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indicators than the identified Co-Re SDGIs. Looking at the linkage of these
indicators at the provincial and city and municipal level, there were 75
indicators were available at the provincial level while 52 indicators were found
to be available or can be monitored at the city and municipal level.
In terms of the integrated SDG indicators in the local development plans
in Region III, there were 54 SDG indicators were included in the Regional
Development Plan while an average of 45 SDG indicators were included in the
provincial development plan RM.

4. Conclusion
It is crucial that in the development of indicators frameworks, multi-
stakeholders that includes national government agencies, academe, civil
society organizations, private sector, and development partners will be
engaged in the consultation to ensure inclusivity and their voices represented.
These consultations also serve as a useful mechanism in crafting a well-
designed national and sub-national accountability mechanism that is
participatory, integrated and transparent to support the SDG monitoring and
reporting as well as the SDG implementation.
In the current practice of bringing new voices into the discussion on data,
accountability is shared and responsibility on planning, multi-stakeholder
partnerships, resource mobilization and monitoring is ensured for the delivery
of products and services to the public.
Further, the initiative resulted in an increasing awareness and appreciation
of the need to properly plan an evidence-based SDG implementation. It also
made the policy- and decision-makers see the need to work together to have
a strong and healthy data ecosystem that could ensure that the progress
towards achieving the SDGs is properly measured.
It is also worth to emphasized that there should be high appreciation and
understanding on the linkage of the national, regional, provincial, city and
municipal indicators frameworks to avoid the pitfalls on the achievement of
the SDGs and the national and local development strategies. The greater
insight of the linkage of these indicator systems will translate into local and
regional policy interventions grounded in empirical evidence.
As what Dahl (2012) underscored that having a set of indicators that are
linked to the development policies which are adopted, updated and reported
by the local government, “can provide clear signals on the success or failure
of national policy initiatives and actions.”

References
1. Dahl, A.L. Achievements and gaps in indicators for sustainability.
Ecological Indicators 2012, 17, 14–19

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