Measuring Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Contexts in Colombia

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Fundación Corona, a civil society organization in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Cómo Vamos City Network partnered with SIPA to build upon their SDG localization project for cities across Colombia. The goal of this project was to explore the current state of SDG localization and implementation in municipalities in Colombia and develop an actionable tool to help municipal governments monitor and track their progress. As a result of a benchmark analysis of current global best practices, fieldwork in March 2018 covering Bogotá, Cali, Cartagena, Manizales, Medellín, and Quibdó, stakeholder engagement with the public and private sectors, and the updating of a data baseline, the team developed a public online data tool that will track SDG indicators and goals for 19 Colombian urban agglomerations (over 35 municipalities), covering over 40% of the country’s population. The tool, which will add and contribute to national and sub-national data initiatives led by the national government, provides a unique example of a civil society-led project to create a common set of sub-national indicators, which must reconcile local variances in capacity and development across numerous locations within a country, while providing citizens the opportunity to learn, track and monitor SDG progress at the local level.