New: TogetherForSDGs Final Insights Report
Explore the TogetherForSDGs Final Insights Report. This report captures key lessons, stories, and recommendations from our first year of intergenerational SDG action leading up to and following International Youth Day 2025!
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What is TogetherForSDGs?
TogetherForSDGs: A Global Intergenerational Initiative
The TogetherForSDGs Intergenerational Impact Hub is an initiative designed to foster intergenerational collaboration between youth leaders, civil society organizations, and policy bodies to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This initiative bridges youth, older adults, local civil society, and intergovernmental actors to create scalable, sustainable, and impactful partnerships that drive meaningful change.
Why Intergenerational Collaboration?
With less than five years to 2030, only a small share of the SDGs are on track, underscoring the urgency of new approaches. Intergenerational collaboration brings together the strengths, wisdom, and creativity of people of all ages to design more inclusive and sustainable solutions.
TogetherForSDGs is aligned with UN mandates such as the PACT for the Future and its calls to:
- Promote intergenerational solidarity to foster inclusion across families, workplaces, and society (Actions 35–37).
- Ensure meaningful youth participation at all levels of decision-making, including intergenerational dialogues with governments and institutions.
Through the Intergenerational Impact Hub, people of all ages—youth advocates, older changemakers, civil society organizers, and policy actors—are co-creating bold, community-rooted solutions. By building partnerships across generations and sectors, we’re turning shared purpose into meaningful action.
“We need people of all ages, young and old alike, to join forces to build a better world for all.”
— António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
From Global Commitments to Local Action
From UN Commitments to Community Action
Building on the 2024 United Nations Civil Society Conference in Nairobi and the PACT for the Future, TogetherForSDGs provides a space where younger and older generations work side by side to design and test community-rooted strategies. Through the Intergenerational Impact Hub, local insights are connected to global conversations on equity, climate action, and sustainable futures.
- Action 35: Promote intergenerational solidarity to foster inclusion across families, workplaces, and society.
- Action 36: Ensure meaningful youth participation in shaping policies and decision-making at all levels, including fostering intergenerational dialogues between youth, older generations, and governments.
- Action 37: Strengthen meaningful youth participation at the international level.
Discover how communities in multiple countries translated UN-level commitments into local, intergenerational SDG strategies in the Final Insights Report.
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Our Approach: Building Communities in Action
TogetherForSDGs uses the Building Communities in Action framework, a relational approach grounded in co-creation, shared leadership, and community wisdom. The framework emphasizes beginning with listening, shared values, and relationships before moving into strategy design and implementation.
The Intergenerational Impact Hub follows a three-phase impact model:
- Framing & Listening – Community-based research to understand what matters, who is affected, and what already exists.
- Designing Intergenerational Strategies – Co-creating SDG-aligned strategies rooted in local insights, including a hybrid global workshop on International Youth Day 2025.
- Enacting & Scaling Impact – Implementing and testing intergenerational strategies, amplifying community voices, and developing tools for others to adapt.
- Reflecting & Learning – Pausing throughout the process helps create space for deeper learning and alignment.
The Final Insights Report highlights how this framework was applied across countries and what was learned along the way.
2025 Prototypes and Team Leads
2025 Intergenerational Prototypes
In Year 1, TogetherForSDGs Design Team members used the Building Communities in Action framework to develop and test several intergenerational prototypes within the Hub. These prototypes translated insights from community research into practical strategies that can be adapted in other contexts.
- Voices for Impact – Led by Nazia Naz (Pakistan)
Connecting Youth with Policymakers Through Community Engagement
This prototype engages youth across 31 districts of Pakistan (with a focus on Sindh Province) to conduct community research on poverty, gender inequality, and education, then connect their findings directly to district-level policymakers through intergenerational working groups. Youth work alongside mentors from government and civil society to turn schools into community engagement hubs and co-create SDG 1–5 solutions that are both community-owned and policy-supported.
- TogetherForSDGs School Clubs – Led by Aishu Narasimhadevara (India/USA) & Tito Mwenda (Kenya)
Empowering Young Ambassadors Through Intergenerational Leadership
This prototype transforms primary schools into intergenerational innovation hubs where students, grandparents, and community mentors address real-world challenges related to health, education, and gender equality. Pilot clubs in Kenyan communities are creating safe spaces for girls and young women to learn, lead, and dialogue with older women, using stories, skill-sharing, and campaigns to advance SDGs 3, 4, and 5.
- Sauti Za Usawa – Voices of Equality – Led by Elizabeth Waliuba & Joan Gathoni (Kenya)
Using Basketball to End Gender-Based Violence Across Generations
Centered in Bungoma County, Kenya, this prototype uses basketball as an entry point to build safe spaces where youth and elders gather to confront gender-based violence and harmful norms impacting girls and young women. Community basketball festivals and dialogue circles bring older women, community heroes, and young leaders together to co-create culturally grounded strategies for gender equality and well-being.
- Kasanya Automation – Led by Anini Esho (Kenya) & Fana Ceesay (Gambia)
Sports, Skills, and Digital Tools for Decent Work
Based in Isiolo County, this prototype combines sports, skills training, and digital tools to support youth from vulnerable backgrounds—especially those in the informal construction sector—to access decent work opportunities. Anchored in the Kasanya Football Club, it connects unemployed youth with older construction workers and community leaders who provide mentorship, technical guidance, and pathways to more stable livelihoods aligned with SDGs 1, 8, and 10.
- Thrive Through Equality – Led by Ralia Ali Hussein (Kenya) & Timothy Emmanuel (Nigeria)
Mentorship, Skills, and Wellness Hubs for Girls and Young WomenFocusing on underserved rural and urban communities in Kenya, this prototype combines mentorship, life-skills education, healthcare and wellness programming, and youth-led educational hubs to empower girls and young women. It intentionally connects adolescent girls, young women, elders, faith leaders, and local professionals, with elders providing cultural grounding and trust while youth lead facilitation, digital learning, and emerging social enterprises, advancing SDGs 1, 4, and 5.
Reflections and learning from these prototypes, including stories from youth design leads and older partners, are featured throughout the TogetherForSDGs Final Insights Report.
Digital Resource Hub (Where We Are Now)
TogetherForSDGs as a Digital Resource Hub
TogetherForSDGs is now evolving from a time-bound initiative into a digital resource hub for intergenerational SDG action! Over time, this page will host tools, frameworks, case studies, and media that practitioners and partners can draw on to strengthen intergenerational collaboration in their own communities.
The hub will highlight:
- Practical guides for intergenerational design, dialogue, and action.
- Insights and stories from youth and older leaders involved in the Intergenerational Impact Hub.
- Learnings from the four 2025 prototypes and future pilots.
Youth-Led Pilots in the ImPACT Hub
ImPACT Hub: Youth-Led Intergenerational Pilots
As part of this digital evolution, youth-led intergenerational pilots are currently being advanced through the ImPACT Hub in Pakistan and Kenya. These pilots are testing creative ways to bring generations together around SDG priorities in local communities, with learning cycles feeding back into the resources shared on this page.
Updates and snapshots from these pilots will be showcased in future additions to the TogetherForSDGs digital resource hub and referenced in future reporting.
Access the Final Insights Report
To explore TogetherForSDGs stories, frameworks, and recommendations in depth, download the Final Insights Report. This report will remain on this page as a static resource to support ongoing learning and action for intergenerational SDG work.
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Stay Connected
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