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UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

ART

Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development

2015-2016 IN REVIEW

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Empowered lives.

Resilient nations.

ART

Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development

2015-2016 IN REVIEW

ACRONYMS AC ADF ART BERA

Advisory Committee AssemblĂŠe des DĂŠpartements de France (The Assembly of French Departments) Articulation of Territorial Networks for Sustainable Human Development Bureau for External Relations and Advocacy

BPPS Bureau for Policy and Programme Support CNM

Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities

CO

Country Office

DC

Decentralized Cooperation

EC EDD EU

GTF ILDS

LRG

SDG Sustainable Development Goal SEBRAE

Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises

SEGIB Ibero-American General Secretariat SHD Sustainable Human Development SP Strategic Plan South-South and Triangular Cooperation

UCCI

Union of Ibero-American Capitals

European Development Days

UCLG

United Cities and Local Governments

European Union

Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 Agenda towards and Habitat III Integrated Local Development System

ILO International Labour Organization LED

Organization of Regions United

European Commission

I-STEPS Innovation in Sustainable Territorial Partnerships LGLD

OIF International Organization of La Francophonie ORU FOGAR

SSTC

FAMSI Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity GPEDC

MDG Millennium Development Goal

Local Economic Development Local Governance and Local Development Local and Regional Government

MAPS Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support

UIM UNCDF

Ibero-American Union of Municipalists United Nations Capital Fund

UNDG

United Nations Development Group

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlements Programme UNV

United Nations Volunteers Programme

INDEX FOREWORDS UNDP ART: FACILITATING INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT ART, Over a decade of connecting territories for development UNDP ART’s mechanisms, tested in nearly 22 countries

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UNDP ART’s way Mainstreaming process

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• 10 years of ART in Uruguay

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• Starting from the territories to build and sustain peace: the experience 13 of Nariño, Colombia • Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru join forces to promote their common cultural heritage

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• Strategic cooperation between Algeria, UNDP and the EU

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LOCAL VOICES IN GLOBAL AGENDAS Local and regional governments: development agents and partners

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From dialogues to alliances

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• An alliance of cities for the SDGs

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• I-STEPS: Harmonization of territorial development partners

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• Working with the CNM to strengthen the role of Brazilian municipalities in SDG localization

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Hub for Territorial Partnerships

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Enhancing Development Cooperation Effectiveness

What our partners say…

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Reflections on the role of cities in the 2030 agenda

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UNDP’s offer for SDGs localization

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ART IN THE WORLD

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ART IN NUMBERS

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SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

The Third World Forum of Local Economic Development: from Turin 2015 towards Cabo Verde 2017

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• Mainstreaming the SDGs at the territorial level: the case of Valencia

• Local voices in the global arena

• Prioritizing needs after Ecuador’s earthquake

• A Global Alliance to promote SDG 16

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A New Global Agenda “To Transform The World” Localizing the SDGs 16

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A practical Toolbox to localize the SDGs

• A diagnostic tool for the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region

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MAPS: Supporting SDG implementation

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The Advisory Committee: A mechanism to encourage articulation and high-level dialogue for the SDGs

• Promoting the SDGs in Tunisia through participatory mechanisms

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MAINSTREAMING THE SDGS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

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THE WAY FORWARD

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PARTNERS

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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FOREWORDS The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development unanimously adopted by Member States in 2015 frames a global accord to transform the world to improve the lives of all people, committing to leave no one behind. It established priorities 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets – that are universal and thus apply to all countries, and, to be achieved by 2030, require concerted action from all stakeholders.

Governments, development partners, and all sectors at all levels have an important role to play in ensuring steady progress on all SDGs, and in realizing the aspirations for a better future for the planet and for all people, for a world free of extreme poverty, in societies that are peaceful and marked by shared prosperity.

Local governments, communities and stakeholders are at the frontlines of the sustainable development agenda and thus uniquely positioned to voice the concerns, aspirations and also solutions coming from the local populations. Local governments are thus best placed to ensure that the global agenda and the national plans taking them forward are informed by local needs and contexts, and that investments are guided by priorities defined at the level where they can have the most impact.

In the new development framework, local communities and stakeholders are not only beneficiaries of but also partners in all these development efforts; their engagement is critical in defining and delivering results, helping steer policies and strategies towards those who are farthest behind or at risk of being left out, and in providing potential solutions that respond to needs they know best.

UNDP values its close collaboration with local and regional governments (LRGs) and the associations that support them. Through the ART initiative, launched in 2005, UNDP helped

to strengthen the roles of LRGs as development partners and as critical agents of its local governance and local development (LGLD) programmes. ART embodies the partnership component of UNDP’s Integrated Framework to support LGLD, and has long contributed to the empowerment of LRGs and local stakeholders as development frontlines in their countries and territories. UNDP also recognizes the unique position and contributions of ART in leveraging LRG expertise and mandates at the global level; as the governments closest to the people, they are best placed to facilitate and sustain dialogues, serving as corridors for local perspectives to global policy debates.

Over the years, UNDP has accumulated a wealth of knowledge, built relationships, and developed networks across countries and regions that could assist countries in implementing the SDGs. ART’s experience in promoting innovative approaches on local governance and local development, its proven track-record in reaching concrete results at the local level, and its wide network of partnerships for development have been instrumental in positioning UNDP as a partner of choice for local governments and stakeholders, ready to support the localization of the SDGs as a crucial element in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

Patrick Keuleers

Director/Chief of Profession Governance and Peacebuilding Bureau for Policy and Programme Support United Nations Development Programme

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In 2016, the global community has started marking its path to 2030, the target year for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As stated in this bold and transformative global agenda, all actors - governments at all levels, civil society, private sector and other development actors – will need to join their forces to ensure a steady process in the implementation of the SDGs and achieve the expected results.

The ART Initiative, officially launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2005 and hosted since 2014 by UNDP Brussels, at the heart of Europe, embodies the “partnership component” of UNDP’s Integrated Framework to Support Local Governance and Local Development (LGLD). The initiative, based on the territorial approach to development, facilitates innovative territorial partnerships among a wide array of actors as a means to stimulate and promote inclusive LGLD initiatives towards the SDG localization.

Through its extensive network of development partners, to date ART has facilitated multiple alliances between local and regional governments, their associations and other local governance actors, while supporting their empowerment and facilitating their participation and contribution to local development processes. This includes the action of hundreds of European decentralized cooperation actors that, as outlined in this review, have actively contributed to local development processes and they are now keen to play a leading role in supporting the localization of SDGs, in alignment with national plans and strategies.

The key role of local and regional governments in promoting multi-stakeholder approaches in pursuit of inclusive sustainable development at the local level has also been recognized by the European Union, which has made strides to develop and implement a new framework that promotes a territorial approach to development. The UNDP highly welcomes the convergence of the views, as both the UNDP and the EU acknowledge that only when local actors work together in the definition,

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planning and implementation of development strategies do they make a difference, triggering change in people’s lives and well-being and ensuring the balance between socio-economic growth and environmental sustainability.

In this context, building on ongoing strategic policy dialogues on current development challenges and on concrete cooperation undertaken in several countries, UNDP looks forward to deepening the collaboration with the European Union and other European actors in the years to come.

At a time of complex challenges, it is more important than ever to work closely together and make sure that the new global goals become a reality for all citizens.

Barbara Pesce Monteiro

Director Brussels Representation Office United Nations Development Programme

The ART 2015–2016 Review covers the last two years of the Initiative’s activities and contributions to sustainable human development.

This has been an intense and rewarding time, both within the UNDP ART family and globally.

Our International Coordinator, Giovanni Camilleri, retired after more than ten years in this role and many more as a promoter and tireless agent of local development. Giovanni firmly believed in the need for local and national authorities, global networks, civil society, academia, and the private and public sectors from North and South to work all together and engage in meaningful dialogue, with the aim of building and strengthening innovative partnerships, finding synergies between national and local development processes, and fulfilling the huge potential of the territories. He worked relentlessly to link local voices and experiences to international development debates, and to translate global policies into local actions.

The two years of the Review have also witnessed ground-breaking changes in the development landscape. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the world’s development prospects are at a major turning point: the 2030 Agenda intends to shape the future of development, providing a sound framework to achieve its goals in the next 15 years. For the first time, we have a universal, transformative agenda that seeks to address all the issues that affect our world; the environment, health and education —to name but a few of the “traditional” development areas— and also our need for sustainable and peaceful societies, inclusive, safe and resilient cities, and decent work and innovation, to increase the world’s level of development and “leave no one behind”. The local level is, at last, acknowledged as key in facilitating this transformation: it is in the territories where the 2030 Agenda will be implemented —and where its results and success will be determined.

To make this happen, development agents at the local, national and global levels will have to work hand in hand, engage with each other and be willing to share knowledge, experiences, resources and visions. UNDP is uniquely positioned to contrib-

ute to this paradigmatic shift, as a knowledge broker, a trusted partner, and an experienced development agent with over fifty years of experience in promoting local development and local governance processes all over the world.

The UNDP ART Initiative will bring its experience, know-how and also lessons learned, as the roll out of the 2030 Agenda continues. For instance, as part of UNDP’s Integrated Framework to support Local Governance and Local Development, the Initiative will continue to expand its linkages with local and regional governments, their networks and other decentralized cooperation actors, and to unlock and harness their potential as development actors —another prerequisite to the success of the 2030 Agenda.

One of the lessons we learned is that local ownership, local leadership and community participation and engagement are non-negotiable preconditions to transform global objectives into local realities and generate long-term impact. Achieving and localizing the SDGs is no different: acknowledging and incorporating the outstanding contributions of local agents (from local authorities to civil society organizations, the private sector and citizens) and mobilizing all governance levels to make the world a better place will be quintessential.

UNDP and its ART Initiative will continue and expand their roles as development vehicles, as transmission belts between the local and global levels, linking the experiences of the local level to the global arena policy debates, in a reciprocal and mutually enriching process that will help us achieve inclusive, transformative, and pertinent development goals that are grounded on local needs and aspirations and able to tackle the world’s challenges and aspirations.

Johannes Krassnitzer

ART International Coordinator Brussels Representation Office United Nations Development Programme

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UNDP ART: FACILITATING INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT ART, over a decade of connecting territories for development Officially launched in 2005, UNDP’s ART Initiative evolved Multi-level governance and from a handful of programmes the territorial approach have focused on the local level in suphistorically been the two pillars port of SHD and the Millennium of the ART Initiative, providing the Development Goals (MDGs) into core guideline to its initiatives a mainstream global UNDP and programmes. initiative that tackles multiple sectors and operates at multiple levels, making a difference in the territories while influencing and contributing to global development policy discussions. For over a decade now, UNDP ART and its multiple partners have been developing and applying innovative cooperation modalities that have proven instrumental in bringing together different development actors to deliver results at the local level.

The ART Initiative has been facilitating territorial partnerships for years. These partnerships, including Decentralized, South-South and Triangular cooperation modalities, are guided by local development priorities and align development initiatives of multiple stakeholders to territorial development processes. The territory, regardless 8

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of its administrative and political boundaries, is the starting point of all interventions. This approach allows turning local potential and identity into the backbone of multi-sectorial, integrated and long-term development processes and initiatives. It recognizes Local and Regional Governments (LRGs) as the key agents of local governance and local development and advocates for participatory planning and prioritization instruments.

Multiple is one of the best singleword definitions of the territorial approach: multiple stakeholders at multiple levels work together on multiple sectors in a multi-level governance framework, to advance the territory’s development and people’s well-being.

This issue of the 2015-2016 in Review presents the achievements of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ART Initiative over the last two years. The Review places a special focus on the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and on how UNDP ART has been, and will continue, to contribute to the localization of the Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With concrete examples of how the Initiative has achieved tangible results in the past and is able to push forward the SDGs and their localization, the Review hopes to enrich the global development discussions and shed light on what works — and what does not. This exercise is particularly relevant in today’s development context, reshaped by the world’s unprecedented commitment to make the transformative and universal 2030 Agenda happen, achieving a better world for all.

UNDP ART’s mechanisms, tested in nearly 22 countries With UNDP’s Integrated Framework to Support Local Governance and Local Development (LGLD) as its overarching guideline, UNDP ART has long adopted a methodology founded on participatory and multi-level governance instruments. For instance, working groups (whether local, territorial or regional) have proven to be successful governance mechanisms that promote an inclusive and bottom-up approach to addressing the territories’ needs, while national coordination committees have facilitated alignment with national and international development priorities. In many countries, these instruments are now institutionalized or mainstreamed within public development policies, as best practices that have generated concrete positive results. On the other hand, international cooperation guidelines, elaborated with the support of the working groups and in coordination with the national coordination committees, have fed into development effectiveness by outlining territorial priorities and facilitating the harmonization and alignment of the interventions of development partners in a given territory.

