Skills, Systems & Synergies for Sustainable Development
Helping people think, talk, act and lead on Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was agreed by world leaders in September 2015. The Agenda offers a clear vision for the future for the world’s people, for the places where they live and for the planet.
4SD helps people working on sustainable development to have strategic influence within challenging situations. 4SD equips them with the skills they need to make a lasting difference. 4SD accompanies them as they nurture their skills in their professional practice.
4SD encourages the use of Living Systems approaches: these enable more effective engagement across sectors and among multiple stakeholders.
4SD fosters integrated people-centred action in ways that are inclusive, always connecting more stakeholders and offering the promise of generative futures for all.
In 2019, 4SD offers you the following:
- Collective Mentoring: small-group residential immersions and a facilitated network of practitioners;
- Process Mentoring: support to specific systems initiatives focusing on food, nutrition, climate & health.
- Personal Mentoring: regular one-to-one engagement with a 4SD Mentor
4SD is also involved in applied interdisciplinary learning within universities and staff colleges internationally.
We would be delighted to explore how we can best support you.
Living Systems Leadership
At 4SD, we explore what systems leadership means, what working with living systems really looks like and how that plays out for real when you have a central role within loosely-organised human systems that are trying to address complex issues.
Comfort in Complexity
One step at a time with the direction in mind! Find out more about the characteristics of #systems #leadership
During a 4SD Webinar on Comfort in Complexity, participants explored how working in this way can be valuable and what it really feels like. This process was captured in a Learning Review (PDF).
Feeling Systems
All human systems are #LivingSystems; when we engage with them, we recognise how generative they are. Ideas & capacities grow, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, sometimes predictably, often not.
Seeing into Systems
The ability to see into multiple systems creates opportunities for leading change that is substantial and significant.
Commencement 2019 at CUNY SPH
On 4 June 2019, during Commencement 2019, David Nabarro, Strategic Director of 4SD, received an Honorary Doctorate from The City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.
During his keynote address (starting in minute 36), Dr Nabarro spoke about his motivation to become an International Civil Servant and the lessons he learned throughout his career.
Systems Leadership for Sustainable Development
Taking action on complex challenges such as the implementation of the 2030 Agenda requires a departure from traditional top-down, hierarchical and linear approaches. through systems change. A report, co-authored by Lisa Dreier, David Nabarro and Jane Nelson suggests using innovative and adaptive approaches to engage broad networks of diverse stakeholders.
Inter-disciplinary science for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
At the launch of the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK’IT) on 7 March 2019, David Nabarro and Louise Fresco, President of Wageningen University & Research, spoke on how to work across disciplines to shift systems so they work better for people and the planet.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: What it means for all of us
On 20 November 2018, David Nabarro, Strategic Director of 4SD and Professor of Global Health at Imperial College, London, held the 2018 Annual Lecture of the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI).
News
Imperial College London: Dr David Nabarro appointed as IGHI co-director
Dr Nabarro will join Professor the Lord Ara Darzi in leading the Institute. Together, they will advance the Institute towards its vision of reduced inequalities...
UN News: Nutrition, ecosystems and livelihoods at risk, despite age of plenty
The way we produce food today is damaging ecosystems around the world and threatening biodiversity, despite being more abundant and of better quality than ever ...
CUNY Press Release: Dr. David Nabarro to deliver keynote address at Commencement 2019
Dr. David Nabarro, Strategic Director of 4SD, will deliver the keynote address at The City University New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Polic...
Lawrence Haddad of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and David Nabarro of 4SD were awarded the 2018 World Food Prize.
Watch the video of the Laureate Award Ceremony
The Telegraph: Malnutrition is a staggering global burden – we must give new meaning to the food we eat
Op-Ed by Lawrence Haddad of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and and David Nabarro of 4SD
Sustainable Development Depends on Better Nutrition for All Nations
Read the Op-Ed by Lawrence Haddad of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and and David Nabarro of 4SD.
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4SD on Twitter
#DYK that there are 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 years, accounting for 16% of the global population?
Their active engagement and development of skills is central to delivering on the #2030Agenda and achieving the #SDGs by 2030: https://t.co/jJEwEuV7TC #WYSD #WYSD2019
