
Action for Sustainable Development
Action for Sustainable Development is a global platform supporting civil society and citizen action for the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate
Together we are building a global movement for people and planet and driving a hope revolution. We are proud to count the below organisations as strategic partners who share our vision for a healthy, green and just recovery that leaves no one behind. These organisations are working to mobilize their global or national networks to participate in the Global Week to Act4SDGs, with calls to action that are aligned with the objectives of the Global Week and that are driving action for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Action for Sustainable Development is a global platform supporting civil society and citizen action for the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate
The European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW) is an initiative to facilitate the organization of activities that promote sustainable development and make these efforts visible on a common platform. The ESDW
Global Goals Week is a shared commitment of partnership between civil society, business, academia and the UN system to push action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially during the
MY World Mexico: Hub of Action for Sustainable Development in Mexico Inc., is a nation wide social business aimed to engage stakeholders and individuals in the implementation of the 2030
https://youtu.be/LEmuxbMZaj4Since 2005 GCAP has mobilized hundreds of millions of people for poverty eradication and global justice. GCAP is a network of over 11,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) organized in 58
Scouting is the world’s leading educational youth movement founded in 1907 and engaging 54 million young people, adult leaders and volunteers in 224 countries and territories to create a better
The Millennials Movement is a youth lead civil society organization, based in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, that promoted citizens engagement in the glocal development process of their community,
The Road to Rights is an award-winning youth-led voluntary organization established in 2009 in Sri Lanka aimed at supporting and empowering young people through creating opportunities, skills development, creativity, and
Initiated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the 1 Million Youth Actions Challenge (1MYAC) aims at mobilizing youth from all over the world (between 10 and 30 years old) to implement over 1.000.000 individual or group actions for a more sustainable future.
Mobile Film Festival is a unique short film festival based on 1 Mobile, 1 Minute, 1 Film. We are dedicated to discover and support young talents. We committed to support SDGs with themes like Human Rights, Women’s Empowerment, Act on climate change in partnership with UN agencies. In 2021, “Making peace with nature” is the theme. A selection of 50 films in free access for digital and physical screenings will be available.
Founded in 1999 by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, Peace One Day is a non-profit organisation that successfully led the campaign which resulted in the unanimous adoption by United Nations member states of the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date – 21 September, Peace Day.
ASviS is the largest network dedicated to spread the culture of sustainable development in Italy, bringing together over 3000 civil society organizations, other networks and institutions. Founded in 2016, ASviS conducts awareness raising campaigns, policy analysis and maintains a comprehensive SDG database.
AWorld is the Italian startup behind “AWorld in Support Of ActNow”, the gamified App that engages, educates and measures the impact of communities with the goal of creating a culture of sustainability.
AWorld officially supports ActNow, the United Nations campaign for individual action on climate change and sustainability.
The mobile app combines lighthearted guidance towards a more sustainable lifestyle with incentives and gamification to bolster engagement. AWorld is the lifestyle app that makes sustainability accessible through habitual changes, a storytelling approach to education and community collaboration.
Viessmann is the leading provider of climate solutions for all living spaces. The ‘Integrated Viessmann Solutions Offering’ enables users to connect products and systems seamlessly via digital platforms and services for climate (heating, cooling, air quality) and refrigeration solutions. All solutions are based on renewable energy and maximum efficiency. All activities of the family company, founded in 1917, are based on its purpose. “We create living spaces for generations to come” – that is the responsibility of the global Viessmann family with 12,750 members.
We are the UK’s largest group of people dedicated to action against climate change. Along with our sister organisations Stop Climate Chaos Cymru and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, we are a group of over 140 organisations — including the National Trust, Women’s Institute, Oxfam, and RSPB — and 22 million voices strong. We are reaching across the UK to show our love for all the things we want to protect from climate change, and to ask politicians to put aside their differences and commit to doing whatever is necessary to protect them.
Project Everyone is a not-for-profit creative communications agency that creates campaigns and supports partners to raise awareness, inspire action and drive accountability for the Global Goals, because they are the best roadmap towards a better future for people and planet.