True to its underlying philosophy, ART has continued adUNDP ART’s Instruments, vocating articulation between successfully implemented and the dynamics of local developadapted to local contexts for ment and national development over a decade, provide the strategies, among development development community with a actors, and across sectors, to tested and practical means to foster integral territorial developfacilitate SDG localization. ment and make a difference on the ground. A strong component of long-term local socioeconomic development, also defined as Local Economic Development (LED), has also delivered concrete results, thereby becoming a strategic and necessary complementary aspect of development approaches.

Together, these elements have become part of ART’s track record in contributing to promote SHD through gradually crafted and adaptable tools that can offer development partners tested mechanisms facilitating localizing the SDGs.

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UNDP ART’s way “Bottom-up” by nature, ART’s methodology does not advocate prescriptive solutions but rather promotes frameworks that facilitate linkages and empowering processes to unlock the territories’ existing potential and resources. By addressing the three strands of SHD —social, economic and environmental— a more sustainable local development is enabled, grounded on more resilient, inclusive and equitable communities.

With country programmes around the world, most of them now nationally owned, and a network of partners of more than 600 development agents from from all regions of the world, ART contributes to A longtime proponent of building strong alliances in supsystematic articulation between port of localizing the SDGs — a the local, regional, national prerequisite of the transformaand global levels, ART fosters tive shift that needs to take place inclusive partnerships that push in our strive to achieve the ambiforward the new global agenda tious universal 2030 Agenda for and will leave no one behind.

Sustainable Development. Moreover, it is in the countries that contextualized frameworks, such as the Integrated Systems for Local Development in Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Ecuador and Uruguay, are being developed to support the implementation of the 17 SDGs.

Over the years, the Initiative has become the main entry point for various development partners to UNDP and the multilateral system, and has carried their voices to the global arena, for instance during the pre- Busan’s High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) consultations, the pre-Rio+20 consultations, and the Dialogues on the Localization of the post-2015 Development Agenda, to name only the most important international events where UNDP ART played a concrete role in making the territories’ voices heard.

An active facilitator of the global dialogues that paved the way for the 2030 Agenda, UNDP’s ART initiative can now contribute to the next necessary step, which is, attention to the “how” the 2030 Agenda can be best achieved. In this regard, the ART Initiative is supporting the SDG localization, among other things, by promoting the elaboration of a “Toolbox” for the implementation of the SDGs at the local level. The Toolbox, jointly promoted with the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments (GTF) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), collects a series of tools and instruments that can guide LRGs and their associations, civil society, the private sector and academia2 in their role as development actors.

The Territorial Approach Addressing the challenges to development requires implementing solutions that make the territory the starting point of all interventions: its endogenous potential, identity and needs are taken into account through inclusive and participatory processes that result in integrated and multidisciplinary interventions. In line with this approach, all the proposed integrated territorial development strategies focus on the “place” or “territory”, in the design of crosssectorial development policies, where the territory is starting and the end line of the process.

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At a glance The Integrated Framework is a strategic framework that calls for LRGs to be strengthened.

It is articulated to guide a new generation of UNDP initiatives and programmes on LGLD. The Framework is the basis of UNDP’s support for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the local level, and will allow for the building strong alliances in support of localizing the SDGs.

Mainstreaming process To achieve this and follow the path it has set for itself —that of consolidating, coordination and synergy-building— in the last two years ART has continued its mainstreaming process within UNDP, particularly by informing the Integrated Framework to Support Local Governance and Local Development.

Co-developed by UNDP, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), this comprehensive framework will result in an integrated UNDP project portfolio at the local level, by guiding the programmes on LGLD through a territorial lens that also relies on innovative territorial partnerships as a means to stimulate inclusive LGLD

activities. At the core of the framework lies the strategic recognition and empowerment of LRGs, seen as key promoters of LGLD. The Framework represents a major programmatic shift towards more integrated and multidisciplinary implementation The Integrated Framework is process that establishes a clear based on the acknowledgement link between local governance that localizing the SDGs will and local development, and help achieving the goals and enables UNDP to better fulfill its role as a facilitator between naensure a sustainable impact. tional and local level systems for SDG implementation.

What is multi-level governance?

It is when public authorities in charge of a given policy domain belong to various levels of authority and policy competences, and budgetary resources are distributed across these levels of government. This increases the number of actors, organizations, agenda and policies to be coordinated in order to achieve coherent policies1.

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10 YEARS OF ART IN URUGUAY Throughout its 10 years of existence, the ART programme in Uruguay has supported the country’s efforts with regard to decentralization and local development. To this end, the initiative focused on two substantive issues: contributing to the establishment of multi-level and multi-sector governance mechanisms; and promoting a Local Economic Development approach through the implementation of several instruments and tools.

Over the years, the programme has been able to adapt to new realities by building multidisciplinary teams and reaching the territories of the whole country.

Moreover, it has stood out for its capacity to generate strategic partnerships with cooperation actors, especially those from the decentralized cooperation.

These processes were not only recognized and evaluated positively by external studies, but they were also able to contribute to regional and international debates and processes.

In recent years, ART Uruguay has provided substantive support, from a global perspective, for the decentralization process (a third level of government was created in 2010) at the municipal and departmental level for the whole country. The main projects focused on the improvement of public administration, the articulation of local actors and the strengthening of their capacities.

Similarly, the programme has become involved in the localization of the SDGs through diverse knowledge sharing and training activities, in partnership with other cooperation and government actors.

• Public management The technical assistance provided to the Directions of Departmental Development for the elaboration of strategic planning has contributed to efficient management of these units. Throughout seven plans, corresponding to the different Departments, the management of these Directions was strengthened by leveraging their contribution to territorial development.

The processes were highly valued by the different actors that were able to participate in these working bodies.

In accordance with the knowledge and experience of each direction unit and with the guidance of UNDP ART, the different management teams were able to define

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their strategic objectives for the period, the guidelines for implementation and the main activities to develop.

In addition, a system of targets and indicators was added to ensure compliance with the provisions and to boost a result-based approach and the improvement of the local development processes.

Conforming to the above, concrete actions were undertaken in 2016 to consolidate the Network of Departmental Development Offices as an open space for articulation and promotion of territorial development processes. Under this strategy, three meetings were held; each of them with a high-level of participation from local actors. The meetings served to discuss the role of the Development Directions and to foster their institutional function in the territories. In each of the sessions, national representatives participated and exchanged views on issues related to management and articulation with other departmental directors.

• Areas of inter-institutional articulation With the purpose of facilitating inter-institutional articulation on the territorial level, nine areas of articulation, where actors and institutions with a level of influence on the territory through programmes, or lines of actions, operate, were analyzed. These areas are intended to foster articulation that boosts joint actions in the territory. The analyses were aimed at highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, thus suggesting future courses of action for better use of these areas.

• Third level of government In keeping with the strengthening of subnational governments, it is worth mentioning the project to strengthen the Executive Board of the National Plenary of Municipalities (PNM). Its main objective is to contribute to the third level of government decentralization process in Uruguay. For that purpose, support actions were geared towards the institutional and technical consolidation of the PNM and also to position this entity as a relevant political actor on the local and national level.

• Local Economic Development Agencies Over the years, UNDP ART Uruguay has provided technical assistance to the Network of Local Economic Development Agencies (RADEL) with the purpose

of promoting the public-private articulation as a territorial economic development strategy. Within this framework, not only have technical and administrative activities been undertaken, but agreements to work with national actors have also been promoted.

Additionally, periodic meetings and symposiums have been organized between the Agencies that make up the network to encourage joint reflections towards more concrete territorial action.

STARTING FROM THE TERRITORIES TO BUILD AND SUSTAIN PEACE: THE EXPERIENCE OF NARIÑO, COLOMBIA During the years 2008-2013, through the ART REDES programme, UNDP has supported a wide range of territorial actors in reestablishing the “social contract” in this conflict-prone region, in partnership with Nariño’s department and Pasto’s municipality. This process originated from Nariño’s desire to rationalize the multitude of international cooperation interventions, as their numbers grew due to the armed conflict and humanitarian crisis afflicting the region.

With the commitment of the Presidential Agency for Cooperation (APC), the involvement of the local and regional government, the participation of social, ethnic and community actors and the support of multiple development partners (including decentralized cooperation), Nariño has adopted and localized the proposed frameworks of multi-level governance and territorial development, as well as their mechanisms (such as the Working Groups and Local Economic Development Agencies) aimed at promoting dialogue, articulating actors and making international cooperation strategies converge towards local needs and priorities.

The programme has helped Nariño and Pasto explore, experiment and implement an innovative local strategy for development cooperation effectiveness, from a social and peace building perspective. The process has resulted in the promotion of innovative and transforming synergies that combine elements of territorial development, LGLD and peace building.

Since then, the department of Nariño has continued to use these frameworks to engage all territorial actors to build and sustain peace. In the context of the political dialogue advanced by the national government to end the armed conflict and achieve peace, Nariño has

carried out a territorial exercise of peace and social innovation starting from its own territory. Counting on the participation of more than five thousand citizens of the department, through the celebration of 62 municipal dialogues and 40 sectorial dialogues, Nariño has come to shape its own Peace Agenda.

The construction exercise of the Nariño Peace Agenda gave voice to the territorial actors, benefiting from their knowledge, as well as their understanding of the needs of the community, recognizing similarities and differences according to gender, culture, ethnicity and location: women and men of all ages, belonging to rural and urban contexts, indigenous communities, Afro-descendants and peasants, participated in the process and had the opportunity to share their opinion and vision.

Several recommendations of the Nariño Peace Agenda have been incorporated into the development plan of the department which is recognition of the Governorate’s efforts to have a strategic tool for the integral development management of Nariño in the short, medium and long term. The plan outlines the route to close the gaps at the origin of the armed conflict and aims to contribute to the implementation of the Agreements recently endorsed by the Congress of the Republic for the consolidation of territorial peace, and also makes a clear commitment to the global objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs.

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BOLIVIA, ECUADOR AND PERU JOIN FORCES TO PROMOTE THEIR COMMON CULTURAL HERITAGE The project “Developing Local Capacities to Promote Integrated Community Cultural Tourism integrating Qhapaq Nan in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador”, funded by the Italian government facilitated by UNDP, aims to contribute to improving the quality of life of residents of the communities in the Qhapaq Nan path, safeguard the environment and cultural heritage of the area, and lay the foundations for community heritage tourism in Qhapaq Nan across Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. The Qhapaq Nan is an extensive Inca communication, trade and defense network of roads covering 30,000 kilometers, constructed by the Incas over several centuries and partly based on pre-Inca infrastructure3.

The project, launched in 2016, builds on the active UNDP local development programmes in Bolivia and Ecuador, and represents a great opportunity for joint work between the three participating countries. It will facilitate sharing experiences and lessons learned and capitalize and protect the region’s unique legacy: the three countries have agreed to a concerted tri-national multilevel Master Plan that defines the strategic guidelines to position community heritage tourism as an essential component of the area’s offering in the tourism sector.

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The initiative will promote integrated community tourism in the three countries, taking their common heritage as its starting point. It will focus on local and community capacities to manage community heritage tourism, and represents a sustainable, locally owned, empowering and eco-friendly action that can provide a sustainable and alternative income-generating activity to the communities that live along the Qhapaq path — usually marginalized and poor. The initiative will directly benefit 400 families (approximately 1,500 people) from the indigenous population and over 3.5 million people indirectly, who will all benefit from the gains generated by the increase in tourism and the valorization and preservation of the cultural heritage.

A synergy-building initiative, it represents a case in point of cross-border collaboration through concerted actions that are based on a common territorial asset and facilitated by UNDP.

STRATEGIC COOPERATION BETWEEN ALGERIA, UNDP AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) A new project on Local Development and Participatory Democracy (CAPDEL, the French acronym) has just been formulated and initiated in close cooperation between UNDP (with ART’s support), the EU and the Algerian Ministry of Interior and Local Collectivities. The Project revolves around two independent pillars: supporting the modernization of the Algerian public administration and the sectorial strategies for hydrocarbons, and supporting the capacity development of local actors, namely women and youth, to promote local development and access to quality public services. The project’s main objectives are: establishing instruments and approaches that promote civil society’s participation, reinforcing the institutional and individual capacities at the local level in participatory governance while focusing on women’s and youth access to local public services and economic opportunities, and reinforcing the capacities of civil society organizations so they can better participate in local development processes.

