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BLUEPRINT EMPOWERING CANADIANS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Elaine Ho NOVEMBER 2018 Jeremy Runnalls Co-authors Board of Directors Elaine Ho, Jeremy Runnalls Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur (Chair) Editors President and Vice-Chancellor, Hayley Rutherford, Julie Wright University of Waterloo Neil Turok (Vice-Chair) Generation SDG Summit Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Facilitator Dan Normandeau Dr. Arthur Carty (Secretary & Treasurer) Strategic Advisor Dr. Tom Brzustowski Margaret Biggs Michael Duschenes Lead Writer Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Jeremy Runnalls Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Lead Rapporteur Staff Elaine Ho Dana Bowman Rapporteurs Operations & Events Manager Sara Ganowski, Chloé St. Amand, Dale Ross Kate Pearce Events Volunteer Community Relations Manager Karen Cecile Hayley Rutherford Working with Indigenous Peoples Research & Programming Manager Session Facilitator Suzanne Methot Julie Wright Executive Director Waterloo Global Science Initiative CC Creative Commons License Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 has been catalyzing collective action since International (CC BY-NC 4.0) 2009. The conversations we host bring people with diverse viewpoints together, Licensees may copy, redistribute and make prompting multi-disciplinary, inclusive derivative works of this material in any collaboration to address sustainable medium or format for only non-commercial development challenges. By combining the purposes and where the source, Waterloo results of these cross-cutting conversations Global Science Initiative, is attributed. with the science and technology of today, Cover Photo Credits (front, back): our network takes answers from paper CC 2.0 VV Nincic http://bit.ly/2FW6RaN to the real world, addressing the UN’s CC 2.0 Ade Halford http://bit.ly/2HAVguS Sustainable Development Goals in sectors such as energy, education, and beyond. Design WGSI proudly takes a generational outlook Intent to problem solving. forgoodintent.com Table of contents 4 Acknowledgements 6 About Waterloo Global Science Initiative 7 Foreword 8 Executive summary 11 Introduction 11 Background 11 A community-led strategy for SDG implementation across Canada 14 Community ecosystems and planning 15 Ensuring equity 19 Addressing the democratic deficit within Canada 21 Community planning using the SDGs 25 Partnerships 26 Determining intent 28 Building the partnership 30 Setting goals 30 Enabling conditions 31 Information sharing and education 36 SDG partnership outcomes 37 Accountability 38 Transparency and data 40 Communication and the media 44 Policy coherence and community engagement 44 Changes in the constitutional status of municipalities and Indigenous authorities 45 Responsive funding and alignment with local priorities 46 Mutual accountability 49 Innovation, funding and finance 50 Applying capital 59 Stimulating innovation 59 Barriers, gaps, and principles for successful innovation 62 Call to collaborate 63 Appendix A: Partnership resources 64 Generation SDG Summit contributors 79 Generation SDG Summit team Generation SDG BLUEPRINT 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WGSI wishes to thank the following people for their invaluable contributions to the Generation SDG Summit (April 22–25, 2018 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) and this Blueprint: Taiwo Afolabi Te Chen PhD Candidate, University of Victoria Program Officer, Vanke Foundation John Joseph Alho Amelia Clarke President, Net Zero Decathalon Team, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Research and the University of Calgary Director of Master of Environment & Business (MEB) Program, University of Waterloo Nalini Andrade Manager, International Development Institute, Rumina Dhalla Humber College Associate Professor and CSR Coordinator, University of Guelph Jon Beale Alia Dharssi Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Freelance Journalist Network Canada Liliana Diaz Brielle Beaudin-Reimer Training and Research Coordinator, Université Laval Policy Analyst, Manitoba Metis Federation MacKenzie Downing JP Bervoets Research Analyst, Department of Tourism and Culture, Vice President, Community Foundations of Canada Government of Yukon Margaret Biggs Co-chair, Nothern Council for Global Cooperation Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy School Dolapo Fadare of Policy Studies and Department of Political Studies, Fellow, Cansbridge Fellowship Queen’s University Chairperson, International Development Karen Farbridge Research Centre (IDRC) President and Urban Connector, Karen Farbridge & Associates Terralynn Forsyth Amy Brierley Researcher and Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Coordinator, Martha Justice Ministry Development Canada Artemis Caine Research Lead, Audacious Futures MSc