Background
Development progress remains under pressure as the world grapples with overlapping crises, including economic instability, climate emergencies, conflicts, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Secretary-General has stressed the importance of scaling up global efforts and fostering innovative solutions to address these challenges. Initiatives such as the SDG Acceleration Actions platform have been pivotal, encouraging governments, civil society, and the private sector to make targeted commitments that drive progress on multiple SDGs. By leveraging collective action and ensuring inclusivity, the platform reflects the urgency and ambition needed to accelerate sustainable development for all.
The SDG Acceleration Actions online platform is a tool to help inspire and mobilize actions around the world to step up the ambition and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as to bring inclusive recovery and build resilience, to achieve sustainable future for all, leaving no one behind.
Highlights
From June 2020 to February 2025, a total of 84 Acceleration Actions located in Africa have been published. Most actions (79.3%) leverage multiple SDGs, while 20.7% focus on a single SDG. Of the registered actions, SDG 2 has mobilized the largest number, followed by SDGs 1 and 17. With regards to country composition, submissions have been received in the region from Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
New SDG Acceleration Actions can be submitted online via:
https://sdgs.un.org/actions/sdgsummit/register
Documents
Selected Accelerated Actions
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