• The 10 targets under SDG 11, "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable", identified some key elements to be achieved and measured by 2030, and one third of the 232 SDG indicators can be measured at the local level, making the city an important unit for action and tracking of progress towards sustainable development.
• Moreover, multilevel governance is key to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals and cities and local governments play a key role in contributing to a number of issues.
• An increasing number of cities and local government in Europe and around the world have started measuring and evaluating their achievement towards the SDGs, and others have committed to do it soon.
• Despite the increasing targeted actions taken at the local level, how cities and regions can measure and assess their contribution in a harmonised way is still uncertain. The European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews fills this gap. The handbook provides key examples of official and experimental indicators useful to set up an effective SDG local monitoring system specifically targeted for European cities. Per each Goal, the handbook highlights examples of harmonised and locally collected indicators so that local actors can both benchmark themselves with other cities and monitor their own specific needs and challenges.

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