The Guidelines serve as a practical tool to support the preparation of VLRs by African local governments.

The first volume of the Guidelines for VLRs, provides an overview and analysis of all the documents that local governments have issued to review and assess their implementation performance, looking for common traits, comparable variables and the thread binding the VLRs together.

The Volume 2 of the VLR Series, the Guidelines for Voluntary Local Reviews, jointly developed by UN-Habitat and UCLG, provides an overview and analysis of how the linkage between national and local levels is playing out.

UN-Habitat has developed this Guide to provide knowledge and resources on the multi-level governance strategies and tools that government at all levels (national, regional and local) can utilize for emergency health preparedness and the achievement of health equity.

This guide introduces Monitoring Human Settlements Indicators. Making progress in Monitoring of SDG 11 is crucial in ensuring the success of the SDG framework. SDG 11 contains ten targets: seven are outcome-oriented and three are process-oriented. The latest targets and associated indicators, as listed by IAEG-SDGs are presented in the guide.

Directives pour les examens locaux volontaires en Afrique

The document serves as a compass for decision makers and urban professionals when reviewing urban and territorial planning systems. The Guidelines provide national governments, local authorities, civil society organizations, and planning professionals with a global reference framework that promotes more compact, socially inclusive, better integrated and connected cities and territories that foster sustainable urban development and are resilient to climate change.

The  success  of  National  Urban  Policy  (NUP)  depends  on its effectiveness in helping policymakers ascertain the  positive  change  the  policy  is  making  to  the  life  of  all.  The  Guide  recommends  that  national,  regional  and  local  governments  be  empowered  to  monitor  and  evaluate  urban  policies  as  they  are  not  only  aware  of  the  demands,  changing  tasks  and  needs  of  their  constituencies,  but  they  are  also  conscious  of  the  territorial  and  spatial  inequalities  that  need  to  be  highlighted  in  national  policy  making.

A guide to assist national and local governments in their efforts to collect, analyze, validate data and information in view of the preparation of country-based reports. This “Monitoring Framework” provides the use of necessary definitions, method of computation and metadata of indicators, including spatial indicators. It also includes global, national and local monitoring to support the implementation of SDG Goal 11 targets.

This User Guide outlines the application of the SDG Project Assessment Tool. The five steps are described, including the objective, participants and timeframe of each step.