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People and wellbeing
Discover an entry point for understanding, conversation, and action.
ADS / Advocacy and SDG action
Turn shared goals into local, practical action.
Explore SDG themes and campaigns, then find a way to participate, learn, or propose a partnership around an issue you care about.
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Ascend Development Solutions
Themes for action
The Sustainable Development Goals are closer than they look.
ADS creates space for people and organisations to connect global goals with the work already happening in communities.
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Learning and opportunity
Discover an entry point for understanding, conversation, and action.
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Climate and environment
Discover an entry point for understanding, conversation, and action.
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Inclusive communities
Discover an entry point for understanding, conversation, and action.
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Climate-ready places
Connect sustainability, safer communities, and practical local resilience.
Current campaigns
Action has a shape when people share it.
Propose a partnership →Quality Education and SkillsPartner call open
Skills for Local Action
A learning series that helps community leaders turn shared priorities into practical next steps.
Financial Inclusion and LiteracyPartner call open
Money Confidence Conversations
Accessible financial literacy sessions for people and organizations building greater resilience.
Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesPartner call open
Neighbourhoods in Motion
A practical story series about making local places more inclusive, prepared, and connected.
Community stories
A room full of next steps
People turn a shared concern into a small, visible action plan.
Explore this story →Learning travels further together
Facilitators and participants exchange tools that can work beyond the room.
Explore this story →A city is made of relationships
Local knowledge helps partners see the systems behind everyday challenges.
Explore this story →Build a campaign with ADS.
Start a partnership proposal →Join SDG action
Bring your time, skills, or local perspective.
Tell us how you would like to contribute to practical work connected to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Join the action →Propose a partnership
Build an initiative around a shared goal.
Bring an organisation, community, or idea to ADS for a thoughtful first conversation.
Propose a partnership →