African Way joined the Local SDG Platform

The LocalSDG Platform main objective is the promotion of public engagement to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda, through a comprehensive mobilization process of all Portuguese municipalities. LocalSDG - Municipal Sustainable Development Goals monitoring platform - aims to trigger a broad and open local sustainability movement, with strong multiplier effects, not only to bring the local actors and their initiatives to the spotlight, but also to promote the creation of an extensive and committed community of agents of change.

The LocalSDG Platform embodies a dynamic technology-based online portal, which allows the visualization and monitoring of the progress and contributions of each municipality in relation to the various SDGs.

The LocalSDG Platform is distinguished from the various ongoing initiatives by four main characteristics, which complement and reinforce each other: i) comprehensiveness (it includes all SDGs and not just some); ii) local rooting (mobilisation, participation and collaborative construction of indicators and solutions); iii) connectivity (direct articulation of the ODSlocal Platform with municipal platforms, facilitating the daily work of municipal technicians); and iv) access to innovative and rigorous information and knowledge (institutional support by public entities responsible for the production of information and monitoring by a Scientific Council made up of experts in European and international policies).