National Training on Localing SDGs: Raising Awareness of SDGs at Local Level
Participants of LOCALISE SDGs National Training, 28-29 August 2018.
ON 28-29 August 2018, UCLG ASPAC and the Association of Indonesian Municipalities (APEKSI), supported by EU Indonesia, held a national level training on localising SDGs with the theme “Raising Awareness of SDGs at Local Level.” Attended by 26 local government representatives, the training focused on seven aspects: global agenda background on localising SDGs, SDGs in Indonesia, Policy Coherence, Data, SDGs Enabling Environment, Multi Stakeholder Partnership for SDGs, and Local Government and Private Sector Coorperation on Localizing SDGS. In her welcoming remarks, Secretariat General of UCLG ASPAC stated that local governments at the moment actively come up with innovation in implementing their programs. At the same time, they also need to be creative in finding alternatives for SDGs financial resources and be open to the concept of Green Fund and PPP (Public Private Partnership). On the first day of the training, UCLG ASPAC shared about other global development agenda that relate to SDGs as Agenda 2030, such as Paris Agreement, New Urban Agenda, and Addis Abbaba. UNDP explained about SDGs
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principles such as no one left behind, policy coherence, and interlinkages as their background to support activities to localise SDGs. CISDI from Indonesia shared their effort in trying to make policies coherent in their area of work focusing on Goal 3 and its relation to other targets such as Goal 2, 5 and 6. The National Planning Agency (Bappenas) explained that implementation of SDGs needs three things: political will, strong legal basis and good strategy. Riau Province also shared their two-year experience in localising SDGs. On the second day of the training, SMERU Research Center shared their experience in data collection and their commitment to bridge their research result on policy making by developing one forum that will enable stakeholders to have dialogue and set up evidence-based policy. They also provided poverty data until village level that could be used as reference in developing local action plan. The representative from the Fiscal Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia emphasised that budget tagging mechanism helps local government to see the financing aspect of SDGs on the local budget. Multi stakeholder partnership was recognised as a way to support local government in implementing SDGs. Localising SDGs can be supported by Filantropi Indonesia through blended financing. Holcim Indonesia also shared their innovation on waste management as their effort in response to Goals 13, 11, 6, 3, and 15. The LOCALISE SDGs National Training marks the beginning of other upcoming trainings that will be held across 16 provinces in Indonesia scheduled in September 2018. It is expected that at the end of the training series, local planning agencies or Bappeda as focal point of local development plan, can reflect SDGs on their local action plan (RAD) and local mid-term development plan (RPJMD).