Science-based tools and analytics for SDG pathways, policies and financing
Long-term investment plans are essential for national success in meeting the SDGs. SDSN has recommended six inter-related long-term transformations:
Each of these challenges require large-scale public and private investments to mid-century. Each requires a technological transformation. Each requires a financing strategy to underpin the investment plans.
The SDG Transformation Center provides science-based tools and analytics to support the implementation of these Six Transformations. It is also a platform for learning and exchange. It builds on SDSN’s global network of researchers and scientists and a decade of work led by the SDSN on SDG data, analytics, and pathways.
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Good data and clear metrics are critical for each country to take stock of where it stands, devise pathways for achieving the goals and track progress.
The SDG Transformation Center produces SDSN's annual flagship Sustainable Development Report (SDR), which includes the SDG Index and Dashboards. Every year, this report provides the most comprehensive assessment of the performance of all 193 UN Member States on the 17 SDGs. Governments and civil society alike use the SDR to identify priorities for action, understand key implementation challenges, track progress, ensure accountability, and identify gaps that must be closed in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and beyond.
The Sustainable Development Report is consulted online more than 300,000 times annually by governments, researchers, investors, policymakers and consulting firms. SDSN's Index methodology was audited by the EU's Joint Research Commission in July 2019 and peer-reviewed by Nature Geoscience and Cambridge University Press.
The SDGs are largely an investment agenda into physical infrastructure and human capital. They also require long-term planning and commitment. Many developing countries face major fiscal space constraints which represent significant barriers to achieving the SDGs. The Center aims to complement international efforts to scale-up sustainable development finance through thematic analyses and bilateral partnerships for long-term budget frameworks and pathways.
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Time lags in international statistics mean that outcomes-based assessments like the SDG Index often provide a snapshot of SDG performance as of two or three years ago. By tracking policy commitments, ambitions and actions we can provide timelier, more accurate evaluations of government efforts on the SDGs. SDSN develops conceptual and practical tools to track SDG policies.
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International spillover effects are the positive or negative externalities generated by the actions of one country on another – including on its ability to achieve the SDGs. The SDG Transformation Center studies and measures these international spillover effects so countries can develop policy solutions to address them.
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Geospatial data, tools and analytics provide useful, timely and granular information for targeted SDG action. Thanks in part to a partnership with Esri, the SDG Transformation Center develops new geospatial indicators and analysis to support evidence-based SDG pathways and policies for cities, regions and national governments.
Explore our work on Geospatial Tools.
The Esri ArcGIS powered interactive maps showcase the performance of countries on each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Visualize countries' current performance or visualize trends to see which countries are on track.
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SDSN mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for sustainable development, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.
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