Toward Gender and Youth-Focused Sustainable Development at the Local Level

The 2030 Agenda is a key tool to deepen the open government development model. Working with an array of stakeholders like the private sector, academia, and civil society, we can work to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by coordinating and developing social, economic, and environmental strategies. This is a key opportunity to strengthen trust between governments and their citizens and co-create innovative solutions that lead to high-impact sustainable solutions. 

The Province of Cordoba in Argentina is committed to advancing  collaborative local implementation of the SDGs in four municipalities (Alta Gracia, Vicuña, Mackenna, San Jose de la Dormida and Freyre) through a gender and youth lens. This entails facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue and co-developing a local sustainable development model. Local implementation is not to directly adopt the 2030 Agenda but to design participatory processes that help identify locally relevant issues and understand how the SDGs contribute to collective action and concrete steps.