On 22nd March, 2024, the UN Global Compact Network Ghana hosted its first camp for the SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals. This took place at Tomreik Hotel, East Legon.
The SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals camp focuses on young professionals from diverse business units which aims to mainstream SDG innovation, leverage the program participants – and future business leaders and decisionmakers – to become advocates and working practitioners of SDG innovation and to spread this practice across their companies at all levels.
Our first camp was the Challenge Identification Innovation Camp. Our Innovators from Consolidated Bank Ghana, Ecobank Ghana PLC, Ghana Manganese Company Ltd., Blay & Associates and Innova DDB Ghana shared their personal sustainability journey allowing themselves to better understand each other and know which of the Sustainable Development Goals they were more aligned to.
The objectives of this first camp were to enable the Innovators to understand and assess what the SDGs mean to their businesses and to discover the associated risks and opportunities. The objectives were met through individual activities and group works. The innovators had the opportunity to share their responses with the rest of the cohort during the plenary sessions.