The research program on ‘SDG Interactions and Policy Interventions in Developing Countries’ aims to explore the interdependencies between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their influence on policy interventions. It seeks to provide insights into the positive and negative interactions among SDGs and their impact on achieving the SDGs worldwide.
The program focuses on three main themes:
- Governance and decision-making processes related to SDGs in developing countries, aiming to enhance policy coherence.
- The effect women’s empowerment has on food security, dietary diversity, and women’s BMI.
- The relationship between climate change and security risks, analyzing when and how climate change acts as a threat multiplier for conflict and instability.
The Broker, in collaboration with Dr. Nicky Pouw (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana), will carry out a ‘Knowledge Brokering and Synthesis’ project aiming to synthesize and disseminate the research results to policymakers, development workers, academics, and other stakeholders. The project emphasizes transdisciplinary collaboration, building bridges between various knowledge fields and encouraging closer collaboration and two-way knowledge exchange throughout the project; all with the aim to develop innovative solutions to optimize SDG-interactions for inclusive development.
Factsheets
Governing Global Goals: Uniting knowledge and perspectives on the SDGs for inclusive development.
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Improving food and nutrition security by enhancing women’s empowerment
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From Climate Change to Conflict: Mitigation Through Insurance?
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Beyond cherry-picking: aligning development actors and efforts for inclusive and effective governance of trade-offs and synergies between SDGs in East Africa.
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Literature review
The Broker produced a literature review to provide insights into the current state of knowledge on interactions between the SDGs of focus of the three research projects. The review discusses the synergies and trade-offs among the SDGs of interest, empirically identified in existing academic literature. You can download it by clicking on the cover.
Latest News and Articles
SDG Interactions: Building the capacity for knowledge valorisation
Given the importance of knowledge valorisation for junior researchers, our brokers, Dr. Agnieszka Kazimierczuk and Sasha Al Busaidy, conducted a training session on stakeholder mapping
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In 2022, Sasha joined our team of knowledge brokers. She completed a bachelor’s at University College Utrecht focusing on Economics, Psychology, and International Development and
Towards transformative change: polycentric governance as a way to achieve the SDGs more inclusively
In February, Prof. Dr Art Dewulf and Dr Daniel Wiegant of Wageningen University (WUR) organised a three-day project meeting to kick off the four-year research project on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) governance and decision-making in East Africa
Multistakeholder meeting on SDG Interactions and Policy Interventions in Developing Countries
On October 21st, 2022, The Broker and its partners in the NWO-funded research programme on SDG Interactions and Policy Interventions in Developing Countries organised a
Examining the Literature on SDG Interactions
We are exactly halfway between the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in 2015, and the target year set for achieving them, in 2030.
On a road to understanding SDG interactions
The Broker is starting a 5 years knowledge brokering and synthesis (KBS) project within NWO’s SDG Interactions research programme, in collaboration with Dr. Nicky Pouw (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana)
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This research programme aims to encourage research focusing on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) interactions and policy interventions in developing countries. The consortia will work in an inter- and transdisciplinary manner, internationally and across the entire knowledge chain.
“Beyond cherry-picking”: aligning development actors and efforts for inclusive and effective governance of trade-offs and synergies between SDGs in East Africa.