This report was jointly prepared by the OECD, UN-Habitat and Cities Alliance as part of the 2019‑20 Workplan of National Urban Policy Programme (NUPP).
OECD’s contribution was produced by the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the Programme of Work and Budget of the Regional Development Policy Committee. UN-Habitat’s contribution was produced by the Global Solutions Division led by Raf Tuts, Director. Cities Alliance’s contribution was led by Greg Munro, Director.
Tadashi Matsumoto (OECD) and Remy Sietchiping (UN-Habitat) led the research team and co-ordinated the overall work, under the supervision of Aziza Akhmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division in the CFE (OECD), Shipra Narang Suri, Chief of the Urban Practices Branch (UN-Habitat) and Rene Peter Hohmann, Acting Head of Programmes (Cities Alliance).
Lead authors of the report include a core team of policy analysts and experts comprised of:
Joshua Drake and Keith Mudadi (Cities Alliance): Chapter 1 and 4
Lucie Charles and Jonathan Crook (OECD): Chapter 2, 5 and 7
Michael Kinyanjui (UN-Habitat): Chapter 3 and 6
The OECD, UN-Habitat and Cities Alliance are grateful for the support and commitment from partner organisations in conducting and analysing the national urban policy country survey and in contributing to the drafting, in particular:
International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) (Elisabeth Belpaire and Mahak Agrawal): Chapters 2, 4, 5 and 7
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) (Edgardo Bilsky and Anna Calvete Moreno): Chapter 4
Coalition for Urban Transitions (Sarah Colenbrander and Catlyne Haddaoui): Chapter 7
Several colleagues provided comments or inputs on earlier drafts and are herein gratefully acknowledged including Lorenz Gross, Antonina Grymova, Soo-Jin Kim, Stefano Marta, Atsuhito Oshima, Elvira Shafikova and Camille Viros from the OECD, and Zahra Aden, Diana Carrillo-Silva, Gianluca Crispi, Filiep Decorte, Rafael Forero, Herbert Kimani, Christine Knudsen, Sun Lei, Victor Mgendi, Eduardo Moreno, Susannah Price and María Téllez Soler from UN-Habitat. Chris Mensah, Bridget Oballa and Mary Oyiolo from the UN-Habitat Secretariat of the Governing Bodies supported the national urban policy country survey process. Special thanks are extended to international experts who provided comments and feedbacks to the country survey as well as the draft report: Eugenie Birch (University of Pennsylvania), Jago Dodson (RMIT), Susan Parnell (University of Bristol), David Dodman (International Institute for Environment and Development) and Isabel Duque Franco (National University of Colombia).
The national urban policy country draft survey benefited from comments and feedback from OECD countries: Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland and the United States. Earlier drafts of this report were discussed at three meetings of the NUPP supporting partners in October 2019, February 2020 and December 2020. Interim findings were also presented at the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth meetings of the OECD Working Party on Urban Policy in April and November 2020. The report was approved by the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee on 5 May 2021 under the cote CFE/RDPC/URB(2021)6.
Special thanks to Pilar Philip from the OECD for coordinating the publication process, François Iglesias and Liv Gaunt for their contributions to its production, Vicky Quinlan from UN-Habitat and Misha Pinkhasov for editing the report and to Eleonore Morena for formatting the report.