Abstract
This Feminist Participatory Action Research project with a cohort of women in Uganda explored how they understood the SDGs in relationship to their lived realities. A postcolonial feminist lens was used to engage with critical ethnographic policy theoretical perspective to consider the research questions: 1) Which SDGs are the most important to you? 2) What do unrealized SDGs look like in your context? 3) What would realize goals look like and what would it take to achieve them?; 4) Who is responsible for achieving the SDGs? Participants had had no prior knowledge of the SDGs but once introduced to them the participants ranked SDG1: No Poverty and SDG4: Quality Education as the highest in importance to them, followed by SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG: 10: Reduced Inequalities, and SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Participants expressed the implications of unrealized SDGs in their lives as well as the transformative change realized SDGs would bring. They also shared their thoughts on how the SDGs could be achieved in their context. The study recommends that those who are meant to benefit most from the SDGs be consulted on how to achieve them.