We are proud to be launching a new Community of Practice on "Collective Impact and the Sustainable Development Goals" for Canadian changemakers to come together to share experiences and build skills towards creating a more collaborative Canada.
This Community will feature monthly online workshops with the aim of supporting members to build their networks, share ideas, problems, and questions, and to build skills using the newest approaches and best practices for collective impact.
We are thrilled to be organizing this Community with our partners at the Tamarack Institute, one of the world's leading connectors, convenors, and educators for collective impact.
What is Collective Impact and Why Does it Matter?
Collective Impact is “the commitment by a group of people from different sectors to work together towards a common agenda to solve complex problems.”It is an intentional and disciplined form of collaboration that focuses on advancing systems and policies to create change.
Our communities and the world at large are faced with an ever-evolving set of challenges and major transformations. Global health pandemics, climate-induced disasters, rapidly changing economic models based on artificial intelligence, and increasing income inequality are but a small handful of examples. These transformations affect us all and solving these complex issues cannot be achieved individually or by using a single approach.
The Sustainable Development Goals are a collective impact framework. They embody a “whole of society approach” and explore how each of the issues represented by the 17 SDGs are closely interconnected with each other. Anywhere the SDGs are mentioned the message is always very clear – it is only by working together, across sectors and issue areas, that the ambitious agenda of the SDGs can be achieved.
