Why do you think investing in cities and territories can help achieving the Agenda 2030?

We are born human, then along the way we forget what is human, "heaven is this Correspondence of loving senses, Celestial dowry is in humans". good, indulgent, sympathetic, civil, philanthropist, charitable.

SET A 20% NORM: Policy progress often comes about through setting norms. The Movement for Community-led Development is encouraging a "norm" for the share of public resources in the hands of local communities - with 20% - the level established by Kenya - representing a "minimum standard." In developed countries, nearly 50% of public resources are in local hands, while in sub-Saharan Africa and most of South Asia it is well under 10%.

Here in the city of Belo Horizonte we created the ODS Thematic Budget, which allows us to identify the allocation of the municipal public budget by objective. See a summary of the project in the presentation of the link below. https://goo.gl/nSCfAj

Estimados colegas, amigos, familias: Me encuentro agradecido por poder conversar con Ustedes y esperando trabajar en el terreno ARGENTINA con personal de las Naciones Unidas. Por lo que comentaré a continuación sobre la situación de la corrupción de funcionarios públicos que impide el ingreso de fondos de financiamiento para la implementación local, nacional, de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. La corrupción de funcionarios públicos está asesinando a NIÑOS, NIÑAS, MUJERES y HOMBRES en Argentina y estas acciones viene desde muchos años atrás y hasta la actualidad. Por lo que no puedo responder con sinceridad y datos ciertos a las preguntas: 1. Estrategias nacionales para financiar los ODS a nivel local. En su país, ¿existe un diálogo entre los gobiernos central y local sobre cómo financiar la Agenda 2030? ¿Cuáles son los mayores desafíos para definir una estrategia financiera para financiar los ODS a nivel local? ¿Qué se podría hacer de manera diferente? 2. Medición del impacto a nivel local: la importancia de los datos sobre la alineación del presupuesto y los indicadores de seguimiento ¿Ha emprendido su país algún proceso de reforma del sistema nacional de estadísticas para monitorear los ODS? En particular, ¿ha establecido su país algún mecanismo particular de seguimiento con respecto a la financiación de los ODS? 3. City Solutions, cómo los gobiernos locales están haciendo realidad la Agenda 2030 a nivel local ¿Cuáles son los ODS e indicadores específicos que ha considerado como una prioridad en su ciudad? ¿Cómo ha planeado financiar estas prioridades de los ODS? 4. Economías locales dinámicas para lograr la Agenda 2030. ¿Cómo pueden los actores sociales y económicos de su ciudad contribuir a la Agenda 2030?

Oui, car il s'agit de l'ODD 11 de l'agenda 2030 concernant les villes propres et établissements sûrs et résilients demandant aux gouvernants d'assurer un accès à tous un logement et des services de base adéquats à tous nécessitant un assainissement efficace de tous les quartiers de taudis (pour prévenir la santé de ses administrés) et des systèmes de transport sûrs, sécurisés, accessibles et viables à un coût abordable à toute la population sans distinction aucune et de garantir son bien-être , par ricochet le développement durable. Voilà pourquoi les gouvernants doivent financer au niveau local en cherchant les voies et moyens d'assurer un financement nécessaire et requis pour sa population. Le budget national, à juste titre ou décentralisé (local) doit intégrer une quote-part importante de cette donne.

In improving economic wellbeing of low income people we dedicate 50% of development project’ budget to finance projects from lower level (villages and wards). We also support development of businesses and entrepreneurship by providing education and soft loans to women, youth and disabled (10% of our collection) Kibaha Town Council also has invested in improving transport and communication infrastructures so as to smoothen transportation of people and commodities by constructing new roads. Kibaha Town Council is implementing the SDG #6 of ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation by constructing and improving water distribution network. see pictures of the projects from link below http://www.kibahatc.go.tz/

