This Fall, TReNDS members co-hosted a public workshop with the City of Los Angeles that included insights into how the City is localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This included a discussion on its unique four-phased approach for success at the sub-national level, which is described in detail throughout this blog post.
Read MoreIn 2018 and early 2019, SDSN’s Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) supported organizations around the world in localizing SDG monitoring. Since the conclusion of the grants, some participants have seen their work take on new heights and dovetail with other efforts to localize the SDGs, while other participants have been challenged by difficult political climates and other factors.
Read MoreThe City of Los Angeles, a Local Data Action Solutions Initiative grantee, has presented its Voluntary Local Review at the July 2019 High-level Political Forum. Learn more about their work on localizing the SDGs here.
Read MoreBristol, England is the latest city to produce a Voluntary Local Review, just in time for the July 2019 High-level Political Forum and the presentation of the United Kingdom’s Voluntary National Review.
Read MoreWhen national leadership on the SDGs is missing, local policymakers can and should step up–and they can do so with the help of data. Read our contributed piece for Apolitical here.
Read MoreIn 2018, the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) launched a microgrant initiative to support learning from existing subnational SDG data initiatives, harnessing tacit local knowledge and informing a learning exchange. This post details the work of LDA-SI grantee Wolfs Company during the 2018-2019 grant period.
Read MoreA new synthesis report and project overviews document the data localization efforts of LDA-SI microgrant recipients in Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, England, India and the United States.
Read MoreJonathan Glennie discusses how local data can fill gaps, encourage context-specific policies, and inspire local activism.
Read MoreLocal Data Action grantee project SDG in Action hosted a workshop in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on October 8.
Read MoreAt Data Day 2018, TReNDS shed light on the gap between local and national SDG monitoring efforts.
Read MoreLDA-SI has launched a micro-grant initiative aiming to seed and support local data innovations in these four areas, and to promote the dissemination of lessons from these experiences to inform sub-national SDG data efforts worldwide.
Read MoreDuring 2018, LDA-SI will provide a limited number of micro grants as part of its objective to promote sound, replicable technical methods for sub-national SDG monitoring that facilitate local action in support of the “leave no one behind” principle (LNOB).
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