Sustainable Development Goals Interlinkages for Saudi Arabia

Sustainable Development Goals Interlinkages/Integrated approach allows us to utilize the linkages between the SDGs. Setting up the Developmental network for a chosen country is based on the interlinkages at the SDG level. It shows the integrated nature of SDGs, as it tells us what the connections between SDGs look like, and it implies how a policy intervention for one particular SDG relates to other SDGs. In that vein, the developmental network shows us what the levers of development are, which are the policy interventions that have the greatest potential to expedite the entire 2030 Agenda. Moreover, we can also model the nearest neighbour’s developmental networks , leading to the generation of two developmental networks, one that leads to high human development across all SDGs (the nearest most successful neighbor) and one for our chosen country, where the latter is informed by the former in terms of identifying areas of transformation. This approach uses Social Network Analysis for constructing and analyzing the network characteristics (De Nooy et al., 2018).