Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Development Goals Planning

The Case of Sustainable Development Goal 6 on Water and Sanitation

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

• Editorial: United Nations
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9789210609234
• Categoría: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Categoría: Organizaciones intergubernamentales

This publication provides an overview of methods available to describe, understand and measure interlinkages between the SDGs and options for their application. Further it highlights how systems thinking approach applied by ESCAP complimented tools by earlier scholars, as the most comprehensive method to develop strategies and plans for integrated and holistic implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs. The short overview of the analytical framework developed by ESCAP describes how interlinkages were analysed using systems' thinking approach of causal loop interactions combined with the theory of leverage points to identify effective and impactful interventions at the policy level. The framework was developed with SDG 6 at the core, since implementation of SDG6 naturally requires the use of systems thinking approach to enhance planning of water use or the anthropogenic water cycle to support and restore natural water cycle balance to ensure sustainable water availability for human, industrial and natural ecosystems. Examples of pilot applications in Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Fiji are provided, as well as applications beyond SDG 6 and how the framework could be further used to support member states in Asia-Pacific to implement 203 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the SDGs.

Índice

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Executive summary
• 1: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals as one indivisible system
• 2: A selective review of methodologies and tools for integrated approaches to implementation of the SDGs
• 3: Analytical framework for integration of the SDG 6 targets with other SDGs using systems thinking approach
• 4: Going beyond SDG 6: The systems thinking approach for planning and implementing for the 2030 Agenda
• 5: The way forward
• References