City corp, municipality staff receive SDG localisation training

The National Institute of Local Government organised a validation workshop on ‘Tools and methods of SDG localisation for City Corporations and Municipalities of Bangladesh’ at the capital’s Agargaon on Tuesday.

Aimed to support the city corporations and municipalities with improved capacities to integrate Sustainable Development Goal contributions and report on SDG achievements through the development projects, this tool has been developed jointly by a team comprising of experts from NILG, BUET and international arena, said a press release.

The intervention is part of “Improved Coordination of International Climate Finance (ICICF)” Project funded by German Federal Government’s SDG 2030 initiative and implemented jointly by the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and GIZ Bangladesh.

The developed tool and methodology were explained by the facilitators from NILG, BUET and international consultant team to the 30 participants attended from the local government, ministry, city corporations and municipality and prospective future trainers. Representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office’s SDG Coordinator’s Cell and Additional Divisional Commissioner (Revenue) of Dhaka took part in a panel discussion on the developed SDG localisation tool for the urban local governments.