RIL & The Sustainable Development Goals

We share the vision of building more sustainable and resilient communities.  

We apply the power of collaborative innovation, strategic partnership, and disruptive technologies to create long-term sustainable solutions to humanitarian challenges. We are passionate about the application of new ideas and new ways of working to increase the resilience of individuals and encourage self-generated solutions to protect populations from future conflicts, disasters, and emergencies.  

We encompass the aims of many of the SDG goals in our work based on key needs identified in the country - since each situation and context comes with different, and often unique, challenges. 

Innovative techniques and platforms are proving to be a key factor in humanitarian responses to ongoing regional conflicts, severe weather patterns, a changing climate, and forced migration. In a complex world, innovative action can deliver the creativity, strategy, and new models of working and co-creation to support people facing urgent humanitarian challenges. 

The Response Innovation Lab's current work is directly aligned with most of the Sustainable Development Goals.  Some examples include:  

GOAL 3: Good Health

RIL supported an international NGO in Amman, Jordan to create more effective and efficient solutions for sanitation with a projected impact of 40,000 healthier Syrian parents, children, and communities (lower rates of infections and diarrheal diseases). This also included a recycling component essential for promoting a healthier planet. 

GOAL 4: Quality Education

RIL supported the use of new education programs including English language learning, connection to fabrication labs, and appropriate online learning platforms to 15,000 refugees and their host communities. This is benefiting the educational opportunities and the ability to gain employment for vulnerable youth in Jordan. 

GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

RIL has been supporting the private sector, academic, NGO, and local entrepreneur groups to come together to discuss water access challenges in Somalia. They have mapped out over 100 local organizations that can support thinking and innovative action on challenging issues of water access and will implement a range of projects to trial different solutions for supporting populations with water access in Somalia.