Schedule

2030 Compass CoLab will elicit input from a group of invited experts to gain insights into synergies and trade-offs between the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The exercise is slated to begin in April 2021 and will consist of three one-week long phases. The workings of each phase are laid out below.

Week 1: April 26-May 2

Participants will be invited to contribute their ideas about interactions between SDGs; in particular, they be asked for their judgment about how characteristics of countries or regions, called factors (such as level of development, governance practice, material footprint, or natural resource endowment) can be expected to influence these interactions.

They submission form will ask participants to provide the following information:

Which SDG interaction is being assessed (e.g. impact of success in acheiving SDG 3 on likelihood of acheiving SDG 12).
Which factor (e.g. gross national income, governance effectiveness, fresh water supply, etc.) is being addressed.
Interaction score on a scale from -3 (highly conflicting) to +3 (highly complemetary) for countries/regions that are at three varying levels on that factor: high (top quartile), medium (median), and low (bottom quartile). See Figure 1 below for a table that provides details on the -3 to +3 rating scale.
Brief description of how the factor under consideration, and variations in its level, can be expected to influence the interaction between the chosen pair of SDGs.

During the first week, participants will be invited to make contributions within their area of primary expertise.

Week 2: May 3-May 9

During the second week of the exercise, partcipants will be invited to make the same kinds of contributions as during Week 1, except they will be invited to venture outsdie of their area of close expertise and submit ideas in realms where they have some knowledge but are not their primary specialty.

Week 3: May 10-May 16

Participants will be invited to comment on and support ides submited by others they find interesting. Supporting is akin to liking on Facebook.

In addition, if submissions by others spur new thinking, participants will be invited to make new contributions.

The organizing team will also invite participants to fill in gaps where submissions during the first two weeks have been relatively sparse.

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