Project Everyone’s motto is ‘in order to make things happen, you have to make things’ – so that is exactly what they do. They create advocacy campaigns, content, programmes and events – telling stories that help multiple sectors engage with the Goals. This engagement from civil society, corporations, educators, philanthropists and activists will then in turn drive politicians to focus on achieving the Goals, and thus accelerate progress towards a green, just and equal world for all by 2030.
Accountability Lab is a global translocal network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Our goal is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.
The Deliver for Good Campaign is a multilateral partnership with active connections in country, regional, and global spaces. The Campaign’s model (that prioritizes funding for country and regional convenings) employs a uniquely localized model of influencing within the SDG and gender equality spaces. By bringing diverse partners together, we are facilitating a global dialogue and building a collective advocacy agenda, aligned with our shared vision, among actors that are all critical, but often siloed in their gender equality advocacy efforts. In linking the country, regional, and global spheres, the Campaign builds solidarity among stakeholders, supports their collaboration to effectively advocate, and facilitates policy coherence in SDG-related processes such as the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) and regional fora that are often also siloed.
2030 Youth Force is a youth network in Asia Pacific working collectively to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organization was born in a workshop led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Volunteers in 2016. 2030 Youth Force has chapters in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, and Vietnam.
URI is a global grassroots interfaith network that cultivates peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together for the good of their communities and the world.
We implement our mission through grassroots groups, called Cooperation Circles, which bring diverse people together to jointly engage in community actions.
Europe is one of the eight URI regions.
Weischer is a German group of companies with headquarters in Hamburg. Around 300 million euros in sales are generated with companies from the cinema, outdoor and online advertising sectors. Around 400 employees work for the group of companies in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Zurich and Vienna. Weischer.JvB is one of the leading specialist out-of-home advertising agents in Germany. In the cinema sector, Weischer.Cinema, together with the affiliated companies Heinefilm and adeins Media Logistik, is the market leader in Germany. Weischer has been the German representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity since 1996; The representative office for Switzerland followed in 2017. This also includes the representative offices for the festivals with a regional focus: Eurobest Festival (for Europe), Spykes Asia (for Asia) and Dubai Lynx (for the Middle East).
Cities Alliance is the global partnership fighting urban poverty and supporting cities to deliver sustainable development. Hosted by UNOPS, the organization has 23 members including multilateral institutions, UN agencies, governments, non-government organizations, local governments, and city networks. Our core topics of work include climate change, gender equality, migration, and innovation, with a focus on informality.
Restless Development supports the journey of a young person to become a leader and helps them multiply that leadership in their communities and around the world.
Every year we train, mentor, nurture and connect thousands of young people to lead change.
We work with young people in 74 countries around the world and are led by nine Hubs spread across Africa, Asia, the USA and UK.
African Monitor (AM) was founded in 2006 as an independent Pan African continental body to monitor development commitments, delivery as well as the impact on grassroots communities. AM is registered as a not-for-profit organisation in South Africa that works towards bringing strong additional African voices to the development agenda, by making sure that citizens have the capacity, platforms and opportunity to participate in decision making processes. Its vision is of “an African continent rapidly achieving its development potential, whose people live in dignity, in a just society where basic needs are met, human rights are upheld, and good governance entrenched”.
At AM we focus on mobilising the grassroots to be at the centre of development policy and practice. We believe that a perspective of Africa’s development should emerge, where political leaders, governments, business, and the citizenry at large engage in a collective effort to ensure that African grassroots populations have acceptable livelihoods, a source of income, a roof over their heads, access to quality education and health care, and the capabilities, freedom and means to pursue their goals in peaceful environments.
Participant was founded in 2004 by social entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, with a commitment to producing entertainment with socially relevant themes. As the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change, Participant’s content and social impact mandate speaks directly to the rise of today’s “conscious consumer,” representing over 2 billion consumers who are compelled to make impactful content a priority focus. Through its worldwide network of traditional and digital distribution, aligned with partnerships with key non-profit and NGO organizations, Participant is positioned uniquely within the industry to engage a rapidly growing audience while bringing global awareness and action to today’s most vital issues.
