Localizing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Learn all about the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations as well as the importance of localizing them through a variety of different materials.
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Course Description
What does it mean to localize the Sustainable Development Goals and why is it important to do so? This course goes into detail about what the UN's 17 SDGs are and why they are of great importance. Through The Right to Communicate – a community radio project in Ghana aiming to promote localised discussion of the SDGs – you will be given a great example of the goals being put into context at a local level and encouraged to think about them in terms of how they can be applied to your specific context. This course is part of Crossing Borders' aim to spread dialogue around the world and create active global citizens.
In this course, you will learn:
- what the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are
- what it means to localize the SDGs and why this is such an important process
- about examples of the localization of the SDGs through specific examples from Crossing Borders' real-life experiences
Units
Unit 1
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
This unit will help you to understand the SDGs, before moving on to looking at why it is so important to transform them onto a local level. You will be asked to engage with and perform exercises on different materials explaining the UN's goals. These include two videos on:
1: The Sustainable Development Goals. What are they and how many of them are you aware of?
2: Why are the SDGs important?
You will then complete exercises on these before exploring the UN's Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Did you know that the UN has an SDGs in Action App? Click on the link provided to download the app, learn more about the goals and report on how you yourself are helping to achieve them.
Unit 2
Localizing the SDGs
What does it mean to localize the SDGs and why is it so important? This unit will help you to understand the process of putting the UN's goals into context while learning about what the UN is doing to make this happen. Take a look at the materials below and go through the exercises to become an SDG localization expert! Here you will see Andrew Bende from Crossing Borders talk about why there must be a collective effort to put the SDGs into a local context. He gives examples from Crossing Borders projects around the world to help you to understand the localization process.
In this unit you will do the following tasks:
- draw on your own knowledge about organisations using the SDGs
- think and write about why localization is so important
- do a quiz on localization!
Unit 3
The Global SDG's Youth Awareness Through Debate
The Global SDG's Youth Awareness Through Debate is an example of localization in action. This project is about mobilizing young people (youths) in high schools and the high school system as a whole to pay more focus on the global Sustainable Development Goals agenda. The project aimed to do this by:
- Raising awareness about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among marginalised young
people in rarely reached high schools in central Uganda.
- Mobilizing young people, teachers, and schools at large to play a more active role in working with and
monitoring SDGs implementation, and
- Building the capacity ? skills of individuals, students, teachers, and school clubs to engage with SDGs
through debate.
This project was implemented by Open Space Centre in partnership with Crossing Borders and is supported by CISU.
In this unit, you will use this specific project to understand localization better, watching an educational video on the project and completing our exercises afterwards. Enjoy!
You will do the following tasks:
- find your own examples of strategies for localizing the SDGs
- debate these strategies on our forum