How to Prepare a Voluntary Local Review of the SDGs?

Countries have committed to prepare voluntary national reviews at least twice by 2030 to measure the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Reviews are presented during the UN High-level Political Forum held annually in New York.

As 65% of the Sustainable Development Goals cannot be achieved without local governments’ participation, municipalities also prepare voluntary local reviews of the SDGs. UCLG and UN-Habitat, as well as other organizations, have issued recommendations for preparing voluntary local reviews to facilitate the process. There is a list of resources below where recommendations and guidelines for preparing voluntary local reviews of the SDG can be found:

UCLG-UN Habitat Guidelines for VLRS (1 and 2).

Both reports offer a methodological and a comparative analysis of VLRS published between 2018-2021:

·        Vol.1;

·        Vol.2;

Online learning course of UCLG on Voluntary Local Reviews with key information and a few directions and recommendations;

European Commission tools:

·        Handbook on VLRs;

·        Six European cities monitoring the 2030 Agenda; 

A comparative study of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies of Japan (IGES):

·        2020;

·        2021;

·        2022;

Toolbox of the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).

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