DID YOU KNOW?
Only eight OECD regions and ten cities have achieved the end values for 2030 in SDG 15, 'Life on Land'.

Cities are projected to house 55% of the global population by 2050 – 81% of young people who moved within the same country between 2006 and 2016 settled in an urban or intermediate region (OECD, 2019[3]).

Lack of available land and land degradation are two factors contributing to the housing deficit in Córdoba. Solutions could include bridging the housing supply gap through collaboration between the province and its municipalities on land-use planning policy and regulation to establish a coherent long-term housing development strategy, and fostering sustainable construction using recycled and reusable material.

A Territorial Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals: Synthesis Report (OECD, 2020[1]) provided policymakers at all levels of government with a Checklist for Public Action to facilitate the uptake and implementation
of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a tool for better policies and better lives.

The Checklist covers five components: (1) Policies and Strategies; (2) Multi-level Governance; (3) Financing and Budgeting; (4) Data and Information; and (5) Engagement.

To enact its recommendations, this toolkit offers a userfriendly one-stop-shop organised in three parts. First, it presents the takeaways and lessons from ten policy dialogues conducted so far on A Territorial Approach to the
SDGs.
Second, it spells out recommendations under each of the five components of the Checklist for Public Action, with 50 examples of how cities, regions and countries implement the recommendations.
Third, the toolkit offers a self-assessment framework for cities and regions to analyse conditions for the implementation of a territorial approach to the SDGs and the extent to which local, regional and national governments are following the Checklist's recommendations. In addition, two-page snapshots illustrate the performance on the SDGs of cities and regions involved in policy dialogues with the OECD.

This toolkit is for policy-makers at all levels of government, whether already implementing the SDGs or planning to do so alongside stakeholders including business, civil society, research, academia and youth. These parties and others can use the toolkit to engage in open and forward-looking dialogues about how to localise the SDGs in a city, region or country.