The 2030 Agenda in Iberoamerica: Vision and Mission from the Local Level

Abstract

Local governments and the associations representing them have actively participated in the design of the 2030 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have actively contributed to the negotiations of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). Both agendas show the importance of the role that cities and territorial governments of all sizes have to ensure effective implementation of the proposed objectives. The case of Iberoamerica is especially relevant. The achievement of these international agendas requires a new approach of multilevel open governance, where the dialogue and complementary actions between different levels of government (central, regional and local) are constant and constructive and where the interactions between the public, private sector and civil society are easy and regular. In this regard, three of the SDGs are considered particularly relevant: SDG 11, which refers to sustainable cities, SDG 16, which calls for the creation of effective, responsible and inclusive institutions and SDG 17, which appeals to the creation and revitalization of alliances between the aforementioned actors in order to achieve the objectives effectively.