GEO 793 Study Guide - Final Guide: United Nations Human Settlements Programme, New Approach, Quality Of Life
26 Apr 2020
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Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, efficient political, managerial and administrative processes to enable the local (municipal) government response to the needs of citizens. The aim of urban governance is to foster practice that strengthens the relationships between citizens, civil society organizations, the public sector, and the private sector as they work to create more environmentally and financially sustainable cities. Effective urban governance is characterized as democratic and inclusive; long-term and integrated; multi-scale and multilevel; territorial; proficient and conscious of the digital age(un habitat). Rather, it emphasizes the relationships and interactions between these actors as well as the conditions and rules that frame those relationships and interactions. Increasing poverty and insecurity: unsustainable urbanization patterns requiring preventive and adaptive approaches. Limited municipal government implementation capacity is the main bottleneck. New approach to good governance: municipal authorities as enablers". Focus on inclusiveness of access to city benefits and decision-making: promising innovation but needs to scale up.
