SDG Tool
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| Description: | Collaborators in Cambridge have launched a new tool designed to help conservation practitioners engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, within this framework, the wider human and societal benefits of their work. |
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| Created: | 2019-01-22 10:33 |
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| Collection: | UCCRI |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | University of Cambridge |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | conservation; sustainable development; Toolkit; Conservation campus; practice; |
| Abstract: | Collaborators at Cambridge have developed an online tool to help users find the SDG targets which are relevant to their own project, programme or other initiative. It is aimed at biodiversity-conservation initiatives but may also be useful to people working in other fields. |
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Transcript
Transcript:
One of the changes that has happened in conservation is that it is increasingly about more than just protecting nature. It is about delivering towards planetary wellbeing as well as human wellbeing. The sustainable development goals framework is helpful, because it allows conservation organisations to place their actions in this larger context. What conservation organisations now find challenging is trying to navigate the complexity of the SDGs, especially with the 169 targets which are not always visibly about conservation, but might indirectly be one that conservation sector organisations can contribute towards.
We designed the tool to be a simple easy to use interface which would allow conservation practitioners to think about their projects in relation to some of the activities they are undertaking, and through this interface have a sense of which goals and which targets are relevant to the actions they are undertaking. So it doesn’t expect a specialist knowledge of the SDGs and it doesn’t expect you to be familiar with the language of the targets. (Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge)
My project is funded by the Darwin Initiative, it’s called ‘Cattle water and wildlife, enhancing social ecological resilience in Laikipia’ I found using the SDG tool quite straightforward, it made me think about projects I have been implementing for the last two years and it will be a useful aid in working with colleagues and partners. (Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International)
So this tool should be able to do you three things; Firstly the tool should help you to assess more thoroughly the contribution of your work to the entire SDG agenda; the tool should allow you to save time; and at the end the tool generates an infographic for you, which shows all the goals and all the targets that you have selected as being relevant to your project. (Nicholas Wilkinson, Project Lead)
We designed the tool to be a simple easy to use interface which would allow conservation practitioners to think about their projects in relation to some of the activities they are undertaking, and through this interface have a sense of which goals and which targets are relevant to the actions they are undertaking. So it doesn’t expect a specialist knowledge of the SDGs and it doesn’t expect you to be familiar with the language of the targets. (Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge)
My project is funded by the Darwin Initiative, it’s called ‘Cattle water and wildlife, enhancing social ecological resilience in Laikipia’ I found using the SDG tool quite straightforward, it made me think about projects I have been implementing for the last two years and it will be a useful aid in working with colleagues and partners. (Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International)
So this tool should be able to do you three things; Firstly the tool should help you to assess more thoroughly the contribution of your work to the entire SDG agenda; the tool should allow you to save time; and at the end the tool generates an infographic for you, which shows all the goals and all the targets that you have selected as being relevant to your project. (Nicholas Wilkinson, Project Lead)