Facilitator's welcome message, 26 April 2021

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Day 1 of 2030 Compass CoLab, which seeks to elicit insights from you about the synergies and trade-offs between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

I will be the facilitator guiding you through this journey. A few times per week, I will send emails that will offer brief summaries of the inputs so far, highlight key themes and questions arising, and address any elements of the process that require clarification. Overall, my goal is to ensure you feel able and encouraged to contribute to the process.

By now, you should have received an email from admin@2030compasscolab.org with a link to log into the site. More details on the log in process are included below. Once you have logged in, you will be able to submit your ideas.

During the first week of the exercise, we invite you to submit your perspective on synergies and trade-offs between SDGs within your area of primary expertise.

In weeks 2 and 3, we will invite you to submit in areas adjacent to your field of expertise and to comment on the submissions of others.

More details on how to prepare a submission are also included below.

We also invite you to visit the About page https://www.2030compasscolab.org/page/about, which gives more information on the project and two key concepts behind it:

interaction score, a metric for gauging the level of synergy vs. tradeoff between a pair of SDGs; and
factor, a characteristic of a nation or region that has the potential to influence the nature of the interaction between a pair of SDGs.

Also useful is Resources on Factors, https://www.2030compasscolab.org/page/ResourcesFactors, which lays out the characteristics of countries in the top and bottom quarter on 18 key factors identified in our team’s prior research.

Thank you for participating in this exercise. It should be a fun week! We hope you will enjoy engaging with wide range experts from all around the world involved in this effort.

Please email me anytime with questions.

Best wishes,
Sara

Logging into 2030 Compass CoLab site
Earlier today, each of you should have received an invitation email fromadmin@2030compasscolab.org with a unique login link (URL).

If you did not receive such an email, you might want to check your spam folder, as past participants have found such messages sometimes have been directed there.

When you click on the unique link in your email, it will open a web page. On that page, there will be a Log in button. When you click on that button, you will have access to the 2030 Compass CoLab site.

After you’ve clicked on your unique link the first time, your browser will remember you for the duration of the exercise and log you in automatically whenever you go to https://www.2030compasscolab.org

Your log in link is tied to the device and browser you use. If you would like to use more than one device (for example laptop plus tablet), you will need to click this link separately for each one.

We have already uploaded a short biography and photo for each of you onto the 2030 Compass CoLab website. Feel free to edit or update your profile if you like. To do so, click on your name at the top right-hand corner of any page and choose My profile. Then click on “Manage my profile and settings” and make any edits you would like and click on Save.

Submitting your ideas
To submit an idea, go to the Participate tab. The default view shows a list of all 17 SDGs. If you would like to view the SDG pairs laid out in a 17x17 array, you can click on matrix view.

In the list view, you can submit an idea by clicking on one of the SDGs and then clicking on the Contribute button, which will open a web form.

In the matrix view, you can click on a cell in the matrix, and the same web form will open; in this case, the pair of SDGs associated with that cell will already be filled in on the form.

In the form, you will be invited to complete the following fields.

Summary (280 characters). This is what other participants will see when they browse the web site, so you will want to use it to express the essential idea behind your submission.
Which SDG interaction is being assessed, e.g. if a country or region makes progress on SDG X, what will be the likelihood of making progress on SDG Y?

Which factor (e.g., gross national income, governance effectiveness, fresh water supply, other) is your submission addressing.
Interaction score on a scale from -3 (highly conflicting) to +3 (highly complementary) for countries that are at three varying levels for the chosen factor:
- high (top quarter of countries),
- medium (middle two quarters),
- low (bottom quarter).

Brief description of the mechanisms by which the factor under consideration, and variations in its level, can be expected to influence the interaction between the chosen pair of SDGs.

Once you have completed the form, hit the Save button and it will appear on the site. You may want to hit Save soon after you start to avoid losing work. You can always edit after saving.

We have pre-seeded the platform with examples to give you a sense of the kind of contributions we are seeking.

Economic and social factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Per capital income	$15,000 and higher (20 percent above World Bank threshold for high income countries)	$4,000 and lower (World Bank's lower-middle and low income countries)
Level of urbanization	More than three-quarters of people live in urban areas	Less than two-fifths of people live in urban areas
Gender equity	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are equal to or higher than men's and parliamentary representation is nearly equal	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are half or less than men's and parliamentary representation is one-tenth or less

Physical infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Energy access	Everyone has access to electricity and clean cooking fuels	Less than three-quarters of people have access to electricity and less than one-quarter have access to clean cooking fuels
Water/Sanitation	Everyone has access to clean water and safely managed sanitation	Less than two-thirds of people have access to clean water and less than half have access to safely managed sanitation
Transportation	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads never rated low or very low quality by logistics experts	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads rated low or very low quality by logistics experts half the time or more
Information & communication technologies	Everyone has a mobile subscription and three-quarters of people or more can access the Internet	Less than three-quarters of people have mobile subscriptions and less than one quarter can access the Internet

Human infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Governance	In top quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption	In bottom quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption
Social protection policy	Spend more than 15 percent of GDP on social protection	Spend less than 4 percent of GDP on social protection
Participation in global economy and institutions	In top quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization	In bottom quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization
Education	Everyone attends secondary school and more than two thirds obrtain post-secondary education	Less than two-thirds of peopleattend secondary school and less than one-fifth obtain post-secondary education

Environmental factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Environmental health and ecosystem viability	Top quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats	Bottom quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats
Material footprint	Per capita material footprint is 21 metric tons or greater	Per capita material footprint is 3.5 metric tons or less