How can you create SDGs awareness? Explore the few things to do!

Contributing to SDGs awareness shouldn’t be a hard thing. In this short article, we share the few things to take care of. let’s get started!

Sustainable Development Goals, unlike MDGs, were developed following serious global consultations and they are believed to be global, relevant to every individual and society. According to the Guardian (2015), United Nations put aside an open platform that allowed extensive discussions regarding what the world would go with after the era of MDGs. This open platform was called Rio+20. Apparently, Rio+20 wasn’t the first conference on sustainable development; sustainable development had been discussed in conferences of 1992 in Rio and 2002 in Johannesburg.

Anyway, besides this 2012 conference on sustainability, affirms The Guardian, UN also conducted series of global conversations. Let us borrow this witnessing from The Guardian:

‘Alongside the open working group discussions, the UN conducted a series of “global conversations”. These included 11 thematic and 83 national consultations, and door-to-door surveys. The UN also launched an online My World survey asking people to prioritise the areas they’d like to see addressed in the goals. The results of the consultations were fed into the the working group’s discussions’ (The Guardian, 2015). And yet these discussions, when presented by Rio+20, had to be debated by UN member States before the final wording in August 2015!

The above is an indication that SDGs were developed with enough engagement of almost all governments and individuals and they likely represent each individuals and government’s aspirations.

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Having convinced you that sustainable development goals are relevant to you, your business, your institution, your government and everyone else, let us jump onto the next important aspect: how can you spread this conviction to others? How can you raise awareness so that your neighbor or your other institutions know about SDGs? Below are few suggestions (for both individuals and companies):

NB: These are ways to create awareness, not to practice SDGs. How to work on SDGs, it is another article, another day!

1. Design SDGs flyers and stickers and have them everywhere; on your office door, on your laptop, on your car, move with a flyer on the road or school compound allowing people to read. Yes, design flyers and stickers and have them everywhere!
2. Change your social media profile picture and let SDGs take up the position. You can decide to have each SDG be your profile photo each day for the 17 days or have all the 17 SDGs represented at ago for a week or 17 days.
3. Have an SDGs logo on your T-shirt or shirt
4. Write an article about SDGs and share it on all your social media accounts. You can as well simply share an already written article from a website of your choice.
5. Visit a nearby community or individual or business and tell them about it, about SDGs
6. Practice SDGs in your day to day activities and encourage your community and institution to do the same. Explore 20 easy actions you could do to contribute to SDG 13 (Climate Action).

For now, go out and make SDGs well-known to all around you.