Norway (KS) Norway developed a Voluntary National Review in 2016. The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) has provided input on behalf of local governments on the review. There are regular consultative meetings between the central government and local authorities. These consultative meetings take the form of plenary meetings and bilateral meetings between KS and ministries. Colombia Colombia submitted their VNR in 2016. It included local governments as an important partner in the implementation of the SDGs Voluntary National Review 2017 Sweden (SKL) SKL is often consulted by Ministry In Sweden the of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry implementation of the of Finance regarding the SDGs and SDGs has been a very the Voluntary National Review. SKL bottom-up process. SKL’s is a member of the Swedish message to the central Government’s reference group that government is that has been created to discuss the municipalities should development of VNR - Several themselves define what the Swedish municipalities are also sustainability challenges members of thes group. SKL has are and how to tackle them gathered examples from and then later link them – municipalities on how they work to the global framework. with sustainable development and how they have approached Agenda 2030. 40 examples were put in a report, given to the Ministry. A few of those local governments which have done good work will probably be invited by the central government to talk about the implementation of the SDGs and
Norway (KS) Norway developed a Voluntary National Review in 2016. The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) has provided input on behalf of local governments on the review. There are regular consultative meetings between the central government and local authorities. These consultative meetings take the form of plenary meetings and bilateral meetings between KS and ministries. Colombia Colombia submitted their VNR in 2016. It included local governments as an important partner in the implementation of the SDGs Voluntary National Review 2017 Sweden (SKL) SKL is often consulted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance regarding the SDGs and the Voluntary National Review. SKL is a member of the Swedish Government’s reference group that has been created to discuss the development of VNR - Several Swedish municipalities are also members of thes group. SKL has gathered examples from municipalities on how they work with sustainable development and how they have approached Agenda 2030. 40 examples were put in a report, given to the Ministry. A few of those local governments which have done good work will probably be invited by the central government to talk about the implementation of the SDGs and In Sweden the implementation of the SDGs has been a very bottom-up process. SKL’s message to the central government is that municipalities should themselves define what the sustainability challenges are and how to tackle them – and then later link them to the global framework.
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