About Us

The SDG Commons grows each day and is AI-powered to help UNDP colleagues quickly know who in the Lab Network is working on what topic, and search, leverage and curate cutting-edge and bottom-up insights on frontier development challenges across 114 countries.

What can you find on the SDG Commons?

1. What We See: Explore the Labs’ notes on grassroots innovations and other solutions.
2. What We Test: Discover notes on experiments where we learn what works and what doesn't in sustainable development.
3. What We Learn: Explore our curated collection of blogs and publications where we reflect on what we learn from action.
4. Community Curated Boards: Browse through thematic boards curated by our network and extended community.
5. Next Practices for the SDGs: Discover highly curated pinboards on the three main Research and Development (R&D) priorities of the Accelerator Labs in 2024: digital financial inclusion, circular economy and climate action, and food systems. More will be added in 2025.

Our ambition is to open the SDG Commons in 2025 to all change-makers and development actors globally so they can pick up insights, make sense of the knowledge in their own context, and accelerate action. It is the beginning of a movement, one that radically sees openness as a tool to shift power and drive systems transformation from the bottom up.