Enhancing Global Action For Safer Cities Phase 3

To provide a powerful evidence-based platform for interaction and exchange as well as expertise services for stakeholders and partners from the crime prevention and law enforcement field as well as the various sectors of urban development.Although small, this project will enable UN-HABITAT to establish necessary mechanisms that will allow for enhanced access to safer cities knowhow for cities and partners to exchange and consolidate their ongoing efforts to address urban safety for all and to leverage resources with other projects. This project will largely seek to build on existing UN-HABITAT plans within the area of advocacy, outreach and communications and importantly the agency wide World Urban Campaign.Project's alignment to local, national, regional, global prioritiesThe project will provide relevant support to countries with existing National Crime Prevention Strategies as well as those where UN41ABITAT technical support was provided to incorporate safety into their National  Development Policies.This will be augmented by the range of norms and standards which the UN has adopted to provide guidance on  aspects of urban safety These include the UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Crime and Criminal justice adopted in 2002 (ECOSOC 2002/13). In addition, the Geneva Declaration reaffirmed the will and commitment of member states to address the prevention of armed violence al the local level as a pre-requisite to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Targets. This process is now advancing to the recognition of Cities as a signatory of the Geneva Declaration which is due at the end of 2011. Various declarations by cities and other stakeholders have also been made at various UN HABITAT conferences in support of Safer Cities. For instance, the Durban International Conference on Sustainable Safety: Municipalities at the Crossroads (November 2003) reiterated the importance of adopting a preventive approach and identified key areas of intervention such as encouraging partnerships, developing crime prevention Cools, strengthening links between safety and governance, focusing on vulnerable groups and on action addressing marginalization fostering city40æ city  operation and creating safer urban design and better management of public spaces (linking with slums upgrading). The Monterrey International Conference on the State of Safety in World Cities (October 2007) also reaffirmed the importance of urban safety in human settlement development and on sustainable urban development. The conference launched the IJÄLHABITAT Global Report on Human Settlements, which for the first time focused on issues of urban safi±4y and security, subsequently providing a conceptual framework for urban safety within the human settlements agenda.Economic and Social Council resolutions 2002/13 of 24 July 2002, 2003/26 of 22 July 2003, 2005/22 of 22 July  2005 and 2008/24 of 24 July 2008, called upon Member States, relevant United Nations bodies and international financial institutions to integrate into their social and economic policies and programs crime prevention considerations. In this context, beyond the role of UN-HABITAT, the development and implementation of local crime and violence prevention approaches at the local level has gained recognition among other United Nations and other international entities as follows:  With UN Women in the Global Program Safe Cities Free of Violence Against Women and Girls (2010-2015)2.  The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has also established a Community Security and Social Cohesion Agenda as part of its facilitation of an   Joint Programming on Armed Violence Prevention (AVPP)O  The World Health Organization (WHO) has also acknowledged the growing importance of the Safer Cities approach in its Global Campaign on Violence Prevention.  The World Bank and the World Bank Institute have also integrated elements of the Safer Cities approach in their Urban and Local Government Programmes.