The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared agenda for all of us. At the national level, CSOs play a crucial role in translating global agendas into national priorities, working through networks and their members. In turn, they ensure that through their supporters and the citizens that they work with, these national priorities reflect provincial, regional and local needs, grounded in people’s lived realities. In this way, CSOs act as catalysts for critical global and national agendas, and assist in bringing citizens’ voices to national debates and the development of national strategies. Furthermore, CSOs play a critical role working with governments in implementing their agendas, delivering services, generating research and evidence, holding governments accountable to their commitments, and advocating for change, including around the SDGs. This article briefly reviews some of the roles, needs and emerging practices of CSOs in advancing SDG implementation. More information is available here.
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development