The report finds that while countries in the region have attempted to integrate the SDGs into national strategies and development policies, “efforts at the subnational level tend to adopt national priorities without critical appraisal of their relevance to the needs and opportunities specific to the local context”. To address this gap, the guidelines suggest concrete actions to integrate the SDGs in subnational and local planning to meet local needs and to ensure that the ‘leave no one behind’ principle is duly taken into account.