The Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous Peoples: Another Missed Opportunity?

Indicators have emerged as a powerful communication tool for complex phenomena in the shift towards quantitative measurement. Using a framework informed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and indigenous knowledge this paper has two aims: 1) to explore if and how the SDGs have reframed policy relating to indigenous peoples in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and 2) to explore how indigenous communities are developing their own indicators to inform their development needs and in the process mitigate the negative governance effects of national goal and target setting.