Le Togo dispose désormais de son Plan National de Développement (PND) arrimé aux ODD pour la période 2018-2022. Nous sommes actuellement dans une phase de vulgarisation du PND. Tous les acteurs sont mobilisés à cet effet dont les Organisations de la Société Civile (OSC) qui ont organisé du 23 au 25 Octobre dernier le 2e Forum National des OSC sur les ODD avec des focus sur le PND. Nous sommes également dans une phase de mobilisation de ressources pour la mise en œuvre du PND. Des ressources internes devraient être mobilisé mais le financement extérieur est également recherché. Le pays a par ailleurs amorcé une phase de décentralisation. Les élections seront bientôt organisées et les élus locaux devraient faciliter le développement des communautés par la mise en œuvre des Plans de Développement Communautaires (PDC). Notre problème est que beaucoup de communauté ne disposent pas de PDC et c'est le travail auquel nous nous attelons actuellement au niveau de l'Observatoire Ouest Africain du Développement Durable avec le Projet d'Appui des Communautés à la mise en œuvre des ODD (PAC-ODD).

Since October 2018, we have an oficial National Commission (Comissão Nacional dos ODS) for the implementation of Agenda 2030 in Brazil. The commission's Action Plan 2016-2018 establish the strategic actions for the implementation of Agenda 2030 in the states and local government, however it does not mention ways to finance the implementation, at all. Fortaleza is the fifth metropolis of Brazil, even so, the internalisation of SDGs in the local government is still very weak. The local government Multi-year plan is still not aligned with Agenda 2030; the indicators are not the ones suggested by the Nacional Commission for the local implementation. It is importante that the local governments build a public politic focused on the implementation of the SDGs. To have interest in doing so it is important to make clear for the city's administration what are the real benefits, including the possibility to finance the municipal projects, plans and actions. It is taking too long for the strategies of the National Comission to get in the city territory.There is too much bureaucracy, It is time to go straight to local governments for the SDG's implementation, specially for SDG11. The city's Urban Plans should consider de SDG's targets and indicators, the city master plan and sectorial plans are the beginning of the urban public politics. If the SDGs are not contemplated and localised there, it is a lot more difficult to implement and localize later, out of the planning process. In Fortaleza there are many actions and projects that contribute to the achievement of SDGs, nevertheless few are been related to de SDGs. Fortaleza is now in the process of reviewing the Integrated Project for the Management of the Maritime Waterfront of Fortaleza (Projeto Orla), it is already available in the city's hall site, for each action we localised the correspondent SDG target, so in the future it will be possible to publicise to society how exactly each plan's established action contribute to Agenda 2030. Unfortunately it was not possible to align with the SDG's indicators and that weakens the implementation and evaluation of the achievement of Agenda 2030. It is essencial that the local governments have the opportunity to access international funding once it is aligned with Agenda 2030, for that the local government must include de SDG in its planning. This takes us to another issue, the need for local capacitation in the implementation and localisation of the SDGs. One of the strategic action of the National Commission is exactly that. The dissemination in the local government secretariats of the principles of Agenda 2030 and the SDG should be a priority, otherwise we will continue to see the implementation occurring in a pontual form, and not as it should, institutionalised.

Errata: the National Commission was created in October, 2016

Si les reformes ont été bien faites: création d'institution national d'ODDs responsable d'étude des projets sociaux, économique et environnementaux de chaque municipalité. Après approbation le virement est fait aux centres ODDs créés dans la commune. Le rapport financier est envoyé par voie hiérarchique passant par le comité préfectoral, subregionnal et parvient à l'institution nationale

From the period of 2016 till date i have volunteered and focus on SDGs advocacy and implementation on goal 3 and 4 and their indicators as most priority for myself and the organisation where i am volunteering as the State coordinator (Sustainable Development Goals Initative), www.sdgsai.org in Lagos, Nigeria. For those period what we have put in place was short term goals for funding whereby we source for funds from individuals and volunteers who always spend their time and resources for our events. In the long term, we have been able to register our organisation this year for our operation to be more formal and sustainable and hopefully have access to funding from private sectors, government collaboration and international grants. Other option we are exploring is to have a permanent office we can use, where we can always use to train and educate the society and use the idea of social entrepreneur to sustain our non-governmental organisation. I have not initiated any budgetary exercise so far, the funds for my initiative has been from personal fund and volunteers who donate to the implementation of our advocacy events. The central government in my country have the office of special adviser to presidency on SDGs and each region that is states are expected t have such office of SDGs where private sector, CSOs and NGOs can work in collaboration with government and funding f SDGs implementations. There are no opening known to most of the CSOs and NGOs to work with the central are regional and in cases where such opening are available, it is under utilised by government due to poor leadership. The major difficulty is that the central and most of the regional government are not prioritising the implementation of the SDGs in their project . The central and regional misuse resources, lack of developmental structures and the will to improve the lives of her citizens. Of course, the 2030 should be one of the reason why the state i reside, Lagos which is one of the fastest growing mega city in the world should have more access to funding and implementation of sustainable projects to expand, develop and localise the SDGs.

