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Overview
Examines the global goals as practical frameworks for local action: indicators, data, trade-offs and financing. Students build a goal-aligned project using real local data.
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Aims of the Course
- Explain the SDG framework and its indicators
- Map local needs to global goals
- Address trade-offs between goals
- Finance and measure goal-aligned projects
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Course Structure
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The Framework
- From MDGs to SDGs
- The seventeen goals and targets
- Universality and national ownership
- Critiques and limitations
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Data and Indicators
- Indicator frameworks
- Data sources and gaps
- Measuring inequality (leave no one behind)
- Reporting and voluntary national reviews
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Localisation
- Mapping local priorities to goals
- Stakeholder analysis
- Trade-offs and synergies
- City and community approaches
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Financing
- Public, private and blended finance
- Development finance institutions
- Social enterprise models
- Budgeting a goal-aligned project
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Delivery and Partnership
- Multi-stakeholder partnerships
- Business and human rights
- Community participation
- Project governance
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Project Design
- Selecting target goals and indicators
- Designing interventions
- Monitoring framework
- Presentation to a review panel
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Map local priorities to specific SDG targets
- 02Design an indicator set for a project
- 03Analyse trade-offs between competing goals
- 04Build a financing plan for a goal-aligned project
- 05Present a defensible SDG project design
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Assessment
- SDG mapping and project design
- Indicator and monitoring framework
- Financing and partnership plan
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Entry Requirements
- Open access
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Progression and Careers
- Sustainability officer
- Development programme coordinator
- ESG or impact analyst