IOSR Journal of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 25, Issue 8, Series 15 (August. 2020) 47-56 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-2508154756 www.iosrjournals.org 47 |Page The impact of Geospatial Information on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2063 in Africa Oluboyede, T. J. 1 , Lamidi, A. J. 2 , Odeyemi, C. A. 3 1,2,3 The Federal Polytechnic Department of Surveying & Geo-Informatics P.M.B. 5351, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State, NIGERIA. ABSTRACT This article argues the need for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, at integrating economic, social and environmental geospatial datasets into measuring, monitoring and evaluation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).The SDGs cover social and economic development issues including poverty, hunger, health, education, global warming, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, urbanisation, environment, and social justice. Monitoring progress in the Sustainable Development Goals is a fundamental component of the post- 2015 United Nations. Thus in order to make the “data revolution” truly revolutionary, it must be accompanied by a “presentation revolution” this paper reviews the impact of Geospatial Information on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2063 in Africa. It takes a look at the importance of Geospatial Information to Sustainable development, Geospatial Information management to support decision-making for Sustainable Development, issue of Geoinformation in Africa, the Sustainable Development Concept, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the role of Geospatial information and Earth Observation in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. KEYWORDS: Geospatial Information, Earth Observation, Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), Agenda 2063, Africa Monitoring& Evaluation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 17-08-2020 Date of Acceptance: 03-09-2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION The importance and applicability of geospatial information for sustainable development, wasin 1992 when the world leaders adopted the Agenda 21 (UNCED, 1992). The issue was raised again ten years after at the World Summit Conference on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2002. The summit strengthens the geographic foundation for natural resource management and development issues, especially in Africa. The geographic foundation includes a varied array of geospatial datasets, which include social, environmental, and economic datasets for developmental purposes; they also consist of maps and models, the outcome of analytical processes, and pattern of a geographic area at various scales. 1.1 Importance of Geospatial Information to Sustainable development In the last few decades, geospatial information had played an increasingly significant role in supporting effective decision making in addressing social, economic, and environmental issues. Sustainable development integrates social, economic and environmental datasets for active decision-making Sustainable development can only be attained through a comprehensive understanding of the changing environment and monitoring the impact of human activities on the environment through the integration of geospatial information (Williamson et al., 2006). Locational information is required to observe, monitor, and understand changes and to create realistic simulations to changes that happen in the environment, as everything that happens in the world takes place at a location. Geospatial Information provides a common link to different activities and statistics relating to a geographical area, and this allows different datasets to be combined, viewed, analysed, and compared. This assists decision-maker in identifying where resources, people, and infrastructure can be found. This is important for evidence-based decision making; without it, decisions can be inadequate, counterproductive worst still, it can be costly. The government takes decisions to protect the environment, manage scarce resources, and protect the vulnerable populations (Kelm et al., 2017; Rajabifard & Williamson, 2006).However, it is reasonable to have access to such information and to use them for evidence-based decision making. However, in many countries, they lack these types and quality geospatial datasets services and products, especially in developing countries in Africa whose governments and citizens are still trying to deal with poverty, insecurity of tenure, natural disasters, gender inequality and the effects of climate change. Where such datasets do exist, it comes with these