SDG Tools for Designing Community Projects

As you may be aware of, we now have only five years left towards implementing the Agenda 2030 and reaching the SDG targets. You are probably aware that the implementation of the SDG so far is way off track and reaching the goals by 2030 may be in peril, which could be disastrous if we continue on the same path. And it needs to be seen if the 2024 Summit of the Future and associated ‘Pact for the Future’ agreed upon in the UN in 2024, which goes beyond the SDG will be able to kick start the SDG and Agenda 2030 as well as a beyond-2030 process. 

However, we at Gaia Education, an international NGO working for the last 20 years for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and a presence in over 55 countries take on the challenge to do our part to bring the achievement of the Agenda back on track and even move beyond the SDG towards a regenerative post-2030 future. This is why Gaia Education is re-invigorating the use of our whole systems based design SDG tools, like the 4-D design framework based educational SDG Flashcards, the SDG Multipliers Handbook, and the SDG Training of Multipliers and have been (e.g. how to use guide, detailed workshop timelines & scripts and others) and will be adding new and other content and offers to step up our contributions to the Agenda 2030 and beyond towards a regenerative future supporting the social, environmental, economic and worldview/cultural transformations at your locality, in your local community and in your local context, one community at a time . 

The latest information and tools can be found on our new SDG webpages:
SDG Toolkit for Designing Community Projects  which contains much information, background and tools to our approach for a positive realisation of the Agenda and SDG in any location and local to (bio)regional context, from the grass-roots including:

• Details about our unique Gaia Education SDG Flashcards for community ownership & local implementation of the Global Goals  (currently available for purchase in nine languages)
• The SDG Multipliers Handbook, which offers a detailed description of how to prepare, promote and facilitate an SDGs Training of Multipliers or an SDG implementation workshop in your community (FREE download in three languages)
• The SDG Project Canvas as a great tool for identifying the main key activities, resources, partners and impact for your SDG project (FREE download)
• The SDG Wheel Mapping Tool (scroll down on the page), which provides you with a simple graphic tool to systemically map out your local groups, projects, initiatives, organisations, businesses in relation to the SDGs (FREE download)
• Other materials in supporting you to conduct your local community based conversations about reaching the goals at your location (community, school, university, business, NGO, etc) like workshop timelines and sample detailed workshop scripts (for schools, universities or communities), and how to use the SDG flashcards instructions and more (FREE downloads from our SDG webpages). 
• Our SDG Training of Multipliers to become a multiplier for facilitating SDG conversations in your community and anchoring them in on-the-ground projects. Training ranges from a short introductory self-paced online Introduction to the use of the SDG tools (FREE access), our flagship face to face SDG Training of Multipliers to an in depth online SDGs Multiplier course (the next one to start on 20th October  2025) where you not only become a skilled SDG Multiplier but also a pathway to become a Gaia Education SDG Trainer. 
• Our offer to conduct SDG Training or SDG implementation workshops directly in your community (local authority, school, university, business, NGO etc) through a certified Gaia Education SDG Trainer near you (in your local language and cultural context), tapping into our large network of facilitators. 
• You find all information and much more on our SDG Toolkit for Designing Community Projects, so check it out today.

So what are you waiting for? Start your dive or get re-invigorated in supporting your local community in becoming a leader in designing a socially just, environmentally enriching, flourishing and regenerative future for all starting in your community at your location right now.