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Bahamas
Lessons Learned & Best Practices
Issue: Engaging civil society
Finding: Localizing the SDGs also means engaging local communities. The Bahamas’ “Over the Hill” project is an excellent example. ‘Over the Hill’ is located in Nassau, an economically depressed area with high unemployment and crime rates, low-income population, and outdated infrastructure. Local civil society, academia, private sector, and government joined forces to implement a comprehensive poverty alleviation pilot project to improve preschool education, solid waste management, water availability, and public park maintenance. Local actors were the main ones responsible for implementing project activities, which resulted in increased levels of local participation and ownership.
