Mapping Sectors/Sector Categories to SDGs

Hi Simon,

I am not sure there is an ‘official’ one. I am guessing that most of the projects with sectors/sector categories but not SDG information are using OECD DAC CRS codes - and the OECD did make an attempt at mapping these to the SDGs, see here however the last thing I saw was that in 2018 they were planning an SDG field in the CRS database which suggests that their 2015 mapping wasn’t good enough for their needs - it may be for yours.

The other way is to figure out a mapping from the OECD DAC sectors to the national Medium Term Plan, as I belive there is a mapping in the MTP III (and also from National Statistics) to the SDGs done by the government which you could then use? There is a field in IATI for country budget item which would make this route very easy, but as far as I am aware, it is almost never used.

I guess all of this is easier if you just need a rough estimate and broad sectors but even then it is a lot of work. I hope that helps and it would be great to see what you come up with at the end.

Matt

Hi Simon,

I had another thought - many of the IATI projects you can find in epromis e.g. this report from the list of the left here and that would mean you could lookup which Ministry GoK thinks the project is under, and from there perhaps use the MTP which should have Ministry > SDGs?

Matt

I’ve been asked this question a couple of times too as more organisations are now aligning their work with particular goals/indicators. Thanks matmaxgeds for the info on Kenya. I wonder also how many organisations know that they can add the SDG goals/indicators as a second vocab option after adding the OECD DAC sector codes?