IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-030-83152-3_14.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Mapping SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Highlighting System Effects

In: Social Impact Measurement for a Sustainable Future

Author

Listed:
  • Chantal Hervieux

    (Saint Mary’s University)

  • Margaret C. McKee

    (Saint Mary’s University)

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals were heralded as representing a transformative approach to addressing the world’s most pressing problems. They have been widely adopted, yet many question the effectiveness of initiatives that do not consider system-wide effects. This chapter reviews relevant literature on wicked problems, presenting our findings from coded reports from the United Nations and partner organisations, which map interrelations between SDGs. It takes a closer look at the food system in Sub-Saharan Africa, finding two interesting dynamics; first, investigating cooking reveals that existing gender inequity is negatively affected by the combined effects of multiple issues. Second, examining the triad of agriculture, urbanisation and rural-urban linkages, our findings illustrate that when policies are developed in isolation, there is potential for unintended impacts[Relevant SDGs: All SDGs].

Suggested Citation

  • Chantal Hervieux & Margaret C. McKee, 2022. "Mapping SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Highlighting System Effects," Springer Books, in: Richard Hazenberg & Claire Paterson-Young (ed.), Social Impact Measurement for a Sustainable Future, edition 1, chapter 14, pages 279-299, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-83152-3_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83152-3_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-83152-3_14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.