The initial set of localized SDGs for London, Ontario was identified through a community-based approach. Our research was based on 13 local documents. Three main documents were mapped to the SDGs. They are the London For All report, London Community Foundation: vital signs report and City of London 2019-2023 Strategic Plan. Respectively, they address eleven, fifteen and thirteen of the seventeen sustainable development goals.
We also collected the input of 69 individuals from 41 organizations including Middlesex-London Health Unit, Western University, Fanshawe College, Pillar Nonprofit Network, London Environmental Network, London Economic Development Corporation, rTraction, Employment Sector Council, several departments within the City of London, Intersex London among others.
There are impotant local voices that have not taken part in the discussions yet. Our local indicator set is a working in progress and we will continue to refine it by adding the analysis of community documents, conversations with local champions and working with data partners. We want to ensure the relevant issues in our community are addressed in our local indicators.
Four main learnings emerged from our research so far. They were shaped as principles to guide our city-based indicator set.
- Integration
- Local Matters
- Shared Ownership
- Trade-offs: (1) Completeness vs. simplicity, (2) Relevance vs. comparability, (3) Static vs. adaptive and (4) Bottom-up vs. top-down.
Resources
- London Ontario SDG Indicators: A city-based set of indicators localized from the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020. View full report here.
- Decision tree: a localization tool for translating the global indicators
- List of main gaps in the original list of global indicators
London-Middlesex Community Goals 