GAIA EDUCATION SDG TOOLKIT
GAIA EDUCATION SDG TOOLKIT
SDG TOOLKIT FOR DESIGNING COMMUNITY PROJECTS
SDG TOOLKIT FOR DESIGNING COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Use Gaia Education’s SDG Flashcards kit to help your community, school, university or business to design projects implementing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in your local area. Become a trainer or ‘multiplier’ of SDG awareness in schools, universities and communities.
SDG FLASHCARDS AND HANDBOOK
Gaia Education’s SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Flashcards are currently available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Japanese and soon in Estonian and Danish. The SDG Multipliers Handbook is currently available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
In 2015, all 193 countries of the world agreed to the Paris Climate Agreement to reign in climate change and created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to make our world sustainable by 2030 and to leave no one behind.
Here are the 17 goals
Gaia Education’s SDG Flashcards and ‘Multiplier’ Manual
Gaia Education worked with UNESCO on its Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development and our programmes continue to be endorsed through their #ESDfor2030.
With our deep understanding of the SDGs, having been a Chapter Lead in SDG 4 for the UK’s National SDGs Plan, we have created our flashcards and free manual to help people connect to the SDGs, better understand their potential, and design projects which help their communities contribute to the SDG targets!
How do our Multiplier workshops and Flashcards work?
Our SDG Flashcards were developed as a tool to help SDG implementation at the local community or company scale. They also help people think in a more holistic way about the SDGs using ‘Gaia Education’s unique 4-Dimensional Mandala to reflect on and go a bit deeper with the SDGs.
There are 61 SDG cards in a pack and they look like this:
The Flashcards’ contain 3 cards for each of the 17 SDGs. The basic trends on the cards of each SDG are the same, but the three different cards each offer different questions that small groups can work on to reflect on that particular SDG as part of their project design.
In addition to the 3 x 17 cards addressing specific SDGs, there are ten cards that address systemic interconnections between the SDGs, offer a basic timeline of the UN’s sustainable development process, offer some context of the SDGs within UNESCO’s ‘Roadmap for Implementation’ and more.
In a nutshell, the cards are an easy-to-use teaching tool that enables trainers (multipliers) to take the conversations about SDG implementation into local schools, town halls, community groups, NGOs, businesses, universities, etc.
More background information on the SDG flashcards and how to use them can be found here.
And to help you in your project design, you have an SDG Project Canvas in the toolkit:
The SDG Project Canvas is a great tool for identifying the main key activities, resources, partners and impact for your project.
It covers the main points you need to take into consideration when implementing a project in your bioregion that will create a regenerative shift towards a more sustainable and socially just region.
You can find more information about the SDG project canvas here.
SDG Wheel Mapping Tool
The SDG Wheel Mapping Tool provides you with a simple graphic tool to map out your local groups, projects, initiatives, organisations, businesses etc. and how they relate to and tackle various SDG and most importantly how they interact in a systems based manner (projects or organisations). Use this template printed on a large scale (A1 or A0) to provide you with sufficient space to map your SDG systems in your context. Most useful for local SDG implementation workshops.
READY TO JOIN THE SDG MULTIPLIERS?
In combination with the cards, handbook and other tools, you can help spread SDG conversations that matter and lead the design of local and regional projects everywhere!
Agenda 2030 will be achieved only if communities, businesses, local governments and civil society organisations, as well as schools and universities everywhere, come to understand the Sustainable Development Goals as a shared vision for cross-sector collaboration. The SDGs are a huge opportunity to commit together to making the global goals our shared local goals. We at Gaia Education sincerely hope that the flashcards, handbook, project canvas, and training of multipliers will contribute to this process. Let’s do it together!
TRY OUT
THE SDG TOOLKIT!
TRY OUT
THE SDG TOOLKIT!
Keen to try the toolkit out? No problem! Simply order the flashcards on this link, and download a free English ‘Multiplier’s Manual here.
That’s it! You can just get started!
Let us know how you got on, or if you need any support from us.
HOST A WORKSHOP!
Want Gaia Education to send a trainer or ‘Multiplier’ to your school, university, business or community for a day or half-day workshop?
No problem - just write to us by filling in the contact form here and we will set up the workshop with you using a local SDG trainer/multiplier in your local language.
We are happy to work with you to develop bespoke training adapted and geared towards your specific SDG training or SDG implementation needs.
Get more info on our workshops for:
Click on one of the areas below which interest you for SDG related work and you will get further information on a typical cost of a workshop, timetable of a typical half-day workshop, timetable of a typical full-day workshop as well as examples of detailed workshop scripts for half- and full-day workshops. Workshop testimonies can be found further below. If you need a local SDG trainer/multiplier for conducting your workshop at your location please contact us.
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
Gaia Education offers a number of trainings and different formats so you can become an SDG Multiplier or practitioner in your community (or school, university/college, local authority, NGO, organisation,...) to support the local community based and project oriented, whole systems design based implementation of the SDG:
Introductory Course on "How to Use Gaia Education's SDG Flashcards/Tools"
- Online
- Self-paced
- ~2-3 hours duration
Accessible when you purchase your set of the SDG Flashcards.
Basic introductory training on the SDG, SDG flashcards and tools and how to use them to start SDG community conversations and initiatives.
Target group: All who are new to the SDG and/or the SDG flashcards and other SDG tools and want to learn how to work with the SDG Flashcards/Tools in their own contexts.
Find out more about this Intro to SDG Tools Training below.
Face to face SDG Training of Multipliers
- One day workshop
- Facilitated by a Gaia Education
SDG Trainer - Organised either by Gaia Education or on demand at your location
Training on the SDG, SDG flashcards, and other SDG tools and methods and approaches to facilitate SDG workshops in your community (or schools, university/college, local authority, NGO, etc) and contexts.
Target Group: All who wish to work with the SDG flashcards and the other SDG tools in their contexts (schools, universities, communities) and want to learn how to work with the SDG flashcards and facilitate outcome and project oriented workshops in your community.
Upon completion of the face to face SDG ToM you will have experienced the tools and processes to facilitate community conversations on the SDG and to support the development of SDG projects.
Online SDG Training of Multipliers
Design for Community SDG Projects
- Online facilitated workshop
- 6-weeks total duration (30 hours)
- Synchronous and asynchronous
In depth training on the SDG and Agenda 2030, the SDG flashcards and other approaches and tools to learn in depth about the background, development and whole systems based, integral implementation of the SDG and translate it into your own engagement and use in your own community or organisation to facilitate and develop your own workshops, projects, initiatives and content to suit various needs.
Upon completion of this course you will be well equipped to conduct SDG multiplier events or workshops and/or practically use the SDG tools in your SDG projects and initiatives.
The completion of this course is a part of becoming a Gaia Education SDG Trainer.
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Gaia Education’s work with Agenda 2030 and the SDG
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