The objective
of the CPI is to produce meaningful information at the city level, to define a
limited number of actions on the basis of its diagnosis and to measure to which
extent policies affect the prosperity of the city, strengthening, at the same
time, the monitoring and reporting capacities of the municipal entities.
Based on a
unified global monitoring framework and standardized products that offer
comparability of results, UN- Habitat City Prosperity Initiative proposes a
predetermined set of products and services that include the collection and
analysis of critical data about the city, refined diagnosis, the preparation of
action plans and specific policies, the use of best practices, and the
monitoring of results and impacts of these policies. All these services are
brought together as integrated products into one initiative, the CPI.
The New Urban Agenda’s and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’s follow-up and review must have
effective linkages to ensure coherence in their implementation. Through
the City Prosperity Initiative, UN-Habitat is offering support to local and
national governments in establishing customized monitoring mechanisms, which
will allow a better-informed decision-making on policies and regulations, city
plans and strategies, and finance management for the implementation of the 2030
Development Agenda as well as of the New Urban
Agenda.
By integrating
almost 23 percent of all SDGs indicators with an urban component and all SDG 11
indicators, the CPI has the potential to become the global architecture
platform for the monitoring of indicators and target at the city
level. The CPI will offer the
possibility to adopt a citywide approach to development beyond the sectorial
nature of the SDG indicators and, at the same time, it will offer the
possibility of individual disaggregation of indicators.
The CPI fully addresses the four
components of the New Urban Agenda3. As an
integrated initiative, the CPI provides metrics, policy dialogue, best
practices and specific action plans on the five key components of the new urban
agenda. In addition, the CPI works as a platform that connects data to local
and national evidence-based urban policies, and to the definition of long-term
development plans, urban expansions, redevelopments and densification projects designed according to UN-Habitat’s principles of sustainable urbanization. When implemented in a large scale, including
several cities in a country, the CPI clearly connects to the formulation of
National Urban Policies.
The City Prosperity Initiative pursues three complementary general
objectives:
1. Catalyze
policies and actions of the city or the nation towards the prosperity path and
create conditions to measure present
and future progress
of cities’ sustainability based
on a common monitoring framework.
2. Mainstream
a fresh approach to prosperity and urban sustainability that is holistic and
integrated and promotes collective well-being and fulfillment for all, in line
with the 2030 Development Agenda.
3. Assess
urban conditions and trends for local and global monitoring.
