Global monitoring of the Habitat Agenda and the Millennium Development Goals The Global Urban Observatory (GUO) carries out activities pertaining to the monitoring of the Habitat Agenda and the Millennium Development Goals relating to shelter including achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, and halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
The programme regularly updates the urban indicators at city and country levels. GUO coordinates the use of urban indicators as specified in the Habitat Agenda guidelines in the agency’s main flagship reports including the State of the World Cities Report, the Global Report of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation in Cites report, regional, youth, gender and other report.
GUO also produces the Global Urban Indicators Database and contributes to the United Nations Secretary General reports on the Millennium Development Goals. It also ensures that reliable and up-to-date urban information is available for reports, messages and speeches of the Executive Director and other representatives of the Agency.
The Development Impact Assessment function
The Development Impact Assessment function (DIA) monitors urban inequities. It was initiated in 2003 through intra-city analysis and Urban Inequities Surveys to measure urban specific issues such as security of tenure, social capital, transportation, crime and violence, accidents, employment, climate change, municipal finances, housing rights, gender, etc. The DIA assists the agency to assess the level of its intervention and those of other actors that impact the lives of people, in terms of housing, social, economic and health conditions among others.
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