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Archives for September 2020

BCIT Centre for Ecocities Director Jennie Moore joins UN-Habitat Taskforce for the creation of a Global Urban Monitoring Framework.

September 23, 2020 by Christine Pinkham Leave a Comment

Image of Jennie Moore sitting on the Sustainable Development Goal 11 cube for Sustainable Cities and Communities.Dr. Jennie Moore has joined the Global Monitoring Framework Task Team, an UN-Habitat coordinated task force to assist in development of a Global Urban monitoring Framework for SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

The framework will be an important contribution to international standards and methods for the compilation of urban/city level statistics and data. It aims to harmonize existing urban indexes and tools, to propose an agreed universal framework to measure the urban SDGs and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It will also serve as a monitoring tool for the UN-Habitat Flagship Program SDG Cities and be a very useful tool for the preparation of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) and preparation of urban data for the Common Country Assessments with the UN Country Teams.

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Filed Under: Sustainable cities, UN Habitat

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