Dear SDGi Community,
Our network keeps on growing! Find selected engagements, events, and resources and check out the new Tool of the Month. Watch our third video in our SDGi Member in the Spotlight series, featuring Jelena Manić Petronikolos from the SDG Integration Center at UNDP Serbia.
Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have updates to share with our community, or would like our support to organize your next SDGi engagements, particularly ahead of the UN General Assembly.
Nadine
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CO-CREATION OPPORTUNITIES
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Independent Evaluation Office: Reflections on COVID-19 Adaptation and Response
WEBINAR AND E-DISCUSSION – INTERNAL
Read up on the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) Reflections Papers and join the interactive 45-minute webinar on 26 August 2021 to gain insights about “what works” (or doesn’t) in UNDP programming for COVID-19 adaptation and response. Join us to continue the dialogue in an e-discussion taking place on SparkBlue between 26 August and 9 September 2021.
Collecting Good Practices and Lessons Learned on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
CALL FOR INPUTS – UN(DP)
Join the UN-wide effort to establish a repository of good practices of UN engagement in the UPR process by sharing your recent success stories and examples in this brief questionnaire (only the first question is mandatory) in English, Français, or Español by 25 August 2021. The answers will be used to support the roll-out of the dedicated UN Practical Guidance, facilitate a systemic exchange of good practices among countries, and showcase progress in national implementation efforts.
UNDP Projects Supporting Local Authorities to Increase their Access to Finance
CALL FOR INPUTS – INTERNAL
Help us better understand how UNDP programmes and projects are both improving the impact of local expenditure and ensuring more transparent and participative budgets. Please share your best practices and lessons learned via this brief questionnaire by 30 August 2021. This survey is part of the newly launched “Co-creation Initiative on Local Finance: Financing Local and Regional Government Needs”.
Digital Health: Scaling up Telehealth to Promote Equitable Access to Essential Health Services
E-DISCUSSION – PUBLIC
Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed health systems under significant strain, highlighting the importance of strengthening health system resilience, promoting equitable access to essential health services, and implementing innovative models of healthcare, such as telehealth. Keep an eye out for a telehealth-focused upcoming SparkBlue e-discussion, set to start on 23 August 2021. Follow the Communities of Practice (CoPs) on HIV and Health and SDG Integration for updates.
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Data Thursdays: How to Use Data and Analytics to Solve 21st Century Challenges
APPLIED LEARNING SESSION – INTERNAL
UN Behavioural Science Group: Peer Exchanges on People-centered Theories and Approaches
ENGAGEMENT SPACE – UN(DP)
Managed by the UN Innovation Network, join more than 40 UN entities in 60 countries to learn about 'BeSci' approaches and methods, and help promote awareness and support behavioural science work at the UN. This group collaborates with academics in the behavioural sciences and with organizations specializing in designing and implementing behaviourally informed projects. Join the group.
Digital Solutions for Development: Putting Digital into Practice
BULLETIN – UNDP
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UN General Assembly (UNGA), 76th Session
OFFICIAL UN EVENTS – PUBLIC
World Water Week 2021
ONLINE CONFERENCE – PUBLIC
Organized for 30 years by the Stockholm International Water Institute, join this online event taking place on 23-27 August 2021 on the theme of "Building Resilience Faster" to learn how to address global water challenges and mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of water sustainability. Register here.
International Conference on Sustainable Development: Research, Practice and Education
ONLINE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM – PUBLIC
Organized by the European Center of Sustainable Development, the 2021 Conference will take place on 8-9 September 2021 and provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, presentation of research findings, and discussion of professional issues relevant to Sustainability Science. Find more information here.
Mark your Calendar: Other Events of Relevance to this Community
EVENTS – PUBLIC
- Africa Kaizen Annual Conference 2021, 24-25 August 2021
- WHO's Health Futures Forum: Shaping the Future of Health in the Pacific, 24-26 August 2021
- SDG Zone at Tokyo: Teaming Up Through Sport to Advance the SDGs, 25-27 August 2021
- Island Innovation's Virtual Summit 2021, 6-12 September 2021
- United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, 12 September 2021
- UN Food Systems Summit, 13 September 2021 (tentative)
- Global Goals Week 2021, 17-26 September 2021
- UN Global Compact's Uniting Business LIVE, 20-22 September 2021
- The Climate Group’s Climate Week NYC, 20-26 September 2021
- UN High-level Dialogue on Energy 2021, 24 September 202
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Rethinking Nature, Crisis, and Complexity after the Pandemic
PUBLICATION
Learn how the nexus of nature, crisis, and complexity clarifies development can no longer be seen as a purely socioeconomic enterprise based on a set of linear targets and goals, but rather as the emergent outcome of a complex socio-ecological system. Read the full brief.
Source: UNDP, Development Futures Series, August 2021.
Seven Systems Transformations for Benchmarking Companies on the SDGs
PUBLICATION
Back in 2019 WBA published its first report ‘Measuring What Matters the Most’ offering a strategic framework to develop benchmarks and identify 2,000 keystone companies (SDG2000) that are vital to achieving the SDGs. This updated report defines the seven systems transformations in response to today’s societal and planetary needs in a post-pandemic context.
Source: World Benchmarking Alliance, July 2021.
Rising Up for SIDS: UNDP's Response to a Time of Uncertainty and Complexity
PUBLICATION
Aligned with the objectives of the SAMOA Pathway and the 2030 Agenda, UNDP offers agile, efficient support to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through integrated solutions targeting systemic challenges. Read the full report or browse the online interactive version.
How Do We Learn from a Network of Ecosystems to Reinvent Knowledge Management?
BLOG POST
Learn about network learning and find out how UNDP as an organization can maintain subsidiarity through distributed, independent operations and create space for convergence in knowledge creation across the Accelerator Labs network. Read the full story.
Source: UNDP Accelerator Labs, August 2021.
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Meet the SDGi Member in the Spotlight
JELENA MANIĆ PETRONIKOLOS, TEAM LEADER, SDG INTEGRATION CENTER, UNDP SERBIA
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10 Engaging SDGi-related Twitter Profiles to Follow in 2021
TIPS FROM THE FACILITATOR
We've compiled selected Twitter profiles for colleagues interested in SDG implementation and SDG integration. What’s your favourite one? See our list.
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Tool of the Month
ACCESS REAL-TIME, WEB-BASED DISASTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
? Explore the Knowledge Bank which includes UNDP’s SDG Integration tools as well as the SDG Acceleration Toolkit developed by the UN Sustainable Development Group. Browse this one-stop-shop for analyzing system interconnections, enhancing policy coherence, ensuring that no one is left behind, and identifying risks, and building resilience. |
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? Join the 1-year of SparkBlue Celebrations!
BROWSE OUR SUCCESS STORIES, SEE OUR IMPACT, AND FIND YOUR COMMUNITY!
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