As communities work towards Agenda 2030 and attaining the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), awareness, localization, assessment and
measurement will play a key role in assessing the progress made. The
importance of community-based approaches to development has been
recognized, and small data has been identified as a critical component of
initiatives to support the assessment and measurement of the SDGs. This
study explores community-based approaches in relation to the SDGs,

Several Caribbean countries experience high levels of water scarcity and
water stress. This poses an enormous development challenge for the region
given growing demand, inadequate infrastructure and low investment in
the water sector. A vast literature examines the impact of the management
of global water resources on climate change, poverty and sustainable
development. However, few studies have considered the impact of water
scarcity on growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean. This

This article contends that knowledge brokerage should be recognized as a
key function of regional universities as Caribbean states seek to advance
the 2030 development agenda. As Caribbean universities evolve, public
engagement and linkage and exchange mechanisms that support the
developmental and entrepreneurial missions of modern universities need
to be strengthened. By detailing the case of a University of the West Indies-
Trinidad and Tobago RDI Fund project to demonstrate how the societal

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