Sustainable Antioquia is a regional initiative to address the 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs. It works as a collaborative knowledge and best practices platform to encourage organizations from the private, public and social sectors to report their contributions and create cross-sector alliances to achieve the SDGs. In 2016, we featured conferences and workshops, with 150 organizations and nearly 400 participants working on the SDGs-. We also published a Base Line document of the SDGs indicators measured for Antioquia. In 2017 we decentralized our work in two subregions and will publish the Indicators Report of 2017.

1. Administrative strategy: getting the funding, organizing and distributing functions in the team and planning the actions of the year 2. Communications strategy: coordinating shared messages among the different organizations and their publication on social networks and websites, as well as getting the media attention. 3. Implementation strategy: designing the conferences and workshops, depending on the desired outcome. We use Art of Hosting methodologies such as World Cafe, but also games designed by INNOVE. 4. Decentralization strategy: bringing the work achieved in Medellin in 2016 to the different subregions, coordinating everything with the local private, public, social and academic organizations under the same governance model that the central node in Medellin works with. 5. Knowledge Management Strategy: getting everything documented so that we keep written and audiovisual memory of all our events and actions. 6. Platform strategy: to create a platform useful for the organizations where they can find data, best practices and alliance opportunities so that they can easily find the ways to contribute to the SDGs. 7. Reporting Strategy: publishing annual reports measuring the contributions of the private, social and public sectors to the SDGs so that each sector can improve their efforts to achieve the goals . There is a technical indicators team that gathers exclusively for this purpose. 8. Peer leaning strategy: looking for similar experiences in Colombia and the world, so that we can exchange lessons, methodologies and perspectives. 9. International alliances strategy: presenting Sustainable Antioquia to key actors and getting new resources and ideas to evolve out work. This year we presented Sustainable Antioquia in NY, Hamburg, Brighton, Santiago de Chile, Bogota and Cali. 10. Lobbying strategy: influencing the local, regional and national governments so that they align to our efforts and develop sustainable development public policies that take into consideration our achievements, challenges and perspectives. Governments change every 4 years, we are private and committed until 2030.

We have different partners for capacity building and technology transfer: 1. Earth Institute and Sustainable Development Solutions Network in NY, USA: they help us getting new sources of information for collecting the indicators data. They also connect us with other partners. We share with them our methodologies and games. 2. CEPEI and DANE: we learned from them their methodologies for measuring the SDGs on a national scale. We shared with them our regional information for Antioquia. 3. Engagement Global: they shared with us information about the sustainability national and regional strategies and their work with small municipalities, which began long before the SDGs. They have amazing experiences in many subjects, especially renewable energy. We shared with them our methodologies and games. 4. Universidad Javeriana de Cali: they developed last year a methodology to integrate the reports of many different companies into one, knowing how the private sector of that city is contributing to the SDGs. We are transferring at the moment their methodology to Antioquia Sostenible. We are looking for new partners that helps us improve our reports and platform.

The different organizations behind Sustainable Antioquia work under a governance model. Each one contributes according to its core business and installed capacity. Proantioquia is responsible for leading the strategy and raising the necessary funds for operating the initiative. In 2017 two large energy companies (EPM and Isagen) financed the decentralized work of Sustainable Antioquia in two subregions. Centro de Pensamiento Social is responsible for systematizing the best practices of the local organizations that already contributing to an specific SDG and also coordinating the communications of the initiative. INNOVE is responsible for the knowledge management of the initiative, designing the methodologies of the workshops and writing the Indicators Reports. Prosur is responsible for piloting the integrated reporting methodology with the social, private and private sector using its corporate members. And finally, the universities are responsible for providing some of the experts for the conferences and also foe helping collecting and analyzing the indicators information for the reports. There are four main teams working in the initiative: a technical team, which does the greater part of the coordination work. A communications team, which is responsible for promoting the initiative in the social networks and the media. A indicators team, which gathers to collect and analyze the data and later write the reports. And finally there is a strategic team, composed by the heads of each organization, which gathers once or twice year for presenting results and establishing the contributions of each organization for the year.

Fundacin Proantioquia http://www.proantioquia.org.co/ Centro de Pensamiento Social http://www.centrodepensamientosocial.org/ INNOVE Think & Do Tank http://innove.com.co/ Corporacin ProSUR http://corporacionprosur.org/ Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana https://www.upb.edu.co/es/home Universidad EAFIT http://www.eafit.edu.co/