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17 Rooms: Forging Next Steps Into the SDG Second Half 2023 Flagship Synthesis
In 2015, global leaders aimed for a fairer, greener world by 2030 with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite challenges like Covid-19 and climate crises, the 17 Rooms initiative promotes sustainable development. In the 2023 flagship event, 17 working groups, each focused on an SDG, devised actionable leadership strategies for 12-18 months.Download PDF - Report
17 Rooms: Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals Through Shared Action
Everyone agrees that we need more and faster progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We need fewer promises and more results. The 17 Rooms initiative takes non-traditional approaches to help people with ideas and ideals drive action, gather insights, and forge the bonds of community that drive longer-term gains. We are deeply committed […]Download PDF - Report
Coming Together: Forging New Paths to Action for the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embody many of the world’s foremost priorities for cooperation and call for new collaborative alliances across public, private, academic, civil society, and philanthropic sectors. Setbacks triggered by Covid-19 have only amplified the need for a new path forward. 17 Rooms is a new approach forging paths to progress for the […]Download PDF - Report
Great Transitions: Doubling Down on the Sustainable Development Goals
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the world’s extraordinary fragility and highlighted trenchant societal inequalities. Managing the pandemic has been hard enough and doing so while addressing other urgent stresses – like climate change, discrimination and violence – has added to the difficulty. The challenge is further heightened in the face of what may soon become […]Download PDF - Report
17 Rooms Global Flagship Meeting Summary Report
Time is running fast for the bold set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the world’s governments have agreed to achieve by 2030. Without more significant action soon, too many targets will fall short. That’s a big reason why a clock, and the dreaded words “Time’s up!”, are central features of the closing session […]Download PDF
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Women Leading Change
A retrospective report from the global virtual event in March 2022. A milestone global gathering called “Women Leading Change (WLC): Conversations on Faith & Gender Equality” staged virtually in March emerged out of the 2021 17 Rooms initiative, a partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and the Brookings Institution. It was designed to build on the […]
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