Participant has produced more than 100 feature and documentary films that collectively have earned 82 Academy Award® nominations and 21 wins and have highlighted some of the most pressing issues of our time. Initially founded with a focus on film, over the past decade Participant has expanded to become a multi-platform content company, annually producing up to six narrative feature films, six documentary films, three episodic television series, and over 20 hours of digital short form programming.
On 23 September 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems.
Global Peace, is an initiative of ACCORD (www.accord.org.za) & is a global movement of young leaders committed to finding innovative solutions to the challenges facing the world & aims to take action to create lasting peace. It’s Inter-generational Dialogues (IGDs) seek to strengthen the conversation around development and the future of society, making it more inclusive.
The Impact Week fosters innovation, entrepreneurship & intercultural exchange through design thinking. We enable people & teams around the globe to solve local problems in a sustainable way. Since 2015 we have organized over 30 innovation events in more than 10 countries, engaging over 3000 people.
TOward 2030. What are you doing? is an award winning cultural project conceived by Lavazza’s Sustainability Department and executed in 2018/9 with the City of Turin. In its ongoing effort to promote conversations around the intersection of culture and sustainable action, the project was launched globally in 2020 with the onset of an international digital competition: #towardtomorrow.
Its MISSION is to activate the dynamic energy of art on the streets to create a dialogue with the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the relative city. To unite and inspire creatives and communities in a positive and meaningful way, using art as an accessible bridge to the goals. The project strives to encourage relationships between sustainability and the urban art community by fostering collaborations between cities, artists, organisations and NGOs.
Accelerate2030 is the world’s largest program supporting entrepreneurs from developing and emerging markets to scale their solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Co-initiated in 2016 by Impact Hub and UNDP, the program has to-date been implemented in 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, reaching 2 million people and more than 3000 entrepreneurs, and engaging around 100 partners globally.
We organise the biggest international conferences on the topic of music cities, music policy and music tourism. We produce the leading international awards ceremony on music cities – the Music Cities Awards, and we run the Music Cities Community, the first-ever platform for professionals in all industries using music to create more value in towns, cities & places.
In everything we do, we aim to educate on the value of music, and showcase the best uses of music by individuals, organisations and cities all over the world.
At the beginning of 2021, the Rome Centre for Sustainable Development was established (aligning with Italy’s G20 Presidency) as a UNDP office in Italy working in close collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition (IMET). Officially launched as part of the Decade of Action, the Rome Centre focuses on priority themes of the global environmental challenges, such as the state of implementation of the goals set by the Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN 2030 and Nature Protection. It acts as a convenor connector, and promotes co-creation for a sustainable future serving as a liaison and facilitation hub through its support to the G20 presidencies, Rio Convention and COPs. Within a broad frame, the Strategic Framework for the Rome Centre focuses particularly on three inter-connected strategic thrusts 1. Biodiversity, Nature Based Solutions and Restoration Agendas, 2. Sustainability and Liveability and 3. Green Finance.
The Centre’s geographical scope embraces all areas of the globe in which UNDP is active and present, with particular focus on areas of strategic priority for the period 2021 – 2023 notably Africa, Mediterranean and SIDS in Pacific, ASEAN and Latin America and the Caribbean.
We’ve been a catalyst for entrepreneurial action for 15+ years. All big ideas start small. In our case, it was in 2005, with one community, in one city. It was a space for anyone who had an idea for a better world to meet and collaborate – a place where ideas turned into impact. Today, we are a global network of 15.500 people driving change – made up of 100+ communities in 55+ countries across 5 continents.
ART 2030 is a non-profit organization working with art as the key to achieve the SDGs. Working with world renowned artists and partners, we facilitate exciting art projects connected to the SDGs for all to engage with the plan for people, planet and prosperity.
The mission of the German non-profit limited organisation Engagement Global – Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen (Service for Development Initiatives) – is to support and strengthen the developmental commitment of the civil society.
Engagement Global’s project #17Ziele is raising awareness of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and – in the best case – encouraging people to change their actions.
Connected Development is a non-governmental organisation, with the mission empower marginalised communities. Its initiative FollowTheMoney, is currently the largest social mobilisation and accountability movement in Africa which tracks government spendings/international aids and grants in the health, environment, and education sectors and promote and ensure open government and service delivery.
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies, building prosperity and supporting a sustainable future for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
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.
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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
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