The Quantified Cities Movement (QCM), pioneered by the Centre for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA), Pune, aims to improve urban planning and create resilient cities by building transparency and accountability through facilitating citizens, adolescents and youth to participate in the process of decision making at the local level. This process will target achieving the goal of sustainable urban development by promoting resilience activities and increasing local level understanding of disaster risk through the prism of urban planning with a focus on participation of citizens, children and adolescents.
By engaging citizens, adolescents and youth in data collection for neighborhood level stress and risk identification in order to facilitate best practices in urban policy and planning, we improve participation and increase the availability of evidence in turn improving the Urban policy and planning process. This process empowers all stakeholders to collect and analyze data and in turn map stresses that are identified through comparison with quality standards and suggest solutions.
The reports will be submitted to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), elected representatives and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in order to formulate evidence based, decentralized participatory local area plans. The QCM is poised to mainstream the inclusion of risk indicators as well as quality of life indicators by dovtailing them into the process of urban planning for Pune city.
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