Metropolitan Cities - Cpi-Mc Project

The UN-Habitat Cities Prosperity Initiative is a strategic policy initiative for cities and partners that are committed to aligning their policies, operations and strategies with UN-Habitat’s fresh notion of prosperity. Cities are expected to work simultaneously in the five dimensions of prosperity: productivity, infrastructure, quality of Life, equity and environmental sustainability.The City Prosperity Initiative is a practical framework for the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of sustainability policies and practices to increase prosperity levels at city level. It is an initiative that provides collaborative solutions to the most fundamental challenges facing cities.Specifically, it is an Initiative of 250 cities globally that are committed to a more holistic, people-centered and sustainable notion of prosperity and pledge to deploy necessary efforts and resources to move forward in the prosperity path will be created. The aim is to enable a shift away from prevailing narrow and lopsided conceptualizations of prosperity and related policies and actions. The rationale for this is that without a new and revised conceptualization of prosperity at strategic policy levels, cities risk promoting strategies that threaten rather than enhance sustainability.By estimating the City Prosperity Index (CPI) of cities based on globally comparable data, UN-Habitat will create an invaluable baseline for tracking progress in terms of prosperity. In addition, in conducting estimations in cities through the Initiative, UN-Habitat will also adapt the CPI to correspond to locally available data, policy priorities and needs. Thus, the Initiative will enable globally comparable yet locally specific estimation and monitoring of urban prosperity.