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The SDG tool is aimed at people working in the field of biodiversity and conservation to make it easier to engage with the 169 targets which underlie the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. By answering a series of questions, you will be guided towards suggestions of the SDG targets that might be most relevant to your project.
In future this tool might be expanded to support work in other fields than conservation. Watch this space!
Click Begin to dive straight into using the tool. If you have previously registered to use the tool, click the Login button to retrieve your saved projects, or click the Register button to create a login.
This tool is aimed at people working in the field of biodiversity and conservation who are interested in the potential contribution of their work to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The idea is to make it easier to engage with the 169 targets which underlie the 17 Goals. Our experience to date suggests that when conservationists engage with the SDGs at target-level, they often find their work has a broader relevance to the SDG agenda than it seemed at first glance. However, engaging with the targets can be confusing and time-consuming. This tool should clarify and speed up the process.
The tool is a questionnaire that adapts and streamlines itself depending upon your answers. The final output is a full list of the targets which are relevant to your project which you can check and modify if needed and then export to various formats for reporting. You can also present the results in an infographic format using an interactive presenter.
You can use the tool to plan future projects or to report on those which are finished or ongoing. You can also use it for initiatives above and below the 'project' scale. While you will be asked to supply a project name, this is just for your records and you can give the name of a sub-project or a large programme. You could even use the tool to evaluate the contribution of an entire organization in one 'shot' but we would recommend this only for small and highly focused organizations.
Once you have started a project, you will be guided through a series of screens, where you will be asked (usually, but not always) a set of questions. Then, depending on your answers, you will be offered (usually, but not always) a series of SDG targets that might be relevant to your project. You then need to confirm which ones really are relevant by selecting them, the tool doesn't automatically select them for you because there is always judgement involved in deciding whether a target is relevant. In many cases, though, the tool is able to decide that, based on your answers, certain targets are not relevant to your work. By excluding these irrelevant targets, it will usually save you time. Nonetheless, you will have a chance to check through all the targets at the end before exporting the results.
The idea and basic structure of this tool came from a collaborative project under the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) which involved the University of Cambridge Geography Department, Fauna and Flora International (FFI), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and BirdLife International. The tool was developed under this programme of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI).
The structure of the tool was designed by Dr Nicholas Wilkinson (University of Cambridge) and Hanna Pettersson (FFI). The project was led by Professor Bhaskar Vira. Projects funded by the UK Government's Darwin Initiative were used as examples during development.
The web tool was developed and designed by Bodja, an independent web-design company based in Cambridge.
The SDG target icons were developed by Trollbäck + Company in collaboration with Project Everyone for the Global Goals Campaign.
Funding to develop this tool came from the CCI Collaborative Fund for Conservation (Project code: CCI-06-16-007) and an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Award (LCAG/375).
The SDG tool is aimed at people working in the field of biodiversity and conservation to make it easier to engage with the 169 targets which underlie the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. By answering a series of questions, you will be guided towards suggestions of the SDG targets that might be most relevant to your project.
In future this tool might be expanded to support work in other fields than conservation. Watch this space!
Click Begin to dive straight into using the tool. If you have previously registered to use the tool, click the Login button to retrieve your saved projects, or click the Register button to create a login.
The Sustainable Development Goals tool (SDGtool) has been developed by the following organisations:
This tool is an output from a collaborative project of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (Unusual Suspects: what contributions can biodiversity conservation organisations make to the Sustainable Development Goals?) and its development was funded by:
The Collaborative Fund for Conservation is supported by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.