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The SDG story is about what most people want: more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable societies, no later than 2030. In these challenging times for the world, it is time to react, reset, restart. Old models have not delivered. We need new ones.
That’s why people must rewrite the story that shapes a new reality. It’s about knowing that the impossible is possible – if we act together. It means taking back our world because it belongs to all people, not just a few. We need to #FlipTheScript to achieve a healthy, just and green world, the ambitions at the heart of the SDGs.
COVID reoriented our priorities, revealing the inequalities in our society and upending outdated narratives. We’ve seen who really is powerful, and how quickly things can really change. We’ve seen what we are all truly capable of when we come together.
COVID reoriented our priorities, revealing the inequalities in our society and upending outdated narratives. We’ve seen who really is powerful, and how quickly things can really change. We’ve seen what we are all truly capable of when we come together.
To #FlipTheScript, the UN SDG Action Campaign calls for a journey of advocacy and action. The very first step is changing how we talk to each other and work together to find solutions. In doing so, we will inspire others to do the same. Advocating to #FlipTheScript, means rethinking, recalibrating and reimagining our societies and economies to achieve the SDGs. Taking action means behavior change at all levels, transforming the way we do things to implement the change we want to see.
We must flip the script on how we talk to each other. On how we work together. On how we move forward together. On how we cooperate and approach solutions.
We must reimagine our world and seize the opportunity within the crisis to show that we can catalyze positive change and achieve the SDGs tby changing prevailing narratives.
Let’s look at innovative, affordable, practical and realistic sustainable solutions that exist – we need the courage to invest in them and flip the script on our approaches - and help those who are underrepresented and left furthest behind.
Use the Flip the Script AR Filters and stickers to share on social media to show that change is possible
Register your profile and log your SDG action on our global map at https://act4sdgs.org/global-map/
Download visual assets and messages
Share social media messages with the hashtag #FlipTheScript and tag @SDGaction
The UN SDG Action Awards will be back in 2023, to celebrate initiatives that #FlipTheScript and drive action for the #GlobalGoals. Stay tuned for more! Watch the 2022 live Ceremony here.
In September, the Global Week to #Act4SDGs will mobilize millions of people around the world to take action to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. 2023 will also feature the second UN SDG Action Awards Ceremony where we celebrate changemakers across the world who have helped inspire, mobilize and connect resulting in real impact on the SDGs. Stay tuned for more information!
Flip the Script Campaign is an open-source campaign that aims to highlight different approaches and actions for a healthy, green and just future. It calls on everyone to keep challenging what they think, to keep pushing what they believe and what they can do. To seize the opportunities and solutions that exist and invest in them to solve our global challenges.
Everyone has the power in their hands to reimagine the world, catalyze positive change and achieve the SDGs through recommitments, rethinking, and changing prevailing narratives.
The campaign offers an entry point for all people, whether you take individual action or work to scale it up, whether you are an organization or a government representative. We provide the tools to tell the SDG story, to inspire, mobilize and connect others to take action. Use our dynamic social media assets, our campaign video, use our key messages on your website or talking points, and use our open-source files to create your own targeted messages that are relevant in your community. You can start a school project, challenge your friends, or create a YouTube video. We’d love to see what you come up with – tag us @SDGaction and use our hashtag #FlipTheScript and we may show your ideas on our platforms!
Comunitarius is a volunteer group of researchers, students and local leaders in Brasilia, Brazil who aim to positively transform cities and improve food security by introducing sustainable urban planting initiatives. The volunteers first identify locations where community members are affected by hunger and poverty. They then host campaigns to obtain donations of seedlings, organic manure, land and basic equipment. In the project’s final stage, volunteers mobilise community members to plant, grow and cultivate their own food. Along with this project empowering community members, it also increasing green spaces in urban areas.
Explore their action here: https://sdgactionawards.org/initiative/1166
#LetsDoItWorld began in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people came together to clean up the entire country in just five hours. 🇪🇪 World Clean Up Day celebrated the Global Week to #Act4SDGs through its World Cleanup Day campaign – the largest single peacetime civic action in human history. In 2020, they encouraged people to Clean up with a small group of friends or family or participate digitally by deleting digital waste from their electronic devices.📱 For more information, visit digital.worldcleanupday.org.
Website: https://www.worldcleanupday.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldcleanupday2020/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worldcleanupday.ldiw/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/worldcleanupday
Eye Care for All’s mission is to ensure that all individuals have access essential eye care. To remove cataracts and thereby eradicate preventable and avoidable blindness, this organisation offers free eyesight restoration surgery to the elderly, orphans, individuals with disabilities, prisoners and refugees in the Gambia.
Pilar Díaz Romero has been the mayor of Esplugues de Llobregat since 2006 and attached to the presidency of the Barcelona Provincial Council, where she also holds the position of Delegate for International Affairs. Currently, she is also Vice President of Localret. She is a telecommunications engineer and a PhD in telecommunications engineering (1994) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where she has worked as a tenured professor. She was the winner of the Ericsson Prize for the best doctoral thesis in mobile communications in Spain, awarded by the Official College and the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers.
Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017. The United Nations General Assembly confirmed his appointment following his nomination by Secretary-General António Guterres. In April 2021, the General Assembly confirmed his appointment to a second four-year term beginning in June 2021.
Mr. Steiner is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group, which unites 40 entities of the UN system that work to support sustainable development.
Over nearly three decades, Achim Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation. He has worked tirelessly to champion sustainability, economic growth and equality for the vulnerable, and has been a vocal advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. Mr Steiner has served across the United Nations system, looking at global challenges from both a humanitarian and a development perspective. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), helping governments invest in clean technologies and renewable energy. He was also Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Achim Steiner previously held other notable positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.
Achim Steiner has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of London/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
RAINI CHARUKA – Singer, Songwriter, and a Voice trainer for young and upcoming singers She was educated at ‘Susan E Wagner High School, New York, USA in which she graduated with the Highest Regents Gold Diploma and continued her education at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA for Liberal Arts & Sciences (AA/AS) and Delaware State University, Delaware, USA for Aviation & Aviation Management (B.S). She has captured the hearts of the entire younger generation as well as the masses in Sri Lanka regardless of age and gender. North to South, East to West! She is also a strong advocate on water and sanitation – SDG Goal 6 – as an SDG Ambassador with the organization Road to Rights. During the first lockdown she conducted many virtual workshops and initiatives to raise awareness on clean water in Sri Lanka and wrote a song to spread awareness on water conservation: https://youtu.be/mf3NBwwFWho
Founded in only 2020, The National Association for Sustainable Development of Pakistan has already made significant contributions to achieving the #SDGs. 🙌 As part of the Global Week to #Act4SDGs, @nasdpakistan has launched a Tree Planting Drive across the cities of Islamabad, Mardan, and Rahimyar Khan. 🌳 Over 500 trees will be planted in areas facing deforestation. Thank you for your incredible impact! #TurnItAround #GlobalGoals #ClimateChange #LifeOnLand
Website: https://nasdpakistan.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasdpakistan/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASDPakistan