact, ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative and OECD-aligned practice among them.

NOVARIC® implementation commitments

  • Maintain structured partnerships with employers, vocational institutions and public authorities in Albania, Malta and destination markets.
  • Align partnership conduct with the UN Global Compact principles and the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative.
  • Share non-confidential methodology — including elements of this Manual's toolkit — to raise recruitment standards across the sector.
  • Participate in multi-stakeholder initiatives on ethical recruitment, skills development and responsible AI.

Key performance indicators

Measured through the Manual's 90-indicator register (browse the full register):

  • GOV-14 Active framework partnerships
  • SOC-20 Methodology-sharing outputs
  • EDU-11 Institutional training partnerships
  • GOV-15 Partnership review completion
Case study — from the Manual, Part III

NOVARIC® treats partnerships as governed relationships: each carries defined objectives, named owners and an annual effectiveness review. Partnerships that cannot demonstrate contribution to the Manual's commitments are restructured or concluded.

Related framework

All 17 goals Access the Manual