What information is needed to make better development decisions? What do we need to do to maximize a nation’s capacity to meet the new Sustainable Development Goals? More importantly, how will we measure progress?

In a recent article in Nature, Keith Shepherd and others from the Land Health Decisions team at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), together with some external partners, proposed a radically new method to the SDG community that would answer these questions. In an effort to avoid spending precious funds on another round of target setting and monitoring for the SDGs, Shepherd and team propose a new solution: decision analysis concepts and tools.

“In a way it’s like putting up a whole new learning system rather then setting up a group of targets,” says Shepherd. “Using decision analysis is about supporting people to make better decisions and better choices. We need to work on gathering the right information needed to improve decision making on the ground. We have the tools to do that now.”

See the links above for the original article and read the blog here.