A portfolio investment approach designed by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP) targets the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and girls by addressing issues related to water, food, and energy security in South Asia. The tools identified by this partnership include better regional cooperation, policy reforms, technology transfer and capacity building. This portfolio has been developed by the Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) which has been engaged in advocating for policy and governance reforms through meetings and seminars at national/regional level and in policy dialogues with Members of regional Parliaments.

Established as a social venture, Growing North has committed to ensure food security in Northern Canada, in particular in the area of Nunavut, where thirty-five percent of families have experienced severe food insecurity and have been unable to access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Typically food prices in these communities are four times higher than the nation's average. Growing North addresses this issue by implementing a sustainable geodesic greenhouse unit in Northern communities. Each unit has the capacity to feed the nutritional requirements for every family in the community, at a fraction of the current price, while creating local jobs and educational opportunities.

Aimed to serve poor and marginalized people in Bangladesh with quality services at low and affordable prices, the clinics under the “Securing Health through Safe Treatment and Other Initiatives" (SHOSTI) programme are considered the primary service providing centres for basic and necessary medical services, positively changing the socioeconomic status of the communities where they operate. The implementation methodologies adopted by the initiative include three types of health insurance, training and capacity- building services, creation of entrepreneurial and business opportunities, empowerment of women, support to extra poor and community ownership.

The Youth Education Ambassadors Program was established in 2013 by the United for Education and Sustainable Futures, an independent NGO based in Vienna, with the aim of mobilizing resources to consolidate and monitor educational and developmental projects worldwide. The project stresses the importance that education has in empowering people and ensuring equal opportunities for all. Its methodology includes two parts. The former consists of workshops and excursions where participants gain knowledge about educationally relevant topics in the field of environment, human rights and poverty. The latter provides students with the possibility to implement their new skills in a partner organization in Austria, abroad or within their own projects.

In collaboration with its partners, the Daniel Iroegbu Global Dental Health Care Foundation (DIGDHEF) is committed to organize and engage both schools and communities in Nigeria to generate awareness on gender-based violence (GBV) and encourage young people to become agents of GBV change in their broader communities.

The initiative aims to strengthen capacity building on gender –based violence and on integrated health programme related to HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. The initiative also focuses on the need to engage men, women and youth on raising awareness of laws and rights, protecting people from GBV as well as on the importance to provide educational skills on the impact of GBV in promoting HIV/AIDS and improve teenagers’ decision-making skills.

This initiative has been designed in order to support the development of national water information systems, in four pilot countries and to provide, through the collection and exploitation of the data obtained thanks to these systems, an assessment of the management and use of water resources. This initiative will therefore enable evaluation of best practises, joint management of transboundary resources and follow-up on regional and sub regional projects and policies in the Mediterranean region.

This project is based on the construction and installation of energy efficient cook stoves for rural communities use. The access to improved cook stoves enables the reduction of the demand for firewood and consequently helps decrease CO2 emissions, ensuring at the same time the protection of local forests. The project consists of a community saving and loaning mechanism, use of local materials and trainings for artisans. This project supports the financial empowerment of the local community thanks to saving and loaning groups and make the cook stove affordable for all villagers.

A multi-stakeholder coalition among private and public sectors and civil society organizations, Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) is committed to identify leadership and resources for catalytic action at global level to increase, by 2030, the number of young people engaged in productive work. In order to advance and accelerate solutions with the greatest potential to deliver high quality productive work at scale, for young people, S4YE’s will link public and private sectors and civil society to integrate lessons learned and will pursue a compelling learning agenda both by collecting and disseminating knowledge. S4YE will leverage knowledge and partners to attract tools for promotion of public, private, and civil sector innovations and for operations scaling promising youth employment practices. The coalition includes the International Labour Organization, the International Youth Foundation, Plan International, RAND Corporation, the World Bank and Youth Business International.

The Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) for Ethiopia represents a multi-stakeholder platform designed to accelerate and deepen the impact of Ethiopia’s national industrial development agenda. The projects and programmes under the Partnership are implemented by UNIDO and other development partners and focus on three priority sectors, namely agriculture and food, leather and leather products, and textiles and apparel. Five cross-cutting sectors are covered: institutional capacity-building, investment promotion, industrial zones, trade facilitation, and environment and energy. Through the PCP, UNIDO will support the Ministry of Industry in the generation of industrial intelligence and policy, the establishment of an “industrial observatory”, and leveraging impact for inclusive and sustainable industrial development through South-South and triangular cooperation.

The program aims to enhance better interaction between the community of Rohingya refugees in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and non-Rohingya communities and to generate a community focal point for Rohingya refugees. The program uses football/soccer as a tool – embodied in The Rohingya Football Club (RFC) – and centres for promoting and supporting the club and its activities. A second phase of the project will look specifically at increasing access and support for sports activities among Rohingya boys and girls.

Jointly initiated by UNECE and other industrial partners, the United Smart Cities program has been designed to observe and assess the concept of a smart city in different geographical contexts. The initiative includes the following actions: adoption of Smart City indicators, launch of partnership and cooperation for action, promotion of exchange of best practices and knowledge transfer on sustainable urban development, including “smart cities”, scaling up of the concept of smart cities and creation of a multiplier effect.

The Sustainable Municipalities Programme was launched in 2014 in order to encourage sustainable production chains, in particular those related to family agriculture, promote environmental management and ensure the regularization of environmental and land tenure. These have been identified as the three tools to eliminate poverty and food insecurity in the region of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Sustainable Municipalities Programme has been designed in the attempt to scale up local successful projects and launch a sustainable development model for the Mato Grosso State.

In the context of the European Year of Development (EYD 2015), the Climate Alliance has been coordinated the EYD 2015 campaign. The campaign’ s deliverables include art projection and events with Members of the European Parliament, the production and distribution of education materials and the publications of reports from Southern partners. The overall goal of this initiative is the shaping of a climate- friendly life.

The Our Oceans Challenge (OOC) has been set in order to offer an online platform for entrepreneurs, scientists and offshore experts to exchange their views and ideas on strategies and measures for clean and healthy oceans. The partnership reunites influential companies committed to develop, through financial resources and sharing of expertise and know-how, innovative business models able to promote clean and healthy oceans.

This project supports smallholder farming families in Nicaragua in reforesting under-utilized parts of their farms with multiple small-scale native species to overcome the causes of deforestation, ensure direct, ongoing community involvement and technical training as well as financial benefits for participants. To consolidate the sustainability of the benefits, participants receive direct payments for ecosystem services, which amount to 60% of the carbon credit sale price. As the densely planted trees start to crowd each other out, they are selectively harvested to allow the plantation as a whole to continue to grow, thus optimizing long-run carbon sequestration while providing sustainably produced merchantable timber.

This project aims to enhance Community, Civil Society Organizations and Governments ‘capacity –building skills and raise general awareness in Nigeria on the Sustainable Development Goals. Creating awareness on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) among community members and concerned government stakeholders will improve and sustain interactions between the Government and the people, thereby setting a platform towards achieving the SDGs by 2030 through increased demand for improved services delivery.

Considering digitalisation as a key driver for economic prosperity of remote regions, Mia Engiadina has established a partnership for ensuring a digital-driven economic growth in the remotest areas of Switzerland. The implementation methodologies identified by this partnership consist of the deployment of FTTH (fibre to the home), the delivery of a communications signal over optical fibre from the operator's switching equipment all the way to a home or business, thereby replacing existing copper infrastructure such as telephone wires and coaxial cable, within the next 15 years.