17 Rooms

A partnership between the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings and The Rockefeller Foundation, 17 Rooms is an experimental method for advancing the economic, social, and environmental priorities embedded in the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Gogo

Essay

We’re going to need a bigger room: Growing the 17 Rooms community for SDG action

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Friday, May 20, 2022

17 Rooms: Forging new paths to action

Sustainable Development Goals

17 Rooms: Forging new paths to action

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Collaboration

Podcast Episode

What we learned about 17 Rooms and growing the community

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Illustration, women of different faiths

Podcast Episode

Positive influence of faith for gender equality

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jean Duff, and Blessing Omakwu

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Research

Coming together cover

Essay

Coming together: Forging new paths to action for the Sustainable Development Goals

John W. McArthur, Zia Khan, and Jacob Taylor

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Cover of the 2020 17 Rooms annual report

Report

17 Rooms: A new approach to spurring action for the Sustainable Development Goals

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Cover of the Great Transitions report

Report

Great Transitions: Doubling down on the Sustainable Development Goals

Monday, November 30, 2020

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Experts

John W. McArthur

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@mcarthur

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Residents are seen in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 7, 2021. Picture taken January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Podcast Episode

Valuing local knowledge and solutions for SDG progress

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jamie Drummond, and Kennedy Odede

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Indian teacher and students wearing protective face mask attend their class at a government girls school after the Rajasthan government allowed schools to reopen for VIth to VIIIth classes in Beawar. (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reimagining teaching and learning spaces

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

On March 11, 2021 a coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan to call on the Biden administration to push pharmaceutical companies to commit to equitable global gaccine distribution and help end the pandemic everywhere by supporting the waiver of the World Trade Organizations monopoly protections for Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool and to ensure an equitable vaccine distribution throughout the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reducing inequality has no easy answers

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Martín Abregú, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Tuesday, January 18, 2022