UN-Habitat SDG Localization

Transforming the #SDGs into reality at the local level

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After plenty of posts, conversations, ideas and #SDGLocalization from around the world, it’s time for a change of scenery. 👋🌍

We’re saying goodbye to X, but definitely not to the conversation.

You can now find us on Instagram and LinkedIn, where we’ll continue sharing local voices and experiences, ideas on multilevel governance, and the people and partnerships turning the #SDGs into action on the ground.

📸 Follow us on Instagram → https://t.co/tTFmJAIXid
💼 Find us on LinkedIn → https://t.co/pJ51VxS3j1

New channels, same mission: localizing development priorities to drive action and impact.

See you over there! 📍

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🇹🇳 Today marked a milestone in turning Tunisia’s ambitions into reality.

National ministries, municipalities, local and regional representatives and development partners came together through the Partnership Platform on Localizing the SDGs to focus on moving from strong development plans to delivery on the ground.

The ambition is clear: connect local ambitions with national priorities, and turn them into territorial pathways that partners can support and finance.
The Platform advances this through National SDG Localization Frameworks, connecting existing institutions, plans, budgets, partnerships and data into a coherent framework for implementation.

🇹🇳🤝🇮🇹 The Tunisia-Italy exchange brought together Italy’s experience in policy coherence for sustainable development and Tunisia’s ambition to translate its development plans into transformative projects on the ground.

Anchored in the @Local2030 Coalition, the Partnership Platform is a joint operational initiative @MASE_IT and @UNHABITAT

💬 The Platform is where these exchanges between local and national governments take place. Join the conversation!

#SDGLocalization #Local2030 #Tunisia
@UNHabitatTun @UNHabitat_Ar @TnEconomy @interieurTn @Minequip @ItalyinTunisia

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🏘️🌍 Happy #WorldHabitatDay!

As UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres reminds us, adequate housing is connected to progress across the SDGs.

And that progress has to happen locally. Housing is where poverty, basic services, climate resilience and inclusion meet, and where global ambition must translate into local action.

With 2.8 billion people facing housing inadequacy, delivering #AdequateHousingForAll will take national and local governments, communities and partners working together.

🔗 More about World Habitat Day: https://t.co/kwucgyQLCL
@UNHABITAT #UrbanOctober

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🌍 #UrbanOctober is here!

For 31 days, cities, communities, governments and partners around the world will come together to exchange ideas and take action for a better urban future.

Urban challenges are experienced locally. From access to adequate housing to climate change and growing inequalities, delivering sustainable development means translating global ambitions into solutions that respond to local realities and priorities.

This October, join the conversation: host an event, share a local solution or take part in activities happening around the world.

👉 Find out how to get involved: https://t.co/pHYnMKPnMT

#SDGLocalization #SDGCities #WorldHabitatDay #WorldCitiesDay @UNHABITAT

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📢 We’re hiring!

Join @UNHABITAT’s SDG Cities & Multilevel Governance Team as an SDG Localization Expert, supporting our work on #SDGLocalization, multilevel governance & sustainable urban development.

📍 Nairobi
📅 Apply by 8 Oct

🔗 https://t.co/LMhtAUMbFH

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🌍 Can we localize what we can’t see?

Across Asia and the Pacific, only around 55% of SDG indicators are supported by sufficient data, with major gaps in data broken down by income, gender, disability and geography.

A new policy brief from @UNESCAP explores what this means for #SDGLocalization - and how geospatial, citizen-generated and more integrated urban data can help reveal gaps that city-wide averages often hide.

But technology is only part of the picture. Fragmented data, limited local capacity and unequal access to digital infrastructure also shape what cities can see, and act on.

Do we have the right data to understand what is happening locally?
🔗 Explore the brief: https://t.co/M3pqWP3RME

#UrbanData #LocalData #LeaveNoOneBehind

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🌍 What’s shaping the conversation on #SDGLocalization?

There’s a lot happening across cities and territories, and keeping up with the ideas, evidence and experiences shaping localization isn’t always easy.

One place following these conversations is #MunicipalTimes, a publication of the @UJInstitute, an initiative of @OnCities2030, developed with @uclg_org, connecting debates across local realities and global agendas.

Its latest #MunicipalTimesInsights has plenty for the localization community to dig into 👀 . From multilevel governance and the role of local governments in global decision-making to the evolving role of VLRs and VSRs.

One figure caught our attention: 500+ VLRs have now been completed by 274 cities in 87 countries. Increasingly, these reviews are going beyond reporting to inform planning, budgets, local data and participation.

📰 Follow #MunicipalTimes for more ideas and debates emerging from the municipal movement, and explore the latest edition: https://t.co/7QcRdim1Jz

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🔬➡️🏛️ A glimpse inside the new KSN Policy Papers.

🔬KSN research in 🇯🇴 & 🇹🇳 is grounded in priorities identified through Local Labs & stakeholder engagement. Now, locally grounded policy recommendations will be taken further towards project concepts & concrete initiatives.

👇 Explore just a few examples from a much wider body of research, spanning energy, climate adaptation, marine protection, urban planning, heritage & more.

🔗 https://t.co/4VXIw3SxPn

@Local2030 @UNHABITAT @CeSPI_Roma @ItalyMFA_int @UNHabitatTun @UNHabitat_Ar #SDGLocalization

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From proof of concept to scale.

