URBAN  MANAGEMENT

We work on projects that range from urban master plans, historic cities conservation plans, city development strategies, local economic development programs, urban regulations, and urban funding instruments. We also help local authorities to assess their administrative and fiscal procedures, improve their operations, and become more transparent and engaging with their communities. We develop procedures to assess the feasibility of urban planning, land pooling and land management processes. And we help local and national authorities in fine tuning regulatory frameworks for better urban and environmental planning and design. 

Our services in this field include: 

Research & Analysis 

• Our experts research a range of urban management issues such as land management, planning, urban services, and urban dynamics.

• We provide sector-based analysis on specific issues like housing, urban mobility, land management, urban economics, tourism and urban environment. We also tailor these studies for specific purposes such as local project management, long term investment frameworks, as well as policy design.

• We provide feasibility studies and rapid assessments for major urban development projects, including PPP and BOT’s. 

• We develop tools for building urban indicators and we prepare comparative frameworks analysis. 

• We create indices for assessing complex urban conditions and aggregating different indicators.  

• We correlate data from different sectors to evolve eco-system analysis.  

• We offer a variety of mapping tools to visualize urban data.  

Scenario Development 

• We help partners to assess options and scenarios on the basis of econometric data.

Advice 

•  Our team provides consultations to different stakeholders involved in urban management, including municipalities, local institutions, central authorities responsible for local services, donors, businesses, and civic actors. We help them to develop priorities, visions, strategies, and area-based multisectoral approaches to urban development.  Beyond the confines of rigid physical planning instruments, our team supports clients to create flexible and fit for purpose tools to steer the growth of cities. 

• LUGARIT works with local stakeholders to develop long-term urban visions using a variety of visioning tools. Building on detailed assessment of trend lines and urban dynamics we use a mixture of participatory tools, extrapolations, AI and machine learning instruments, as well as graphic visualizations instruments. 

• We support local councils in the design of local coordination mechanisms, as well as in steering and problem solving.

Stakeholder Engagement 

• LUGARIT’s experts approach urban development as a mediation process among the different stakeholders.  We offer a range of services related to outreach to local communities, facilitation of urban strategy dialogues, town hall meetings and negotiations with national authorities, and international donors regarding future plans. 

• We help different community stakeholders to advocate for their rights and priorities with local and national authorities.

• We facilitate dialogues among international donors, implementing agencies and local authorities on developing programs and setting up financial instruments to fund urban development projects.

• We provide a variety of visioning methodologies to mitigate competing visions for urban management issues. 

Capacity Building

•  Our team assesses capacity building needs for institutions involved in urban management.  

• We tailor training modules to fit the needs of local authorities, civic groups, and professionals.  

• We offer training on flexible urban assessment tools such as urban profiling, project evaluation, and visioning methodologies.

Monitoring & Evaluation

•  LUGARIT experts excel at developing urban indicators as part of setting up urban observatories.  We work with stakeholders to develop city prosperity indices, assess progress of cities along the SDG’s, and tailor assessment to help build up evidence for the performance of urban settlements. 

• We work with local and national authorities on aggregating urban data into national statistical functions.

• We help in designing sampling for surveys and developing the logistics for mapping and enumeration urban monitoring systems. 

• We support local authorities to report on their strategic development plans, and their short and long term planning processes.

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