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Urban Governance Toolkit TOOLS TO SUPPORT
PARTICIPATORY URBAN DECISON MAKING
Urban Governance Campaign
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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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City Examples

• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Blantyre, Malawi
• Chennai, India
• Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Colombo, Sri Lanka - 4
• Dar es Salaam, Tanzania-2
• Essaouira, Morroco
• Ibadan, Nigeria
• IRAQ - 2
• Ijebu Ode , Nigeria

• Ismailia, Egypt
• Kasserine, Tunisia
• Lalitpur, Nepal
• Lusaka, Zambia -4
• Nakuru, Kenya -2
• Petra, Jordan
• Porto Allegre, Brazil
• Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
• Siwa, Egypt

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Flexible Use of Toolkit

• Design custom-made package of relevant tools to
  respond to needs of specific city, country,
  organization
• Differentiate between tools according to response
  time
• 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
• Use at different levels neighbourhood small
  town metropolitan area region

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Disseminating the Toolkit

• Internal HQ staff, Global Programmes, Regional
  Offices, RTC project staff
• External CPR and 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 (by Nov. 2001)
• Language Versions (Spanish by Feb. 2001)
• CD-Rom with PDF and interactive format (Dec.
  2001)
• 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 with inputs from partners

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The Directory /Yellow Pages
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The Database
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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