Facilitator's message, April 30

Hi everyone,

We are now close to the end of Week 1 of 2030 Compass CoLab – Exploring synergies and trade-offs between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Many thanks to those of you who have made contributions during this week. We now have close to 100 assessments of the synergies and trade-offs between SDGs, and we are looking forward to seeing more contributions over the weekend.

We noticed that several contributions have assessed the interactions between SDGs highly complementary (+3) for all three levels (high, medium, and low) for the chosen factor. We appreciate that in many cases, the interactions between SDGs are strong and highly reinforcing regardless of different contextual factors and characteristics.

In this exercise, however, we are most interested in identifying situations where there is a difference between the scores for countries that are at varying levels for a given factor. Therefore, we would like to ask you to think about how your chosen factor may influence the interaction between SDGs and try to capture this influence by providing different interactions scores for countries that are at high, medium, and low levels for the factor you selected.

We encourage you to visit the About 2030 Compass CoLab and Resources on factors pages for more details on how we have defined factors. The Resources page also explains what defines the top and bottom quarter of countries for all 18 factors, and those values may help to spur your thinking.

If you have made a contribution that has the same score for all three values, we invite you revisit it. You can make changes by selecting the Edit button.

For those who have not yet contributed, it shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes to evaluate one SDG interaction. And as noted before, this week we hope you can focus on interactions that are most closely connected to your area of expertise.

Next week, we will invite you to submit SDG interactions in areas adjacent to your field of expertise and also to comment on the submissions of others.

If you have questions, comments, or issues please get in touch.

Best wishes,

Sara

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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