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The GUO Approach to Local Monitoring Capacity
Linking Indicators with Local Development Plans, Policies and Programmes
The GUO supports local projects that bring together city officials, citizens and business to establish how well the city or local authority is achieving reults that matter. Development assistance and public expeditures in cities should be achieving results - more employment, fewer people living in poverty, reduced air pollution, and improved quality of local services - an approach that few policy makers can argue with. Many of these results are embedded in the millenium Development Goals (MDGs). The process starts witht he development strategy or plan for the city, before moving on to defining key outcomes and building of a system of indicators to monitor progress. Indicators are chosen to reflect the issues that matter locally. Cities such as Bangalore in India, Rosario in Argentina and Santiago in Chile, have demonstrated this process successfully. See Country Projects.
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