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About Us

The SDG Commons is a resource hub of nearly 8,000 documents created by the UNDP Accelerator Labs, UNDP’s open, globally distributed R&D capability for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

Please be aware that the content published here has not been peer reviewed. It consists of personal reflections, insights, and learnings of the contributor(s). It may not to be exhaustive, nor does it aim to be authoritative knowledge. 

We hope you will find it helpful. Please share your feedback with us, so we can improve it and make it useful for your daily work.

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