SDG Target Interactions: The Philippine Analysis of Indivisible and Cancelling Targets
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Arian Allenson M. Valdez, Roselle Leah K. Rivera

TL;DR
This study models SDG target interactions as a graph, analyzing positive, neutral, and negative relationships through expert evaluation, to inform sustainable development planning and conflict mitigation.
Contribution
It introduces a novel graph-based framework for analyzing SDG target interactions using expert assessments and a web application for visualization.
Findings
Over 97% of interactions are positive or neutral.
Negative interactions are rare, with only 2.86% being cancelling.
The 'graph of beautiful targets' highlights targets suitable for simultaneous work.
Abstract
The United Nations developed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with 169 targets, to serve as a plan for solving the world's problems and achieving a more sustainable future. This is modeled as a graph with the targets as nodes, and with the interaction between targets as the edges of the graph. An exhaustive binary comparison is done to analyze the intra- and inter-goal target interactions, entailing over 14000 comparisons. The task is to assign a 'color' to an edge: positive (indivisible), zero (consistent) or negative (cancelling). This is done via a panel of experts who will evaluate the target interactions, through a web application that was developed for coloring the edges. This is an on-going study, and so far, of the 1256 edges colored, only 36 are cancelling (negative), or 2.86%; more than 97% are positive interactions. So far, the "most negative" interactions…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCoastal and Marine Management · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · International Development and Aid
