The 2030 agenda indicators, information retrieval and relevance: diagnosis of voluntary national reviews

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda is a commitment made by leaders of 193 nation-states, and coordinated by the United Nations. There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets with indicators that indicate the metrics to be achieved. For recording the results, Information Retrieval is used to verify the relevant data. The general objective of this article is to map the Latin American and Caribbean nation-states signatories of the 2030 Agenda that presented voluntary reports for the demonstration of results. The method used for the research is bibliographic, as it presents theoretical records on relevance and Information Retrieval; and documental, by exploring the text of the global agenda and national and international research. As for the approach, it is qualitative, for evaluating and interpreting aspects of the literature and international and national documents, and quantitative, for presenting the list of reports of National Voluntary Reviews structured by year. In the results, the country that most stood out in the presentation of the National Voluntary Review was Uruguay with 4 (four) reports, followed by Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico with 3 (three) reports; Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic with 2 (two) reports. As Brazil, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela submitted only 1 (one) report. Of the 33 nation-states, only 2 (two) did not report at all: Haiti and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The other 31 presented at least 1 (one) report. Therefore, it is the relevant data retrieved by a Nation-State due to the indicators that measure the quality of information and its commitment to the dictates of the United Nations document. In this way, the data that make up the indicators implement or not the goals that register whether the Sustainable Development Goals of a Nation-State are in progress, stagnant or in retrogression. It is important to highlight that the 2030 Agenda includes a roadmap for sustainable development, betting on a transformative agenda in social, economic, and environmental terms. In particular, the government of Uruguay has been committed to integrating environmental objectives and mitigation and adaptation to climate change into its economic policy decisions. It concludes that it is important for the governments of the Nation-States to build partnerships with public, private, academic, and civil society sectors for the recovery of information and consolidation of their relevant data. This joining of forces will enable the preparation of reports and, consequently, the promotion, dissemination and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda by the United Nations systems. In addition to this fact, the governments of the Nation-States must commit themselves to the production of content and propositional critical analyzes for the presentation of the Voluntary National Reviews on their development, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.