Student, University of Edinburgh Sophie Gallais Karen Cecile Communications Officer, Institut EDS, Université Laval Events Volunteer, Generation SDG Sara Ganowski Rapporteur, Generation SDG 4 Generation SDG BLUEPRINT Acknowledgements Kimberly Gibbons Fraser Reilly-King Executive Director, Ontario Council for Research and Policy Manager, Canadian Council International Cooperation for International Co-operation Ana F. Gonzalez Guerrero Dale Ross Co-founder and Managing Director, Youth Climate Lab Rapporteur, Generation SDG Project Officer, Innovation Funds, Federation Jeremy Runnalls of Canadian Municipalities Lead Writer, Generation SDG Elaine Ho Communications Lead, Smart Prosperity Institute Lead Rapporteur, Generation SDG Laura Schnurr Principal, TRIECO Consulting Policy Analyst, McConnell Foundation Uytae Lee Michael Simpson Founder, PLANifax Executive Director, British Columbia Council Founder/Director, About Here for International Co-operation Rasheeda Slater Francis Marleau Donais Environmental Engineering Student, Dalhousie University PhD Candidate, Université Laval Dominique Souris Shelagh McCartney Co-founder and Executive Director, Youth Climate Lab Assistant Professor, Ryerson University Director, +city lab Chloé St. Amand Rapporteur, Generation SDG Director, +together design lab Wanda Sugarhead Heather McPherson Band Councillor, Eabametoong First Nation Executive Director, Alberta Council for Global Cooperation Kali Taylor Suzanne Methot Project Officer, International Institute for Indigenous Education Consultant, Dragonfly Consulting Sustainable Development Emily Mills Co-founder, Student Energy Founder, How She Hustles Tara Templin Ron Missewace Director of Innovation and Development, The Refugee Hub Housing Coordinator, Eabametoong First Nation Elizabeth Vickers-Drennan Gabrielle Morrill Science Educator, Science East Economic Development Officer, City of Iqaluit Danielle Wendehorst Sara Muir-Owen 4th Year Nursing Student, Aurora College UBC Project Manager, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions Kyle Wiebe Afnan Naeem Project Officer, International Institute for Recent Graduate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Sustainable Development University of Toronto Elora Wilkinson Robert Nolan Planner, Halifax Regional Municipality Chair, Happy City St. John’s Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu Dan Normandeau PhD Student, Lancaster University Facilitator, Generation SDG Partner, Conversart Claire Reid Director, Master’s in Development Practice: Indigenous Development, University of Winnipeg Generation SDG BLUEPRINT 5 ABOUT WATERLOO GLOBAL SCIENCE INITIATIVE Who we are What we do Waterloo Global Science Initiative WGSI creates the conditions for Our Blueprints support the (WGSI) has been catalyzing collective collective global action through four recommendations made at each action since 2009. Th e conversations main activities: convening Summits, Summit by collating relevant research we host bring people with diverse publishing Blueprints, supporting and case studies and by providing viewpoints together, prompting multi- partnerships and facilitating public a clear roadmap to implementation. disciplinary, inclusive collaboration discourse. WGSI’s cornerstone We also produce pre-Summit Briefs to address sustainable development conversations are our Summits, intended to set the stage for the Summit challenges. By combining the results hosted in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada conversation and Communiqués which of these cross-cutting conversations every two years. are released at each Summit closing to with the science and technology of summarize the vision of the contributors. Our Summits are not traditional today, our network takes answers from conferences. For each Summit we WGSI generates impact by entering paper to the real world, addressing bring together contributors that into and facilitating strategic the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable include the world’s sharpest leaders, partnerships which result in projects that Development Goals (SDGs) in sectors ideators and emerging minds to tackle align with Blueprint recommendations. such as energy, education and beyond. a particular challenge. Of this group Our collaborations weave lasting WGSI proudly takes a generational of approximately 40 people, half the networks that touch every level, from Photo credit: 2.0 CC Samantha Saechao http://bit.ly/2DukuIX outlook to problem solving. room is under the age of 30. We believe individuals to our local community WGSI sits at the intersection of two in the importance of creating a level to global media partnerships. global thought leaders: the University playing fi eld where people can think Th ese partnerships are even more of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute for outside the box. Th rough the space we impactful when fused with the potential Th eoretical Physics.