Monitoring & Reporting on the SDGs: Why and How to Capture SDG Progress at Local Level?

UCLG Working Group on Capacity and Institution Building (CIB) 

The Global Taskforce’s annual report “Towards the Localization of the SDGs”, the Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) produced by more than 150 cities and regional governments, and the 25 Voluntary Subnational Reviews (VSRs) produced by various local government associations, show how critical local governments are for achieving Agenda 2030. The progress documented in these mechanisms should enter Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), as they remain the main instruments for reporting on the SDGs at UN level. This session will explore how to capture local progress, and to interlink VNRs, VSRs and VLRs, in the years to come.

• Ms. Marlène Simeon, Director of operations of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
• Mr Edgardo Bilsky, Director of Research, UCLG
• Mr Ashok Kumar Byanju Shrestha, President of UCLG ASPAC, President of the Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN), Mayor of Dhulikhel Municipality
  Ms. Gunn Marit Helgesen, President of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS)
  Mr. Fernando Ortiz Moya, Policy Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
  Ms. Veronica Hitosis, Executive director, League of Cities of the Philippines
  Mr. Win Dries, Mayor of Genk
  Ms. Rahmatouca Sow Dieye, Advisor for Political Affairs and International Relations to the Secretary General, UCLG Africa
  Mr. Fabrizio Rossi, Secretary General, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)