Sustainable Development Goals

Colourful hillside homes under blue sky, Comuna 13, Medellín, Colombia

The application of soft systems thinking in SDG interaction studies: a comparison between SDG interactions at national and subnational levels in Colombia

Journal article / Most methods of evaluating progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) give only a limited view of their impacts. Researchers try a new approach.

28 September 2021 / About Sustainable Development Goals

Aerial view of terraced rice paddies, Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Indonesia

Investing in agricultural water management: Pathways to a sustainable future

Other publication / International financing institutions must learn from past mistakes in agricultural water investment and direct their money to key promising approaches.

1 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

An African woman fills a large metal tub in front of her above another African woman's head using a water hose

Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index

Journal article / A pilot study in Burkina Faso used the Empowerment in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Index (EWI), a survey-based index designed to measure agency and more.

12 September 2020 / About Participation, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

Stakeholders in Asutifi North district, Ghana, organizing brainstormed concepts related to empowerment and WASH

‘They will listen to women who speak but it ends there’: examining empowerment in the context of water and sanitation interventions in Ghana

Journal article / This study explores the meanings of women's empowerment in the WASH sector from the perspective of local stakeholders in the Asutifi North District, Ghana.

20 September 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

Women doing housework following successful cataract surgery, Burkina Faso

Women’s vulnerability to climate-related risks to household water security in Centre-East, Burkina Faso

Journal article / The findings show a need to consider how the development of 'climate resilient' water and sanitation services account for social drivers of vulnerability.

20 July 2020 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Wellbeing

Development and aid policy in 2022: needs, challenges and expectations

Feature / On 7 December 2021, SEI's Janet Vähämäki participated in the "Development assistance in a new era" seminar in Sweden. She shares her insights in this interview.

27 December 2021 / About Finance and Sustainable Development Goals

Aerial view of swimmer in waves, Malé, Maldives

Breakdown or breakthrough: currents and turning points in 2022

Perspective / SEI Currents 2022 taps the institute’s expertise and insights from eight offices on four continents to examine trends emerging in 2022 and beyond.

20 December 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Bioeconomy, Climate policy, Climate services, Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Innovation, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals, Transport, Water resources and Wellbeing

Aerial view of Bingham Copper Mine covered in snow, Utah, US, 2019

Is the world entering a commodities supercycle?

Perspective / Agricultural and mining commodities prices are at the forefront of economic trends that shape the global economy and affect the ability to reach climate goals.

20 December 2021 / About Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture and Sustainable Development Goals

SEI Currents 2022

Feature / The world is in transition. What trends are emerging in 2022?

20 December 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Bioeconomy, Climate policy, Climate services, Finance, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Geopolitics, Innovation, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals, Transport, Water resources and Wellbeing