5.1.1. The Challenge/Problem

The essence of the problem was articulated by participant 10: "The weaknesses of the impact measures relate to some of the quantification of it in that there is no standard way of doing it and therefore quantifying impact is very difficult . . . . The leadership is not fully bought into it. It could be you have not got good sufficient tools for learning and education behind it. There is a lack of consistency in the data of how you measure it and the people measure it in different ways and people will have different perspectives of what good looks like". These views are similar to those of participant 26, who also noted the level of complexity, especially when positioned in a global context with the inherent cultural variations, which is potentially why so many participants only claimed to measure the SDGs at a high level: "This is so complex and it is so different if we are doing things in different countries with different organisations across different environments".
