Local Government Implementation of The Sustainable Development Goals by gchewe

gchewe - thank you for your well written proposal! Taking a global policy approach to city-level sustainability may indeed be the most comprehensive path to sustainable development, although the scale and number of parties involved could cause slow progress, especially considering that SDG7 depends upon the enactment of SDG10. Could you expand on your timeline to perhaps address these issues? What sort of resources will be necessary to achieve these goals in poor cities and nations which are effected by these proposed SDGs? Its seems that community involvement from within will also be a key component to the success of all Sustainable Development Goals. How do you propose enabling community members to feel ownership over this massive, international undertaking? I tend to agree with shawnhesse that it will be particularly beneficial to your proposal to list example cities and countries which this idea will impact. Does this project propose a pilot city or just use a broad approach and target all urban areas in need of improvement? Thanks for your thoughtfully composed proposal!

Wow! Just a glance through this proposal and it is clear and obvious that the author has done much thoughtful research, and is in command of the subject at hand. I have to support this. There is a central theme of winning consensus that runs through this, and it is absolutely correct. What can any one person accomplish completely alone? If I knew more about the subject I might have more to say, but sometimes it says enough to recognize when somebody has effectively studied the problem, and proposes somehting worth trying, right?

Here's some great words from Henry Kissinger, one of the biggest proponents of Agenda 21... “Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government”. Dr. Henry Kissinger, 1991

Hi Gchewe, Thanks for your proposal. First of all this is well researched approach based on SDGs. Few thoughts from my side on the proposal. 1. The linkage to SDGs is more at macro level indicators for city development. These indicators eventually when formalized will follow to the cities through their respective government similar to the MDGs. The proposal would be more sharper if you could propose specific action items for cities in emerging markets. The growth of these geographies and aspiration of people in these markets are going through tremendous transition. Why not deal with lets say two specific issues for ONE ASPECT – Transportation. You could propose action items for building infrastructure and projects for people to stop relying on individual mode of transportation and than influencing people to switch to mass/public transportation. How concepts like telecommuting can be linked here. 2. Try to build on similar specific actions and take example of a city/urban area and develop metric and scorecard for Mayor/Municipal commissioner. You can than link climate financing, ODA and other channel of funds to develop these initiatives. 3. If you do that than your costing and timeline for a specific project would be something more reasonable and an initiative which you could have influence to drive otherwise the present form of proposal is more from the actions to be taken at globally and may be till government level. I look towards your thoughts on my comments and will be really happy to provide further comments on the proposal. Wishing you all the luck!

Hi, Thank you for your proposal. I have some questions that could help to elaborate the final document. I would like to know what are the specific actions the actors should be take to get each of this goals? Where will these actions be taken? ... you say that it could be at national, regional or local level... but I think that each place has their own problem, so if we really want to get those goals, you need to define what do you want to propose a document? specific actions?... and them you could determine the location. Regards!

Thank you for the proposal. I share similar suggestions to previous commenters regarding identifying specific policies, actions, or other activities that leaders of these urban areas should be taking. Good luck!

Thank you for your proposal! You have chosen the Sustainable Development Goals as a starting point and as guideline for your proposal. Once you have introduced the SDGs there is no need for you to go through all of that information. Instead, I would recommend you to develop your proposal building up only the urban resilience target you refer to, and be as specific and clear as possible in the answers you give to the general headings that will give structure to the proposal. Please note that the topics of transportation and buildings are covered in other contests, so I invite you to focus on spatial planning, urban governance etc. Best of luck!

Thank you for all your comments and suggestions, I will have a second look at the proposal and make the relevant changes and additions.