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. 
