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Title: Harvesting synergy from sustainable development goal interactions.
Authors: Pedercini, Matteo1, Arquitt, Steve1, Collste, David1,2,3, Herren, Hans1 hh@millennium-institute.org
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 11/12/2019, Vol. 116 Issue 46, p23021-23028. 8p.
Subjects: Sustainable development, Gross domestic product, Time perspective, Policy analysis
Geographic Terms: Senegal, Malawi, Côte d'Ivoire
Abstract: As countries pursue sustainable development across sectors as diverse as health, agriculture, and infrastructure, sectoral policies interact, generating synergies that alter their effectiveness. Identifying those synergies ex ante facilitates the harmonization of policies and provides an important lever to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. However, identifying and quantifying these synergetic interactions are infeasible with traditional approaches to policy analysis. In this paper, we present a method for identifying synergies and assessing them quantitatively. We also introduce a typology of 5 classes of synergies that enables an understanding of their causal structures. We operationalize the typology in pilot studies of SDG strategies undertaken in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi. In the pilots, the integrated SDG (iSDG) model was used to simulate the effects of policies over the SDG time horizon and to assess the contributions of synergies. Synergy contributions to overall SDG performance were 7% for Côte d'Ivoire, 0.7% for Malawi, and 2% for Senegal. We estimate the value of these contributions to be 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) for Côte d'Ivoire, 0.4% for Malawi, and 0.7% for Senegal. We conclude that enhanced understanding of synergies in sustainable development planning can contribute to progress on the SDGs--and free substantial amounts of resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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