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THEME PAPER

Image 1 Waste Assessment Survey carried out in Thiruvananthapuram Though cities are economic
(Kerala) by UN-Habitat India utilising the Waste Wise Cities Tool engines and shoulder the
(WaCT) burden of urbanization and
development, they can also
widen existing inequalities
and exclude certain socio-
economic sections. The
unprecedented development
needs to be inclusive to
be sustainable and to do
so, spatially equitable
distribution of resources,
ensuring equal access by all,
is crucial. Cities need to be
designed, constructed, and
managed to enable equal
and inclusive access for
all communities, whether
for essential services or for
recreation purposes. In doing
so, spatial analyses of urban
One Behind (LNOB), goals and state level authorities development and planning
and targets are to be met for have a static approach with decisions are critical to
people from all segments of traditional urban planning understand how problems
society especially including instruments, at times leading and their solutions play out in
the groups being left furthest to haphazard responses to the a city.
behind. Therefore, it becomes cities’ urban challenges. Most
imperative to interlink SDGs of the urban centres in India SCIAP (Sustainable City
with SDG 11 towards reducing face issues of urban sprawl Integrated Approach Pilot), a
inequalities and promoting project funded by the Global
of all irrespective of age, sex, and inefficient land use, Environment Facility (GEF),
disability, race, ethnicity, increase in vehicular traffic is being implemented in
origin, religion, or economic and worsening air pollution, the pilot cities of Mysuru,
status in the sanitation space. and deteriorating quality of Guntur, Vijayawada, Bhopal,
the public realm of cities. The and Jaipur with the aim
INTEGRATED lack of urban infrastructure of enhancing urban local
PLANNING for affordable housing, water government’s capacity to
APPROACHES ACROSS supply, sanitation, and solid comprehend and plan for
SECTORS waste management has been a sustainable growth and

Urban development is a constant challenge, especially development. The pilot cities
are analysed for their climate
dynamic, diverse, and fluid in informal settlements in performance using the urban
phenomenon, while the local urban areas.
sustainability assessment
7
7 Urban Sustainability Assessment Framework, 2022, UN-Habitat, https://www. framework (USAF) across
unhabitat.org.in/sciap-publications/draft-urban-sustainability-assessment- the twelve urban sectors
framework-(usaf) to identify the prominent

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