SUSTAINABILITY AND GOAL FITNESS INDEX FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: A METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL

Resumen

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in September 2015 by
the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), which include 17 goals, 169
targets and 244 indicators, as an attempt to radically change the approach of the
Sustainable Development Goals. Millennium Development (MDG). Since
theadoption of the 2030 Agenda, the scientific community has increased its interest
in the evaluation, analysis, and evaluation of the interrelationships between the
SDGs, proposing different approaches and using a diversity of methodological tools
for the interactions of the SDGs. This research proposes a methodology that takes
advantage of the concepts of Economic Fitness for the creation of a Sustainability
Fitness Index (SFI) for the countries and a Goal Fitness Index (GFI) for each SDG.
These indices are intended to provide a tool to analyze the interrelationships between
the Sustainable Development Goals in such a way that they offer a new approach to
address the capacities of the countries and the fulfillment of the SDGs. The results
of the SFI are a first attempt to identify development priorities aligned with the SDGs
in each country, based on their available productive capacities, which could help
make more efficient use of their limited resources and increase the achievement of
the SDGs.