The Local Futures project aims to drive a new wave of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) localization throughout Canada, aligning the international focus of the SDGs with local priorities in Canadian communities.
This work will:
This work will:
- Focus on the creation of municipal reporting on the SDGs
- Facilitate a collective impact model for community stakeholders to advance the SDGs collaboratively with their local government
- Develop new sets of localized SDG indicators and data points for municipalities to track their progress
- Inspire a deeper integration of the SDGs across the country through the development of learning resources, annual gatherings, and resource sharing.
Many of the world’s cities that have been leaders in localizing the SDGs (such as the cities of Los Angeles, USA and Bristol, UK) have established close working relationships with their local universities to advance their work. Our objective with Local Futures is to build on this successful global model of university-municipal collaboration to drive a new wave of SDGs localization throughout Canada.