Under the capacity development pillar, the project will develop the capacities of local actors to push forward pilot approaches that will be tested on the local level and then will evolve into good practices on the national level.

For UNDP, this partnership with the Algerian Government and the EU represents a strategic synergy-building initiative for cooperation between the Government and its international partners to promote citizen participation and local governance. The project will also contribute to positioning Algeria as a model in terms of local human development, namely in the implementation of the SDGs at the local level.

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A new global agenda “to transform the world”

“All actors at all levels have to be involved in the efforts to implement and monitor the SDGs and their targets to ensure a better world for all by 2030.”

On September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was unanimously approved by the 193 Member States of the United Nations. The Agenda’s 17 ambitious SDGs and their 169 targets represent a new bold development framework that is universal and transformative.

Because the Agenda calls for “integrated solutions” that break down the traditional development sector silos and create horizontal policy coherence, integration and partnerships, all levels of governance are concerned: national, subnational and local4.

The new all-encompassing 17 SDGs are the result of an unprecedented, inclusive and participatory consultative process that, for two years, involved thousands of stakeholders from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society5 around the globe.

The 2030 Agenda links progress to social well-being and therefore has the All actors at all levels have to potential to increase the world’s level of be involved in the efforts to development; indeed, the successful imimplement and monitor the SDGs plementation of the SDGs could chart the and their targets to ensure a course of a new universal development arbetter world for all by 2030 chitecture and significantly change the traditional mindset in relation to development.

To achieve this potential, however, implementing the SDGs will require concrete actions on local, national, regional and global levels, and the firm commitment of not only national governments, but also local and regional governments (LRGs), who need to assume a leading role in the process.

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THE 17 GOALS OF THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT6

“The 2030 Agenda is an incredible opportunity for LRGs around the world to transform local realities and to put local issues at the forefront.”

Seifallah Lasram, Mayor of Tunis, in the framework of the Third World Forum of Local Economic Development

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LOCALIZING THE SDGs The 2030 Agenda is a complex, comprehensive “global development strategy”, and its SDGs are deeply linked to one another. It will therefore need multidisciplinary efforts and a multi-sectorial, multi-level approach, very much akin to the one promoted by UNDP through ART for over a decade to address development challenges. It will also reThe Agenda will require engaging quire strategic policy guidance in complex and intertwined and the identification of practiprocesses, from mobilizing cal and concrete tools that can the support and partnerships contribute to implementing the to improving institutional 2030 Agenda. The combined cooperation and reducing silos. policy and practical support would allow for the incorporation of SDGs at all levels; in national strategies and policies, Localizing refers to the process as well as in local development planning, thus facilitating their of designing, implementing and implementation on the local monitoring SDG implementation level. strategies in alignment with the Dubbed as “game-changing”, priorities and opportunities that the new development architecthe local setting allows. The local ture will also need to emphasize level is therefore understood to landing the SDGs on the local be the key site for delivery and level (also known as localizing) development. to create local ownership, thereby making this change sustainable in the long-term and maximizing its impact.

The MDG process provided the development community valuable lessons, from the need to tackle development in an integrated manner to the need for localization for sustainable results — and it has taken good note.

It is now widely recognized that it is the involvement of local, regional and national gov-

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ernments that will make SDG implementation and localization succeed and last. In addition, it has become clear that local leadership and strong, capacitated, and institutionally developed LRGs are needed to lead their territories’ and population’s development, and contribute to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Furthermore, a dynamic community engagement is key to reinforcing the sense of ownership of the 2030 Agenda among local stakeholders, which will be crucial for implementation. These observations were highlighted in 2014 during the dialogues on localization of the SDGs, which were co-led by UNDP through ART, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for post-2015 Development Agenda towards Habitat III (GTF) and UN-HABITAT. These, and subsequent global discussions, also stressed that achieving the 2030 Agenda on the local level will require avoiding fragmentation (also known as working in silos) and considering development as the effect of several interlinked results, that is, as an indivisible whole.

To strengthen and empower LRGs, however, it is important to support capacity development processes, as empowered and more capacitated local governments will be better able to locally mainstream, implement and monitor the SDGs. In other words, capacity development is recognized as the engine of human development7, for it allows individuals and societies to “set and achieve their own development objectives” and sustain them over time.

To strengthen local governance, local capacities need to be strengthened first, ultimately by laying the foundations for better implementation of the 2030 agenda.

By ensuring the inclusion of local stakeholders, local governance fosters broader-based ownership, commitment and accountability, all indispensable elements for sound and functioning multi-level governance.

www.LocalizingTheSDGs.org

Capacity development for local governance stakeholders is key to translate the new Agenda into transformative action.

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SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions A significant and challenging goal, because it involves introducing far reaching and long lasting social and institutional changes, SDG 16 is dedicated to “the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, the provision of access to justice for all, and building effective and accountable institutions at all levels”8 — a necessary novel element that was not included in the MDGs. It is an enabling goal for the entire Agenda, because peaceful and inclusive societies are the foundation of sustainable development.

SDG 16 will need a major involvement from civil society actors across continents, and is intimately linked to many other SDGs through its local and urban dimensions. Achieving SDG 16 will allow a significant reSDG 16 is both an end in itself, duction of all forms of violence, the end of abuse, exploitation and a crucial part of delivering and human trafficking, and the sustainable development in promotion of accountable and all countries. It has, in fact, inclusive institutions, the rule of been seen by many as being a law and human rights at the natransformational goal and key to tional and international levels. ensuring that the Agenda can be SDG 16 is particularly peraccomplished.9 tinent to UNDP’s work because building and strengthening inclusive and effective democratic governance is one of the three priority areas of UNDP’s Strategic Plan and one of its main areas of expertise.

UNDP has decades of work in these areas, and thanks to its presence in nearly 170 countries, it is in a unique position to support Member States in building peaceful societies, promoting the rule of law and establishing effective, accountable and inclusive institutions. UNDP can assist in pushing SDG 16 forward by piloting

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the approach to governance in the context of the SDGs, hosting virtual networks of experts, and partnering with various stakeholders in support of governance and localization, from the Praia Group on Governance Statistics10, tasked with addressing the conceptualization, methodology and instruments for producing statistics related to governance, peace and security, to the African Union’s Strategy for harmonizing statistics in Africa11, and to GTF and HABITAT for developing the Toolbox for localizing the SDGs. In addition, UNDP can also offer guidance and established know-how on local governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Both SDG 11 and 16 point to the increasing importance of growing urbanization, particularly in developing countries. As the world braces for an urban population of 66 percent by 2050, it is urgent to promote sustainable urbanization and the localization of the SDGs in the cities, with LRGs taking a leading role in spearheading this change.

“Success on Goal 16 could drive progress for all other goals.”

Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

MAPS: Supporting SDG implementation

The UN system will divert considerable efforts towards supporting Governments implementing the SDGs through the MAPS approach.

The importance of LRGs —particularly in cities— in the new development paradigm, is well described in the SDG 11, which places special emphasis on cities, as “hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development […]”12 despite the challenges they face: poverty, inequalities, and insufficient housing and inadequate infrastructure, to name but a few. But the role of LRGs in the new 2030 Agenda goes well beyond SDG 11, and the action of local governance stakeholders will be crucial for the achievement of most of the Agenda. Working for more sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities and territories would help LRGs contribute to growth and achieve their potential. In this respect, the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the HABITAT III Conference celebrated in Quito in October 201613,

Achieving any of the SDGs will require all parts of the UN and its partners to work together and to show flexibility and adaptability to local concerns and contexts.

In light of the complex processes that need to be put in place to achieve the SDGs, and to respond to requests from Member States for coordinated support from the UN development system in implementing the 2030 Agenda, the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), under the Sustainable Development Working Group, has adopted a common approach for effective and coherent implementation support, under the acronym ‘MAPS’, which stands for Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support. MAPs focuses on policy coherence, multi-level governance and multistakeholder engagement, paying special attention to the crosscutting elements of partnerships, data and accountability.

MAPS14 Mainstreaming: landing the new post-2015 on national and local levels and integrating into national, subnational, and local plans for development […]

Acceleration: targeting national (and UN) resources at priority areas identified in the mainstreaming process […]

Policy Support: making sure that the skills and expertise held in the UN development system is made available in a timely way and at the lowest cost possible.

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A GLOBAL ALLIANCE TO PROMOTE SDG 16 To respond to the need for a new “monitoring architecture” for the SDGs, and taking into account the many stakeholders involved in making SDG 16 happen, a new form of partnership between Member States, civil society and businesses was needed.

The “Global Tripartite Alliance to promote goal 16” has been therefore established by UNDP, drawing its strength from the inclusive spirit of the 2030 Agenda.

The Global Alliance is mainly aimed at increasing the number of States that voluntarily track and monitor progress on the implementation of SDG 16.

It will be informed by other ongoing efforts to harness resources and innovation in support of this objective, and will count with UNDP’s support to convene existing technical platforms for monitoring and reporting. The Alliance adds a new dimension to the efforts towards SDG 16 by creating synergies between the multiple interests and skills of its members: the political

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leadership of Member States, the local knowledge and perspectives of civil society, the technical expertise of the private sector, and the convening power and global reach of UNDP. The Alliance’s strategy evolves around three main axes, including advocacy (for meaningful and consistent reporting on SDG 16 by Member States); support (in developing monitoring frameworks and reporting tools for SDG 16) and technical advice (to establish systems and build capacity to collect and analyze data and report on SDG 16).

LOCAL VOICES IN GLOBAL AGENDAS Local and Regional Governments: development agents and partners The importance of LRGs in the success of the SDG implementation, monitoring and reviewing is now globally and unanimously acknowledged. Past development experiences, initiatives and assessments, as well as extensive stocktaking exercises, have all pointed to the crucial role of LRGs in the design, implementation and monitoring of development processes.

For several years now, LRGs and their associations have assumed an increasingly proactive and leading role in negotiating the inclusion of LRGspecific references and strategic issues in major development debates. Such was the case in Busan (2011, HLF-4), Rio (2012, Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development)15 and the Dialogues on Localizing the post-2015 Development Agenda (2014, dialogue meetings held in 13 countries around the globe and at regional levels).

Aware of the need to link global development debates to local practices, for more than ten years now UNDP ART has joined forces with LRGs, their associations, and other local govern-

ance actors in their efforts to have a voice in global development discussions. Moreover, the ART initiative has always seen its role beyond that of a “transmission belt” (albeit this is an important one) as it has also brokered partnerships, facilitated complementarity and reconciled different agendas in the global development arena, while respecting and underpinning the specificities and particularities of the territories.

Today, including LRGs as development agents and partners in global policy debates is a process that has gone from informal and rather unusual in the development scene, to a coherent, mainstreamed policy component within UNDP and the UN in general.

“We have common challenges, and therefore shared solutions to identify. The territories can find these solutions, which need to be identified locally, because acting locally means acting globally.”

Valérie Dumontet, Vice-President of the Aude Department, France, in the framework of the Third World Forum of Local Economic Development

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From dialogues to alliances The Dialogues on Localizing the post-2015 Agenda16, co-led by UNDP and UN Habitat, on behalf of the UNDG, and by the GTF, marked a turning point in this respect because the means of implementation of the SDGs were being debated with the active participation, since the earliest stages of the discussions, of local stakeholders.

In addition, LRGs not only participated in the debates, but also, in many cases, led, co-led or chaired them, assuming an unprecedented leadership role, mainly through the GTF. The dialogues were carried out jointly with national governThe success of the development ments, local governments and agenda requires partnerships their associations, citizens as between governments, the private well as communities, and the sector and civil society. These results included important coninclusive partnerships are built tributions from the local level, on principles and values, a shared which allowed putting forward vision and shared goals that place local issues and concerns on people and the planet at the the global level. center.17 The success of the Dialogues on Localizing the post2015 Development Agenda and the influence they achieved on the global level showed that this dialogue needed to continue, to be reinforced, and to include more actors. The dialogues’ process highlighted the added value of establishing linkages between local actors and the global arena, and of adopting an integrated approach to territorial development. The latter, in particular, was consolidated on the global level as one of the elements that would determine the success of SDG localization. This was a groundbreaking and indispensable shift, because while the SDGs are global and concern all countries,

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their achievement depends on their implementation locally, in cities and regions worldwide.

