In 2018 and early 2019, SDSN’s Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) supported organizations around the world in localizing SDG monitoring. Since the conclusion of the grants, some participants have seen their work take on new heights and dovetail with other efforts to localize the SDGs, while other participants have been challenged by difficult political climates and other factors.
Read MoreWhen national leadership on the SDGs is missing, local policymakers can and should step up–and they can do so with the help of data. Read our contributed piece for Apolitical here.
Read MoreIn 2018, the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) launched a microgrant initiative to support learning from existing subnational SDG data initiatives, harnessing tacit local knowledge and informing a learning exchange. This post details the work of LDA-SI grantee Wolfs Company during the 2018-2019 grant period.
Read MoreA new synthesis report and project overviews document the data localization efforts of LDA-SI microgrant recipients in Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, England, India and the United States.
Read MoreLocal Data Action grantee project SDG in Action hosted a workshop in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on October 8.
Read MoreFor the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, the City of Los Angeles is partnering with local academic institutions to strategically incorporate the SDGs into its plans, projects, partnerships, and budgets
Read MoreMovimento Nossa BH, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee and civil society organization supporting the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region, is piloting the collection and analysis of data for metropolitan planning.
Read MoreMuch like the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative does at a global scale, the OpenCities Institute is embedding know-how, tools, and capacity for the use of city-level data by sub-national governments in India, with the goal of facilitating evidence-based solutions for the SDGs.
Read MoreIn Colombia, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos is developing a tool to compare SDG achievement across 36 municipalities.
Read MoreFor the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, Wolfs Company is building on its work to take stock of Aruba’s land and marine socioeconomic and ecological factors.
Read MoreLDA-SI has launched a micro-grant initiative aiming to seed and support local data innovations in these four areas, and to promote the dissemination of lessons from these experiences to inform sub-national SDG data efforts worldwide.
Read MoreDuring 2018, LDA-SI will provide a limited number of micro grants as part of its objective to promote sound, replicable technical methods for sub-national SDG monitoring that facilitate local action in support of the “leave no one behind” principle (LNOB).
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