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Municipalities are already working on the topics covered in this handbook in many different ways. The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities' (KS) objective has been to provide good examples and new suggestions that may be useful for age-friendly development in the municipalities. The handbook and the focus areas have been developed in collaboration with municipalities participating in the network for age-friendly communities, as well as experts in KS, municipalities and national organisations. The network is financed by the Norwegian Government.
In 2010, the Swedish local authorities association SKL International has set up SymbioCity. The programme is a holistic and inclusive approach to sustainable urban development that transforms urban challenges into opportunities. By integrating economic, environmental, sociocultural and spatial dimensions along with gender and pro-poor perspectives, SymbioCity moves cities towards sustainable and inclusive urban places. The SymbioCity programme is ending and SKL International made a publication with lessons learned, based on experiences from cities on four continents. It is meant to provide inspiration and tools for other cities wishing to embark on the journey to sustainability.
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) establish a series of bold, yet essential, targets to be achieved by 2030, which combine social inclusion, economic development and sustainability. For local and regional governments (LRGs), they form a transformative agenda that strives to: improve the delivery of public services to citizens; enhance people’s engagement in public policy-making by breaking down dividing walls between different policy areas; and foster connections with, and between, different stakeholders. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, DC has been developed and improved. This has been achieved through collaborations between national associations of cities and local government organizations and by the implementation of local and regional government agendas worldwide. DC aims to directly support local development, decentralisation processes, and institutional reinforcement, among others. Thereby, it seeks to improve the designing of territorial public policy. DC has also been shown to offer specific advantages for local and territorial development and a key way to achieve the localization and implementation of the SDGs.