But not only that: the 2030 Agenda, complex and ambitiously comprehensive, cannot succeed without the consolidation (or emergence) of broad-based partnerships, without a global alliance between governments, civil society, and the private sector, that includes close collaboration among LRGs and between all levels of governments, whether implicit or explicit. This is so because all SDGs have targets that are directly related to the responsibilities of LRGs, and therefore, the 2030 Agenda will only succeed if LRGs are at its core, as full-fledged partners in the implementation of the SDGs. UNDP through ART is committed to contributing to strengthen this necessary global alliance, to following up on the post-2015 dialogues and to bringing together a wide array of institutions and associations to stimulate discussions and to pushing for concrete actions on localization. It is within this framework that several collaborations have been initiated, including the association of the Union of Ibero-American Capitals (UCCI), the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the Ibero-American Union of Municipalists (UIM) and the Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities (CNM), etc.

UNDP is well positioned to play an active role in harnessing the linkages necessary for this global alliance because, since 2005, it has promoted alliances and territorial partnerships between different actors and across sectors, and contributed to establishing a network of more than 600 development partners from the North and the South. Through the Hub for territorial partnerships, UNDP capitalizes on the potential of LRGs and other social and economic actors in the territories to promote the imple-

mentation and localization of the SDGs (2015, towards 2030). It was therefore only natural that the alliance between UNDP, UN-HABITAT, and the GTF for the dialogues would pave the way to a wider “Global Alliance” for the localization of the SDGs that includes many more development actors, particularly from the local level. Today, this forward-looking global alliance is composed of a wide spectrum of stakeholders and is expected to mobilize the necessary resources and capacities for localization. This includes the elaboration of several tools and instruments, making up the Toolbox for localizing the SDGs, as well as the implementation of various projects to support the localization of the SDGs in partnership with interested local governments and associations.

One of the thematic focuses of this alliance will naturally be the global process of Local Economic Development, as it is considered a privileged means to implementing the agenda while “leaving no one behind”.

This reinforced alliance is timely and necessary, and hopes to continue growing as new partners join; the stronger the alliance, the better it will be able to advocate and secure the necessary political commitment on local, national and global levels. Similarly, a strong global alliance will

be better able to manage the challenges that will certainly arise during the implementation and localization process of the SDGs. For instance, this alliance has been adopted in Quito added value when it comes to facing the challenges posed by the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) that has been defined in Quito in October 2016 during the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development HABITAT III conference. The NUA can indeed complement the 2030 Agenda, outlining a roadmap for SDG implementation, in particular for those SDGs that are connected to the urban agenda.

All development partners are invited to participate in this unprecedented global alliance to contribute to positioning local concerns and aspirations on the table of global debates, and to lobby for their inclusion as crucial factors that will determine the success of the SDGs. Big or small, from North or South, all actors matter in the global equation for a better planet for all.

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AN ALLIANCE OF CITIES FOR THE SDGs A case in point partnership is that of is that of various capital cities facilitated by UCCI and UNDP. This initiative will involve the participant cities’ network of local actors, which constitutes an important added value due to the sheer number they represent, its geographical and thematic outreach, its technical and innovation capacity, and its leadership role in the development of an inclusive and sustainable urban development for the localization of the SDGs. This alliance will be multi-actor, with the participation of various countries, and will be aligned to national policies. It will also implement a territorial approach to development, linking the development of cities to their geographical surroundings, and including rural-urban linkages and articulation with the intermediate/subnational levels of government.

The joint work of these pilot projects, supported

by UNDP through ART, ultimately aim at advancing the localization of SDGs in the urban context.

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I-STEPS: HARMONIZATION OF TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS The initiative “Innovation in Sustainable Territorial Partnerships” (I-STEPS) has been one of UNDP ART’s mechanisms for supporting the harmonization of decentralized cooperation partners and the promotion SHD on the local level for a few years now, using the existing frameworks established by UNDP ART in the countries. The municipalities of Barcelona and Bilbao (Spain), Milan (Italy) and the Basque Country have been part of the initiative since its beginnings. On the ground, I-STEPS has facilitated several activities and quick impact projects in Lebanon and Ecuador.

In 2015 and 2016, I-STEPS continued with implementation, based on the priorities identified in partner countries and territories carried out in the previous years. This exercise allowed the matching of local needs with the resources available among I-STEPS partners in terms of know-how, technical support, and financial contribution with endogenous local development processes. In Ecuador and Lebanon, partnerships were established, and capacity-building processes in priority territories initiated, in support of

key initiatives that boost critical local development processes. Such activities include the productive matrix change in Ecuador —changing the way Ecuador produces and consumes to improve wealth distribution— and responding to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon by improving sustainable access to water for vulnerable populations through the definition and implementation of a new national water management strategy.

Throughout these phases, I-STEPS has brought together local, national and global stakeholders. In this way, it is contributing to SDG implementation on all levels.

To reinforce this potential, think tanks that are part of the I-STEPS initiative are gathering and systematizing ongoing successful development practices, processes, and policies in I-STEPS territories in order to promote and facilitate knowledge sharing with other countries and partners.

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The Advisory Committee: A mechanism to encourage articulation and high-level dialogue for the SDGs In order to facilitate a dialogue with LRGs, as key development actors and partners for the delivery of the SDGs, UNDP has decided to establish a mechanism for high-level policy dialogue on development-related issues between UNDP’s Senior Management and LRGs and their associations: the Advisory Committee (AC) of Local and Regional Governments to UNDP. The AC is expected to translate the consultations into concrete outcomes and joint interventions in support of local development processes and the localization of the SDGs, and to become a “sounding board” for UNDP’s Senior Management on key development policies and strategies.

By establishing the AC, UNDP is clearly acknowledging the increased role of LRGs, at the political level and in formulating and implementing development policies that respond to local realities. By doing so, UNDP is also strengthening its advocacy role on issues that are crucial to LRGs, and extending their voices to international development debates. The AC will also feed into the Integrated Framework to Support Local Governance and Local Development, as it will facilitate mobilizing partners, creating synergies and promoting systematic exchanges — which in turn will reinforce the role of LRGs as development partners.

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monization and alignment of local development initiatives with the multilateral system and national development plans and will be able to better guide a targeted support to LRGs worldwide.

The first meeting of the AC is expected to take place at the beginning of 2017 and will revolve around three pillars: following up on HABITAT III (with a special focus on how to translate priorities into joint UNDP-LRG global and country-based initiatives); contributing to UNDP’s urbanization strategy; and supporting the process of SDG localization and reviewing while building on UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017 and Integrated Framework to Support LGLD, with a specific focus on Goal 16.

The AC will be composed of nine members selected by UNDP with key LRGs and their associations: three major global LRG associations, two national or regional LRG associations and four individual LRGs from various levels. The AC’s meetings will be supported by the Secretariat, which will be hosted in the UNDP Brussels office and facilitated by UNDP ART Initiative.

LOCAL VOICES IN THE GLOBAL ARENA In the framework of the 2016 High Level Political Forum, the platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs held in New York in July 2016, a side event on “Localizing the SDGs, transforming global goals into local realities”, was organized by UNDP in collaboration with the GTF and UN HABITAT as well as Italy and Canada. The side event aimed at sharing experiences on the first efforts to localize the SDGs, strengthening the needed political commitment, and reinforcing a global partnership among stakeholders for the local implementation of the Agenda.

The meeting was significant because it once more underlined the importance of localization as a process that is not limited to translating global goals on the local level, but that also involves and requires the empowerment of local stakeholders.

Additionally, it was an opportunity for participants to present the activities that have been carried out and the challenges encountered thus far in localizing the SDGs, and further exploring the mechanisms and areas where stakeholders can best collaborate to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The side event provided a timely platform to raise awareness on the importance of promoting a broad partnership to localize the SDGs and on the need for a strong political commitment to make it happen.

UNDP, through the ART initiative, and in collaboration with the EU Committee of the Regions, organized a Lab-session on the importance of strengthening innovative partnerships to support the localization of the SDGs (particularly to achieve Goal 16) in 2016. Local government representatives (from the Basque Country and Generalitat of Valencia, Spain, and Coulaines, France) and their networks shared the experiences and tools they are using to localize development goals, within the framework of the Toolbox for Localizing the SDGs. The ensuing discussions underscored the need for coordination on the local level among governance levels, and for inclusive partnerships with the private sector, civil society and youth, to boost the efforts towards the SDGs, and Goal 16 in particular. The event, with its focus on how to best localize the SDGs, presented an opportunity for exchanging concrete local experiences, emerging know-how and mechanisms aimed at contributing to localization.

Two events were organized in the framework of the “European Development Days” (EDD), the largest European Development Forum, in 2015 and 2016. In 2015, the European Year for Development, the event showcased how the European Union and its citizens were contributing to the eradication of poverty and the promotion of Human Rights, while the 2016 EDD highlighted the need to confront the new challenges associated to the SDGs and their localization with a reinforced global partnership around this overarching and unifying objective. Both events provided an exceptional opportunity for the international community to discuss innovative development approaches and exchange experiences and lessons learned.

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Enhancing Development Cooperation Effectiveness Achieving the SDGs will be as much about the effectiveness of development cooperation as about the form this cooperation takes. Improving the effectiveness, quality and impact of development cooperation in this context will require inclusive partnerships, innovative approaches and actions on the local, national and global levels.

Since ART’s beginnings, its instruments and mechanisms ART has always showcased how have facilitated consensus the various tools it proposes building, dialogue and multiand the innovative cooperation sectorial planning, contributmechanisms it facilitates, ing to promoting development combined with the active cooperation effectiveness on the local level though harparticipation of LRGs, can monization, alignment and advance development cooperation ownership. ART’s methodoleffectiveness locally. ogy and practical instruments

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(working groups, national coordination committees and international cooperation guidelines), tested for over a decade in the countries, have historically supported development cooperation effectiveness locally as a means to reach sustainable and outreaching outcomes that are in line with national priorities and strategies and part of a multi-sectorial and complementary development approach that gathers as many development partners as possible around shared goals.

Strengthen by its solid linkages with LRGs and their associations and its long track record in advocating for development cooperation effectiveness and experience in translating principles of effectiveness into concrete actions on the ground, ART has been actively involved in most global processes linked to the promotion of development cooperation effectiveness. For instance, in preparation for the 2011 HLF-4, ART facilitated a global consultative process with development partners that contributed to appraising the role of LRGs in achieving development effectiveness,

and put them at the forefront of international development debates for the first time. In 2012, it was involved in the in the UNDP-OECD led Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, a platform that brings together governments, bilateral and multilateral organizations, civil society, parliament representatives and the private sector to advance the effectiveness of development cooperation efforts and therefore contribute to achieving SHD. Thanks to its lobbying efforts, LRGs now have a seat in the Global Partnership.

In 2014, ART was involved in a focus session on effective development cooperation, LED and innovative cooperation modalities in the Mexico High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. All throughout, ART has continued to participate in several side events on development cooperation effectiveness, contributing to global policy debates on the issue, and promoting initiatives that feed into the effectiveness of development cooperation on local and country levels. The UNDP ART Initiative

is looking forward to sharing these experiences in the next High-Level meeting of the Global Partnership, which will take place at the end of November 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. By doing so, UNDP through ART, aims to continue facilitating the involvement of LRGs in the debates on development cooperation effectiveness, and ensuring they are linked in and responding to territorial priorities and concerns, particularly regarding localization of the SDGs. The following two cases highlight how the UNDP ART approach and tools, contextualized to the countries’ differentiated needs and national processes, can contribute to development effectiveness.

The instrument to measure development cooperation effectiveness at the local level has been designed and implemented in Ecuador with the support of SETECI (the Technical Secretariat for International Cooperation in Ecuador) and in collaboration with UNDP ART’s programme. Over the years, the instrument has contributed to improving development effectiveness at the local level. It has allowed LRGs to measure alignment, ownership and harmonization – thereby promoting local ownership, empowering local actors and fostering mutual accountability within development cooperation.

It is yet another example that illustrates UNDP ART’s concrete contribution to the global efforts towards development effectiveness and to the local implementation of international processes.

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PROMOTING THE SDGS IN TUNISIA THROUGH PARTICIPATORY MECHANISMS The Government of Tunisia, firmly committed to advance sustainable development in all its regions, has pledged to incorporate the 17 SDGs in its national development planning. To do so, each of the country’s governorates vowed to follow participatory development planning processes in 2015 and 2016 to elaborate the Regional Five-Year Plans, which are to be part of the National Development Five-Year Plan. Applying several elements of ART’s methodology, namely a participatory, multi-stakeholder and process-oriented approach, the Governorate of Medenine, through established working groups, analyzed its current development plan under an SDG “lens”. The process culminated in the elaboration of the Medenine Cooperation Guidelines, which identify the region’s priority SDGs. This prioritization aimed, among other things, at promoting ownership and awareness of the SDGs by local actors. Territorial actors actively participated in contextualizing the SDGs to their needs and priorities, and 50 local representatives received further training on the SDGs. Working by themes, territorial actors were able to reflect on their region’s priorities, an exercise that will be crucial for the implementation and follow up of the SDGs at the local level.

