Fab17 panel: "Working Group FabCare "; Jimbaran Hub, Bali, Indonesia, October 18th, 2022 The UN SDGs are a globally accepted reference framework for socio-economic issues including health and care, they set common goals for all countries for the year 2030 and they are provided with indicators and a system of monitoring to track progress. We indicate the role health and care play within the SDGs and which fablabs have SDG profiles that show they are interested in this or want to contribute. Based on current data on the state of “care” within various countries, we can see where the existing fablabs could have the most impact with regard to care. And which themes are preferable to tackle.

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Fab17 panel: "Working Group FabCare "
Jimbaran Hub, Bali, Indonesia, October 18th
, 2022
Fab Care and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
CC-AT 2022 - Pieter van der Hijden (pvdh@sofos.nl)
Zaplab Suriname, Global WG Fablabs and SDGs
Abstract
The UN SDGs are a globally accepted reference framework for socio-economic issues
including health and care, they set common goals for all countries for the year 2030 and
they are provided with indicators and a system of monitoring to track progress.
We indicate the role health and care play within the SDGs and which fablabs have SDG
profiles that show they are interested in this or want to contribute.
Based on current data on the state of “care” within various countries, we can see where
the existing fablabs could have the most impact with regard to care. And which themes
are preferable to tackle.

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1. Bottom Up vs Top Down?
When we want to talk about Fab Care and our goals for the near future, we can work
roughly in two ways:
1. We can take up what activities come our way bottom-up and develop projects,
programs and a common thread in our work along the way;
2. We can start working top-down on a far-reaching vision, an ambitious mission
derived from it and thus arrive at an implementation plan with programs, projects
and activities that we want to implement in the near future.
Both approaches have their pros and cons. We don't have to make definitive choices
about that either.
This presentation focuses on the second way: the top-down approach of Fab
and Care.

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2. The UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs)
English version of the poster with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Since 2015, we have had worldwide a socio-economic development program that is
endorsed by all 193 UN member states until the year 2030. Health and care are also part
of this. I am referring here to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I am referring
here to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Everyone probably knows the attached poster with the 17 Global Goals. If you start
checking that list, you will immediately see we have to be at Goal 3 (Good Health and
Well- Being ) for Fab Care.

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3. The SDGs as global frame of reference
Bahasa Indonesia version of poster with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs )
Don't focus on the 17 Goals. Much more interesting are the 169 sub-goals or "targets".
They indicate much more concretely what the intention behind the goals is.
The texts of goals and targets are available in almost all languages. The numbering is
identical in all translations. For that reason alone, the SDGs are an interesting frame-of-
reference that can be used worldwide .
A broadly defined subject such as Health and Care does not necessarily coincide with one
of the goals and the underlying targets. You can also find it in all kinds of other goals. It
is therefore interesting to look beyond your one favorite goal.

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4. Look wider and explore the goals
See also
 Explore the SDGs (English)
 Explore the SDGs (Espanol )
 Explore the SDGs (Portuguese Brazil )
 Explore the SDGs (French)
 Explore the SDGs (Bahasa Indonesia)
 Explore the SDGs (Dutch)
 Text document, p.18-28 (Arabic )
Indonesian version of our tool Explore the UN SDGs
We created an interactive tool to explore the goals and the underlying targets. As some
topics are covered by various goals and targets (eg girls, small island states, training),
the free text seach option might be of great help. The tool is free to use and to
download; currently available in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Brazilian
Portuguese and Dutch. E use the official logos and texts from the UN and/or svarious
governments.
On the homepage of this interactive mind map you will find the 17 goals with their logos.
With each goal you can call up the list of associated targets: click on the small numbered
symbol to the right of the icon

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At the bottom of the homepage you will find a search function. Type a part of a word
that you are looking for and you will find all the places in the goals and targets where
that word is used.

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5. UN SDGs on Health and Care
UN Sustainable Development Goals and Targets filtered for health, care, well-being and
disaster risk
With our tool we searched for topics such as Health, Care, Well- being and Disaster Risk.
The targets of SDG-3 (obviously) proved applicable, but also found targets of SDG-04,
05, 09, 11 and 12.

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For the sake of time, we will limit ourselves here to SDG-03. But it is good to
keep in mind that the theme of Health and Care (and many other themes as
well) is broader within the SDGs .

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6. The state of the world
See also
 Sustainable Development Report 2022 - Home page
 Sustainable Development Report 2022 - SDG03
Source: SDR 2022 interactive website:
https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/map/goals/SDG3
The colors mean :
 Green: SDG achieved
 Yellow : Challenges remain
 Orange : Significant challenges remain
 Red: Major challenges remain
All 193 UN member states have agreed to the SDGs . The individual governments are
responsible for its implementation. They focus (hopefully) 1.) on achieving the goals for
their own country, 2. on preventing negative effects on the SDGs of other countries spill
-over) and 3. on helping other countries, e.g. developing countries .
The UN has set up a system of indicators together with the member states. The
governments send in reports periodically. In addition, independent research is conducted
that leads to an annual Sustainable Development Report. The SDR 2022 provides
detailed data for all member states on fulfillment of 17 SDGs, 169 targets, indicators,
etc. access to interactive SDG-based world maps and interactive country-based SDG
dashboard.
Source for the Sustainable Development Report (the latest being from June 2022) is:
Sachs, J., Lafortune , G., Kroll, C., Fuller, G., Woelm , F. (2022); From Crisis to

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Sustainable Development: the SDGs as Roadmap to 2030 and Beyond; Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press; report (508p), and data; June 2022.
The world map shows the current status of SDG-03.
What is striking is that no country has the Green status for SDG-03; only a few countries
have status Yellow, a lot more Orange, but Red takes the cake.
All of Central America, the northwest of South America, almost the entire African
continent, the Middle East and South-East Asia are Red. What that judgment is based on
can be checked per country via the interactive website.

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7. Status versus trend
Not only the state (status) of SDG-03 is important, but also the "trend", the extent and
direction in which that state is changing.
Now we see that :
 Central America: the bad situation is progressing moderately
 NW of South America: The bad situation stagnates in Suriname and Venezuela
and moderately improves in the rest of the countries
 African continent: the bad situation is stagnating almost everywhere
 Middle East and Southeast Asia: The bad situation is stagnating in Yemen,
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and is improving moderately in the other
countries.
If we focus on the countries where the need is greatest, these are mainly the
countries from Africa, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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8. The fablabs
See also
 Fablabs and SDG Profiles (SDG-03)
Countries with fablabs that have SDG-03 in their profile
There are (2022 Q3) 2019 fablabs worldwide , by no means in all countries. 19% (380)
of the fablabs have drawn up an SDG profile. Of all those fablabs , 12% (46) have
included SDG-03 in the SDG profile.
If we want to do something for any country, we need at least a fab lab on site. If we
search for the countries where the SDG-03 status is Red, this concerns: Suriname,
Cameroon, Egypt, Senegal, India, Philippines, Mexico. If we are stricter and we only look
at the countries where the trend also indicates a stagnation, then only Cameroon and
Suriname remain.
See the hyperlink for the interactive overview including the fablabs involved .
As an approach for Fab Care, the above could argue for setting up a periodic
Newsletter to all fablabs with SDG-03 in the profile and a direct email
relationship with the fablabs in the "red" countries. We could try to explicitly
involve them in all our projects and see if we can create win-win situations
when setting up new projects.