The Call to Action 2016 was initiated by the United Nations, in collaboration with the Global Innovation Exchange, during the month of April 2016, to elicit concrete scientific and technological innovations to achieve the 17 SDGs and to showcase key examples of innovative solutions during the inaugural Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, that took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 6 and 7 June 2016.