Baguio SDG Accelerator Program

Mobilizing Universities to Accelerate Baguio City’s Sustainable Development Goals

What is the SDG Co-creation Partnership?

The Baguio University SDG Co-creation Partnerships is a city-wide collaboration between Baguio City Hall’s SIGLAT Program and the Center for Public Innovation of the Asian School of Governance. The initiative brings together Baguio’s higher education institutions, faculty, and students to co-design and implement innovative, community-rooted solutions to local challenges aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Through this partnership, interdisciplinary student teams—guided by faculty mentors—will engage Baguio City's 128 barangays, using globally respected tools including:

• Harvard’s Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

• Design Thinking for Social Innovation

• Student Impact Learning Methodologies

• Education Impact Teaching Fellowships for Interested Faculty

• On-campus Social Labs  for multi-year partnerships (optional)
  
  

Our Goals

1. Empower Students
   Equip students with real-world experience in community engagement, innovation, and public problem-solving.

2. Support Faculty Leadership
   Create opportunities for faculty to integrate applied research, civic learning, and mentoring into their academic work.

3. Strengthen City-University Collaboration to  Accelerate SDG gains
   Build a sustained, cross-sector ecosystem for SDG acceleration in Baguio through university-government-community partnerships.
   
   

Why It Matters

Baguio’s universities are hubs of talent, creativity, and commitment to public service. The SDG Co-creation Partnerships offer a platform to:

• Translate classroom learning into community impact

• Support barangay-level innovation and data-driven decision-making

• Align university mandates with Baguio’s long-term development goals

This is not just an activity—it’s a movement to localize the SDGs through the leadership of Baguio’s youth and academic institutions.

Upcoming Launch Meeting

Join the City and Fellow Universities to Co-Design the Initiative

🗓 Date: June 5, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Location: SIGLAT Office, Basement of Baguio Convention Center

This planning meeting will bring together university leaders, city officials, and community representatives to shape the structure, timeline, and shared commitments of the SDG Co-creation Partnerships.

Partners

• Baguio City Hall – SIGLAT Program

• Center for Public Innovation – Asian School of Governance

• Universities of Baguio City (invited: University of the Philippines Baguio, Saint Louis University, University of Baguio, Pines City Colleges, and more)
  
  

Get Involved

Whether you're a university leader, faculty member, student, or community champion, there's a place for you in this movement.

Strengthening the Innovation Ecosystem through Co-creation Labs

Host a Lab

The Co-Creation Labs at the Asian School of Governance are transformative platforms designed to address Asia's most pressing challenges through innovative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approaches. These labs serve as dynamic hubs for experimentation, bringing together diverse stakeholders—governments, private sector actors, academia, civil society, and communities—to co-create and test solutions to complex societal issues.

Guided by systems thinking and methodologies like Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), the Co-Creation Labs foster learning and collaboration. These labs empower stakeholders to pilot and scale solutions that address structural challenges, advance equity, and accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals across Asia and beyond.