The State of Mexico announced at the International Forum on the 2030 Agenda, held this week in Toluca, that 375,000 people in the state had exited extreme poverty and that it is preparing its third voluntary local report to the UN. The event, organized by Copladem, brought together representatives from UNDP, GIZ, and the diplomatic corps.
The meeting connects the state to a practice gaining ground across the country: according to Heraldo Estado de México, the state is one of 19 Mexican governments that voluntarily report on sustainable development to international bodies. These reports, presented by the governments themselves, convert each territory's progress into comparable data that entities present to the UN, as the municipality of Tijuana did at the forum. For Mexico and Latin America, the 2030 Agenda functions as a shared framework that translates global commitments into verifiable local policies, and the event was conceived as a bridge for carrying those experiences to municipalities.
The data presented by Copladem point to a broader shift: the population of the State of Mexico living in poverty fell from 7,725,000 to 5,530,000, and 925,000 people overcame a deficiency in access to nutritious food. The committee's director general, Rafael Flores Mendoza, stated that "the 2030 Agenda is not the task of a single government or a single institution; it is a shared responsibility that we must convert, every day, into results." The event was attended by Silvia Morimoto, UNDP resident representative in Mexico; the ambassadors of Vietnam and New Zealand; representatives from GIZ, the Secretaría de Economía, and INAFED; and the mayors of Ocoyoacac, Cuautitlán Izcalli, and Tultitlán.
The next milestone is the third voluntary local report, with which the state will document progress on all 17 SDGs and the outstanding challenges with four years remaining before the agenda's deadline. Subnational accountability thus stands as a replicable model for other Mexican states heading toward 2030.
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