17 GOALS TO TRANSFORM OUR WORLD
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection. (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/)
Spire aims to develop socially responsible leaders who will create positive change in their communities.
Spire’s programs are underpinned by the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM), where leadership is seen as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change. It follows the C.L.E.A.R. Leadership Framework by examining global challenges through the UN SDG's.
Inner Development Goals
The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) is a framework of skills and qualities that individuals and organizations need to develop in order to successfully work with complex societal issues, in particular those identified in UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The present version of the IDG framework can be used as a starting point for exploring both individual and collective skills and qualities and how organizations and institutions can support the necessary human growth for sustainable development. The IDGs initiative is still in its creation phase. The core activities have been gathering researchers and practitioners and organizing a number of discussions to process the responses from two surveys with 1,000+ respondents and using their expertise to develop a list of key
skills and qualities.