Success in attaining the SDGs will rest, in part, on how well efforts can be guided and where resources are directed. If the international community can agree on a reliable indicator framework and commit to on-going monitoring, progress towards the goals can be tracked, and implementation actions can be evaluated and refined. The development and testing of indicator sets can require a considerable amount of time and technical work. Research carried out by VERTIC and Chatham House to develop and run indicators to monitor global progress to establish good governance in just one sector – timber production and trade – showed this. Read more