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SDG Action Lab Ghana 2026 · Friday 6 November 2026 · Accra
SDG Action Lab Ghana 2026, also called SDG Impact Lab 2026, is a one-day Lab at Stanbic Incubator, Silver Star Tower, Accra. SDG in Action is where participants learn the Goals, turn them into local action and show the impact.
Countdown assumes a 09:00 Accra start. Start time to be confirmed.
SDGs in action across Africa
Learning, building, planting.
Children coding, young people planting trees, technicians installing solar and communities getting clean water. The Lab is about turning the Goals into this kind of everyday action.
Illustrative photos, not this event · Matete lesele, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fquasie, CC BY-SA 4.0 · SAgbley, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Otuo-Akyampong Boakye, CC BY-SA 4.0
Why now
“We face a global development emergency.”
UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. Read the report
SDG targets, 2025
0%on track or making moderate progress
Nearly halfare “moving too slowly”, in the report's words
0%in reverse
Extreme poverty, 2025 estimate
0M
About 1 in 10 people. And 0M children and youth were out of school in 2023.
Source: UN SDG Report 2025
SDGs in action
Action looks like this.
Young people planting trees in Ghana. Small, local, measurable: the kind of work this platform is built to record and recognise.
Creative action
Old tyres, new public benches.
In Tivaouane Peulh, Senegal, discarded tyres are turned into mosaic benches to cut waste and brighten streets. Goals 11, 12 and 13, done with cement, tiles and paint.
Illustrative video, not this event · “Banc publique à pneus recyclés (fabrication)”, excerpt, muted · 4MAPS · CC BY-SA 4.0
SDGs in action across Ghana and Africa
Illustrative photos from Wikimedia Commons, not this event or its participants. Hover to pause.
The platform
From a one-day Lab to a year of action.
The public site is live. The learning, attendance and impact tools below are being built next.
Learn
Short courses on the 17 Goals, designing an action project and measuring impact.
Show up
RSVP to Labs and meet-ups, with a QR ticket and quick check-in at the door.
Act
Log what you did, which Goals it serves and who it reached, with evidence.
Be recognised
Verified actions earn points, badges and certificates. No crypto, just recognition.
17 Goals, one orbit
Everything connects.
The content of this website has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States. SDG icons used unmodified.
The 17 Goals
A shared to-do list for the planet.
Agreed by every UN Member State in 2015. Hover or tab through the wheel to meet each Goal; select one to read its targets on the UN site.
- Goal 1: No Poverty (opens UN page)
Goal 2: Zero Hunger (opens UN page)
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being (opens UN page)
Goal 4: Quality Education (opens UN page)
Goal 5: Gender Equality (opens UN page)
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation (opens UN page)
Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy (opens UN page)
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (opens UN page)
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (opens UN page)
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities (opens UN page)
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (opens UN page)
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production (opens UN page)
Goal 13: Climate Action (opens UN page)
Goal 14: Life Below Water (opens UN page)
Goal 15: Life on Land (opens UN page)
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (opens UN page)
Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals (opens UN page)- AdoptedBy UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, 25 September 2015.
The venue
See you at Silver Star Tower, 6 Nov.
In our drawing, seventeen floors light up, one for each Goal. The Lab takes place at Stanbic Incubator inside Silver Star Tower, Airport City, Accra.
Illustration inspired by the building, not an official image.
Next up
SDG Action Lab Ghana 2026
Friday 6 November 2026
Stanbic Incubator, Silver Star Tower, Airport, Accra, Ghana
50 young changemakers. 5 practical modules. 1 day to reimagine SDG action.
Pending organiser confirmation#SDGActionLabGhana #SDGImpactLab
Countdown
Countdown assumes a 09:00 Accra start. Start time to be confirmed.
RSVP closed on 20 October. Selected participants: see the official WhatsApp group shared in your selection email.