1. Sustainable Development Goal 11 Monitoring
Current Status and Perspectives on Spatial Indicators
Donatien Beguy, Ph.D.
Robert Ndugwa, Ph.D.
Global Urban Observatory, UN-Habitat
Session 08 - EO Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
June 14, 2017

2. Urban areas hold the future of our planet

3. Goal 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
10 Targets
11 Indicators
11.1 Housing and Slums
11.2 Sustainable Transport
11.3 Participatory Planning
11.4 Cultural Heritage
11.5 Disaster Reduction
11.6 Air Quality and Waste Management
11.7 Public spaces
11.a Rural-urban and regional planning
11.b Mitigation of Climate Change, Resilience
11.c LDCs support – buildings
Output
4 Indicators
Process
UN-Habitat designated custodian Agency for 10 indicators:

4. Urban related SDG indicators
Out of 234 Global SDG indicators
~ 56 % require monitoring and reporting at urban or city levels.
Out of all the urban/city related SDG indicators:
only 45% are totally/partially covered by routine survey programmes (MICS, DHS, etc.)
The rest require spatial data.
11 indicators are monitoring land or land use directly or indirectly.

5. Need for Spatial data in the Monitoring of SDG11
APPROVED INDICATORS
Need for Spatial data in the Monitoring of SDG11
Target 1 Housing & slums
11.1 Proportion of urban population living in slums or informal settlements and inadequate housing
Spatial data
Target 2 Transport
11.2 Proportion of the population that has convenient access to public transport (within 0.5 km ….)
Target 3 Planning
11.3 Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate – Efficient land use
Percentage of cities with a direct participation structure of civil society in urban planning and management which operate regularly and democratically

6. Need for Spatial data in the Monitoring of SDG11
APPROVED INDICATORS
Need for Spatial data in the Monitoring of SDG11
Target 6 Environment
Percentage of (urban) solid waste regularly collected and with adequate final discharge with regards to the total waste generated by the city
Target 7 Public space
The average share of the (total) built-up area of cities that is open space in public use for all
Spatial data

7. Some challenges ahead
HS indicators monitoring and reporting presents major challenges that other SDGs do not necessarily confront
Use of the ‘city’ as the unit of analysis But what is a “city”?
 Challenge related to use of Spatial Indicators
Geospatial data
Adequate technology
Management systems
How to aggregate this data at national level?
How to create a regional balance?
How to know where are the challenges (small, intermediate cities, coastal, boarder)?
Which cities are having problems of data collection and why?
Spatial disaggregated data provides relevant information for policy-makers… but how to decide on:
Local-level allocation of resources
Monitoring of equitable outcomes

8. Support countries to
create a consistent set of cities for national level reporting that is representative of their territory, geography and history
report on national (urban) progress in a systematic manner over time

9. Spatial Indicators
11.2.1: Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities (Tier II)
Main features:
Public transport stops
City population
Built-up area
The method to estimate the proportion of the population that has convenient access to public transport is based on four steps:
Spatial analysis to delimit the built-up area of the urban agglomeration
Inventory of the public transport stops in the city or the service area;
Estimation of urban area with access to public transport;
Estimation of the proportion of the population with convenient access out of the total population of the city.
=𝟏𝟎𝟎𝒙 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
% 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕

10. Spatial Indicators
11.3.1: Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (Tier II)
Main features:
City population
Built-up area
The method to estimate land use efficiency is based on two stages:
Where
Popt Total population within the city in the past/initial year
Popt+n Total population within the city in the current/final year
y The number of years between the two measurement periods
2. Estimate the population growth rate
Where
Urbt Total areal extent of the urban agglomeration in km2 for past/initial year
Urbt+n Total areal extent of the urban agglomeration in km2 for current year
y The number of years between the two measurement periods
Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (LCRPGR) is estimated as follows:

11. Spatial Indicators
11.7.1: Average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all, by sex, age and persons with disabilities (Tier III)
Main features:
Built-up area
Open public space
Street space
The method to estimate area of public space is based on three stages:
Spatial analysis to delimit the built-up area of the urban agglomeration.
Computation of total area of open public space.
Estimation of land allocated to streets.

12. Overall coordination of indicators and organization of several EGMs
Goal 11
UN-Habitat work already done
Overall coordination of indicators and organization of several EGMs
Participation in various SDGs related commissions/teams
1st Technical meeting in February 2017
1st Spatial indicators technical meeting in April 2017
1 report on metadata SDGs indicators IA-EG
1 proposal connecting SDG and CPI (technical material + CPI revision)
2 contributions to the SG SDG Report 2016/2017

13. Partnerships for SDGs
For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part
Governments
Private sector
Civil society
People like you