Background
The Division for the Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) and Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of UN-DESA, in collaboration with Local 2030, United Nations Development Programme, UN-Habitat and Global Taskforce of local and regional governments will hold a VNR Lab is to examine how VNRs can support the localization of SDGs by engaging local governments and local stakeholders in the process, while also discussing how national governments are capturing sub-national perspectives in their VNRs, including through integration of local data. The Lab will discuss how countries are responding to the need to reflect the local implementation of the 2030 Agenda in VNR reports; how local and regional governments have been integrated in the VNR process; and challenges and opportunities as related to the localization of the SDGs. Furthermore, it will discuss experiences with integration of timely and disaggregated data from local and regional governments into national follow-up and review of the SDGs; and how VNRs present an opportunity to strengthen coordination between national statistical systems and local data providers.