International Cooperation Guidelines ART buttresses the alignment of development plans and strategies to national and local territorial priorities through several mechanisms. For instance, from a broad perspective, the International Cooperation Guidelines (ICGs) are the practical translation of the new cooperation paradigm, whereby donors’ resources ought to respond to the concerted demands of the territories.

ICGs offer joint diagnoses, guidelines and strategic projects to development partners, and facilitate their alignment with the territory’s strategies, institutions and procedures. ICGs are also useful tools for presenting integrated demands to the competent ministries and national programmes.

The ICGs guide development partners’ interventions towards a harmonized vision of the territory’s future through concrete initiatives, contribute to the identification of new partners and resource mobilization and promote development cooperation effectiveness.

PRIORITIZING NEEDS AFTER ECUADOR’S EARTHQUAKE On April 2016, a massive earthquake hit Ecuador; in the region since the 2010 Haiti natural disaster. A total of 661 people lost their lives and almost a quarter of a million were affected, with entire cities and communities destroyed. The two hardest hit provinces were Manabí and Esmeraldas. UNDP, through the structures put in place over a decade ago by the, now institutionalized, UNDP ART framework, swiftly mobilized to respond to the emergency, focusing on supporting early recovery and productive reconstruction. With the two affected provincial governments, UNDP’s Area of Territorial Development defined the most pressing needs in relation to early recovery and productive reactivation, to mobilize decentralized cooperation partners according to their areas of expertise. The provinces identified cash for

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work, productive value chains, entrepreneurship and employment centers, small grants, recovery of community infrastructure, technical-entrepreneurial support and community centers as the roadmap for recovery, stabilization and economic invigoration. The participatory mechanisms, now nationally owned, were quickly activated for a localized, “bottom-up” identification of needs and priorities, contributing to focusing the efforts of development partners where they were needed the most and to harmonizing the interventions of development partners in response to the devastating earthquake.

The Third World Forum of Local Economic Development: from Turin 2015 towards Cabo Verde 2017 REPORT

Third World Forum of Local Economic Development was organized by the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Turin, UCLG and its Committee on Local Economic Development, through the Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity (FAMSI), the Organization of United Regions (ORU FOGAR), the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and UNDP. Held over four consecutive days, the Forum brought together more than 2,000 participants from over 130 countries, representing national, regional and local governments, associations, enterprises, foundations, academia and civil society organizations. High-level profiles attended the forum: the United Nations SecretaryGeneral, an Italian representation led by the President of the Senate and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ministers from Bolivia, Palestine and Mauritania18, ministry level delegates from various countries, Mayors and Presidents of Regions.

The Forum was held in Turin, in October 2015, a few weeks after the approval of the 2030 Agenda. It brought together a wide range of development actors from all levels to discuss the potential contribution of LED to the SDGs. As highlighted in the previous two forums held in 2011 and 2013, as well as in the preparatory regional forums as the one held in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Quito in May 2015, LED, as a transversal and operational approach, offers a concrete added value to the long process ahead in SDG implementation at the local level.

For instance, in Quito, the 750 participants from Co-organized by: 23 countries once more highlighted that LED can become an effective means for implementing the SDGs in the territories, stressed the importance

of joint work between LRGs and national governments, and pointed to the need for an articulated system of multi-level governance in the territories that facilitates dialogue, coordination and resource mobilization. Moreover, the preparatory meeting contributed to position the concerns of the Latin American and Caribbean region in the LED agenda.

“Local Economic Development raises living standards and fosters social inclusion, and this contributes to stability, peace and prosperity.�

Ban Ki-moon, during the Third World Forum of LED

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As highlighted in the previous two forums held in 2011 and 2013, as well as in the preparatory regional forums in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Quito in May 2015, LED, as a transversal and operational approach, offers a concrete added value to the long process ahead in SDG implementation at the local level. For instance, in Quito, the 750 participants from 23 countries once more highlighted that LED can become an effective means for implementing the SDGs in the territories, stressed the importance of joint work between LRGs and national Local Economic Development is governments, and pointed to a strategically planned, locally the need for an articulated sysdriven partnership approach to tem of multi-level governance enable employment creation, in the territories that facilitates poverty reduction and quality of dialogue, coordination and relife gains through improved local source mobilization. Moreover, economic governance. It is a the preparatory meeting contribtool that can contribute to more uted to position the concerns of the Latin and Caribbean region inclusive and equal development. in the LED agenda.

Over the years, the Forums have offered an ideal platform to analyze, through dialogue and exchange of experiences, the features of LED that show its potential as a strategy for driving the implementation of the SDGs on the local level. In the 3rd edition of the world event, celebrated in Turin, many of the experiences presented showed the relevance of the LED approach in addressing the development challenges linked to some of the SDGs and to their localization. Certainly, LED, one of the main pillars of the LGLD framework, can offer a tested and strategic approach, mostly because it is able to promote linkages and complementarities between actors and across levels and within an integrated approach. Furthermore, LED is also able to provide policies and tools to localize sustainable and inclusive economic growth and decent jobs creation, through elements such as a social solidarity economy, private sector engagement and partnerships, youth employment policies, green jobs policies, and South-South and Triangular cooperation.

At the end of the 3rd World Forum, partici-

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The 3rd World Forum tackled three thematic areas: Thematic line 1: Regional Competitiveness and Innovation for more Sustainable and Inclusive Development Thematic line 2: Localizing Employment Generation. Towards Local Inclusive Growth, Decent work and Green Jobs Thematic line 3: Implementing Sustainable Urban Development. LED strategies for creating positive urban rural linkages pants approved a Final Declaration that acknowledges LED as a “consolidated set of diverse and widely applied practices and tools” that can improve people’s opportunities for income and decent work “through improved economic governance based on strategically planned and locally driven partnership processes”. The declaration also reaffirmed the “strong relevance of LED as a people-centered and territorial approach to major global trends and challenges”.

Through the declaration, participants also explicitly recognized the importance of LRGs as initiators and drivers of LED processes, because they can have a direct influence on ownership and consensus and can promote partnership agreements and facilitate coordinated action.

With the support of UNDP, the Forum also

facilitated the establishment of LED can indeed become a several partnerships and agreevehicle of choice in integrating ments between decentralized coand localizing the SDGs, bringing operation (DC) actors and partner countries, LRGs or their associaconcrete experiences and inputs tions, for implementing concrete together for the challenges ahead. actions on the local level. Among others, new partnerships included Lebanon, Tunisia, Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador. In addition, dialogues and networking were facilitated with the Ibero-American Municipal Union, to name but a few.

The Fourth World Economic Forum will be held from 17 to 20 October 2017, in Praia, Cabo Verde, and will continue discussions on how LED can contribute to implementing and localizing the SDGs through its wealth of successful ex-

“We are witnessing a remarkable change. We have gone from localized economies to national frameworks and then globalization, to finally come back to more responsible and sustainable approaches. Local economy is, once more, where economic reflections take place.”

Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General of UCLG, Africa, in the framework of the Third World Forum of Local Economic Development

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periences and the aggregated know-how of participants, who often are networked and continue exchanging experiences and innovative ideas inbetween Forums and particularly in the lead-up preparatory events to the Forums; in this context, a Regional Forum for LED for Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Cochabamba from 28 to 31 March 2017.

In general, the 2017 Forum plans to focus on the relevance of LED as a framework for SDG localization, and in particular on how to use LED as a means to address rising inequalities, one of the main current challenges in both low- and high-income countries and within countries.

Other potential pertinent issues for discussion could be achieving social, economic, and territorial cohesion through LED, Social and Solidary Economy, “This event is an opportunity for which aims at ensuring social Cabo Verde and other countries to and economic inclusion with get to know the experiences of local the support of organizations governments in LED.” who strive to redistribute Francisca Inês dos Santos, Director of the Local gains among actors, and LED Development Unit / Advisor to the Prime Minister, for Small Islands19. Indeed, Government of Cape Verde, within the framework of LED can make a difference the 3rd World Economic Development Forum and offer relevant solutions

to such, and many other, economic challenges that might hamper SDG attainment globally and locally.

The 2017 World Forum of LED will allow further discussions and concrete proposals on how to address the main challenges of LED identified in Turin, namely of translating the Forum’s commitment into concrete measures, contributing to landing the SDGs, supporting the global alliance for LED processes at the local level, and enabling linkages through territorial partnerships.

Local alliances built at the global level, in this case in the third World Forum, have the tangible potential of transforming into concrete activities that contribute to LED in the territories. In Cabo Verde, for instance, with the collaboration of UNDP’s Regional Center for Services in Addis Ababa, and through ART’s Hub for territorial partnerships in Brussels, the Government will shortly begin implementing a One-UN project aimed at improving the impact, coordination and management of local development processes through the establishment of a multi-level, multi-actor and multi-sectorial articulation platform. The Platform for Local Development in Cabo Verde is conceived as a mechanism that will facilitate follow-up and achievement of the SDGs at the local level and landing the initiatives and partnerships established through the World Forum. The Platform will also contribute to mobilizing the existing potentialities of the territories, developing local capacities and launching instruments for kick-starting LED processes in the territories.

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MAINSTREAMING THE SDGs AT THE LOCAL LEVEL A practical Toolbox to localize the SDGs The “Toolbox to localize the SDGs” supports and enables LRGs to bring together all stakeholders in advancing the 2030 Agenda within their territories, and intends to facilitate the development of policies that will enable institutional arrangements to implement the SDGs at the local level.

The Toolbox aims to do this through mechanisms that promote awareness raising about the SDGs, policy and advocacy efforts, and capturing and proposing concrete mechanisms and instruments that contribute to an effective implementation and review of the SDGs at the local level.

The elaboration of the “Toolbox to localize the SDGs” was a natural continuation of the collaboration process that brought together the GTF, HABITAT and UNDP during the UNDG-mandated Dialogues on Localizing the Post-2015 Agenda. The ongoing collaboration to elaborate the Toolbox builds on and expands the principles established during the Dialogues, and capitalizes on the partnerships and consensus established in the previous years. Undoubtedly, the process is not starting from scratch: it builds on the extensive stocktaking exercise from the MDGs’ implementation and existing best practices in supporting and empowering local stakeholders in designing and

implementing development agendas in line with national priorities and global agendas.

The Toolbox aims to support, with practical and tested tools and examples, public managers and local actors to design development policies and efficiently implement them in line with the SDGs. The proposed instruments also have thematic “lenses”, first and foremost through the LED approach, considered one of the best means to implement locally the 2030 Agenda “leaving no one behind”. Over decades of work on LED, many territories have accumulated a wealth of knowhow that can be tapped into, and the Toolbox offers a timely channel to build on and disseminate this existing knowledge. ART is also well positioned to inform this process, for it has long been involved in facilitating the establishment of platforms and frameworks in support of development objectives and in promoting a territorial approach to development and LED.

What is localization?

Localization refers to the definition, implementation and follow-up of local policies and strategies to achieve local, national and global development results.

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The roadmap for localizing the SDGs: Implementation and Monitoring at the Subnational Level As part of the Toolbox’s component for advocacy and theoretical input, the “Roadmap for Localizing the SDGs” highlights and outlines the key elements as to why LRGs are key to the implementation of the SDGs at the local level. The Roadmap was elaborated by the GTF in collaboration with HABITAT and UNDP, to support local and regional governments in implementing and monitoring the SDGs and influencing national policy-making, ultimately creating an enabling environment for the SDGs. It covers a number of important areas of action for LRGs in relation to the SDGs and their localization, but is also offered as a useful resource for national policymakers, international organizations, civil society organizations, academia and anyone involved in the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs. The roadmap offers general guidelines and strategies on five main thematic areas: Awareness raising, Advocacy, Implementation, Monitoring, and a Way forward. The Toolbox then offers concrete instruments that can be applied locally in support of SDG implementation and localization.

While the Toolbox is the joint product of the GTF, HABITAT and UNDP, it is first and foremost the result of the contributions of a wide range of partners who brought in their practical experiences and innovations at the local level and enriched the Toolbox with concrete tools and suggestions.

