SDG Acceleration Roadmap
Unleashing the power of private-sector data in the Global South
Eight years away from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, it is crucial to ensure that the private sector becomes a committed partner to meet the 2030 Agenda in the countries of the Global South.
What is the SDG Acceleration Roadmap?
Funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) together with partners from Africa, West Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean, LinerAsia, and Cepei are leading this project to understand how the private sector contributes to the data revolution for sustainable development.
What change do we want to achieve?
Uncovering and raising awareness on powerful data actions carried out by the private sector and what is needed to make them visible and useful for sustainable development.
For who is SDG Acceleration Roadmap aimed at and why?
- Regional mapping and analysis of data initiatives.
- Provides companies and their constituents with analysis of how they are contributing to the SDGs.
- Builds your company’s case for more and better data initiatives and partnerships in the Global South.
- Regional mapping and analysis of data initiatives.
- Identifies ways governments and private sector partner effectively to overcome challenges.
- Evidence of data initiatives that work and support the SDGs in the Global South.
- Regional mapping and analysis of data initiatives.
- Identifies cases where CSOs have contributed to effective data initiatives.
- Highlights data gaps for potential collaborations
- Regional mapping and analysis of
data initiatives. - Identifies ways governments and private sector partner effectively to overcome challenges.
- Identifies regulations and policies that prevent or support private sector data from being used for achieving the SDGs.
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This work was supported by a grant from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. The views expressed herein do not, however, represent those of IDRC or its Board of Governors.
With the support of
Our research partners are the Mona School of Business & Management at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Local Development Research Institute (LDRI) in Kenya, and the Center for Continuing Education (CCE) at Birzeit University in Palestine.
