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2025 Sept 21: Announcements
Three announcements were made in the United Nations’ Goals Lounge on 21 September 2025 in anticipation of the UN General Assembly high-level week:
- a near doubling of the initial ESIC financial commitment, bringing us to US$126 million mobilized in little under a year
- five proposed foundational investments that directly address 16 of the 40 solutions proposed in the ESIC roadmap, and which indirectly address many more
- transitional arrangements will support governing, coordinating and funding ESIC for collective impact.
These announcements are summarized in an ESIC statement and in a UN press release. The Goals Lounge event was livestreamed and recorded. The two-minute video that kicked off the session, drawing on inspiring images from the Cape Town Consensus Meeting and summarizing the key announcements, can be viewed separately on YouTube.
Additional statements released in support of the Goals Lounge event include:
- Building a Global Evidence Synthesis Community (Campbell, Cochrane and JBI)
- ESIC-engaged equity-championing groups
- ESIC Planning-process Secretariat (call to action published in the Cochrane Library)
- Global SDG Synthesis Coalition
- Jacobs Foundation and its education partners
- UK Research and Innovation