Institutionalization of 2030 Agenda in Barcarena

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Description

Intro

The practice is about how the City Hall adopted the 2030 Agenda as a medium and long-term planning tool to address the economic, social and environmental problems caused by mining in the municipality.

Objective of the practice

By aligning planning and management instruments and legislation with 2030 Agenda and involving all local stakeholdres in decision-making processes, Barcarena City Hall achieves political and institutional coherence to accelerate the implementation of all 17 SDGs.

Partners

Through the Rede ODS Brasil the City Hall encourages the co-creation of solutions to local challenges and the co-responsibility of social actors, ensuring multilevel governance. It is a collective formed by governmental institutions, civil society organizations, universities that establish partnerships to develop actions focused on 2030 Agenda.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

In Barcarena, the process of institutionalizing the UN Development Agendas began in 2013 with the Pluriannual Plan (PPA) 2014-2017 aligned to MDGs e Post-2015 Agenda. Decree No. 267/2014 established as a priority the linkage of the MDGs to the plans, programs, projects and actions of the City Hall. In October 2015 the City Hall made the natural transition to 2030 Agenda and began to align its actions with it. In addition to the instruments of government planning and management, the legal framework of the municipality has also been updated and aligned with the 2030 Agenda. Decree No. 436/2017 established as a priority the linkage of the 2030 Agenda to the plans, programs, projects and actions of the City Hall. The Agenda is even incorporated into the school curriculum. The City Hall is developing an observatory to monitor the progress of the location of the Agenda in the municipality, adopting indicators with disaggregated and georeferenced data.

Results/Outputs/Impacts

The practice promoted a paradigm shift in the municipality. The organizational structure of the City Hall was changed, institutions were strengthened in the structure and capacity development. Social participation in decision-making processes also allows actions to meet the real demands of the population.

Enabling factors and constraints

Network Articulation Meetings where each government department must present to the others the actions it is carrying out and/or planning, identifying which SDGs are being contemplated and which actors - governmental or not - are important for the success of these actions. The Meetings contribute to the alignment of governmental actions with 2030 Agenda; the fostering of interaction between government departments; the identification of duplicity and shadowing of actions and of potential partnerships between the departments and other social actors.

Sustainability and replicability

Barcarena's experience has potential for replication in subnational governments - Brazilian or otherwise - so it is often mentioned as an example in national and international news, events and reports. Such as Local and Regional Goverments’ Report to the 2017 HLPF. National and Sub-national Governments on the way toward the localization on the SDGs; Working Together: Integration, Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals. World Public Sector Report 2018; Local and Regional Goverments’ Report to the 2018 HLPF: towards the localization on the SDGs

Conclusions

The 2030 Agenda institutionalization facilitates the identification of the priority areas for investment; the optimization of human, material and financial resources by facilitating integration among all government agencies, combating the culture of departmentalization. And engaging

Other sources of information

http://www.localizingthesdgs.org/library/view/342
http://www.localizingthesdgs.org/story/view/100
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/15806Brazil_Eng…
https://twitter.com/UCLGLearning/status/932555968642273280?s=08
http://repositorio.enap.gov.br/handle/1/3615
http://www.br.undp.org/content/brazil/pt/home/library/ods/o-papel-dos-p…
https://twitter.com/AChMChile/status/1088062875594383360?s=08

SDGS & Targets

Goal 16

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels