 Agenda 2030 is an outcome of Rio+20 summit, 2012

 Officially adopted in September, 2015

 Came into force in January, 2016
 UN launched an online My World survey asking people to prioritize the areas they’d like to see
addressed in the goals.
 Total 17 Goals, 169 targets.
 Total 244 indicators. Since 9 indicators repeat under two or three different targets, the actual
no. of indicators is 232.

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

8 targets

12 indicators

Target Indicator
9.5 9.5.1
Enhance scientific research, upgrade the Research and development expenditure as a
technological capabilities of industrial sectors in proportion of GDP
all countries, in particular developing countries,
including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and 9.5.2
substantially increasing the number of research Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million
and development workers per 1 million people inhabitants
and public and private research and development
spending
9.B 9.B.1
Support domestic technology development, Proportion of medium and high-tech industry
research and innovation in developing countries, value added in total value added
including by ensuring a conducive policy
environment for, inter alia, industrial
diversification and value addition to commodities

SDG 9 Progress info in 2017:

 Globally, manufacturing value added as a share of GDP increased from 15.3 per cent in 2005 to
16.2 per cent in 2016. In 2016, manufacturing value added per capita amounted to $4,621 in
Europe and Northern America, compared to about $100 in the least developed countries.

 In 2014, investments in research and development stood at 1.7 per cent of global GDP, up from
1.5 per cent in 2000. Worldwide, there were 1,098 researchers per million inhabitants in 2014,
ranging from 63 in the least developed countries to 3,500 in Europe and Northern America.
  Manufacturing is increasingly shifting towards more technologically complex products. While
medium- and high-tech products continue to dominate manufacturing production in
industrialized economies (where they contribute about 80 per cent of total manufacturing
output), the share has barely reached 10 per cent in least developed countries.

 In 2016, 95 per cent of the world’s population and 85 per cent of people in the least developed
countries were covered by a mobile-cellular signal.

Actions to achieve SDG target 9, in the 7th FYP of Bangladesh:

SDG Target Actions Existing govt. policy

instruments
9.5  A paradigm shift in Science and Technology
manufacturing sector can be Development Trust Act,
achieved through 2011;
development of R&D of National Strategies for the
product design geared to Development of Statistics,
supply chain management and 2013
customer relations.
 Representatives from FBCCI,
MCCI, BGMEA, BKMEA, and
other stakeholders could form
an action group to take R&D
agenda forward.
 Spending on research and
development (R&D) is a major
determinant of technology
development, innovation and
adoption of technological
change.
9.B  Technology can also be Information and
imported from abroad Communication Technology
through foreign direct Act 2006, Amended in 2009
investment which brings the & 2013
latest equipment,
management skills, and
technical know-how.
 Technology transfer in the
garment industry from
partnership with foreign
investors
 Adoption of improved
technology can be a major
factor for improving total
factor productivity and
increasing the rate of growth.
 The Government should build
partnership with NGOs,
Multinational Companies, and
donors so that greater
technology transfer is
facilitated