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The Region of Valencia and the Local Implementation of the Sdgs: a Region Committed to Cooperation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Systematization The Region of Valencia and the local implementation of the SDGs: A region committed to Cooperation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development May 2016 Table of contents Summary of the Systematization 2 Comunitat Valenciana: The Region of Valencia (Spain) 2 Timeline of the process 3 Brief description of the context at the start of the initiative 7 Purpose and vision 7 Brief description of the initiative 8 Role of regional government, municipalities and socioeconomic partners of the territory 11 Successful practices and tools 14 Strategic criteria 17 Challenges and possible solutions 18 Lessons learned 19 1 Summary of the systematization After the new Regional Government of Valencia (Generalitat) was established in July 2015, it adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework and point of reference. The SDGs would guide all of the Generalitat's policies and not exclusively the development cooperation ones. To that end, it has encouraged a series of innovative measures, including 1) the creation of official bodies to promote consistency of policy between different Government Departments (Consellerías); 2) actions to inform and raise awareness among citizens, and prepare policy makers for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and 3) drawing up of these principles in the cooperation strategy, through a participatory means of devising a new Act, and reformulating its Master Plan. Throughout the process, emphasis has been placed on not simply including entities directly involved in development cooperation, such as the region's NGDOs, but rather a wide variety of Valencian social and economic partners. This document analyses key steps in the process, as well as difficulties encountered, solutions applied and lessons learned. It reflects on some of the pending challenges for the future. The document has been produced by the Directorate General for Cooperation and Solidarity (from the Department of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation of the Generalitat Valenciana) and the ART Initiative (UNDP Brussels). Both institutions fully recognize and promote the fundamental role of local and regional governments and other local actors in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Besides aiming at promoting the rich experience of Valencia in the early stages of the localization of the Agenda 2030, and making it available to other territories, this systematization will feed the Toolbox for Localizing the SDG, being currently facilitated by UNDP, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 and Habitat III (GTF). Comunitat Valenciana: the Region of Valencia (Spain) Socioeconomic and geographical data Spain is organized into 17 autonomous regions, including one chartered region and two autonomous cities. Each autonomous region is made up of one or several provinces, totalling 50 within all of the national territory. Each province, in turn, is divided into a variable number of municipalities or districts, of which there are 8118 in Spain. The municipalities are the basic local units of territorial organization in Spain. The Autonomous Region of Valencia, Spain, was established as an autonomous region in 1982 with the passing of its Statute of Autonomy. As of 2006, when the Statute was reformed, the Region of Valencia has been defined as a historical nationality, as stipulated in the second article of the Spanish Constitution. The Region is located in the Central-Eastern part of Spain, and it is made up of the provinces of Alicante/Alacant, Castellón/Castelló and Valencia/València (the latter spellings being their Valencian language renderings). With a geographical area representing 4.6% of Spanish territory, it has a density of 220 people/km², well above Spain's average density of 93 people/km². 2 Comunitat Valenciana: The Region of Valencia The population of Valencia, according to the Official Population Figures of 1st of January 2015, is 4,977,171 residents, representing 10.68% of the total Spanish population. Its GDP is €101,604 million, placing its economy fourth in Spain per GDP volume. The GDP per capita in the Region of Valencia in 2015 was €20,586, in contrast to the Spanish GDP per capita of €23,300. Valencia is a region with an important industrial presence—an economic fabric mainly composed of small and medium-sized enterprises—and it is one of the country's main tourist destinations. The Valencian Society and International Cooperation: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) According to data from the study ‘Spanish Public Opinion on International Cooperation for Development’ by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Centre for Sociological Research) of the Government of Spain, between 2005 and 2015 only a minority of Spaniards stated that they were familiar with, or had heard of, the so-called United Nations Millennium Development Goals to reduce global poverty. In general terms, this can be extrapolated to apply to the Valencian public. The size of the minority familiar with the Millennium Goals has fluctuated from a maximum of 31% in 2010 to a minimum of 24% in 2015. Timeline of the process In May 2015, regional elections in Valencia took place, resulting in the formation of a new government in July. In September, parallel to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda by the UN General Assembly, Valencia began the process of conceptualizing and redefining Valencian development policy, in light of this global agenda. The systematization reflected in this document describes the process undertaken between October 2015 and April 2016. At this time, the foundation was laid down for defining the strategy for the localization of the SDGs. The relevance of this process was transferred to the policies and actions of the Regional Government of Valencia. It should be stressed, however, that the initiative aims to be ongoing until 2030. Its goal is for its sustainability and success to go beyond the limits of the current legislature (2015-2019) and continue under succeeding governments, independent of their political leanings. 3 4 5 Brief description of the context at the start of the initiative In 2015, when the initiative which is the focus of this systematization began, a series of economic, social and political features acted as drivers for initiating the process. Among them: The consequences of the economic crisis persist in Spain and in the Region of Valencia. As a result of this crisis, citizens are affected by a generalized reduction in the quality of public services, an increase in unemployment and a decrease in their purchasing power. This means that the main concern of public opinion is the internal situation in the country and region, which has resulted from the crisis. This context has an impact on development cooperation policies: Many regions and cities have drastically reduced, or even entirely cut, their development cooperation budgets; Similar issues are being faced nationally, by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and also in large part by the international community. It is especially difficult to justify international cooperation action to citizens, who do not always understand the logic behind and need for cooperation, and who moreover have very little knowledge of the past MDGs and practically no ownership over them. Purpose and vision The new government, formed in July 2015, considers a firm commitment necessary to bring the Region of Valencia in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It considers the agenda "a new opportunity, perhaps the last, to transform the world."4 For this new government, the agenda must allow advances to be made in the consistency of policy, and in working towards a "whole-of-government- approach" to Valencian cooperation, in accordance with the new paradigm and the new development cooperation contexts. It further identifies with the three dimensions of development—social, economic and environmental—both in its approach to internal development at the regional level and in its international cooperation actions. It has the political will to highlight the international development cooperation actions and strategies, which it has been pushing in the region. It also has the resolve to make these more credible and sustainable. To ensure the 2030 Agenda is truly transformative and not a mere declaration of intent, the government understands that the SDGs must guide all public policy of the Generalitat at all levels, and not just those concerning development cooperation. To attain this consistency, the government considers it necessary to examine the tools needed for appropriate identification, monitoring and evaluation of policies, plans, programmes and audits. It aims, then, to promote the use and management of knowledge, as well as a culture of evaluation, in order to go beyond one-off actions or projects. Achievement of the SDGs has been adopted as an action under the Government Department of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation. Even then, it is still presented as a framework and guide for all of the Valencian public administrations, social and economic partners and all 4 Valencian Generalitat Strategy on the SDGs in Spanish: http://www.transparencia.gva.es/EstrategiaODSGVA 7 Valencian citizens. Aware of the complexities of the goals, this perspective has been articulated and shared both locally (Valencian Federation of Municipalities), nationally
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