A Common Approach for Developing SDG Integrated Indicators

At the first intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 agenda in January 2015, UN Member States expressed broad support for the 17 goals and multiple targets proposed by the OWG in 2014. The goals and targets reflect the complexity and variety of the contemporary challenges of sustainable development. The overall package represents an opportunity to deliver the four major innovations of the post-2015 vision, i.e. universality; a full and balanced integration of the three dimensions of sustainable development including governance and peaceful societies; legitimacy, reinforced by an intergovernmental process and the involvement of civil society; and a transformative approach. However, many targets are imprecisely defined, some are less ambitious than existing internationally agreed targets and integration is still not sufficiently captured.