Bringing the UN to the world and the world to the UN.
Over the course of three days during the UN General Assembly, the SDG Action Zone brings together the highest levels of UN leadership, activists, government officials, business leaders, changemakers and disruptors in a virtual collaborative space – to highlight the ecosystem-wide solutions, plans, and investments needed to positively impact people’s lives and the future of our planet.
The global movement to end child marriage has brought about significant achievements ranging from political commitments to increased awareness, funding and programming – contributing to declining rates of child marriage. However, 1 in 5 girls globally are still married under 18. Marking 10 years of Girls Not Brides at this virtual event, we’ll hear from leaders on how the movement has driven positive change for girls, and the urgent priorities to build a more equitable future for all.
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data has come a long way since we were founded six years ago. In 2016, we brokered three data partnerships across two countries.
This summer, we hit 100 partnerships in 35 countries. That’s hundreds of new connections to harness the power of data to bring us closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We’re celebrating this major milestone with a Town Hall event during Global Goals Week.
Join us to celebrate #YOUTHPOWER and learn how young people are making an impact on the Global Goals.
This event will feature a diverse range of speakers sharing their own personal experience on the power of youth leadership and how we can support young people to thrive, not just survive. We will also be announcing who our winning Youth Power Hacks teams are and exploring the ideas they have developed to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.
From providing information on vaccine availability to highlighting the need for timely childhood vaccinations, how we communicate about vaccines is critical to their uptake around the world. This conversation seeks to explore the challenges of vaccination communications today and highlight new opportunities for public-private collaboration to build vaccine demand in more effective and equitable ways.
The World Benchmarking Alliance will launch its first Food & Agriculture Benchmark, assessing 350 key global food and agriculture companies on their performance towards food systems transformation. The benchmark is the first of its kind to take a value-chain approach, measuring progress of companies across their environmental, nutritional and social impact towards 2030. Co-hosted with the Swiss government, the event will include speakers from government, business, farmers and civil society.
From the brands we consume to the leaders we vote for, communication plays a central role in the decisions we make that affect our daily lives. As climate change becomes an increasingly significant part of everyday conversations, the Communicating Climate Change event seeks to explore the impact increased awareness is having on the future of our planet.
Facebook’s SheMeansBusiness reached its 5th-anniversary supporting women entrepreneurs across the globe. Join Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and other distinguished women’s empowerment advocates to learn more and recognize the many women, organizations, and governments who work tirelessly to support women’s economic inclusion. This work supports SDG 8, a global call for decent work and economic growth, and SDG 5, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
This panel will discuss how human rights defenders, open-source researchers, technology platforms, and emerging democracy leaders can help protect activists and counter this new surveillance-for-hire industry.
Join Facebook, Raleigh and the Town of Cary, NC, and Philadelphia, PA, at the UN General Assembly, for a discussion on the influence of emerging technologies on our cities and hear how Augmented Reality tools and programs are helping cities become more equitable, sustainable, and economically inclusive.
Join us at the UN General Assembly to hear from leading experts on how we can set a new gold standard for measuring our progress toward acheiving SDGs by 2030
From lockdowns to vaccination roll-outs, and rebuilding economies, technology has played a key role in navigating COVID-19. Hear from Indonesia’s Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and Head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, about what has challenged and inspired them in the last year and what innovations they see moving from us from pandemic to recovery.
Join us at the UN General Assembly as we explore how internet fragmentation, driven by data localization requirements, impedes global economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.
An online event to launch Global Goals Week: Liverpool and explore the city’s role in advancing local impact and wider place-based adoption of the SDGs.
An online event to publicly launch the new open-source (OpenSDG) SDG Data Platform for Liverpool built in collaboration with the UK Office for National Statistics.
This event will also be used to explore accelerating Liverpool’s accelerated impact on the cities own furthest behind, and also how the city helps those around the world.
As part of Global Goals Week: Liverpool, 2030hub are launching a unique place-based net-zero campaign that connects global climate change to local social and economic Covid recovery via the Sustainable Development Goals framework.
The Microsoft Tech for Social Impact team is hosting the UN Innovation Room Series, a four-part series hosted by Tolu Olubunmi, that highlights how UN organizations are embracing a culture of innovation to reignite the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in trusted, responsible, and inclusive ways. Throughout the series, WHO, United Nations, and UNICEF will share stories from the frontlines on how they are applying innovation and adopting digital tools and new models of collaboration to deliver on their missions and make a difference in people’s lives.
Sept 21 at 12PM ET – Leadership Panel with WHO, UNICEF, UN, and Microsoft: Harnessing digital and data for a Decade of Action
Sept 28 at 12PM ET – WHO: Building the new home of global health data
Sept 29 at 12PM ET – UN: Delivering the next-generation in innovation, data, and digital capabilities for impact
Sept 30 at 12PM ET – UNICEF: Advancing digital innovation for children
Tune in with Foreign Policy magazine, in partnership with Microsoft, as we unveil a groundbreaking special report from FP Analytics on the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of escalating cybersecurity threats.
On Thursday, Sept. 23, Devex will host an ecosystem event on the sidelines of the 76th annual United Nations General Assembly in partnership with Gilead, exploring how new access models can allow for more coordinated and targeted approaches. Discussions will draw on lessons learned from the pandemic and beyond on how to best support more resilient health systems, and ultimately ensure progress on universal health coverage and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.
This high-level virtual event marks the beginning of the coalition for young people and future generations. We will commit to working together to deliver young people’s priorities for the next and future generations and explore how we can overcome the barriers that prevent young people from acquiring the power and influence to shape their futures.
This meeting is hosted by the world’s most far-reaching youth-led and youth-focused networks and movements including Girl Up, Global Youth Mobilization, the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (The Award), Restless Development, the World Economic Forum, and the UN Foundation.
