ABSTRACT
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed as an ‘integrated and indivisible’ set, and every goal must be met equally. The integrated nature of the SDGs increases the complexity of their achievement because making progress on one goal might hinder progress in others, due to the interlinkages between them. The scientific community and international institutions have dedicated significant efforts to develop a wide array of methodologies and methods to assess these interlinkages and to support decision-makers in their efforts to achieve more integration. While many governments have made attempts to include interlinkages in their policy planning processes, the call to increase the consideration of interlinkages remains relevant. As these methodologies and tools are incrementally applied across different countries, it will become feasible to conduct comparative studies and examine the specific effects they are having, at national and also at subnational level.
