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Thanks to their network, local governments can reach out to relevant actors in civil society and in the private sector, thus fostering a broad dialogue to make sure people learn and understand the SDGs and how seemingly impossible global challenges can be dealt with on a local level.
The Handbook “Agenda 2030 in My Municipality” provides good insights on communicating about the SDGs and establishing this sort of dialogue with relevant stakeholders. If you are working on a communication strategy related to the Global Agendas this Handbook can be of great use to you.
Have a look at “Agenda 2030 in My Municipality – A Handbook for Practitioners for Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals”. This Handbook offers you a step-by-step approach to communicating about the SDGs and presenting several tools and showcases (see Chapter 3, starting at Page 19).
First get an overview of the steps. Think about how you can adapt them to your community. Note down activities and discuss with your colleagues or workshop participants how you could implement them in your municipality.
The handbook proposes the following steps:
Step 1: Informing municipal staff and elected officials about SDGs
Step 2: Incorporating SDGs into municipal means of communication and informing the public
Step 3: Initiating a broad-based dialogue
Step 4: Establishing partner groups
If you are looking for inspiring examples on how the 2030 Agenda and SDGs can be promoted, have a look at Chapter 3.4 (Page 32). For even more ideas for events and activities, see also these two publications by the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities. They are full of practical awareness-raising examples:
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