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31/12/15

Researchers map top 100 development questions

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  • Researchers and NGOs have drawn up a shortlist of 100 development issues
  • 它们涵盖治理，粮食安全，冲突和不平等现象
  • 该列表是“最重要的问题，但也许不是最有趣的问题”

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The growing role of the private sector and emerging economies in development have made it onto a list of the biggest research needs to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), collated by academics and nongovernmental organisations.

上个月发表的一篇论文中绘制的100个研究领域列表发展政策审查，，，，aims to highlight the most important research questions around theSDGs2015年9月,它介绍了replace theMillennium Development Goals.

It includes topics in the physical and life sciences — such as气候变化impact onhealth而且更好18beplay distribution — along with social science issues such as making the interplay between businesses and marginalised groups fairer, and improvinggender平等。

“If you try to find something that everybody can agree on, the more surprising, ‘outlier’ questions are knocked out.”

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由14个学者和21名非政府组织代表组成的团队整理了这些问题，他们认为这是“对于2015年后国际发展议程至关重要的问题”。它们分为九个主要主题，这些主题涵盖governance，，，，食品安全，冲突和不平等。

“清单本身就是证明您可以让人们同意，”美国密歇根大学国际林业和资源机构网络的Johan Oldekop说。“下一步是我们如何一起回答这些[问题]。”

The questions cover existing problems — for example how to best improve rural livelihoods — as well as newer issues, including the “role of business in protecting human rights” and “the complex and contested role of middle-income countries” as both donors and recipients of aid.

The list was drawn from an initial 704 questions submitted by 110 organisations. “Collectively, these questions could act as focal points for transdisciplinary research collaborations,” the paper says.

This list should also be useful to funding agencies and决策者，，，，adds co-author Lorenza Fontana from the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Simon Trace, former chief executive of the UK NGO Practical Action, who took part in the consultation, says the list is “an interesting starting point for any research agenda”. However, because of the consultation’s ‘averaging’ process, the shortlist might reflect the 100 most important questions, “but maybe not the 100 most interesting ones”.

“If you try to find something that everybody can agree on, the more surprising, ‘outlier’ questions are knocked out,” he says.

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作者承认他们的研究的另一个局限性：全球南方组织的参与度较低。欧洲和北美的机构贡献了最初的长名单的74％，非洲，大洋洲和拉丁美洲的机构贡献了剩下的季度。

Fontana说：“让同样的人参与不同地区的人，但可以做些事情。”similar consultation in Latin America在四月份。“我们将这项练习带到了西班牙人，这有助于克服距离和语言障碍，并将该方法适应区域文化。”

丰塔纳（Fontana）预计，在经过改进的全球发展议程下，这种优先制定的练习将变得更加重要。她说：“可持续发展目标是如此之大，并且具有许多目标，而且优先级的练习比少数决定研究议程的决策者的任意措施少。”