Facilitator's message, May 12

Hi everyone,

Thanks for being part of the 2030 Compass CoLab – exploring the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

We now have close to 400 contributions submitted by more than 80 active participants, and we would like to encourage them to keep up the good work and continue their contributions. If you have not made any contributions yet, please read others’ submissions and get inspiration to submit at least one contribution of your own.

Our biggest thanks goes to our top ten participants who have contributed 25 or more assessments, comments, and supports during the 2021 exercise:

Elizabeth Pollitzer
Rosiany Possati Campos
Ricardo Castro Nunes De Oliveira
Buket Altınçelep
Zia Shefaie
Stefan Cibian
Manuel Aguirre
Jonathan Dawes
Arnab Mandal
Ming-hsu Li

You can see a list of all participants, ranked by number of contributions, on the Community page.

In the remaining days of 2030 Compass CoLab, we encourage you to submit at least one contribution on SDG interactions that have three or fewer submissions. These interactions are highlighted in blue in the matrix view and shown with SDG icons at in the header of each SDG page when using the default view.

We are also seeking contributions that assess the following interactions:

Interaction from SDG 16 (starting point) to all other SDGs (target SDG)
Interactions from all SDGs (starting point) to SDG 16 (target SDG)
Interactions from all SDGs (starting point) to SDG 7 (target SDG)

We invite you to focus on SDG 16 because indicator data is sparse for it, so our quantitative analysis is less complete for this SDG than for others.

We have received fewer contributions than anticipated about the impact of progress on other SDGs on SDG 7, so we would be grateful for insights you can provide on those interactions.

You are also invited to review others’ contributions, support ones where you agree with the assessment, and comment on those you find interesting and/or challenging.

Please note that submissions for 2030 Compass CoLab will close at the end of this week, on Sunday May 16at 11:59 PM Eastern US time.

As always, please get in touch anytime if you have comments or questions.

Regards,
Sara

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