As we are getting ever closer to 2030 and the world seemingly getting further away from making meaningful progress on the SDGs, many have been asking- why is this so? Why are we seemingly trapped in a cycle of “the same old” approach that has proven time and again to be ineffective?
Social innovation has been recognised as a key tool in fighting inequality, addressing climate change and making meaningful progress on the global community’s commitment to development. How can governments incentivize and bring about needed change?
Social Innovation is characterised by its focus on communities and creating lasting systemic change, taking action to create opportunities for others to become catalysts of change rather than patching individual issues.
The social innovation sector is composed of these social innovators at the community level who are leading co-creation processes of collaborative solutions. Social innovators all have one thing in common: an urgent desire for accelerated impact to create a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future that can be truly regenerative for all. This desire has led the social innovation community to call for international collaboration between the governments and the innovators themselves in order to create policies that will bring about meaningful change in the sector.