The SDGs are intended to be a global framework, but the goals themselves are meant to be implemented locally. The Sustainable Development Progress Committee (SDPC) works to localize the SDGs by leveraging educational institutions and their networks. The SDPC wants to help empower communities to invest in today for a better tomorrow by identifying the local context, pathways, and obstacles necessary to achieving the SDGs. To localize the SDGs, the SDPC proposes a new framework:
1. By 2030, improve international, national, and local dissemination of information by utilizing a university-community network through the creation of an SDG task force.
2. Create an online community database for understanding local SDG contexts and goals.
The SDPC has created a framework for the localization of the SDGs that will be carried out by youth around the globe. Empowering students to take action with their education by engaging their communities and local governments will help humanity achieve sustainable development. Mobilization is the goal, localization is the method.