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The major sources of GUO assistance for local monitoring capacity building
are the Local Indicators Facility (LIF), the Monitoring Urban Inequities Project
(MUIP), and the 1000 Cities GIS Project.
Local Indicators Facility (LIF) - linking monitoring systems to local development
strategies and policies
GUO focuses on how to use indicators for local decision-making. Through performance monitoring, local agencies are encourged to use indicators for making mid-course adjustments to their programmes, targeting resources and locating problem areas. A few local authorities may tie performance measures to their budgets and use this for justifying agency budgets – a powerful incentive to improve performance. Through the media, public meetings and the internet, local authorities are being encouraged to disseminate information for raising public awareness on local development issues and agency performance – a process that is helping to make local authorities more accountable. Read More on Local Indicator Facility.
Monitoring Urban Inequities Programme(MUIP)
The Monitoring Urban Inequities Programme is the study of inequities within the context of human settlements regarding access to essential services such as water; sanitation; shelter; sufficient living space and security of tenure. The programme however, will not be limited to these five indicators but goes a few steps beyond into other social conditions in health, education, employment and access to credit to name a few. The programme is in development stages and information from surveys will be available in late 2004.
For more information on MUIP send an email to guo@unhabitat.org
1000 Cities GIS Project - developing GIS-based spatial information strategies
Data on urban averages can mask important differences between one part of a city and another. In those few cities where data are available, there is high stunting, child mortality and morbidity in poorer neighborhoods - often at higher rates than are found in the rural areas. The GUO promotes the collection of information that is broken out by geographical location within a city, for example by district and neighbourhood. GUO is helping cities to use modern technology such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-resolution satellite images in order to analyse information for prioritizing investments and monitoring service delivery. The GUO has also taken a major leap forward in supporting cities to carry out household surveys in order to highlight the significant gap in living conditions between slum dwellers and other city residents.
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