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Layers of Politics and Power Struggles in the SDG Indicators Process
Author(s) -
Kapto Serge
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12630
Subject(s) - negotiation , politics , sustainable development , process (computing) , power (physics) , political science , political process , process management , business , economic system , economics , computer science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
The process of designing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was intensely political, as it can be expected of United Nations negotiations of that magnitude. Inevitably, those politics have spilled over into the technical process of formulating global indicators to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals. This commentary explores some of the tensions between competing priorities and various constituencies that affect the design of the global SDG indicator framework.