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Deep Dive: Voluntary Local Review (VLR) Lab
Mr. Samiuddin AhmedRegional Sustainable Development Consultant, Environment and Development Division
RPF: @Quito+5: Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP’s VLR journey
• Guidelines co‐produced with 16 PPSU members including UN‐Habitat, UNDP, UCLG ASPAC, Urbanice Malaysia, IGES and others
• Fully aligned with UNDESA’s Global Guiding Elements for VLRs
Launch of the Penang Platform for Sustainable Urbanization (PPSU) at
APUF7 in Penang, Malaysia
First Leadership meeting at WUF10 in Abu Dhabi,
UAE
Launch of the Asia‐Pacific Regional Guidelines on
VLRs
Piloting in 2 South Asian and 3 South‐East Asian
cities
VNR‐VLR Lab (associated event at the 8th APFSD)
VLR online portal
Concrete programmes of support
Voluntary Local
Reviews
Building Urban Economic Resilience
Urban Resource
Management
Courses for Chief
Executives of Cities
Regional Guidelines on Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs)
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The VLR process
Integrating local and national review of the SDGs
Basis for effective VLR‐VNR integration Actions to consider when integrating VLR and VNR
VLR report
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Deep Dive: Voluntary Local Review (VLR) Lab
Dr. Mahesti OkitasariResearch Associate, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability & UNESCAP
RPF: @Quito+5: Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific
Sustainable Urban Resource Management (SURM)
• The three capacity‐development streams are participation, evidence, and integration.
• These capacity‐development streams act as enablers to advancing SURM for localizing the SDGs.
SURM is an approach to transform urban consumption and production systems through interventions that are linear to circular, pro‐poor, gender‐responsive, and resilient to shocks and stresses.
Localizing the SDG Policy Framework for SURM
a process‐based and integrated model
aligning with the localizing SDG mechanism and the existing policy processes
incorporating three mutually reinforcing capacity‐development streams
corresponding to the SURM
iterative
Linking the Localizing the SDGs Policy Framework for SURM with the VLR Process
Some of the framework’s building blocks will indicate where the VLR process and the SURM framework are closely aligned and could be considered an entry point to link both processes.
Localizing the SDGs through SURM eLearning
Motivation
Benefits
Principal audience
Local efforts to achieve the SDGs through bottom‐up actions requires building of local capacities to harness cross‐sectoral synergies & gain potential co‐benefits provided by integrated resource planning and management.
Strengthen the capacities to localize SDGs through SURM project.Advance understanding of the SDG localizing process & SURM (linear to circular, pro‐poor, gender‐responsive, resilient).Practical learning to scale up and mainstream the SDGs into local action.
National and local governments, the private sectors, civil society organizations, knowledge institutions, urban practitioners and other stakeholders working to achieve sustainable urban development and localizing the SDGs in cities.
Localizing the SDGs through SURM eLearning
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5 Phases
This course is organized phases that correspond to the SURM framework.
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5 Modules
Each module presents one phase and consists of one or several building blocks and action points.
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13 Building Blocks
Each block contains tools, activities and exercises and supplemented with best practice case studies for inspiration.
E‐learning materials
Localizing SDGs through SURM Online Course VLR Journey
tinyurl.com/surmonline vlr.unescap.org
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