Eurasia Regional Section of the World organization "United Cities and Local Governments"
Eurasia Regional Section of the World organization "United Cities and Local Governments"
The Committee on Culture of UCLG has been working on a new document: “Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals: A Guide for Local Action”. The publication aims to provide practical guidance to local and regional governments, civil society organizations, private organizations, culture and development professionals, and other stakeholders interested in strengthening partnerships, policies, projects and practices around the place of culture in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The document is structured on the basis of the 17 SDGs that make up Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015. Under each Goal, the document presents information that helps to understand why culture is relevant and how this connection can be made effective at local level, including in areas where connections may only be implicit, and offers several examples of cities or local governments which have implemented projects, programmes and policies that are directly related to the Goal area.
These examples are part of a wider database of good practices called OBS which materializes through a global website on culture, cities and SDGs.
“Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals: a Guide for Local Action” builds on the work of the UCLG Committee on Culture, as well as on the advocacy campaign #culture2015goal which has been run together with several partner international cultural organizations and networks, and on many relevant policies, programmes and projects implemented by cities around the world, and contributions made by several other organizations, networks, communities and individuals that have addressed and demonstrated the cultural dimension of sustainable development.
The Committee on Culture invites all cities, local government, local stakeholders, cultural actors, academics and experts interested by the relation between cultural, sustainable local development and global agendas to read and share this unique publication.
29.06.2018