Indeed, the complexity of the Agenda and the challenges that are associated to it require tools that can be adapted to the territories’ differentiated realities and needs, while providing suggestions based on Localization does not mean tested mechanisms and tools. “lowering” the agenda at the local The Toolbox is conceptuallevel; it is, rather, an opportunity ized as a flexible instrument to articulate the global, national that can be applied in various soand local dimensions through cioeconomic contexts, including territorial development systems in post-conflict settings. Some of that can provide integrated and its mechanisms include the desustainable responses to people’s velopment of appropriate tools needs and aspirations. to facilitate SDG localization by carrying out specific diagnostics

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at the local level, subsequently integrating the SDGs into sub-national strategies and plans, and monitoring their implementation locally. In other cases, mechanisms have been designed to facilitate multi-level governance and multi-stakeholder involvement to harmonize efforts while addressing the gaps and bottlenecks for the local implementation of the SDGs. This is done while always maintaining close coordination with national efforts and coherence with global commitments, to ensure harmonization and alignment. The Toolbox also facilitates advocacy and lobbying to raise awareness on the SDGs and on the importance of localization through guidance and tailored tools, such as mechanisms and best practices that are based on existing instruments that have undergone stocktaking processes. It is directed first and foremost at LRGs and their associations, but also to civil society organizations, the private sector, academia and national governments that are involved in the efforts to localize the SDGs.

The Toolbox includes tools, instruments and innovations that can support the localization of the SDGs around the following main components: A

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Initializing the SDGs process

Enabling institutional arrangements for SDGs implementation

Capacity strengthening

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Awareness raising Diagnostics Strategies and plans Monitoring, review and reporting

1. Multi-level governance 2. Territorial multistakeholder approach 3. Accountability 4. Development cooperation effectiveness

All development partners are invited to participate in and contribute to this pioneering knowledge and information sharing process through the online platform.

Your experiences matter and enrich this global exercise with a unique and invaluable local perspective. You can upload and share your experiences, tools and instruments on the online platform and take the opportunity to engage in real-time discussions with all participating partners.

The Toolbox is for all to use! It is an “open source� that can be adapted as needed to territorial realities and perspectives. We hope it will grow as we go, and become the platform of reference for tools and guides on SDG implementation.

To participate, please visit the Toolbox online platform at www.localizingthesdgs.org

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MAINSTREAMING THE SDGS AT THE TERRITORIAL LEVEL: THE CASE OF VALENCIA In July 2015, the newly elected regional Government (Generalitat) of Valencia started a process to incorporate the SDGs as a guiding framework within its public policies — not only those pertaining to development. To achieve its goals, the Generalitat has focused on localizing the agenda through three strategic vectors —information, awareness and commitment— and at three levels of action —local, national and global— through a noteworthy innovative pedagogic methodology.

Under the information component, the Generalitat is providing training to its administrations and local councils, as well as an online training on the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda to public employees; it also promoting education and research on the SDGs in Valencia’s public universities. To raise awareness among citizens, and in collaboration with local NGOs, the Generalitat has developed public campaigns and educational resources for community centers and schools.

All throughout the process, the Generalitat has sought the commitment of its public administrators, social and economic partners and citizens, as well as the partnership and collaboration of multilateral organizations.

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Interdepartmental Commission for the 2030 Agenda.

The Advisory Council aims at contributing to the strategic planning of the autonomous regions’ agenda on the SDGs and at defining priority actions that need to be addressed within the 2030 Agenda, whereas the Interdepartmental Commission will provide information and ensure coordination, coherence and complementarity within the different areas of the Administration’s development cooperation activities, aligning and following up on the Council’s policies aimed at implementing the 2030 Agenda. The Generalitat has also promoted an Alliance of Cities to advance the implementation of the SDGs at the territorial level, where the largest municipalities as well as the regional Federation have been involved and have taken up their role as promoters of the SDGs in their respective territories.

Committed to mainstream its efforts towards achieving the SDGs, and in a remarkably participatory approach, the Generalitat has also incorporated these principles in its development cooperation strategy through a participatory process that culminated in the elaboration of a new Cooperation Master Plan and a new law.

Altogether, these actions will ensure that efforts towards the SDGs are mainstreamed, coherent and harmonized.

UNDP through ART and the Generalitat have systematized Valencia’s remarkable experience, which has been presented in several international events as a case of best practices, together with a guide for LRGs on how to advance the 2030 Agenda. Both products will feed into the Toolbox and, as such, will be displayed in the Virtual Platform for Localizing the SDGs. The Generalitat and UNDP ART will continue working together in order to push forward the SDGs locally, nationally and internationally, demonstrating how innovative, yet complex solutions can be applied to achieve sustainable development through partnerships, decentralized cooperation, sharing and dissemination of best practices that take place under a multi-level, territorial and integrated approach to development.

Integrated Local Development Systems

WORKING WITH THE CNM TO STRENGTHEN THE ROLE OF BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES IN SDG LOCALIZATION Established in 1980, the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) is a Brazilian association with over 5,500 affiliated municipalities. The CNM’s mission is to consolidate the municipal movement, strengthen the municipalities’ autonomy and make the organization a world reference for municipalities. With UNDP, CNM is currently implementing a project to strengthen the role of municipalities in localization, particularly with regards to monitoring and accountability on the SDGs. This will be achieved through raising the awareness of municipalities —namely to those officials elected at the end of 2016— on the adoption of the SDGs, and on their role in implementing them in the territories;

strengthening their capacities to integrate the SDGs in local planning; and adapting the monitoring and accountability systems to follow-up on SDG implementation at the local level. The resulting best practices will be shared with other Latin American countries and inform their actions, promoting their recognition at the regional level. It will also contribute to strengthening a regional, and possibly global, alliance of LRGs committed to localize the SDGs.

A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE SDGS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION Recognizing the crucial role of LRG in localizing the SDGs, and as part of the implementation of the MAPS approach, UNDP in Asia-Pacific is sequencing its SDG support in the countries. In this region, most countries have undertaken decentralization and local governance reforms or have taken measures to strengthen local democracy and improve participatory local decision making processes. In this context, several Asia-Pacific countries requested UNDP’s support to develop their own diagnostic tools, as a regional, contextualized component of the Toolbox, to facilitate the implementation of the SDGs at the local level, to “unpack” what the SDGs mean at the local level (through mapping, assessments, among others) and to bring qualitative and quantitative data together for more effective SDG planning. The tool, which is being developed by the UNDP Regional Hub in Bangkok, with UNDP ART’s support and in close collaboration with national and local stakeholders, consists of three innovative features: a snapshot for governments and mayors, a local innovation lab for citizens and the private sector and a roadmap. There was no such tool in cities and regional governments, and UNDP, through its regional hub, responded to the call of filling the gap by offering capacity development and technical

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assistance support. The Asia-Pacific diagnostic tool aims to help cities, subnational governments and nonstate actors to initiate discussions on the SDGs, define priorities, facilitate institutional arrangements and build partnerships. The process will generate an “SDG executive snapshot” that will facilitate, among other things, advocacy for local priorities and resources, analysis of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of the local governments, mainstreaming local SDGs in planning and budgeting, engaging more effectively with the private sector and NGOs, improving data collection, analysis and reporting, and recommending entry points for UNDP and the UN Country Teams. The Asia-Pacific diagnostic tool will be tested in several countries of the region, and will therefore contribute to localizing the SDGs at the subnational level in AsiaPacific and to creating an enabling environment for the implementation of the SDGs.

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Hub for Territorial Partnerships Territorial partnerships, among which DC, can play an instrumental role in localizing the SDGs, a process that can only benefit from established or new partnerships that share the same development objectives and work towards the same goals. Partnerships represent a valuable mechanism that can contribute to localizing and universalizing the agenda, and therefore ought to be reinforced and promoted: long aware of their strategic importance, in 2015 UNDP launched the Hub for Territorial Partnerships (hosted in UNDP Brussels through ART) to capitalize on the potential of LRGs as development actors and partners within the multilateral framework. Following a tradition established over a decade of partnershipand network-building, the Hub views itself as an equal partner and entry point for LRGs into UNDP and the multilateral system at large. Similarly, the newly adopted LGLD framework recognizes the pivotal role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,

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which can facilitate the participation and commitment of the different development actors in the new universal development agenda. Indeed, innovative territorial partnerships are an additional mechanism to help localize the SDGs, stimulating LGLD initiatives and addressing the territories’ challenges: they constitute an operational instrument that can definitely contribute to SHD. But not only that: they can also offer UNDP country offices the opportunity to expand their partnerships, mobilize new technical and financial resources, promote knowledge and expertise exchanges, and therefore advance SDG localization. The ART Hub for Territorial Partnerships formalizes the existing mechanisms in support of these partnerships, and helps integrate territorial partnerships into multilateral development processes and facilitates links between local and international actors therefore contributing to the agenda’s universality and inclusiveness.

What our partners say…

In line with the ongoing democratization process in Morocco, the Municipality of Chefchaouen has launched a series of actions to modernize its administration and expand its functions and services, with the objective of contributing to the city’s development and to the well-being of its citizens.

In this context, the municipal team values the possibilities offered by decentralized cooperation as a complement to the efforts made at the local level to improve municipal services.

In 2010, the Municipality decided to join the ART GOLD Programme of UNDP Morocco, through which multi-actor platforms for the coordination of decentralized cooperation in the Tangier-Tetouan Region had been established at the regional and provincial levels.

Since then, numerous international organizations, as well as regions and municipalities of several countries, namely Spain, have established successful collaborations with our Municipality, allowing for the implementation of several local development projects and initiatives. These were always carried out under the approach of a “win-win” partnership, and always in line with the needs of the territories and their citizens.

In this sense, the last years of municipal management constitute a very intense period of work on decentralized cooperation, during which, with the valuable support of our partners, we have reinforced the capacities of elected officials, municipal civil servants and civil society actors in several sectors, including: strategic planning, municipal development planning, information management of our services, concertation with our city’s actors, citizen partnership, local economic development and energy efficiency, in the framework of the na-

tional strategy to adapt national energy policies at the local level, among other things. In addition, this cooperation has allowed us to establish ownership of several useful methods to mainstream gender and to implement sustainable developmental approaches in our municipal projects.

Another important phase of the municipal involvement in cooperation, beyond the projects themselves (and the Municipal Working Group), is the networking effort of the Municipality of Chefchaouen, as a useful means to exchange experiences between peers. This is why the municipality is now a member of several municipal networks, both Moroccan and international, such as UCLG, MediverCities, ICLEI, MedCities AVEC, LUCI, and others.

To conclude, we would like to mention the leadership of the Municipality of Chefchaouen in promoting South-South and Triangular cooperation between intermediary cities, through, for instance, its involvement in the ART-ISI@MED initiative of UNDP Geneva, which aims at introducing ICT in local governance, building an eco-center, creating a municipal agency for development, integrating the energy dimension in the municipal projects, modernizing public lighting and the promoting a rational management of solid waste.

We are committed to continue and reinforce cooperation with our partners. Our adhesion to several networks of local authorities at the regional, national and international levels to be better positioned to mobilize partnerships, dialogue, exchange of experiences and good practices between people and the institutions that represent them, attest to our commitment. All these initiatives and actions, completed or ongoing, converge towards sustainable development.

Mohamed Sefiani Mayor of Chefchaouen, Morocco

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Javier SĂĄnchez Cano Head of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, DG Development Cooperation, Generalitat de Catalunya

Bertrand Fort Delegate for the external action of territorial collectivities (DAECT) General Secretary of the national commission of decentralized cooperation (CNCD) Delegation for the external action of territorial collectivities, general directorate of globalization, culture, education and international development French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development

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As many sub-national governments, the Generalitat of Catalonia has tended to use decentralized cooperation as an instrument for institutional strengthening and empowerment of subnational authorities. However, we have seen recently how the traditional political agenda has changed in this area: it seems clear that decentralization and regionalization policies - especially when responding to centralized policies and without being accompanied by the necessary resources – are not sufficient to ensure good territorial governance.

This is because in the territories different levels of administrations concur and their competence in each area of public policy can overlap. Therefore, mechanisms that lead subnational governments to cooperate and organize themselves to pursue common objectives are fundamental. It is necessary to build intergovernmental relations, or

multi-level governance, as defined by the OECD in a normative sense, of quality, and from Catalonia, we believe that decentralized cooperation can be very useful for this purpose.

Specifically, in the current scenario that is looking towards 2030, we believe it is crucial to promote our goal of political and institutional strengthening of cities and regions in a less direct way; specially, by facilitating, through decentralized cooperation, the sub-national participation in the dialogues on national development policies; by boosting new forms of involvement for a more concerted implementation of public policies; and also by working to ensure accountability, which can enable the accreditation, beyond any doubt, of the contribution of subnational authorities in the framework of the global goals, as are the SDGs.

