SDG LAB

The SDG Lab is a unit of UN Geneva that is located within the Office of the Director-General. We're a start up in the UN system, taking a new approach to the 2030 Agenda by creating space for new collaborations and new thinking around the SDGs. Our mandate covers the essence of all of the SDGs, rather than just focusing on areas like health, work or finance. So our approach is systemic - we are committed to an integrated agenda, and embrace complexity... We act to connect the right people at the right time by identifying opportunities and nudging people into working together. We aim to provide an informal space not only for innovation and collaboration, but also to amplify good practices that are working at country level when it comes to SDG implementation... What is a Lab? We refer to ourselves as being a "lab" (or "laboratory") as we aim to create a space to experiment in - with the possibility that we might fail sometimes.