Building Institutional and Political Capacity for Urban Sustainable Mobility

UN-HABITAT in collaboration with its partners will focus on awareness raising and capacity building. It will build a constituency for support for a new planning approach focusing on the role of the street and the greater role of public transport integrated with non-motorized transport by planning and implementing innovative demonstration projects and widely disseminating its experiences. It will also develop practical tools and guides that can assist city authorities in their efforts towards the goal of sustainable mobility. These tools will make it easier for local authorities to measure and evaluate current conditions and the likely impacts of proposed initiatives on key performance indicators. UN-HABITAT will also link such up-front work with the lending and grant support programmes of the Multilateral Financial Institutions. Existing communication platforms such as the Urban Gateway and the World Urban Campaign will provide the agency powerful mechanisms to build support at a global scale for sustainable mobility.