OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs and 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs

Subscribers may be interested in the OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs, an ambitious programme to support cities and regions to develop, implement and monitor strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

They have in their own words: proposed a Checklist for Public Action to guide policy makers at all levels of government to implement a territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The corresponding toolkit is designed as a user-friendly one-stop-shop gathering lessons learned from cities across the globe, proposing a How-To Guide for interested SDG champions, showcasing localised data and indicators, and providing a self-assessment tool for cities and regions looking to embrace the localisation path.

The toolkit offers:

• takeaways and lessons from ten policy dialogues conducted so far on A Territorial Approach to the SDGs.
• recommendations under each of the five components of the Checklist for Public Action, with 50 examples of how cities, regions and countries implement the recommendations.
• a self-assessment framework for cities and regions to analyse conditions for the implementation of a territorial approach to the SDGs and the extent to which local, regional and national governments are following the Checklist's recommendations.

Twelve pilot cities and regions are currently involved, and one of these, the Basque Region, is hosting the 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs on Wednesday 29 May 2024 | 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST) in Tabakalera, San Sébastian (Spain).

The programme is attached.