Habitat Agenda and MDG,
Goals, Chapters & Indicators
Gora Mboup,
Chief Global Urban Observatory
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Monitoring the Habitat Agenda
“All partners of the Habitat Agenda, including
local authorities, the private sector and
communities, should regularly monitor and
evaluate their own performances in the
implementation of the Habitat Agenda through
comparable human settlements and
shelter indicators and documented best
practices“ [240]
Habitat Agenda: chapters,
goals and indicators
Chapters
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2
3
4
5
Shelter
Social development
Environmental management
Economic development
Governance
Habitat Agenda Goals
1. Shelter
2. Social development
and eradication of
poverty
3. Environmental
Management
4. Economic
Development
5. Governance
Promote the right to
adequate housing
Provide equal
opportunities for a safe
and healthy life
Promote geographicallybalanced settlement
structures
Strengthen small
and microenterprises,
particularly those
developed by
women
Promote
decentralisation
and strengthen
local authorities
Provide security of
tenure
Promote social integration
and support disadvantaged
groups
Manage supply and
demand for water in an
effective manner
Encourage PPP and
stimulate
productive
employment
opportunities
Encourage and
support
participation and
civic engagement
Provide equal access
to credit
Promote gender equality in
human settlements
development
Reduce urban pollution
Provide equal access
to land
Prevent disasters and
rebuild settlements
Promote access to
basic services
Promote effective and
environmentally sound
transportation systems
Support mechanisms to
prepare and implement
local environmental
plans and local Agenda
21 initiatives
Ensure
transparent,
accountable and
efficient
governance
Global Urban Indicators
(Methodology)
Chapter
1 Shelter
Goal(s)
Indicator (s)
1. Promote the right to adequate
housing
2. Provide security of tenure
3. Provide equal access to land
4. Promote equal access to credit
5. Promote access to basic
services
Indicator 1. Durable Structures
Indicator 2. Overcrowding
Qualitative data: right to
adequate housing
Extensive Indicator: house
price and rent / income
The Global Urban Indicators Database
• GUID 1
• 1993 data
• 46 key indicators
• 237 Cities
• GUID 2
• 1998 data
• 23 key indicators
• 242 Cities
• GUID 3
A five year
production
cycle
• 2003 data
• 20 key indicators
• 353 Cities
The Global Urban Indicators Database
• GUID 3
• GUID 2008
• 2003 data
• Years prior to 2008
• 20 key indicators
• 353 Cities
20+Key indicators
1000+ cities
A two year
production
cycle
• GUID 2010
• Years prior to 2010
• 20+key indicators
• 1000+ cities
Global sample of 360 cities
Worldwide representative
40 cities per UN region
Other Developed
40 cities
Europe
40 cities
Eastern Asia
40 cities
Asia
Oceania
Asia South
North Africa
40 cities
Latin
America &
Caribbean
40
cities
Western
Eastern Asia
563
40 cities millions 40 cities
South Central Asia
40 cities
Sub-Saharan Africa
40 cities
World
360 cities
Habitat Agenda: chapters,
goals and indicators
• 1 Shelter
• 2 Social development
• 3 Environmental
management
• 4 Economic development
• 5 Governance
GUID 3
+
9 check-list +
13 extensive indicators
20 key indicators
Habitat Agenda Indicators
Chapter/ Habitat
Agenda goals
Indicators
Cluster
1. Shelter
Promote the right to
adequate housing
Key indicator 1: durable structures
Key indicator 2: overcrowding
check-list 1: right to adequate housing
extensive indicator 1: housing price and
rent-to-income
Census
Census
Provide security of
tenure
Key indicator 3: secure tenure
extensive indicator 2: authorized
housing
extensive indicator 3: evictions
Census
Provide equal access
to credit
check-list 2: housing finance
Provide equal access
to land
extensive indicator 4: land price-toincome
Habitat Agenda Indicators
Chapter/ Habitat
Agenda goals
Promote access to
basic services
Indicators
Key indicator 4: access to safe water
Key indicator 5: access to improved
sanitation
Key indicator 6: connection to services
Cluster
Census
Census
Census
2. Social development and eradication of poverty
Provide equal
opportunities for a
safe and healthy life
Key indicator 7: under-five mortality
Key indicator 8: homicides
check-list 3: urban violence
extensive indicator 5: HIV prevalence
