5.1.2. Overarching Opportunity

There were many participants that identified opportunities for improvement, and these are mostly captured under section three on "Contexts". The ambition, noted by many, was summed up by participant 26, who was from an international organisation and who gave this insight into his global organisation's aim: "In three years' time we would like to be in a position to have enough information

based on evidence and frameworks in place so that we can have better conversations earlier on with clients about what the potential benefits are for the project and why we should be doing projects possibly in a different way than given to us by donors and others." He continued by anticipating the broader causal impacts of having this mechanism in place: "So, if we understand the linkages contribution projects can have across several SDGs, and how that impact could be measured, then we can have better conversations to understand where people should be investing their money and how, and what other aspects to bring into our project to ensure long-term sustainability". This places emphasis on using the SDGs to make better investment decisions, which becomes one of the critical success factors of the employment of this mechanism.
