Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal

Arfvidsson, Helen; Simon, David; Oloko, Michael; Moodley, Nishendra

doi:10.1080/19376812.2015.1130636

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“…Previous analyses of the SDG indicators already surfaced the need to account for informality [41]. In the context of the 100RC work, the city of Cape Town has called for more attention to the importance of informality through the 100RC Network Exchange in Addis Ababa in December 2018.…”

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Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

2020

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Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.

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Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

2020

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“…In this diverse set of cities, the pilot study found that not one draft indicator was regarded as both important/relevant and easy to report on in terms of data availability in all the cities; and no city found the entire set of draft indicators under SDG 11 straightforward and important or appropriate Arfvidsson et al 2017;Patel et al 2017). The investigated indicators remained mostly unchanged when Agenda 2030 was adopted.…”

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“…In Cape Town, for example, the researcher has been embedded into the City of Cape Town's This project is a follow-up to a comparative pilot study conducted by Mistra Urban Futures in the first half of 2015 Arfvidsson et al 2017;Patel et al 2017), which tested the potential targets and indicators for the urban SDG (SDG 11) in five cities: Cape Town, Gothenburg, Kisumu, Greater Manchester and Bangalore. This forerunner study contributed to the 'Campaign for an Urban SDG' 3 (SDSN 2013; Simon et al 2016) and tested the data availability, relevance and appropriateness of the draft targets and indicators for SDG 11.…”

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Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

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Simon

Croese

et al. 2019

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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The Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda recognise the role of cities in achieving sustainable development. However, these agendas were agreed and signed by national governments and thus implementing them at the local level requires a process of adaptation or localisation. In this paper, we analyse five aspects that practitioners and researchers need to consider when localising them: (1) delimitation of the urban boundary; (2) integrated governance; (3) actors; (4) synergies and trade-offs and (5) indicators. These considerations are interrelated, and while not exhaustive, provide an important initial step for reflection on the challenges and opportunities of working with these global agendas at the local level. The paper draws on the inception phase of an international comparative transdisciplinary research project in seven cities on four continents: Buenos Aires

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“…Understandably, households are reluctant to invest precious resources in assets that cannot easily be moved. The need to understand and respond to the issues of informality in the urban context is a theme that is gaining welcome exposure as approaches to monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 11, are developed [30]. Our study suggests that such efforts need to be reflected in the measurement of vulnerability to ensure that programmes can be reliably targeted at those in most need.…”

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From Rags to Riches: Assessing poverty and vulnerability in urban Nepal

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Bhattarai²,

Manandhar

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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Urbanisation brings with it rapid socioeconomic change with volatile livelihoods and unstable ownership of assets. Yet, current measures of wealth are based predominantly on static livelihoods found in rural areas. We sought to assess the extent to which seven common measures of wealth appropriately capture vulnerability to poverty in urban areas. We then sought to develop a measure that captures the characteristics of one urban area in Nepal. We collected and analysed data from 1,180 households collected during a survey conducted between November 2017 and January 2018 and designed to be representative of the Kathmandu valley. A separate survey of a sub set of households was conducted using participatory qualitative methods in slum and non-slum neighbourhoods. A series of currently used indices of deprivation were calculated from questionnaire data. We used bivariate statistical methods to examine the association between each index and identify characteristics of poor and non-poor. Qualitative data was used to identify characteristics of poverty from the perspective of urban poor communities which were used to construct an Urban Poverty Index that combined asset and consumption focused context specific measures of poverty that could be proxied by easily measured indicators as assessed through multivariate modelling. We found a strong but not perfect association between each measure of poverty. There was disagreement when comparing the consumption and deprivation index on the classification of 19% of the sample. Choice of short-term monetary and longerterm capital approaches accounted for much of the difference. Those who reported migrating due to economic necessity were most likely to be categorised as poor. A combined index was developed to capture these dimension of poverty and understand urban vulnerability. A second version of the index was constructed that can be computed using a smaller range of variables to identify those in poverty. Current measures may hide important aspects of urban poverty. Those who migrate out of economic necessity are particularly vulnerable. A composite index of socioeconomic status helps to capture the complex nature of economic vulnerability.

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Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal

Cited by 57 publications

References 10 publications

Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

From Rags to Riches: Assessing poverty and vulnerability in urban Nepal

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