This project aims to enhance a coordinated regional participation towards Sustainable Development, promoting self-commitment adscription and collaboration to the SDGs 2030 Agenda, by communicating the basics of SD and SD Education to multi-sector key actors and building synergy joining current efforts of the participants. Specific objectives: - Syntonize participants about historical context of Sustainable Development and its input into the 2030 UN Agenda. - Ease the identification of current efforts towards specific targets of the Agenda. - Evidence the regional on-going efforts towards the SDGs, facilitating adscription of local initiatives into the Partnerships for SDS platform.

2030 Agenda with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) has been consolidated by 2015 with a clear and straightforward commitment: leaving no one behind in the development efforts and in the solution of global conflicts, conflicts that threaten the integrity of the Planet as we know it and as it has let us live. Even though, Sustainable Development is a concept which aroused back during the decade of the 60s of XX century. This initiative aims to communicate and socialize the Sustainable Development as a challenge for all humans and the 2030 ONU Agenda as the eco of humanity voices claiming for positive change for the decisions taken at all levels and all sectors about the models of production and consumption, the human populations development -mostly urban areas-, the use and care of natural resources -biological heritage of the Earth-, the governance, peace and justice, the economic growth and social mobility in every culture of the world. Comprehension of the historical context that triggered current efforts, allows participants to identify its own role in this Agenda, to take as of its own and being able to make it a reality in their immediate surrounding, sharing a spirit of global fraternity-sorority and co-responsibility. Lecture and Workshop topics and activities: From development to sustainable development Sustainable development timeline Wicked problems: How to address them sustainably? The Sustainable Development Goals: 2030 Agenda How can I join the Agenda with my project/effort/idea? Documentation process and reviewing: Participants analyze the initiative goals and identify compatible SDGs Targets Description of expected results and shifts for impact indicators Team validation Postulation of initiatives in the platform

NGOs participants will assign two collaborators to take the lecture and workshop and to conduct the documentation process in representation of the NGO. One directive level representative of each NGO must backup the team work and review the information to be posted in the Partnerships for SDGs platform, being able for timely feedback. Since the registration will be written in english, university students with high skill in both english and spanish will assist each NGO to support the documentation process. For the public sector effort, a Collaboration Convention will be celebrated with the State Development Secretariat to assign participants and account working time for the program. In both cases, participants must already be holding projects of local or regional scope for solving some social or environmental issues. This will allow each participant to analyze the SDGs and all the Targets in comparison to an actual running effort, and be immediately able to follow the actions towards Sustainable Development, measure them and report direct indicators. The process will be presented as an iterative experience to advance into sustainable development, a sort of SDG Compass but for public and civil sector.

SOSAC is committed for building a shared vision for social, environmental and economic change in the region we implement other initiatives (SDGAction12231 and SDGAction14017, for example), under the belief that positive and significant change can only be carried out by collaboration and integration of diverse views and solutions of the wicked problems humanity faces. Allies from regional networks are invited to join this effort by registering their current projects as initiatives in the Partnerships for SDG, when pertinent (on-going and inter sectorial actions); local government is already a partner by the Development Secretariat, understanding the value of self commitment from civil society for the national and sub-national responsibility of accounting advances towards SDG targets. Once initiatives are published, annual meetings will be organized to analyze advances in targets and goals, comparing results on implementation, behavioral change, joined synergy (strengthened networks towards common SDG) and discussing indicators for reporting advance.

SOSAC, USEM Monterrey, ITESM Monterrey, Centro Cemex-TEC