United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Habitat Urban Governance Campaign

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United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)Urban Governance Campaign
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Urban Governance Toolkit TOOLS TO SUPPORT
PARTICIPATORY URBAN DECISON MAKING
Urban Governance Campaign, UNCHS
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Operational Elements Flagship Products

• Normative Debate
• Principles of Good Urban Governance
• Advocacy
• Campaign Launches
• Policy Papers
• Good Governance Index
• Revised national legislation
• Publicity and media
• Capacity Building
• Toolkits
• Network of Inclusive Cities

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Role of the toolkit in the campaign
Lessons of Experience
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Toolkit to Support Participatory Urban Decision
Making

• Purpose
• To support the capacity building efforts of
  cities and their partners to improve the quality
  of urban governance
• Activities
• Develop a harmonised approach to participatory
  urban planning
• Identify and map existing tools available to
  support participatory planning
• Link the tools to specific norms of good urban
  governance
• Support the implementation of national and local
  campaign action plans

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The Framework
Elements
Phases
IPreparatory and Stakeholder Mobilization

• Mobilising Stakeholders
• Issue and City Profiling
• Identifying Key Issues

• Elaborating Issues
• Building Collaboration
• and Forging Consensus
• Formalising commitments

IIIssue prioritisation and Stakeholder
Commitment

• Formulating Priority Strategies
• Negotiating and Agreeing
• Action Plans
• Designing and Implementing
• DemonstrationProjects

IIIStrategy Formulation and Implementation

• Implementing Action Plans
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Up-Scaling and Replication
• Institutionalisation

IVFollow-up and Consolidation
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The Participatory Process and Tools which Support
It

• I Preparatory and
• Stakeholder
• Mobilsation
• Municipal Checklist
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Profiling
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Gender Responsive Tools

• IV Follow Up and
• Consolidation
• Monitoring Tools
• Programme Evaluation
• Institutionalisation

Feedback
Participatory Urban Decision Making

• II Issue Prioritisation
• and Stakeholder
• Commitment
• Proposition Paper
• Facilitation
• City Consultation
• Urban Pact
• Stakeholder Working Group

• III Strategy Formulation
• and Implementation
• Action Planning
• Programme Formulation
• Demonstration Project
• EMIS
• Conflict Resolution

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Tool Presentation
TOOL
Overview
Purpose
Principles
How it works
Linkage with UG Norms
City Examples
References
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Phase 1 - Preparatory and Stakeholder Mobilisation
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Generic Samples of Profiles
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Phase II - Issue Prioritisation and Stakeholder
Commitment
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Typical Outline of an Urban Pact

• To allow formalisation of negotiated agreements
  between partners and concretisation of their
  commitments
• Preamble (background, preceding events)
• Mandates (international, national, local)
• Fundamental Principles (potentials, constraints,
  ongoing initiatives, future vision)
• Commitment Package (specific measures,
  communication mechanisms, institutional set-up)
• Resources (human, technical, information,
  financial)
• Monitoring and Evaluation (timing, modalities)
• Approval (date, signature of key partners)

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Phase III - Strategy Formulation and
Implementation
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The Database
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Demonstration Project

• Purpose learning framework, focus on action,
  facilitate replication of innovative approaches
• Principles small scale, short project cycle,
  demonstration ex-ante, monitoring and replication
  cycle
• Key Elements design, financing, monitoring
• Linkage with UG norms efficiency, transparency,
  civic engagement

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Phase IV - Follow-up and Consolidation
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28 Case Studies

• The importance of political will and leadership-
  Colombo, Kasserin, Lusaka, Quetzaltenango
• The Critical Role of Local Partner Institutions
  and Anchor Institutions- Colombo, Cochabamba,
  Lalitpur
• Stakeholder analysis to maximise the roles and
  contribution of traditional leaders-Ijebu-Ode,
  Siwa
• Application of the Women's' Safety Audit in Dar
  es Salaam
• Conducting a Five Day City Consultation on
  environmental issues in Lusaka, Zambia
• The Urban Pact Process in Nakuru, Kenya
• Adapting the working group concept in Chennai,
  India

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Case Studies (continued)

• A Demonstration Project on Partnership for local
  water supply, Colombo, Sri lanka.
• Developing and Managing Spring Water in Ibadan,
  Nigeria
• EMIS in Ismailia, Egypt
• City Consultation as a Conflict resolution tool
  in Petra, Jordan
• Managing Conflict in Essaouira, Morocco
• Evaluation of Post-Disaster Water and Sanitation
  Programme in IRAQ
• Integrating the Working Group approach into
  existing structures - Lusaka, Zambia
• The Mesas de concertación and
  institutionalising the participatory process in
  Lima, Peru

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Flexible Use of Toolkit

• Design custom-made package of relevant tools
  across the four phases to respond to needs of
  specific city, country, organization
• Differentiate between tools with different
  response time and style
• Rapid Response tools (e.g., Stakeholder analysis
  Demo project)
• Capacity Building tools (e.g., Profile,
  Stakeholder working group)
• Example of package of 5 tools Profile,
  Consultation, Urban pact, Conflict resolution,
  Institutionalization

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Disseminating the Toolkit

• Internal HQ staff, Global Programmes, Regional
  Offices, RTC project staff
• External CPR members, Global and Regional
  Steering Group Members
• Promotion and Testing (Sept. - Nov. 2001)
• UMP-LAC Caribbean regional seminar on
  Participatory Governance for Poverty Alleviation
  Dominican Republic (19-21 Sept 2001)
• TUGI Regional Workshop on Participatory
  Governance Malaysia (24-26 Sept 2001)
• IFUP Roundtable on Participatory Planning Tools,
  Marrakech (18 Oct 2001)
• Citynet meeting on People Centred Cities in a
  Globalizing World, Bangkok (29 Oct. - 2 Nov 2001)

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Different Formats

• Formats to suit different needs
• 1700 copies printed and being distributed
• PDF format on new UGC website
• Interactive website application being developed
  (e.g., to help designing a selection of tools
  from menu)
• Inventory of tools in database format to be
  regularly updated
• CD-Rom with PDF and interactive format

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The Directory /Yellow Pages
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Inventory at IFUP4 - Marrakech

• DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL
• 1. Name of the Tool
• 2. Agency which has designed the tool
• 3. Objectives of the Tool
• 4. Target group addressed
• 5. Geographical Scope
• 6. Level of application (neighbourhood/city/regio
  n)
• 7. Format of the tool (book/video/CD Rom/web
  site)
• 8. Where and when has the Tool been used ? By
  whom ?
• 9. Agency and partners involved in the
  implementation

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United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)Urban Governance Campaign