🌏Building on 🇯🇴 & 🇹🇳, the Local2030 KSN is expanding to 🇻🇳 & 🇲🇲, while taking locally grounded policy recommendations towards concrete initiatives & creating new opportunities to bring KSN research into wider academic debate.

👇What comes next.

@Local2030 @UNHABITAT @CeSPI_Roma @ItalyMFA_int @UNHabitatTun @UNHabitat_Ar #SDGLocalization

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What happens when research is connected directly with decision making? 📍

In Jordan🇯🇴 & Tunisia🇹🇳, the Local2030 KSN links young researchers with local policymakers & stakeholders through action-research and Local Labs, generating evidence grounded in territorial priorities.

👇See the impact so far.

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🌐#UCLGCongress

Our World Summit of Local and Regional Governments has come to a close with clear messages to the world:

We deliver
rights
through
everyday
essentials.

We are
proximity
governments.

The Tangier Outcome Document charts the path towards a renewed social contract grounded in care, solidarity and universal local public services.

Discover our collective vision below 👇

🔗 https://t.co/PTTgWs8khf

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What happens when researchers and decision-makers join forces?

🔬🌍The Local 2030 Knowledge and Scientific Network (KSN) connects young researchers, policymakers, practitioners & local stakeholders to strengthen the contribution of science & academia to #SDGLocalization.

A global platform under @Local2030, developed with @UNHABITAT & @CeSPI_Roma, with support from @ItalyMFA_int.

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One Platform, five operational workstreams. 🌍

The Partnership Platform, a joint initiative of @MASE_IT & @UNHABITAT, supports countries in designing National SDG Localization Frameworks.

Anchored in @Local2030, it brings together operational support, knowledge, capacity development, peer learning & partnerships and finance.

🔗 https://t.co/qLsPgCEEJI

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National SDG Localization Frameworks (NLFs): grounded in practice. 🌍

Inspired by 🇮🇹 Italy’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development, the Partnership Platform is putting NLFs into practice:

🇸🇳 Senegal: advancing Vision 2050 through national & territorial planning
🇹🇳 Tunisia: prioritizing projects & linking them to finance

A joint initiative of @MASE_IT & @UNHABITAT, anchored in @Local2030.

👇 See how it works.🔗 Download the flyer and find out more: https://t.co/qLsPgCFczg

@OnuSenegal @UNHabitatTun @UNHabitat_Ar

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Local data tells us where progress is happening. Local voices help shape what progress looks like. 📍

A recent @IISD_news analysis on women’s empowerment in Egypt shows why both matter: understanding different local realities and ensuring women’s voices inform the decisions that affect them.

That’s #SDGLocalization in practice. 🌍

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/1cJ4KQRNll

@ncwegypt @MOICEgypt @Local2030

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🏠 If we want to close the housing gap, we need to localize the SDGs.

In Surigao City 🇵🇭, the #LocalizeToRealize programme is showing how community priorities can shape housing, services & local planning.

For the Sama Bajau community, #SDGLocalization is helping turn local priorities into safer, culturally appropriate homes, better access to services & a stronger voice in local decision-making.

Guided by the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office @UNPhilippines & financed through @JointSDGFund, with @UNHABITAT & @UN_Women

👉 https://t.co/Vw4ODjkjj9 @UNHabitatPh

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🏙️ What are Europe’s mayors telling us?

The 2026 @Eurocities Pulse Mayors Survey is clear: cities are ready to deliver, but need stronger multilevel governance, more predictable funding & a greater role in shaping policies that affect them.

👉 Read the 2026 Eurocities Pulse Mayors Survey: https://t.co/JGAfSDMqd0

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🏙️ How can UN-Habitat and stakeholders work together to advance housing and sustainable urban development?

SDG localization and multilevel governance are key to turning these shared priorities into action, connecting global ambition with the realities, priorities and solutions of cities and territories.

Join @UNHABITAT Executive Director @AnacludiaRossb1 tommorow for the third Global Stakeholder Dialogue to share priorities, identify opportunities for collaboration and help shape joint action for the year ahead.

📅 11 August 2026
🕝 14:30–16:00 EAT
💻 Online

👉 Register now: https://t.co/t2wu7rs7Sv

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✅Building the global evidence base to accelerate SDG localization.

As the world looks towards the 2027 SDG Summit, demonstrating the impact of SDG localization is just as important as delivering it. Stronger territorial evidence is essential to shape policy, guide investment and systematically embed local priorities into national and global agendas.

The Global Stocktake on SDG Localization is bringing together decade of experience into a shared evidence base for SDG localization. Through harmonized indicators, country solutions and foresight analysis, it will inform the process of the Local2030 Coalition as well as the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators, ultimately shaping the design of the post-2030 development framework.

Building on the momentum of #WUF13, this process was advanced at #HLPF2026 where UN-Habitat co-organized the Towards a Global Stocktake on SDG Localisation – Achieving SDG 11 through a Territorial Approach with the OECD and the United Nations Local2030 Coalition and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Next milestone  9th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs this September, stay tuned for more information!

#HLPF2026 #SDGLocalization #SDG11 #MultilevelGovernance

@OECD @SpainUN @UNHABITAT @Local2030 @SpainMFA