Latin American Report on Philanthropy and Sustainable Communities: Localizing the SDGs
On August 2, 2023, planet Earth reached the point of overcapacity, which meant that the resources that could be generated for the year had been depleted, and from that day forward we have been consuming past the planet’s point of sustainability. Three months before, we came halfway in the road of the 2030 Agenda, and we are closer to the deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals than on the date we agreed to them, in September 2015.Disappointingly, not only are we not even close to fulfilling them, but we have even fallen back in some of them, partly due to the Covid19 pandemic, which unveiled the precarious development balance of many countries, especially in Latin America. While some governments in the region renovate their commitments to the 2030 Agenda, in other countries short-term political and economic tensions make it harder to reinforce efforts to achieve these goals.Within this context, the role of philanthropy as a convener actor, with capacity for innovation and multisectoral work, becomes enormously relevant. In this report, we seek to identify the manners in which Latin American philanthropic organizations relate to SDGs, whether from the viewpoint of contributors to the goals, third-party enablers, or catalysts for SDGs key work.
