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Country and City Projects
Objectives
The GUO is supporting a number of country and city projects designed to strengthen
local and national capacity for monitoring urban development and local government
performance. The projects aim to assist city governments and national authorities,
NGOs and academic institutions to:
- Develop their own performance monitoring frameworks for municipal services,
local development plans or programmes.
- Collect, analyse and report indicators data - with a focus on data disaggregation
at the sub-city level.
- Use performance results for improving urban management and public accountability.
- Establish regular, sustainable data collection processes through Local and
National Urban Observatories and personnel training.
Project selection criteria
The criteria for prioritizing and selecting projects include:
- Commitment from local and/or national partners to develop and use performance
indicators for urban planning and management.
- Existence of a specific city policy or planning framework for implementing
the performance monitoring system.
- Strategic partnerships established between the GUO and UN-HABITAT regional
offices, UNDP and other country donors.
- External funding mobilised for project implementation from donors and/or
local partners.
- Commitment to monitoring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in cities by
local authorities.
Key steps
Each project usually consists of the following steps:
- Establishment of a high-level oversight group to oversee development of
the performance monitoring system. The group should include high-level officials
from key departments, the finance and budgeting office, and the chief executive
officer's office.
- Determining the scope of the monitoring system. This involves selecting
a specific planning or policy framework e.g. monitoring progress of: a local
development strategy; an operational plan of a specific agency; sectoral policy
or programme, etc.
- Identification of development plan, agency or programme goals and objectives,
and agreement on performance outcomes to monitor.
- Selection of key performance indicators to monitor outcomes.
- Identification of data sources and collection of baseline data. The major
sources of data include administrative records, local customer surveys, and
national census/ surveys. Collection and mapping spatially-disaggregated data.
- Setting realistic, time-bound targets for each indicator.
- Collection of data for each indicator on a regular basis and setting up
a very clear data collection strategy.
- Analysis and reporting of results.
- Establishment of a Local Urban Observatory and preparation of a LUO and
Performance Monitoring action plan and budget.
- Training programme for policy-makers and technical staff.
Outputs
Each project is expected to produce most or all of the following outputs:
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