Caminata de la Solidaridad 2021

En el 2021 seguimos ayudando con fuerza solidaria a quienes más lo necesitan. Del 6 al 12 de septiembre, podrás disfrutar de 200 contenidos exclusivos en nuestra plataforma virtual con diferentes temáticas: Infantil, Bienestar, Entretenimiento, Cultural y Nuestra Fundación.

Desde hace 43 años la Caminata de Solidaridad por Colombia se ha convertido en un símbolo del país; es el cuarto evento más importante en Latinoamérica, contando con millones de asistentes cada año. En esta versión continuará su marcha con la presentación de importantes artistas como Pipe Peláez, Gusi, Flora Martínez, Juan Se Quintero y muchos más que se unirán a nuestra fuerza solidaria en las cuatro tarimas que tendremos el próximo 12 de septiembre en el Teatro Cafam, El Parque el Tunal, el Parque Nacional y el Centro Comercial Nuestro Bogotá.

Global Citizen Live

On 25 September, 2021, Global Citizen will embark on our largest event yet: 24 hours of non-stop content, with live festivals set to take place in New York, Paris, Dubai, Seoul, and pre-recorded content spanning across 50 locations, from Africa to Latin America and beyond. Global Citizen Live will bring together world leaders, artists and champions from public and private sectors and philanthropy. This monumental event marks the next step of our Recovery Plan for the World campaign.

Sustainable Development Impact Summit

For over a year, countries have struggled to address a pandemic that respects no borders, destroys lives and livelihoods, and deepens pre-existing global challenges like inequality, climate change and education. With less than a decade left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the fully virtual Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, hosted alongside the United Nations General Assembly, will bring together global leaders from diverse sectors, disciplines and geographies. Ensuring the world exits the pandemic stronger than it entered it will only be possible if leaders work together across sectors and borders to share and deploy know-how, innovation and promising approaches and accelerate the recovery.

#2030Now

To commemorate the start of the #GlobalDayofAct4SDGs, we accelerate the implementation, monitoring, financing, follow-up, socialization and evaluation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs within the framework of the Decade of Action. We urge people and organizations from all sectors to rethink the five areas of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership to undertake actions that reinforce their message and inspire.

#SustainableFood

Food systems affect all aspects of human existence. The health of our food systems has a profound impact on the health of our bodies, as well as the health of our environment, our economies and our cultures. When they work well, food systems have the power to unite as families, communities and nations.

This day seeks to make visible why a transformation towards #SustainableFood could lead us to a path of achievement of SDG 2 and 3.

Global Day Of Act4SDG

As part of the #GlobalDayofAct4SDGs, we invite you to highlight the achievements and increase the knowledge of people and organizations on how to materialize the 17 SDGs and their 169 goals. There needs to be a new commitment from all of us to ensure a sustainable recovery that reduces carbon emissions, conserves natural resources, creates better jobs, promotes gender equality, and addresses growing poverty and inequalities.

SDG Action Zone 2021

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.

Progress to end child marriage: decade of driving forward

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.

Celebrating 100 Data Partnerships: A Global Partnership Townhall

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.

GGWCUP Nigeria 2021

Global Goals World Cup Nigeria is a 5 aside football tournament for all-women teams. Each team champions one of the SDGs, and is ranked by the action taken for their Goal on and off the field. The teams are scored in four distinct categories: Action, Crowd, Style and Football. Those awarded not only win a tournament. They amplify their calls to action and create impact, locally and globally.

Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Youth Power for the Global Goals

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.

Using Social Media to Build Confidence in Vaccines

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.

Launch of the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark

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.

COVID Response: The Role of Tech in the Global Recovery

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.

Launch of Liverpool’s SDG Data Platform + Accelerated Local Impact

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.

UN Innovation Room Series

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

Access to medicines: Sustainable delivery models that leave no one behind

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.

Unlock the Future

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.