Introduction to Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals can be used to share progress made on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, and their key indicators, with the public and other interested stakeholders.

In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.The agenda establishes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Recently, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, climate change, and violent conflicts have wreaked havoc on many aspects of our lives. Understanding the impact of these crises and evaluating progress on resulting policies requires significant investment in data and information. This investment in timely, high-quality, and disaggregated data can drive targeted responses, help anticipate future needs, and shape urgently needed actions.

The Sustainable Development Goals solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you share progress made on Sustainable Development Goals, encourage community engagement, and combat misinformation.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Sustainable Development Goals requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online

Information products

Sustainable Development Goals includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Our SDGs	An ArcGIS Hub site used by government agencies to share progress made on SDG goals with the public and interested stakeholders	Not required
SDG Page (Goal 1-17)	A series of ArcGIS Hub pages used by government agencies to share progress made on each SDG goal	Not required
SDG Dashboard (Goal 1-17)	A series of ArcGIS Dashboards apps used by government agencies to monitor SDG indicators and communicate progress	Not required
SDG Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to provide feedback on the government's SDG site and indicators	Not required
SDG Reporting Status	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by government agencies to share the status of SDG data reporting	Not required
SDG Activities	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by partner agencies to share activities they are undertaking to advance SDG goals	Not required
SDG Activity Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by SDG program analysts to monitor SDG activities reported by partner agencies	Viewer
SDG Indicator Editor	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by government agencies to manage SDG indicator descriptions and goal statuses.	Contributor

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.2 (June 2024)	A new SDG Indicator Editor app can be used to input and update SDG indicator definitions and goal statuses. The SDG Dashboard (Goal 1-17) web map layer feature display order has been updated to draw the highest geography level last. This ensures the smallest geography is drawn on top and is not covered by larger geographies.
1.1 (Mar 2023)	A new SDG Source.zip containing a collection of Excel files that can be used to load SDG indicator descriptions and performance metrics into ArcGIS.
1.0 (Nov 2022)	First release of Sustainable Development Goals