To help policymakers craft trade and investment agreements that support sustainable development objectives, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) created the Sustainability Toolkit for Trade Negotiators. The toolkit shows how specific provisions within the agreements might better serve those broad goals, citing over 200 text examples drawn from some 90 existing agreements.
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The Decent Jobs for Youth knowledge facility is a digital platform of tools, publications, databases, thematic resources and more to support evidence-informed action on youth employment.
It leverages the collective experience of multiple partners to share curated, state of the art knowledge and to facilitate learning opportunities for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of youth employment policies and programmes.
Different communities experience challenges differently. In each situation, there are different: actors; socio-economic, cultural, and environmental contexts; resources available; legal and socio-economic frameworks; and incentives or challenges. Therefore, development agents must be able to adapt the 2030 Agenda in a way that is relevant and flexible to context and democratizes the developmental process, by increasing their self-sustainability capacity.
This tool offers a catalogue of strategies that can help development agents working in any area: poverty, health, education, etc – make their initiatives more self-sustainable. All strategies are based on the experiences of development initiatives that have been explored in different parts of the world.
The mission of Global Schools is simple; provide the necessary tools and resources for schools and teachers to educate their students on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In working with educators, the program aims to transform learning environments globally and make schools the hubs of education and leadership on the SDGs, ultimately empowering students to prioritize sustainable development in their lifestyles, behaviours, education and professional careers.
The Sustainable Development Goals Philanthropy Platform (SDGPP, or the Platform) is a global initiative that connects philanthropy with knowledge and networks that can deepen collaboration, leverage resources and sustain impact. As a global and national facilitator, it helps partners to optimize their resources and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by enabling effective collaboration with the broader ecosystem.
Launched in July 2014, under the leadership of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Foundation Center and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), and with the funding support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the MasterCard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and others, this multi-year initiative focuses on philanthropy’s input into the developmental landscape by helping foundations to better understand the opportunities for engaging in global, national, and local development processes.
The PLACARD project has just launched the Connectivity Hub, a new “search and discovery” tool that helps planners, decision-makers, researchers, policymakers, students, and interested citizens to find knowledge and organisations working on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) issues.
The Project Planner is intended to guide you through your project and aims to cover common tasks and challenges. The phases and questions inside the Planner follow the typical structure of a project. It is up to you to whether you tackle the phases and their questions in the presented order, or work through them based on your individual needs and priorities.
Mapting is a free, participatory and playful mobile App that was created to share positive actions and discover worldwide solutions that will help make the 17SDGs a reality by the target of 2030.
Convinced that sustainable development should be about solutions rather than problems and restrictions,this blog will provide you with more information and insights on some of the great initiatives shared on our App. Beyond pictures and videos, Mapting-blog opens a small window on a future full of promises.
This toolkit is developed to support national governments in the monitoring and reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals. It brings together the collective experience of United Nations entities—the funds, programmes, agencies, regional commissions and other parts of the UN Development System—in a single, easy to access page.
This toolkit is a ‘live’ document that will be updated continuously as new resources become available.