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It is with great delight that we hereby share the ‘CIB Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in times of COVID-19’ guidance note! Based on many contributions of the CIB network and our M&E community over the last months, and following on the launch event last week led by independent consultant Kaia Ambrose, we present this review of practices and guidelines for CIB members on this relevant and dynamic topic for our sector. The note is also translated into French and Spanish: those are share on our website!
How do the Nordic countries and Europe work towards the SDGs? On behalf of KS, Nordregio has carried out a survey of Nordic and European initiatives that are relevant for local and regional authorities to know about in the work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. With the report, KS hopes to contribute useful information and expand the toolbox for the work with the SDGs. In recent years, there has been a clear global agreement that the sustainability goals cannot be met without local efforts. Networks and exchange of experiences across national borders and between the Nordic countries can provide new inspiration and new approaches for local sustainability work.
In 2015 the United Nations declared an ambitious programme, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With similar aspirations to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the SDGs claim is to make a difference in terms of justice and sustainability on a global scale. Both UN frameworks speak to the global imagination, but what do they do in (local) practice(s)? Are the SDGs going to be enough? While current research focuses on the governance aspect of the SDGs and the efficiency of their implementation by national governments, little attention has been paid to the localisation process. Exploring the SDGs as a social imaginary of a moral order (Charles Taylor) and linking this to a framework of ‘localizing human rights’, we determine whether and in what way the SDGs might be a source of inspiration in some pioneering city-initiatives.