France is committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in its territory, and to implementing a foreign policy that promotes sustainable development. It therefore supported the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in September 2015, and was one of the first countries that presented its proposed contribution to achieve the SDGs during the High Level Political Forum in July 2016.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development supports these dynamics through a shared, integrated and multi-actor approach that endeavors to be echoed in the territories; indeed, territorial collectivities, close to the citizens and endowed with a strategic vision of their territory, are essential actors to carry out an effective implementation of SDGs. The human and

economic development of a territory also goes through its internationalization.

French territorial collectivities are internationally renowned for their long experience in decentralized cooperation partnerships that support people to deal with the challenges and issues that concern them, such as the fight against climate change, employment, social insertion and others, and to find innovative and shared solutions to these concerns.

With the COP21, the year 2015 was characterized by the massive involvement of collectivities in the fight against climate change. The year 2016 will mark yet another shift, with the organization of the UN HABITAT III Conference, which places cities and territories at the heart of sustainable development.

Euskadi has been a strategic partner of ART UNDP for several years, and it is currently working towards achieving the objectives put forward by the international and European agendas, namely the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Regions are key actors in addressing global and regional challenges, and as such Euskadi is a proactive partner of European institutions and international organizations.

To move forward in the challenges associated to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Basque Government has adopted a framework for the Coherence of Sustainable Development Policies in Euskadi, in addition to the Framework Programme for the Environment in the Basque Country 2020, and the Basque Strategy for Climate Change 2050.

These priority agendas for the Basque Country defend the territorial dimension, specialization, the reinforced role of multi-level and decentralized cooperation, as well as the involvement of the various territorial actors (public authorities, NGOs, universities, etc.) in collaboration with the regions and the territories, and European and global platforms, including international organizations, among others. Coherence, efficiency, transparency and co-responsibility, evaluation and follow-up models, as well as joint work at the various institutional levels, are key to this process.

In relation to Euskadi’s participation in those initiatives promoted by ART-UNDP, Euskadi is a partner in the I-STEPS initiative, along with other European regions and cities, jointly working in Ecuador, Lebanon and Montenegro. The Basque participation also involves Basque actors and public agencies in specialized areas such as rural development, water management and others.

In the European sphere, the Basque Government is leading the cooperation working group of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions, composed of 180 European regions, working together with European institutions, other networks and development cooperation platforms and UNDP ART, to promote concrete initiatives in favor of the SDGs and position the territorial dimension and role of the regions in the European agenda. In collaboration with UNDP ART, PLATAFORMA and the Basque Government, joint work is being carried out to maximize synergies and promote a European Alliance for the SDGs. Euskadi is also working with UCLG to defend and continue positioning the territorial dimension and the regions in the international agendas of development cooperation, as a member of the Global Taskforce and its strategic initiatives (such as the GOLD Report).

In addition, Euskadi is part of the United Regions Organization of (ORU-FOGAR) and the Association of local governments for sustainability (ICLEI); it also collaborates with UNESCO Etxea and other United Nations Agencies with representation in Euskadi, as these represent frameworks to continue working in association with other territories with the objective of tackling the challenges of the 2030 Agenda.

Paul Ortega Director, Basque Agency for Development Cooperation ELANKIDETZA, Basque Government

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Dr. Simone Höckele-Häfner Staatsministerium BadenWürttemberg

Since 2007, Baden-Württemberg has been committed to promoting the sustainability of its actions, namely through a strategy that includes mechanisms for cooperation and interaction between the state and its social and economic actors, such as the establishment setup of a sustainability council, the annual celebration of the “sustainable days” and the elaboration of a report. Regional economic actors, municipalities, civil society and youth in particular are at the core of this long-term strategy.

In this context, the government is currently working on integrating the Sustainable Development Goals in its strategy for sustainability; a re-

vised version of the document, incorporating the necessary changes, will be launched by the end of 2016.

Territorial actors are playing a necessary proactive role in the implementation of the new global agenda; for instance, the non-governmental association of development cooperation organizations is ready to launch a public campaign to raise awareness on the SDGs and to engage cities and their citizens in SDG implementation within the region and abroad. Furthermore, declaring one of the cities of Baden-Württemberg as a model for SDG implementation is currently under consideration.

Reflections on the role of cities in the 2030 agenda Cities, the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights

Antonio Zurita Contreras Director General Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities

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The declaration of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) aims to become a new consensual universal agenda that allows regaining a just and sustainable life model. [The poet] Eduardo Galeano said that utopias are like the horizon, they cannot be reached but they help us walk. We cannot say that the MDGs were utopias; they represented a minimum, agreed upon programme, with some resistance, in the year 2000.

The programme did not achieve its goals, but it was useful to do just that, walk.

Among many others, the SDGs offer an important novel element, which is not a sudden discovery, but rather the acknowledgement of a reality

that is becoming increasingly obvious: the main battle for the SDGs will be waged in the cities.

In 2030, cities will concentrate between 75 and 80 percent of the total world population. Currently, most greenhouse gas emissions are generated in urban spaces characterized with the highest per capita energy consumption, in some cases with a difference of 1 to 20, in contrast with rural spaces. Likewise, the gap between wealth and poverty is more evident in the cities, and so are multiple expressions of violence (related to gender, race, religion, youth gangs, hooliganism, terrorism…).

These are realities that should not be ignored, to assume the need to localize the SDGs and the important role of local governments in articulating these in the territories.

Localizing SDGs in Brazil’s municipalities At the National Confederation of Municipalities, we consider that localizing the 2030 Agenda is particularly important in Brazil because of the character of its municipalities, which are endowed with political, administrative and financial autonomy. We have a Federal Constitution that defines municipalities as federative bodies that have their own competencies, therefore creating municipal governments that have responsibilities in service provision and in the definition of local policies in areas such as health and basic education, planning and urban management, the environment, sanitation, disaster management and transport, among other things. Therefore, municipal governments have a central role to play in SDG implementation.

Because of this, it is important to understand that the varied Brazilian realities make it impos-

sible to adopt a single localization model, as it needs to be adapted to each and every context.

No one better than municipal managers can know the weaknesses and challenges of their region.

Brazil has 5,568 municipalities, from small to metropolis size, with different characteristics, realities and capacities. Localization represents an opportunity to go beyond national measures and involve municipalities everywhere.

Through the project “Localizing SDGs in Brazil’s municipalities”, which is the result of the collaboration between the National Confederation of Municipalities and UNDP-ART, we are developing guidelines, tools and capacity-building strategies for the mayors who will be elected in October 2016. We want local managers to know the Agenda, to incorporate it within their municipal plans, and to monitor its progress, so it can be used to improve municipal management, the citizens’ quality of life and sustainable development.

Paulo Ziulkoski President, National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM), Brazil Vice-President, Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations of Local Governments (FLACMA)

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UNDP’s offer for SDGs localization Building on the Integrated Framework to Support LGLD and with the objective of backing the LRGs’ and other local actors’ efforts in localizing the SDGs, the policy division of UNDP – BPPS, including ART – has elaborated a global project to channel and frame UNDP’s support to LGLD and SDG localization in the countries. This corporate response to the new needs associated to the SDGs and the complex task of their localization represents a propping structure that complements the work that This Project will contribute to many subnational governments strengthening the role of LRGs as and regions have been doing already, as a number have taken leading development partners. steps to address their development challenges and are well placed to develop and implement innovative responses to the challenges associated to the SDGs. It also aims to provide them with the support they need to achieve durable and local results. Indeed, evidence confirms that subnational governments are able to make significant contributions to development and support national objectives; but to do so, frameworks are needed to empower, fund and provide incentives to those subnational governments20, and this global project is one of them.

This global project supports kicking off the SDG localization process in territories and then facilitating key institutional arrangements and processes as identified in the MAPS strategy (see chapter 1) as enabling mechanisms and processes for SDG implementation.

As a strategic corporate response to LGLD and the SDG localization, the project offers countries a tangible opportunity to boost their development efforts (specifically SDG-oriented) and contributes to mobilizing donors and harnessing interest on SDG priorities determined at the local level.

UNDP is well positioned to assume such a role because of its country office structures, its in-house expertise and the wealth of experience accumulated over decades in supporting decentralization and local governance and local development. Specifically, UNDP ART brings in scores of best practices in facilitating the establishment of enabling institutional arrangements at the local level, promoting multi-level governance mechanisms, facilitating multi-actor partnerships, and developing locally owned planning systems; all these thematic areas of expertise can be tailored so their focus points at the SDGs, ultimately “initializing” the process of SDG localization by supporting concrete development interventions that feed into an integrated implementation of the SDGs at the local level.

The project aims to: build awareness about SDGs, making sure that the message for the SDGs is spread also at the local level and that citizens have ownership of the new agenda; tailor SDGs to subnational contexts, by working with local actors to launch their localization of the SDGs and reviewing existing systems and capacities; elaborate an inclusive territorial SDG strategy and plan, based on UNDP’s LGLD programme experience; and contribute to monitoring and evaluation, through UNDP’s operational capacity and outreach at the local level, bringing local level results and issues to the international debate.

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Through this global response and all the initiatives carried out to support the SDG localization, UNDP intends to create a strategic coalition of stakeholders firmly committed in localizing the SDGs. This “Global Alliance for Localizing the SDGs� will serve to join forces for advocacy purposes, sharing technical expertise and increasing resources in order to make development a reality for all.

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ART IN THE WORLD

Countries where UNDP ART has supported processes of local governance and local development:

KOSOVO TUNISIA ALBANIA LEBANON

MOROCCO CUBA

MYDEL - CENTRAL AMERICA

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MAURITANIA

ALGERIA

MYANMAR

CABO VERDE EL SALVADOR

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

SENEGAL SRI LANKA

NICARAGUA COLOMBIA

ECUADOR

GABON

INDONESIA

MOZAMBIQUE

BOLIVIA

URUGUAY

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BURUNDI

ART IN NUMBERS The 2015-2016 total expenditures were funded with bilateral contributions, decentralized cooperation and Trust Fund extra-budgetary resources. Allocations/expenditures can be grouped in the following categories:

Partnerships and resource mobilization (18%) Capacity development (13%)

Policy/Support/Consolidation/ Ownership (17%)

Development results (39%)

Knowledge sharing (11%) New programmes (2%)

THE TRUST FUND FOR INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS (ART INITIATIVE) There are two measures of Trust Fund operations: annual cash flow operations and accumulated balances at UNDP CO programme implementation levels.

The 2015-2016 cash flow operations of the Trust Fund are a measure of income, internal transfers to the UNDP COs and expenditures in support of international/global/regional/countries’ new programme activities. In 2015-2016, the cash flow operations amount to a total of $ 5.975.906.

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THE WAY FORWARD The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a bold, complex and transformative plan for action for the next 15 years that requires a new development architecture. The world’s level of development, sustainability, inclusiveness and equity will depend on the achievement of the Agenda’s 17 comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals — and on their localization.

The 2030 Agenda has mobilized an unprecedented level of support from not only national governments, LRGs and their associations and multilateral organizations, but also civil society and the private sector. Their long-term commitment and joint work will be crucial to implementing a development roadmap that aspires to transforming the world for the better. But to do so, a two-fold challenge must be tackled. First, the political commitment to make the 2030 Agenda succeed will have to be made and maintained. Only strong, capacitated and committed global and local political leadership will allow achieving the goals that the world has so ambitiously set itself. Second, the emerging and promising political alliance to localize the SDGs, where they will make a difference in people’s everyday lives, will have to be reinforced and expanded, becoming all the more inclusive by engaging a wide range of stakeholders and development actors. This is a necessary step to position the issue of SDG localization as a crucial process that will play a determining factor in the success of

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the world’s vision for a better place for all and at all levels by 2030.

In the coming years, major efforts will be devoted to support countries in the implementation of the SDGs at all levels. Strong from its decades of experience in working with national and local governments alike on local governance and local development, and building upon the mechanisms and frameworks that have demonstrated to effectively contribute to local development processes, UNDP ART is more than ever committed to take a proactive role in supporting the SDG localization process and making the global goals a reality for all.

