Category: Urban Development Policies

A approach that has been used by many cities to reduce gentrification and protect the rights of the most vulnerable population around the regeneration site is inclusionary zoning (IZ). IZ is a means of using the planning system to create affordable housing and foster social inclusion by capturing resources created through the marketplace. The term […]

• Making cities informative with use of modern Information & Communication Technology (ICT) tools and making cities secure with modern surveillance and security apparatus like Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTVs) etc. • Increase accessibility i.e. physical access (roads as well as universal design) and intellectual access (i.e. digital heritage and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping […]

Planning, development and implementation of heritage sensitive infrastructure. • Service delivery and infrastructure provisioning in the core areas of historic city. • Preserve and revitalize heritage wherein tourists can connect directly with city’s unique character. • