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UN Urban Sustainable Development Goal and Sweden in
UN Urban Sustainable Development Goal and Sweden in Interna8onal Perspec8ve David Simon, Director Mistra Urban Futures Area of Advance Built Environment Ini8a8ve Seminar 8 September 2015 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT Importance of Goal 11 having prac8cable targets and indicators – huge diversity of urban condi8ons worldwide 4-‐month pilot project March-‐June 2015 – funding from Mistra, Sida, MUF – Use MUF local interac8on plaSorms & Bangalore as testbeds: co-‐produc8on between researchers and local authori8es GENERAL FINDINGS Indicators / Data Collec8on -‐ Targets and indicators not always aligned -‐ Measuring what is measurable -‐ Limited capacity for non-‐tradi8onal data -‐ Limited capacity to assess GIS data -‐ Need for unit harmonisa8on -‐ Annual repor8ng not always relevant Defini8ons -‐ Discrepancies between defini8ons provided and local defini8ons/reali8es Urban Boundaries -‐ Few ci8es able to provide data -‐ Need improved data collec8on methods 11.1 HOUSING/INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS -‐ Target is overall considered complicated to measure -‐ All ci8es struggled to provide robust and reliable data -‐ Lack of comparability across the five ci8es -‐ Ra8onale why single out “ slum” when global target -‐ Exclusively use term “informal se]lement” -‐ Alterna8ve indicators tenure type/security of tenure Formal se+lement Formal se+lement Informal se+lement Rural area with urban characteris7cs Kisumu, Kenya 11.2 TRANSPORT -‐ Accessibility, safety, vulnerable situa8ons à not included -‐ Energy efficient vehicles and goods distribu8on à missing -‐ Assump8on of formal and scheduled public transporta8on -‐ Poor to par8al data availability for 11.2.1 -‐ Distance stated as “the crow flies” -‐ Frequency as peak, off-‐peak or an es8mated average -‐ Annual is repor8ng not considered relevant 11.3 LAND USE -‐ Equitable and efficient land use à missing -‐ 11.3.1 considered poten7ally useful / too blunt -‐ Average density à ignore varia7ons in density -‐ Present ra7o in both graph and map -‐ Details on how to calculate needed -‐ Annual repor7ng is not considered relevant