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BILATERAL PARTNERS Belgium Canada European Union: Committee of the Regions - European Commission France Italy Luxembourg Monaco Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey

BRAZIL ITAIPU Binacional - Parque Tecnológico Itaipu - Brazilian Service of support to micro and small enterprises (SEBRAE) - Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) CANADA Alternatives - Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) - CARE Canada - Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) - Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Fondation Insertech Angus - Municipality of Clarenville - Société de Coopération pour le Développement International (SOCODEVI)- Suncurrent Industries - The Global Peace and Security Fund (GPSF) - York University - Université du Québec University of Cape Breton - University of Moncton CROATIA Region of Istria DENMARK Aalborg Municipality FRANCE Association Cuba Coopération - Assemblée des Départements de France (ADF) Association des Maires de France (AMF) - Association de solidarité avec le peuple Cubain France Cuba – Association des Régions de France (ARF) - Association Migration Solidarité et Échange pour le Développement (AMSED) - Association Terroirs et Cultures - Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale (CNFPT) Centre de Marseille pour l’Intégration en Méditerranée (CMI) - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM) - Cités Unies France (CUF) - Collectif Approche et Gouvernance Territoriale, Démocratie Participative et Citoyenneté (ANECR) - Comité d’Entreprise de la RATP - Comité d’entreprise de France Telecom - Commune de Champs sur Marne - Conseil Général de l’Aude Croix Rouge Française - Département de la Drôme - Entreprise SEMISE - Entreprise TOTAL - Faculté de Droit Aix Marseille - Financière OCEOR - Fondation Air France Fondation Mitterrand - Office de Coopération Economique pour le Méditerranée et l’Orient (OCEMO) - ONG Association Ville d’Aurillac - ONG Auvergne - ONG Secours Populaire - ONG Ville in Transition - Parc Naturel Régional du Lubéron- Province Pyrénées Atlantiques - Région de Champagne Ardennes - Région de ProvenceAlpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) – Region Pays de la Loire - Région Rhône-Alpes - Réseau des Amis de Cienfuegos de la Région d’Auvergne - Réseau d’amis de Cienfuegos de la Région PACA (Association Cuba Coopération France) - SADEV 94 - Service de Coopération Culturelle (SCAC) - Servir les ambitions économiques et urbaines du Val-de-Marne - Syndicat Intercommunal d’Aménagement de Réseaux et de Cours d’Eau (SIARCE) - Ville de Cournon d’Auvergne - Ville de Fleury Merogis - Ville de Marseille - Ville de Martigues- Ville de St. Denis GERMANY City of Freiburg - City of Stuttgart - Engagement Global - Stiftung EntwicklungsZusammenarbeit Baden-Württemberg (SEZ) ITALY ARCI International - ARCI Toscana - Armadilla Cooperativa - Associazione Comasca di Cooperazione Internazionale (ACCI)– Associazione Nazionale – CAP Holding – Cittadinanzattiva - Comune di Arezzo - Coordinamento Agende 21 Locali ItalianeComune di Bergamo - Comune di Brescia - Comuni d’Italia (ANCI) - Comune di Cecina - Comune di Como - Comune di Cremona - Comune di Firenze - Comune di FolignoComune di Genova - Comune di Grosseto - Comune di Lecco - Comune di Lodi - Comune di Livorno - Comune di Napoli - Comune di Mantova - Comune di Mazara

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International and regional networks: • Aqua Publica Europea (APE) • Arco Latino • Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) • Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) • Conference of Maritime and Peripheral Regions (CRPM) • European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA) • European Foundation Center • Global fund for cities development (FMDV) • Iberoamerican Secretariat General (SEGIB) • Ibero-American Union of Municipalists (UIM) • International Links and Services for Local Development Agencies (ILS LEDA) • Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations of Local Governments (FLACMA) • Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) • Medina - Mediterranean Network • Mediterranean Coastal Cities Network (Medcities) • Mercociudades • International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF) • Platforma • Organisation of Regions United (ORU FOGAR) • SOLIDAR • Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas (UCCI) • Unión de Universidades de América Latina (UDUAL) • United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

National and subnational networks: BELGIUM Association de la Ville et des Communes de la Région de Bruxelles Capitale (AVCB) - Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and sustainable Resource management (ACR+) - Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) Commune de Forest - Municipalité de Bruxelles - Municipalité de Saint Trond (SintTruiden) - Ville d’Anvers

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del Vallo -Comune di Milano - Comune di Padova - Comune di Parma - Comune di Pavia - Comune di Prato - Comune di Siena - Comune di Spoleto - Comune di Torino - Comune di Varese - Comune di Venezia - Comune di Viareggio- Coordinamento Nazionale degli Enti Locali per la Pace e i Diritti Umani (CO.CO.PA.) - Emilia Romagna Valorazzione Economica Territorio (ERVET)- Fondo di Enti Locali per la Cooperazione Internazionale e lo Sviluppo Umano Sostenibile (FELCOS Umbria) - Fondazione Cariplo - Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena - Fondo Provinciale Milanese per la Cooperazione Internazionale (FPMCI) - Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU) Istituto Cooperazione Universitaria - Laziosanità (Agenzia Sanità Pubblica Regione Lazio) - Medici Dirigenti, ANAAO - ONG Cospe - ONG Ricerca e Cooperazione - ONG VIS - Oxfam Italia - PEACE GAMES - Provincia di Alessandria - Provincia di Bergamo - Provincia di Ferrara - Provincia di Firenze - Provincia di La Spezia - Provincia di Lecce (Management Consortium of Torre Guaceto Park - Management Consortium of Coastal Dune Reserve) - Provincia di Pavia - Provincia di Sassari - Provincia di Siena - Progetto Sviluppo Liguria (PROSVIL) - Provincia di Torino - Provincia di Viterbo - Regione Abruzzo - Regione Emilia Romagna- Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia - Regione Lazio - Regione Liguria - Regione Lombardia - Regione Marche - Regione Puglia - Regione Toscana - Regione Sardegna - Regione Umbria - Regione Veneto – Sudest Donne - SudgestAid - UISP Cooperazione Sportiva Internazionale - Unione Province Lombarde (UPL) - Università degli Studi di Firenze - Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca - Università degli Studi Bocconi di Milano - Università IUAV di Venezia - Università degli Studi di Perugia - Università degli Studi di Pisa - Università degli Studi di Siena - Università degli Studi di Urbino - Osservatorio Interregionale di Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (OICS) - Water Right Foundation (WRF) - Politecnico di Torino - Coordinamento Universitario per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo POLAND Region of Lower Silesia PORTUGAL Forum Nacional de Redes da Sociedade Civil PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO Les Amis du Liban SPAIN Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional - Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (ACCD) - Agencia Extremeña de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AEXCID) - Agencia Vasca del Agua (URA) - Agencia Vasca de Cooperación para el Desarrollo/Gobierno Vasco - Asociación de Entidades Locales Vascas (Euskal Fondoa) - Ayuntamiento de Barcelona - Ayuntamiento de Bilbao Ayuntamiento de Córdoba - Ayuntamiento de Huelva - Ayuntamiento de Lasarte Oria - Ayuntamiento de Málaga - Ayuntamiento de Mallorca - Ayuntamiento de Prat de Llobregat - Ayuntamiento de Sabadell - Ayuntamiento de Sevilla - Ayuntamiento de Tarragona - Ayuntamiento de Terrassa - Ayuntamiento de Vic - Ayuntamiento de Vitoria - Gasteiz - BEAZ Bizkaia - Centro de Estudios y Documentación Internacionales de Barcelona (CIDOB) - Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional (CERAI) - Centre for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) - Centro Superior de Hostelería de Galicia - Centro UNESCO de Cataluña (UNESCOCAT) – Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas - CIC Batá - Confederación de Fondos de Cooperación y Solidaridad (CONFOCOS) - Diputación de Barcelona (DIBA) - Diputación de Cádiz - Diputación de Córdoba - Diputación de Granada - Diputación de Huelva - Diputación de Jaén - Diputación de Sevilla

- European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMED) – Exib Música - Federación de Empresas Valencianas de Economía Social (FEVES) - Fondo Andaluz de Municipios para la Solidaridad Internacional (FAMSI) - Fondo Cantabria Coopera - Fondo Extremeño de Cooperación al Desarrollo (FELCODE) - Fondo Galego de Cooperación e Solidarieda - Fons Valencià per la Solidaritat - Fundación Andaluza Fondo de Formación y Empleo (FAFFE) - Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament Fundación Centro de Iniciativas e Investigaciones Europeas en el Mediterráneo (CIREM) - Fundación CODESPA - Fundación Emilio Moro - Fundación ETEA para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación - Fundación KABKUH para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Gastronomía y Alimentación – Asociación Vasca de Agencias de Desarrollo (Garapen) - Generalitat Valenciana - Gobierno de Murcia - Govern de les Illes Balears - Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional (HEGOA) - Instituto de Empleo y Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Tecnológico (IEDT) - IS Global / Barcelona Institute for Global Health - Junta de Andalucía - ONG Global Humanitaria - ONG Paz y Desarrollo - Proyecto Local Barcelona – Tecnalia - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Universidad de Cádiz - Universidad de Córdoba - Universidad de Granada - Universidad de Málaga - Universidad del País Vasco (EHU/UPV) -Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla SWITZERLAND Fondation Suisse Maroc pour le Développement Durable (FSMD) - University of Geneva THE NETHERLANDS Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) - Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) - The Hague Municipality UK British Council - Future in Our Hands (FIOH) - Save the Children

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Multilateral organizations, including other UN Agencies: • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) • Interamerican Development Bank - Multilateral Investment Fund (IADB – FOMIN) • International Labour Organization (ILO) • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) • UN Millenium Campaign (UNMC) • United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) • United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women) • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) • United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat) • United Nations Millennium Development Goals Fund (UN MDG-Fund) • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) • United Nations Regional Information Center (UNRIC) • United Nations Volunteers (UNV) • World Bank (WB) • World Food Programme (WFP) • World Health Organization (WHO)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1. https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/multi-level-governance 2.

See chapter 3 for more detailed information on the Toolbox.

3. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1459 4.

UNDG, 2015

5. https://eudevdays.eu/sessions/localising-sustainable-development-goalsowning-global-development-agenda

19. Small Island States face specific economic challenges and vulnerabilities.

With its flexible, multi-dimensional framework, LED can constitute a reliable framework to address these vulnerabilities, develop their capacities, sustain economic growth and contribute to increasing the resilience of these societies.

20. Smoke and Nixon, Sharing responsibilities and Resources among levels of Government. Localizing the SDGs. UNDESA, 2016

6. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ 7. http://www.undp.org/content/dam/aplaws/publication/en/publications/ capacity-development/capacity-development-a-undp-primer/CDG_ PrimerReport_final_web.pdf 8. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/ 9. http://www.fdsd.org/ideas/sustainable-development-goal-sdg-16democratic-institutions/ 10. http://www.effectiveinstitutions.org/media/Article_on_Praia_Group_on_ Governance_Statistics.pdf 11. http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/ AfDB,%20SHaSA_web.pdf 12. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/ 13. https://www.habitat3.org 14. https://undg.org/home/undg-mechanisms/sustainable-developmentworking-group/country-support/ 15. Through the Local Authorities Major Group in the preparation for Rio+20 in 2012, which explicitly highlighted the importance of “a meaningful involvement and active participation of regional, national and sub-national legislatures and judiciaries for sustainable development� (United Nations General Assembly, sixty-sixth session, Resolution 66/288, The Future We Want, 27 July 2012).

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16. The result of the dialogues can be consulted at: https://www.uclg.org/sites/ default/files/dialogues_on_localizing_the_post-2015_development_agenda.pdf

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17. http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/reports/SG_Synthesis_Report_ Road_to_Dignity_by_2030.pdf 18. For footage on the event and interviews with participants: https://www. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYq0gxFquR6gucfwUiWdACAdkOxGnqmW; and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwF5OmaGrk

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Acknowledgements To the national and local governments, organizations, institutions, networks of civil society and local governments (complete list of partners inside the cover) for their active commitment and support of the Sustainable Human Development processes carried out at the local, national and international levels.

To the UNDP ART Initiative’s donors, for their contributions and support of the Initiative, and to the Country Framework Programmes worldwide.

To the UNDP Country teams, the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, the Regional Bureaus and Centers.

To the United Nations agencies that collaborate with the ART Initiative: FAO, ILO, UNMC, UNCDF, UNICEF, UNDESA, UN WOMEN, UNHCR, UN HABITAT, UN MDG-FUND, UNFPA, UNRIC, UNV, WFP and WHO. Photo credits City of Turin: 34; Generalitat de Valencia: 40; UCLG: cover page, 19, 24, 30; Ulrike Meissner: cover page, 36, 49, 50, 51; UN Bolivia: 8; UNDP Algeria: 15; UNDP ART: cover page, 2, 10, 11, 16, 26, 28, 33, 35, 41, 42, 48; UNDP Bolivia: 14; UNDP Colombia: 13; UNDP Ecuador: 27, 32; UNDP Suriname: 16; UNDP Tunisia: 32; UNDP Uruguay: 12, 20; UNDP: 9, 21, 22, 23, 25, 29.

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