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From MDGs to Sustainable Development For All: Lessons from 15 Years of Practice
UNDP (2016)
This Report offers lessons from the MDG experience, distilled largely by governments and stakeholders themselves, via National MDG Reports produced from 2013 to 2015. Over 50 countries’ National MDG Reports reflected on the totality of their MDG experience. The Report analyses what worked under the MDGs and why. It ends with 10 concrete recommendations for SDG implementation, suggesting the policies, processes and practices that may help local leaders, change agents and stakeholders maximise the impact of Global Goals.
Get AccessRoadmap for Localizing the SDGs: Implementation and monitoring at subnational level
The Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, UNDP and UN-Habitat (2016)
All of the SDGs have targets directly related to the responsibilities of local and regional governments. Their achievement will depend on action in cities and territories. That’s why the Global Taskforce, UNDP and UN-Habitat have put together this Roadmap for Localising the SDGs, in order to support local and regional governments in the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs. The Roadmap covers a number of important areas of action for local and regional governments in relation to the SDGs, including public awareness-raising, advocacy towards national governments, and implementation and monitoring. It is not a prescriptive 'how to' guide; rather, it covers a range of strategies that can be adapted to the specific contexts and needs of different cities and regions.
Get AccessGetting Started with the SDGs in Cities: A Guide for Local Stakeholders
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), German Cooperation, GIZ (2016)
This guide outlines how cities can get started with implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in cities and human settlements. In the interest of remaining applicable across a wide variety of development contexts, it provides general principles and processes that will need to be adapted to local conditions. This handbook complements an earlier SDSN National SDG Guide, "Getting Started with the SDGs- A Guide for Stakeholders" (https://sdg.guide/) that was developed for national governments and focused on country-level implementation. Together, the two guides provide a holistic framework for SDG implementation from the local through regional and national levels.
Get AccessPFD Research: National Strategies Supporting the Implementation of Agenda 2030
Policy Forum on Development (2016)
2016 was meant to be the year to set the grounds for the implementation of global commitments, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For that reason, in 2015 the PFD has launched a series of country studies that look at the process and provide a better insight into the implementation of the Agenda 2030 at country level, with a particular focus on the role of CSOs and LAs. The studies have been elaborated by local researches following a common structure for all countries and the reports for the first selected countries: Indonesia, The Netherlands, Peru and Ghana, are already available so far.
Get AccessLocalisation of Sustainable Development Goals: A literature review
LOGIN Asia (2017)
The Local Governance Initiative and Network is a multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange platform that promotes greater decentralisation and strengthened local governance in South and East Asia. The review seeks to collate and synthesize the ongoing discourse on the SDGs, highlighting the importance of localisation of the Goals. It aims to provide a ready reference through a collation of available literature on various aspects of implementing the Goal, including localisation.
DownloadLocalizing Global Agendas in Multilevel Governance Systems: The Benefits of Functional Assignment as Core Element of Decentralization Reforms
Rainer Rohdewohld, ADB Governance Brief, Issue No. 30 (2017)
In October 2016, the Habitat III Conference endorsed a "New Urban Agenda" emphasising the challenges of urbanisation, local governance, and urban planning in a sustainable and development-oriented way. These three global agendas are interlinked and interrelated. National governments, subnational governments and their associations, civil society stakeholders, and development partners have engaged in a discourse about "localising global agendas". The challenge of achieving policy coordination in multilevel and multisector settings is not a new one. This Governance Brief argues that achieving the objectives of the global agendas requires informed decisions and deliberate choices to design decentralised governance systems.
Get AccessMetropolises addressing the global agendas
Metropolis Observatory, Issue Paper Nr. 2 (2017)
The new generation of global agendas that will set the guidelines for sustainable development in the coming years addresses the main challenges faced by metropolises and offers a frame of reference for public policies that major cities must promote. This publication analyses the connection between six of the main global agendas on sustainable development and the principal metropolitan challenges.
Get AccessNational and Sub-National Governments on the Way towards the Localization of the SDGs
UCLG (2017)
With the contribution of 30 associations of Local and Regional Governments (LRGs) this report analyses and complements a total of 63 Voluntary National Reviews in order to monitor the SDG implementation from the perspective of local and regional governments. It pays particular attention to the growing involvement of LRGs in the dissemination and adaptation of the SDGs at local level. At the same time, it collects and reports evidence of the actual, effective bottom-up involvement of local authorities and stakeholders in the 'localization' of the SDGs.
Get AccessLocalizing the SDGs in Colombia, Indonesia and Kenya
Cityscope (2017)
What have Colombia, Indonesia and Kenya accomplished in these past two years at the local level — where people receive vital goods and services to live and thrive — in areas such as health, education, water, job training, infrastructure? Have we raised enough financing? Do we have adequate data to measure progress? Some global development leaders have expressed concern that we may not be on track to reach critical SDGs in areas such as health and poverty.
Stakeholders Assess Local, Regional Involvement in Sustainable Development Agendas
International Institute for Sustainable Development (2018)
Cities Alliance and adelphi published a report on 'Local and Regional Governments in the Follow-up and Review of Global Sustainability Agendas'.The report outlines recommendations for strengthening synergies between the follow-up and review of the urban dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the New Urban Agenda, and for further involving local and regional governments.
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