Dear colleagues, The e-discussion on financing the SDGs at the local level has now come to an end. We would like to thank all of you for your valuable contributions, ranging from concrete experiences and local examples to global, national and local policy recommendations, ideas and suggestions. The contributions reflect a wide range of perspectives from different actors and contributed to the event “ Venice City Solutions 2030-Financing the SDGs at the local level” celebrated in Venice, Italy on November 16, 2018. Four guiding issues were addressed during the event. First, presenting some of the national strategies in place for financing the achievement of the SDGs at local level. Second, how local governments are making the Agenda 2030 a reality at local level. The third panel focused on measuring impact at local level through, notably, budget alignment and tracking indicators. Finally, the fourth panel discussed how to harness vibrant local economies to achieve the 2030 Agenda. Throughout the day, representatives of local and regional governments from Amman, Cochabamba, Madrid, Montevideo, Tilarán, as well as the local government associations of Uganda, East Africa, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy, together with global and regional associations made strong contributions to present the local initiatives that local governments are pro-actively leading. All highlighted the need to innovate in the way local public policies and development projects are financed. The issue of data, transparency and accountability was key to the discussions. In particular, local governments called for enhancing the way administrations report back to the citizens and harness the local knowledge of communities: citizens, they said, must benefit from the data they co-produce and trust between all levels of government must be reinforced. Some flags were raised to recall that in most regions, including Europe, local governments associations are still raising awareness at the level of the local governments and building up local capacities to align local priorities with national strategies for sustainable development. Throughout the day, local governments called for caution in the way we understand “alignment” and making sure that all levels of government work in a coherent and co-responsible way. Development banks, in particular, were called upon to adopt different perspective to truly engage in partnership with local and regional governments based on the local capacities, solutions and priorities. The all-day discussion made it clear that more multi-stakeholder dialogues were necessary to get the conversation going and make transformative steps forward in reaching a new social contract. A set of recommendations was finally reached and will be brought to the next High Level Political Forum, in July 2019. These include, but are not limited to: • Not only making sure that finance is commensurate with mandates at all levels of government, but innovating in the way that local and regional governments are able to finance their daily efforts. In this regard, international organizations should link funding and financing to concretizing decentralization and supporting reliable data collection and tailored indicators at the local level. • All levels of government should improve the way they communicate and involve citizens in the local development processes. This is a matter of harnessing accountability requirements to build stronger bonds between the citizens’ and cities’ elected bodies and officials. In doing so, they would show their pro-active engagement towards sustainable development and building dynamic partnerships with civil society. • Beyond formal recognition of the co-responsibility of local governments in achieving the global goals, it was highlighted that co-ownership is directly linked to having a seat and a say at the policy-making global and national tables. Coordination mechanisms for coherence of efforts and alignment between all stakeholders, including Parliament, are necessary. Once again, thank you for your active participation and we encourage you to continue engaging in this global discussion here on the virtual platform: www.localizingthesdgs.org.

Making the cities resilient and sustainable would require a multifaceted development approach that would provide improved service delivery models which in turn requires high financial investments. A development which is not financially sustainable fails to deliver the benefits by falling apart earlier than expected life, indicating that financial sustainability would be the core in the implementation of the SDG 11.The discussion has to shift from how to finance to how to sustain the finance that's already there . a country like India where there has been unsustainable ways in which cities have been financed , new municipal reforms have to be brought in so that the existing cash flow management runs in a sustainable way

Acá en mi país son contadas las personas que saben que existen los ODS, pero no los conocen, yo deseo ser promotor de los ODS si Uds me ayudan y me orientan, Gracias