WHY LOCALIZATION MATTERS: IMPLEMENTING THE SDGs IN LOS ANGELES LA For discussion purposes only | accurate as of March 2, 2020
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WHY THE SDGS IN LA? “The Sustainable Development Goals are not about faraway places...they’re about us.” Mayor Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles is part of a GLOBAL COMMUNITY and part of the ● shared agenda for progress. Mapping our programs to the SDGs helps us IDENTIFY GAPS ● that may exist. We embrace a COMMON LANGUAGE with other cities, both ● international and domestic. Measuring our progress on the SDGs helps us to be more ● DATA-DRIVEN AND TRANSPARENT .
FROM ALIGNMENT TO ACTION LA 5
SPONSOR PARTNERS ACADEMIC COUNCIL EXTERNAL PARTNERS LA 5 6
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HOW WE IMPLEMENTED THE SDGs AT THE LOCAL LEVEL PHASE 1: MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT TO THE SDGS How does our current activity align to the SDGs? PHASE 2: GAP ANALYSIS Where do we have gaps in current activity? PHASE 3: LOCALIZATION Do we need to add context and priorities unique to LA? PHASE 4: MOBILIZATION How can we drive new initiatives, partnerships, or investments to accelerate the Goals? LA 7 8
INDICATOR LOCALIZATION: WHERE DO WE HAVE DATA? While target LAGGING AND LOCAL CONTEXT localization was LEADING INDICATORS done from a top When data is available for a Many SDG indicators track specific population and down approach, outcomes (e.g. deaths, priority area for L.A., we added indicator homelessness, education new indicators (e.g. LGBTQIA+ localization was attainment). Where legal protections, women’s very much a appropriate, we added leading earning as a percentage of bottoms up effort. indicators (e.g. health men’s) intervention rates, rent cost burden, and school safety) LA 8 9
MONITORING PROGRESS AND REPORTING LA
VOLUNTARY LOCAL REVIEW (VLR) Voluntary National Reviews are the primary means for member states to report back to the UN on their SDG progress. We became the 6th CITY IN THE WORLD to submit a VLR to the UN, and MORE THAN 38 CITIES have now committed to reporting. In 2020, 51 MEMBER STATES WILL REPORT , and Los Angeles is working with 16 GLOBAL CITIES to design tools and enablers to bring more local and regional governments to the SDGs.
OPEN SOURCE SDG DATA REPORTING THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN SOURCE AND 136 DISAGGREGATION TRANSPARENT DATA We make a priority to Using an open source platform, INDICATORS disaggregate our data we are TRANSPARENT about demographically and where our data comes from REPORTED geographically to ensure that NO and how the information is ONE IS LEFT BEHIND . Only a few shared with the public. We are indicators require disaggregation also part of a GLOBAL by UN standards, but we COMMUNITY of developers disaggregate all indicators we improving the visualization and have data for. usability of SDG data for all. LA 11 12
SDG 3.1.1 - MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERAL MORTALITY RATE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY African American mothers Five key factors are Los Angeles County average analyzed to understand why parts of the population are often left behind in development: DISCRIMINATION , GEOGRAPHY , GOVERNANCE , SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS , and SHOCKS AND FRAGILITY . LA 12
OPEN SOURCE DATA REPORTING The Data Reporting Platform was built solely on OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY by the Center for Open Data Enterprise. Other cities and organizations can COPY THE CODE that was used to build our platform and start reporting their own data. The platform allows for MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS – eventually we can crowdsource data directly into our platform. LA 13
MOBILIZING ACTION FOR THE GOALS LA 15
MOBILIZATION WILL DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF THE SDGS AS A COMMON LANGUAGE SDG HOUSING SDG SUMMER COHORT INTERNATIONAL GENDER ACCELERATOR EQUITY NETWORK This summer, we will coordinate a group of 25 students from our With support from the Conrad N. On International Women’s Day Academic Council institutions to Hilton Foundation, we are 2020, we will announce a new work on 10-week sprints on SDG bringing together technologists, network of some of the world’s mobilitization across city public servants, funders, largest cities, representing over departments. The projects range corporate partners, community 35 million citizens, who are from assessing the legal barriers leaders, activists, and residents committed to systemic change to economic mobility (SDG 1) to to work together to identify, to achieve gender equality. mapping biodiversity health in support, and scale impactful L.A (SDG 15). interventions for affordable housing in L.A. LA
2020 PLAN OF ACTION REPORT ENGAGE MOBILIZE Collect data and generate Stakeholder engagement Mobilize partnerships and ● ● ● insights and activity mapping action to advance the goals ● Voluntary Local Review 2.0 ● Share best practices with local and international partners LA 16 17
CONTACT US SDG@LACITY.ORG | SDG.LAMAYOR.ORG | SDGDATA.LAMAYOR.ORG LA 18
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