With the world off track halfway to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, UN calls on global leaders to turbocharge action at this landmark Summit in New York.
“The SDG Summit in September must be a moment of unity to provide a renewed impetus and accelerated action for achieving the SDGs”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Healthcares is way off track - SDG3 we have nearly half of the world’s population lack basic access to healthcare.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), up to 3.5 billion people – almost half the world’s population – lack access to the health services they need, with almost 100 million people being pushed to extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket expenses.
Yesterday at United Nations in New York we heard of the heartbreaking story of a person with a rare medical condition who has no access to any treatment in Brazil. His wife gave a passionate plea for help. She spoke of the constant pain he is in and that there are millions in his position in Brazil.
Is this the future we want? Pain and suffering for millions?
We have solutions that support people around the world what we need is the financing to scale up these solutions.
Mariana Mazzucato Fiona Shera then spoke about investing in platforms that deliver impact with measurable outcomes. Platforms that have mission to deliver social value while delivering the sustainable development goals.
Since 2018 we’ve had our proof of concept World Health Innovation Summit CIC that delivers on the message “Think globally, act locally” by working locally in their own communities and cities by delivering local programmes that consider the health of the entire planet 🌍
Our initial findings pointed to an opportunity to deliver £1 invested £36 SROI.
What we need now is to bring all stakeholders together and deliver a sustainable world.
We’ll be working with our partners at UNGA to bridge and work with the finance sector to bring these solutions global.
Our strategy is World Health Innovation Summit CIC is to develop local innovation hubs in Cities that springboard ideas worldwide and through our Healthy Cities Initiative we’re working with The Good Economy to bring impact investors to the table to support Health projects in the UK to start.
World Health Service is our digital platform to support those who have no access.
Global Social Prescribing Alliance is our platform to work with Governments, local healthcare providers to deliver social prescribing globally.
The message is clear we don’t have time to wait and we must work together as a team.
António Guterres Secretary General United Nations spoke yesterday about the power of civil society and the opportunities. Our platforms provide a new model for civil society to engage and deliver a sustainable future that leaves no-one behind.
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