Glossary: U to Z

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDGs are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. 

Unintended consequence: An inadvertent positive or negative outcome occurring as a result of intervention. 

Validity: The degree to which a measurement actually measures or detects what it is supposed to measure. 

Working theory: Stakeholder understandings of a phenomenon based on local and contextual knowledge and experience. 

World cafes: A useful method of co-production to enable group dialogue and decision making. It involves short group conversations to understand the problem in more detail.