27 UCLG Community of Practice on VLRs
03.2. Where is the VLR located in the local, national and global design?
when approaching the SDGs. The aim of the
actively
administration is, on the one hand, to set up
alignment” of each work line’s priorities with
an effective office for the 2030 Agenda as
the SDGs.44
engaged
in
“priorisation
and
well as, on the other hand, to establish “a transversal committee able to represent the
In Los Angeles, de-siloing had to do primarily
diverse sectors in which City Hall operates”
with the organization of the multi-level
in order to not only implement but also
governance system in the city region: city
“measure” the achievement of the SDGs
hall was faced with the issue of overlapping
throughout territory and community.43 In
or
Bristol, an informal coalition of citizens,
competences with the government of the
stakeholders and institutions, organized in
county, and had to answer methodological
the Bristol SDG Alliance, managed to obtain
questions about monitoring the compliance
funding and support from local academic
of other institutions, or demanding another
institutions and successfully lobby the
level of government with consistency with its
localization of the SDGs into the mainstay of
own planning and data-collection methods.
municipal sustainable development in the
The solution lay with sharing the table with
form of its ‘One City Plan’. The platform
as many stakeholders as possible, including
explicitly called for city hall to include the
civil
SDGs and the 2030 Agenda in all facets of
academia and the private sector, thus
public administration and policy planning.
“validating” the massive work of indicator
even
contrasting
society,
other
jurisdictions
local
and
governments,
adaptation that the VLR performed with Although it has not formally authored a VLR,
“equity-minded organizations exploring their
the city of Córdoba (a provincial capital and a
alignment to this agenda”. Accordingly, city
metro area of 1.5 million inhabitants in
hall acknowledged that “[r]eporting on our
Argentina), took part alongside eight more
progress is… a platform for outreach to
local governments in a project led by the
others working on a particular Goal or
OECD, A territorial approach to SDGs,
target”.45 Similarly, the Mexican state of
designed to assist local and regional
Oaxaca created cross-field, multi-stakeholder
governments to “prioritize, sequence, plan
Work Committees on three main SDG
and budget” consistently with the objectives
categories
and requirements of the SDGs. In the
growth and environmental sustainability) in
framework of the OECD project, Córdoba
which NGOs and civil society organizations
began a process of institutional creation
were
which led to the establishment of an Inter-
committees and work with specific offices of
Ministerial Roundtable, with members from
the state administration (see Insight Box 2
all the ranks of local governments —
above).
ministries, secretariats and agencies —
(social
charged
inclusion,
with
economic
coordinating
the
43
Barcelona City Hall, 5.
44
Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development, “A Territorial Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals,” 135. 45
City of Los Angeles, “Los Angeles
Sustainable Development Goals,” 6.