The regional workshop aims at strengthening the capacity of staff from national statistical offices, city authorities, local urban observatories and service providers, in: the identification of statistical gaps, collection, classification and analysis of data, and the periodic reporting on selected human settlements indicators; the development of action plans and means to collect data related to the implementation of SDG11; and the development of follow-up mechanisms to serve Arab countries in statistical capacity-building.
Meeting Details
- Information note
- Provisional Agenda
Presentations:
Day 1:
Opening Session
Session 1
- Overview of SDG11 Indicators
- Data availability in Arab countries: challenges and opportunities (Arabic)
- Arab country’s experience: Tunisia (Arabic)
Session 2
- Module 1: Adequate housing and slum upgrading
- Indicator 11.1.1: Adequate housing and slum upgrading
- Module 2: Public transport system
- Indicator 11.2.1: Proportion of the population that has convenient access to public transport by sex, age and persons with disabilities
- Arab country’s experience: Sudan (Arabic)
- Arab country’s experience: Morocco (Arabic)
- Arab country’s experience: Bahrain (Arabic)
Session 3
- Module 5: Solid waste in cities
- Module 9: Safe water treatment
- Indicator 6.3.1: Waste water treatment
- Indicator 1.4.1: Basic services
- Air Pollution with Particulate Matter and Health in Arab Countries
- Arab country’s experience: Amman Urban Observatory - Jordan (Arabic)
- Arab country’s experience: Egypt
Day 2:
Session 4
- Use of GIS in measuring human settlement indicators
- Module 3: Land consumption
- Module 6: Public space
- Indicator 11.7.1: The average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all, by age, sex and persons with disabilities
Session 5
- Module 4: Civic participation
- Indicator 11.3.2: Civic participation in urban planning and management
- Module 7: National urban policy
- Indicator 11.a.1: Rural-urban linkages
- Module 8: Secure tenure rights to land
- Indicator 1.4.2: Secure tenure rights to land
- Indicator 11.c.1: Sustainable, resilient and efficient buildings
Session 6
- Global city definition
- City prosperity initiative: conceptualization and application
- National sample of cities approach for the monitoring of urban SDGs
- Arab country’s experience: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic)
Day 3:
Session 7
Session 8
Closing Session
Cairo, Egypt
