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Voluntary local and subnational reviews
by UCLG CGLU
1) a report that reframes the notion of equality, recognizing the drivers that perpetuate inequalities across different scales, as well as their context-specificity, and leverages the potential of local and regional governments, civil society and other local actors in the progress towards urban and territorial equality, and 2) the development of a sense of co-production and long-lasting multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships starting with the shared GOLD VI process.
d. The preliminary draft of the report is foreseen for January 2022.
Voluntary local and subnational reviews
Voluntary Subnational Reviews are bottom-up reports led by national associations of local governments that give account of the state of SDG localization in the country, permeate the national reporting process and advocate towards an enabling environment for the localization of the 2030 Agenda.
UCLG facilitated the reporting process on SDG localization of 8 local governments associations, in Cape Verde, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Mexico. In March, April and May, the GOLD team organized together with UCLG’s CIB Working Group workshops on methodology, results and challenges. These experiences and reports were also presented during a specific session during the
VLR-VSR Days of the HLPF, in July. Together with UCLG’s CIB Working Group, we are developing a set of guidelines with the aim to bring new associations onboard interested in producing a VSR next year. The aim is to engage in the VSR process as soon as possible, to match with the timing of elaboration of the VNRs and therefore to increase the possibilities of including local experiences and inputs in the national reporting processes.
Following the success of the first volume of the Guidelines for VLRs that was published in 2020 with UN-Habitat, a second volume was published in June and presented at the VLR-VSR Days, in the framework of our constituency’s work at the 2021 HLPF. The second volume of the guidelines focuses on the arising question on how to establish a connection between local and national reporting processes, namely between VLRs and VNRs. Finally, in partnership with UNDP, the Andalusian Development Cooperation Agency, the Barcelona Provincial Council and other partners, UCLG published in July a comparative study on different SDG monitoring systems fostered at local-national-international levels by public, private and other stakeholders.
