Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals: a results framework for galleries, libraries, archives and museums

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Intended Audience

“This resource is aimed at GLAM and those who work with them who want to help shape a better, sustainable future. It can be applied to a whole institution, or be used by individual GLAM workers. It can also be applied to groups of GLAM, and even to the entire GLAM sector: the approach works at all scales”

H. McGhie, Curating Tomorrow

2021

“This resource has been developed to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) mainstream sustainable development into their planning and operations, by using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets.” (p.6)

‘Mainstreaming’ means:

• empowering everyone who works in galleries, libraries, archives and museums to connect their work to the Sustainable Development Goals, and to use them as they are intended to be used

• empowering everyone who makes use of galleries, libraries, archives and museums to take part in sustainable development and the SDGs

• directing existing and new actions towards the SDGs, by embedding them in policies and plans, and removing trade-offs and any activity that impedes sustainable development

• focusing on real results that help achieve the SDGs and a better future

• fostering a culture of transparency, that directs activity towards sustainable development, and reports and communicates progress, and challenges, openly and honestly to a wide range of stakeholders

• working effectively with others, including other GLAM, GLAM networks, external partners, NGOs, community groups, and people as individuals

• strengthening coherence, including vertical coherence for participation, planning and reporting purposes, and horizontal coherence between individuals, departments, GLAM, and with other sectors, to align GLAM activity to support sustainable development more effectively.” (p.7)

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The resource can help adopt and implement SDG-related approaches in collections-based institutions, which supports SDGs 12.6 (implementing sustainable practices and adopting sustainability reporting), SDG 16.6 (effective, accountable and transparent institutions), SDG 16.10 (supporting public access to information) and 16.B (adopting laws and policies for sustainable development), SDG 17.14 (policy coherence for sustainable development) and 17.19 (evaluating sustainable development beyond economic metrics). The interactive pages can also help plan and implement activity for a wide range of SDG targets in all SDGs.

Click on the SDG Target to discover Our Collections Matter indicators

SDG 12.6: Encourage Companies to Adopt Sustainable Practices and Sustainability Reporting
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Clear visions, strategies and plans in place for all aspects of sustainability – environmental, social and economic (people, planet, prosperity)- across all areas of activity.
Visions, strategies and plans relating to sustainability to be publicly available and incorporated into planning documents.
Commitments to be in line with local, regional, national and/or international targets and ambitions.
Incorporation of sustainability into reporting for funders and other stakeholders, including the public. Reporting to include commitments and progress towards targets.
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SDG 16.6: Develop Effective Accountable and Transparent Institutions
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of the population [audience/users/non-users] satisfied with their last experience of public services.
Access to information, and accountability policies and mechanisms, in place.
Effective institutional arrangements, both for own working and for working in partnership with other sectors, in place.
Plans and arrangements in place for extraordinary circumstances such as natural and human-caused disasters.
Effective arrangements in place to fulfil legal and social obligations and responsibilities.
Effective arrangements in place for transparent communication and reporting of institutional performance.
Effective arrangements in place for transparent decision-making and accountability.
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SDG 16.10: Ensure Public Access to Information and Protect Fundamental Freedoms
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to enhance public access to information relating to collections.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to support fundamental freedoms, in line with human rights, national and international agreements and legislation.
Plans and procedures in place for public access to information relating to the operation and management of collections-based institutions.
Complaint mechanism in place for public to use where public access to information and fundamental freedoms not supported or fulfilled.
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SDG 16.B: Promote and Enforce Non-Discriminatory Laws and Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of population [audience/users/non-users] reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law.
Number and proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, in the full sense of recognizing all three of social, economic and environmental considerations.
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SDG 17.14: Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, linking to SDGs and targets.
Incorporation of policy considerations from outside the collections sector into policies of collections-based institutions, to facilitate partnerships and effectiveness.
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SDG 17.19: Further Develop Measurements of Progress
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Identification and implementation of measures for sustainable development incorporating social and environmental considerations.
Identification and implementation of both quantitative and qualitative measures of sustainable development.
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