Besides these initial reporting exercises for 2016 and 2017, various national LRG associations and cities are working on reporting mechanisms and data collection for the near future. VNG International, the international agency of the Dutch association of municipalities, and the Tillburg Centre for Sustainable Development (Telos) are considering whether and how the National Monitor for Sustainable Municipalities56 could be transformed into a localized monitor of SDG performance. In Sweden, SKL is supporting the Council for the Promotion of Municipal Analysis (RKA) in its attempt to construct a database on local administrations – KOLADA, established in 2006 – to assist in the reporting process. In May 2017 the German associations of cities (DST), towns and municipalities (DSTGB) and counties (DLT), with the support of federal and academic institutions and foundations, launched an initiative to develop SDG Indicators for Municipalities, in order to design adequate and consistent indicators to assess SDG implementation at the municipal level – i.e., in both cities with 5,000 inhabitants or more and rural districts. In Brazil, the national association of municipalities (CNM) has developed a Mandala of Municipal Performance with 24 indicators to assess progress in the implementation of the SDGs (see Box 6). In the same vein, the association is creating a portal to allow municipalities to report again – after a similar effort for the MDGs – on their progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The city of Rio de Janeiro, moreover, is also working on the development of its own city indicators, as well as some States like Sao Paulo, which have their own statistical office and indicators.
BOX 6
The Mandala of Municipal Performance designed by the Brazilian National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) The Brazilian National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) developed the Mandala of Municipal Performance, a tool to support municipalities in monitoring their own results in the implementation of the 17 SDGs. The objective is for municipal governments of all sizes to have their own monitoring tool based on data openly available to all.
The Mandala was presented to newly elected mayors in October 2016 during the New Managers Seminar. It aimed at fostering active participation of new officials and get them to know the goals and their targets, setting up a diagnostic tool of LRG needs and progress for the next years. Indicators of performance are classified into four categories: Institutions, Economic sustainable, Social inclusion, and Environmental sustainable. Performance is assessed based on an intuitive colour code from green to red. Source: CNM, Brazil
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56 The resource can be accessed online at this address: http://www.telos.nl/Publicaties/PublicatiesRapporten/default.aspx#folder=609888.