The Road to the SDGs

– Technology Transfer — A collaboration promoting technology transfer between developing and developed countries – Development Solutions — A wide range of STI-led solutions, which can be leveraged to promote sustainable and inclusive development and address the developing world’s most pressing challenges in key sectors. X Engage creates an integrated ecosystem, offering all stakeholders the opportunity to drive changes that can transform communities. X With its focus on six SDGs, Engage accelerates STI-led solutions to drive inclusive and sustainable development in MCs. ACHIEVEMENTS X Every year, Engage launches and implements several Calls for Innovation: – Annual Transform Fund Call for Innovation, the most recent being dedicated to COVID-19 – A call for Saving Women’s Lives from Cancer – An Internal STI Innovation Competition for IsDB staff – Call for applications for STI Prize recognising outstanding achievements – Transformers Roadshows, which are conducted regularly as part of the Platform’s activities. X The Engage website has achieved the following: – Around 15,600 user registrations, covering innovators, investors and corporate organisations – Approximately 200,000 platform visits, leading to over 1,080,000 page views. On average, visitors spend 4 minutes reading Engage content – Around 80% of web traffic sourced from Engage social media channels (150,000 Facebook followers, 11,800 Twitter and 1,000 LinkedIn followers) – Transform Fund project blogs tagged with relevant UN Observances for promotion — such as the UN International Day of Banks, World Science Day, World Cities Day, Africa Industrialisation Day, UN Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian People – A series of webinars organised to engage various stakeholders. INVESTMENT X Through its structured Call for Innovation tool, Engage has so far leveraged 95 innovative development solutions. X The Transform Fund has invested US$ 17.33 million to support the above solutions for addressing challenges related to the six selected SDGs: SDG 2 (11 solutions); SDG 3 (39 solutions); SDG 4 (15 solutions); SDG 6 (9 solutions); SDG 7 (3 solutions) and SDG 9 (18 solutions). C A L L F O R I N N O V A T I O N T O O L Engage has so far leveraged 95 innovative development solutions F U N D I N V E S T M E N T The Transform Fund has invested US$17.33 million to support these solutions [ 67 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S