IAAI GloChaA Good Life For All
Helping people and communities take action on global challenges and make their impact visible and recognised.
Youth climate action flashmob, COP22 Marrakech
GloCha: Global Challenges Action
GloCha, the Global Challenges Action Partnership, is a global multi-stakeholder partnership that connects governments, the UN system, universities, youth and community organisations, philanthropies, impact investors, technology actors, sports organisations and storytellers to turn global goals and challenges into meaningful action for the common good.
GloCha builds the partnerships, narratives, digital infrastructure and resource mobilisation mechanisms needed to connect local action with global problem solving and to enable people and institutions everywhere to contribute to a healthier, more peaceful and sustainable future.
GloCha operates through complementary institutional vehicles, including the International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges (IAAI), a UN accredited non-profit organisation, and the GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc., which provides an institutional and partnership platform for advancing GloCha initiatives internationally.
Two flagship initiatives define our strategic direction
GoodLifeForAll
GloCha's grand narrative and action framework for global mass mobilisation for the common good. It seeks to inspire and empower everyone, everywhere to identify challenges, define contributions, learn and act with others, document progress and connect their action to wider systems of support.
DPI Resource Mobilisation & Governance Innovation
Building the trusted digital and institutional infrastructure that can make such mass participation possible at scale. GloCha develops innovative models for financing, governing and deploying Digital Public Infrastructure, including the Global Challenges Action ID and Registry and other DPI partnerships, while creating transparent pipelines connecting research, implementation and resource mobilisation.
Together they form a complementary strategy: GoodLifeForAll mobilises people and institutions around a shared vision for the common good, while Digital Public Infrastructure provides the trusted enabling ecosystem through which action, collaboration, recognition, resources and impact can be connected and scaled.
Good action exists. But it struggles to grow.
Local action is essential, but the people and communities creating it often lack the connections, support and trust needed to take it further.
Every day, people, communities and organisations take action on the challenges that matter to them. But too often, their work remains hard to find, difficult to connect and underfunded.
Information is scattered, making it difficult to discover what is already happening and who is behind it. Good work can struggle to attract the people, partnerships and funding needed to grow. And as AI makes convincing content easier to create, knowing what action is real and what impact can be trusted is becoming harder.
- of global goals need local action
- 65%of global goals need local action
- say funding is the biggest barrier
- 64%say funding is the biggest barrier
- misinformation is the top short term risk
- #1misinformation is the top short term risk
Three forces, one outcome
GloCha brings people, culture and technology together to make good action visible, trusted and easier to grow.
Culture
Art, sport and storytelling that make climate action something people want to belong to.
Technology
Open infrastructure for identity, registries and verification, so action becomes provable.
Social innovation
Co-creation with cities, universities and youth so the tools are actually used.
Healthy people, communities, planet
A global youth mobilisation that turns distant goals into something a person can do where they live, and have it count. Local action, recorded and verified, adding up to a picture the world can actually see.
Healthy people
Physical and mental wellbeing, active living, and the confidence that comes from doing something that visibly matters.
Healthy communities
Stronger local ties, young people leading in their own neighbourhoods, and support that outlasts the campaign that started it.
Healthy planet
Climate and environmental action taken locally, measured properly, and recognised internationally.
- 2026
Pilot
The tools go into real use with universities, youth networks and city partners, and get rebuilt around what those partners actually need.
- 2027
Rollout
Partner organisations run the campaign across their own networks, issuing IDs and certifying action themselves.
- 2028
The milestone
The Los Angeles Games as the moment the movement builds towards, inspired by the Olympic movement.
Co-creating effective multi-stakeholder action coordination and incentivisation ecosystems in partnership with the United Nations
Numbers GloCha can point at. Each card links to the work behind it.
On the ground since 2014
New York · 2014People's Climate March 
COP21 · Paris · 2015Youth delegation at the climate conference 
COP22 · Marrakech · 2016Youth climate action flashmob 
COP22 · Marrakech · 2016Panel discussion 
COP24 · Katowice · 2018Press conference with ECOS 
COP26 · Glasgow · 2021Climate Chain Coalition press conference 
COP27 · Sharm el-Sheikh · 2022Digital Innovation & DigitalArt4Climate Pavilion 
COP27 · Sharm el-Sheikh · 2022UNFCCC press conference 
COP29 · Baku · 2024Side event session 
COP30 · Belém · 2025GloCha delegation
The infrastructure that enables trusted action
GloCha develops digital public infrastructure with partners, creating shared tools and foundations that organisations can use and build on.
Designed to work across borders and sectors, the infrastructure helps young people, cities, NGOs, universities and communities contribute to a common system while keeping ownership of their own work.
We work through partnership
UN bodies, governments, cities, universities, NGOs and technology partners.
Partners & stakeholders
Organisations and institutions working with GloCha toward verified climate action.
ECOS
Climate Chain Coalition
UNOOSA
International Organization of Youth
Rotary Climate Action Club
Climate KIC
SDSN Global Climate Hub
Long Beach City College
World Hikari Project
Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the UN
UN-Habitat
DigitalArt4Climate- ECOS
- Climate Chain Coalition
- UNOOSA
- International Organization of Youth
- Rotary Climate Action Club
- Climate KIC
- SDSN Global Climate Hub
- Long Beach City College
- World Hikari Project
- Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the UN
- UN-Habitat
- DigitalArt4Climate
- ECOS
- Climate Chain Coalition
- UNOOSA
- International Organization of Youth
- Rotary Climate Action Club
- Climate KIC
- SDSN Global Climate Hub
- Long Beach City College
- World Hikari Project
- Permanent Mission of The Bahamas to the UN
- UN-Habitat
- DigitalArt4Climate
News & events
Side events, launches and field reports from the GloCha network.
July 21, 2026
Call for Expressions of Interest for GloCha GoodLifeForAll CoCreationLab 2026 Participation
Building the GoodLifeForAll Movement – Together Empowering local action for global challenges through digital public infrastructure, knowledge, culture and creativity 8–15 August 2026 | Bleiburg / Pliberk, Austria The GloCha GoodLifeForAll CoCreationLab 2026 is an international working lab where committed partners come together to co-create practical solutions, tools and programs for the upcoming GoodLifeForAll Campaign, an …
May 28, 2026
IAAI Side Event to the UN CCPCJ35: Digital Public Infrastructure for Citizens Engagement in the Prevention of Crimes Affecting the Environment
EPLO(European Public Law Organization & IAAI_GloCha Side Event to the 35th Session of the Un Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice #35CCPCJ Digital Public Infrastructure for People-centred, Inclusive and Responsive Justice Systems Thursday 4th of June 2026, 10-11 AM CEST Conf. Room M5, Vienna International Centre, Austria & on zoom (link) In partnership with …
Join the movement
Whether you run a city, a university, an NGO or a classroom, there's a way in.
Become a partner
Organisations, cities, universities and NGOs.
Join an initiative
Culture, technology or social innovation.
Support the work
Fund the open infrastructure behind verified action.