Stories of Impact
Scaling circular innovations through partnerships across borders: the Sampangan and Solubio collaboration success story
Established jointly by Impact Hub and UNDP Geneva in 2016, Accelerate2030 connects entrepreneurs who are creating solutions to achieve the SDGs to the resources and opportunities they need to scale their impact. The program facilitates connection to the Geneva...
Creating a sustainable future by supporting circular innovations
Over the last 50 years, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to affect the global climate. The resulting changes in the global climate bring a range of risks to...
Connecting the most promising SDG entrepreneurs with the Geneva ecosystem to catalyze solutions for the Agenda 2030
“Our experience with the A2030 program has been extremely positive. We have gained access to global networking and financing opportunities, and it has shown us that change is possible” - Andrés Martínez, Founder & CEO of VIC, Accelerate2030 2021 global finalist...
Women entrepreneurs breaking barriers for a sustainable future
For 2022, the United Nations (UN) theme for the commemoration of International Women's Day was ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’ - celebrating the work of women and girls in fighting climate change and ending the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the...
Collaboration in Venezuela: Building Multi-stakeholder partnership through and beyond Accelerate2030
Since 2016 UNDP Venezuela and the Impact Hub Caracas have cultivated a solid relationship. Their partnership began in the first edition of the Accelerate2030 program, bringing these two neighbours who were physically located in the same building to finally meet with...
Business as a Force for Good: Partnership among United Nations Global Compact and Impact Hubs in Brazil
Setting the Scene. On the first day of Accelerate2030’s bootcamp in Belo Horizonte in Brazil in 2019, the 35 ventures present were asked if any of them had implemented a Theory of Change. The answer? Only 5 of them. They were then asked if any of them had impact...
Taking Collaboration to the Next Level: UNDP’s Accelerator Labs and Impact Hub Cambodia’s joint efforts
Entrepreneurship and innovation are fundamental to achieving the SDGs because they provide the creativity and drive that you need to realise something that at first brush seems an impossible dream. The SDGs are hugely ambitious, so to achieve something like that, you...
Accelerate2030 in Serbia: Making the Best of Both Worlds
Syncing compatibility to drive a circular economy theme. When IH Belgrade and the UNDP Country Office in Serbia started their collaboration in 2019, they wanted to ensure they were focusing on the country’s priorities, leveraging each other’s strengths, and building...
Accelerate2030 Turkey: Mobilizing partnerships for Global Goals
Accelerate2030 Program in Turkey is the best practice for the collaborations undertaken to understand the concept of social entrepreneurship, which is relatively new in Turkey, and the strengthening of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. The program sets an...
Accelerate2030 Partnerships: Innovations in Health with UNAIDS
El siguiente es un blog invitado escrito por nuestros socios de ONUSIDA. Pradeep Kakkattil es el director de la Oficina de Innovación de ONUSIDA en Ginebra. Elina Viitaniemi es asesora de innovación en ONUSIDA. Hace unos años, los gobiernos de todos los estados...
Scaling For Good: Guest Blog, Louise Le Gat, Facilitator & Transformation Coach
The following post was written by Accelerate2030's trusted coach and partner, Louise Le Gat. Louise has been involved with Accelerate2030 since the beginning of he programme, providing her expertise to our Global Finalists, and this year to more than 150...
2019 Stories of Entrepreneurs: Laura Mendoza, Unima, Mexico
The following blog is the first in a series of stories of the 2019 Accelerate2030 Global Finalist Cohort. Check back to read more about this amazing cohort! This blog was written by Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder of Unima. My name is Laura. I am a Mexican mother of...
The Power of Coaching – Scaling Social Enterprises Globally
A2030 program coordinators decided to expand the leadership and resilience pillar of the program and pilot the introduction of a personal coaching component.
Stories from partners – Boston Consulting Group
Partners are crucial for Accelerate2030. Evgeniy Akulich from consulting company BCG, one of Accelerate2030 program’s most important partners, tells about BCG’s experience on the collaboration.
How Has A2030 Benefited Local Communities?
Partners are crucial for Accelerate2030. Evgeniy Akulich from consulting company BCG, one of Accelerate2030 program’s most important partners, tells about BCG’s experience on the collaboration.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: Syafunda
Affordable and accessible education is still not provided everywhere in the world. Having personally experienced a shortage of teachers, Zakheni Ngubo developed Syafunda; an online platform for students providing access to localised digital content.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: SALt
Together they run their social enterprise called SALt, the acronym for Sustainable Alternative Lighting. Their mission is to address the light inequality gap between people who have electricity and people who have not. We had the opportunity to speak with Raphael about his journey with SALt.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: HearX
With already seven start-ups under his belt, Nic Klopper is always looking for new opportunities. He is without a doubt a true entrepreneur at heart. When he was asked to lead the effort to commercialize hearX Group’s intellectual property, he didn’t hesitate to take on the challenge. His hard work has paid off, as hearX’s technological solution for hearing screenings has become a leader in the industry.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: Tree Alliance
There were a lot of opportunities in the hospitality sector and setting up training restaurants seemed a good option back then. We really had no examples to follow. At some point we realized we had developed a successful idea and we started to consolidate our restaurants under the Tree Alliance brand. We are now offering our solution to other organisations.”
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: Hablando con Julis
It was her sister Julis who inspired Daniela Galindo to launch her own company. Julis was born with a disability and was therefore not able to speak. Daniela developed a technological solution: a software program to aid communication by using a database with words depicted by images. Julis tested the first “home made” version and proved that it worked. Hablando con Julis (in English: “Speaking with Julis”) was born.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: HM Energy
30 million tires in Mexico are discarded per year and this volume is expected to grow to 50 million by 2020. But lucky for us there is an environmentally positive solution! The team from HM Energy found and developed a process to convert those pollutant waste tires into valuable commodities like cleaner diesel fuel and carbon black char. We had the opportunity to speak with Israel Magana about his future goals and journey within HM Energy.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: PiiPee
It was in the morning, after a couple of days fasting when he went to the toilet to have a pee. And when he flushed, he realized one thing: “I just spoilt so much clean water!” It took him seven months to find the chemical solution to tackle this problem. Now Ezequiel and his wife are the proud owners of Piipee, an eco-friendly product that eliminates all toilet water usage during urination.