CDS Monitoring Progress

Overall, a city development strategy should produce some significant  outputs, the first of  which will be a common vision and strategy for a city, one that has been built by participation, and which embodies the greatest degree of consensus.

 This common vision will reflect a very clear strategy for local economic development and for urban poverty reduction, articulating pro-poor policies within the  wider urban constituency.

 Most importantly, the consensus and the strategy must translate into clearly defined action plan(s), with  a timetable and assignment of responsibilities for implementation, and methods for regular accounting to all stakeholders.

 The following issues have been identified as essential to monitoring the overall success of a city development strategy:

• Institutionalisation of the CDS;

• Impact on poverty reduction;

• Impact on inclusiveness.

The following table can serve as a baseline for the development of a range of indicators to be developed by cities to assist them to measure their progress, and their success: