SDGs // Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Development Goals Planning: The Case of Goal 6 on Water and Sanitation
This publication highlights how the systems thinking approach applied by ESCAP complements tools created by experts as the most comprehensive method to develop strategies and plans for the integrated and holistic implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. This short overview of the analytical framework developed by ESCAP describes how the many interlinkages and relationships were analysed (in three selected country case studies) using the systems thinking approach of causal loop interactions combined with the theory of leverage points to identify effective and impactful interventions at the policy level.
This comprehensive methodology developed will assist policymakers in:
- reviewing existing institutional architecture and mandates to determine their relationship with the 17 SDGs;
- assessing the impacts of policies and identifying effective policy interventions (leverage points) for impactful investment and use of scarce resources; and
- stakeholder mapping and engagement in collectively developing the aspirational qualitative vision for societal change.
The systems thinking approach applied beyond the integration of SDG 6 on water and sanitation has proven particularly conducive to strengthening and enhancing the capacity of policymakers for adaptive governance to better address the complex challenges of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. ESCAP will continue to provide technical and advisory services, tools and methodologies to policymakers in the region to build up their capacity for the integrated implementation of the three dimensions of sustainable development.
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Published
2017
By
UNESCAP
Environment and Development Division