Census
Promote social
Key indicator 9: poor households
integration and
support disadvantaged
groups
Census
Promote gender
equality in human
settlements
development
Census
Key indicator 10: literacy rates
check-list 4: gender inclusion
extensive indicator 6: school enrolment
extensive indicator 7: women councilors
Census
Habitat Agenda Indicators
Chapter/ Habitat
Agenda goals
Indicators
Cluster
3. Environmental Management
Promote
Key indicator 11: urban population
geographically-balanced growth
settlement structures
Key indicator 12: planned settlements
Manage supply and
demand for water in an
effective manner
Key indicator 13: price of water
extensive indicator 8: water
consumption
Reduce urban pollution
Key indicator 14: wastewater treated
Key indicator 15: solid waste disposal
extensive indicator 9: regular solid
waste collection
Prevent disasters and
rebuild settlements
check-list 5: disaster prevention and
mitigation instruments
extensive indicator 10: houses in
hazardous locations
Census
Census
Census
Census
Census
Habitat Agenda Indicators
Chapter/ Habitat
Agenda goals
Indicators
Promote effective and
environmentally sound
transportation systems
Key indicator 16: travel time
extensive indicators 11: transport
modes
Support mechanisms to
prepare and implement
local environmental plans
and local Agenda 21
initiatives
check-list 6: local environmental
plans
Cluster
Census
4. Economic Development
Strengthen small and
micro-enterprises,
particularly those
developed by women
Key indicator 17: informal employment
Census
Encourage public-private
sector partnership and
stimulate productive
employment opportunities
Key indicator 18: city product
Key indicator 19: unemployment
Census
Habitat Agenda Indicators
Chapter/ Habitat
Agenda goals
Indicators
5. Governance
Promote decentralisation
and strengthen local
authorities
Key indicator 20: local government
revenue
Check-list 7: decentralization
Encourage and support
participation and civic
engagement
Check-list 8: citizens participation
extensive indicator 12: voters
participation
extensive indicator 13: civic
associations
Ensure transparent,
accountable and efficient
governance of towns,
cities and metropolitan
areas
Check-list 9: transparency and
accountability
Cluster
MDGs Goal 7 Target 7D
“Slum target”
In the aftermath of the Millennium Declaration
in September 2000, UN-HABITAT has the
added responsibility to report on the
“significant improvement in the lives of slum
dwellers”, Target 7D, of the Millennium
Declaration Goals (MDG)
Slum : until 2002, no internationally
agreed definitions, concepts and method
of computation
• Lack of slum definition and concepts
• Lack of slum data and indicators
• Not included in most MDG country
report
Expert Group meeting 2002
UN-HABITAT organized a gathering
of experts and other stakeholders
from around the globe, to reach to an
agreement on the universal
definition of slums, in Nairobi, 28-30
October 2002.
Expert Group meeting 2002
The Expert Group Meeting (EGM) was
a major consensus building exercise
on the definition of slums, which
enabled, the measurable articulation
of the meta-global indicators,
indicators and sub-indicators of each
concept.
Slum Household Indicators
from the EGM
In urban area, a slum household is
considered to be a group of
individuals living under the same
roof that lack one or more of the
below conditions:
• Access to improved water
• Access to improved sanitation
• Access to secure tenure
• Durability of housing
• Sufficient living area
Physical expressions of slum
lack of water, lack of sanitation,
overcrowded conditions, and nondurable housing structures measure
physical expressions of slum conditions.
They focus attention on the
circumstances that surround slum life,
depicting deficiencies and casting
poverty as an attribute of the
environments in which slum dwellers
live. , expressed as a percentage.
Legal expression: security of
tenure
security of tenure – has to do with
legality, which is not as easy to
measure or monitor, as the tenure
status of slum dwellers often depends
on de facto or de jure rights – or lack of
them. This indicator has special
relevance for measuring the denial and
violation of housing rights, as well as
the progressive fulfillment of these
rights.
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