The SDG 16 which calls for justice, peace, and strong institutions was created under controversy due to its content, raising a debate around the concepts of peace, justice, and strong institutions. However, the idea of these names has been understood as freedom from violence, rule of law, and transparent lacking corruption organizations, respectively. The goal has 12 targets and 24 related indicators. Similarly to the other SDGs, the SDG 16 recognizes the importance of a cross-cutting nature of development, where peace, security and sustainable development are deeply connected. The goal is considered to be a global moral responsibility as well, and the pursuit of its targets are influenced with the idea that ‘there can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development’. In fact, the controversy of SDG 16 creation lies on the initial opposition some countries to the inclusion of a goal that would monitor indicators of violence, which...
A concept that is important for the accomplishment of SDGs is localization and its meaning. This term refers to a process where the goals are adapted, implemented, and monitored at the local level. As stated by the UN, the governments will decide how the targets of goals are going to be included in the process of planning policies and strategies. The cities can be agents of change that better execute the SDGs because they are ‘closer’ to the issues, and monitoring progress requires reliable data, which is not always collected easily by the national governments. Implementation in a local level must be guided by inclusive participation, recognition of local agenda, planning, and monitoring and evaluation. Above all, Localization can be a more objective way to address the challenges towards the completion of SDGs. ...
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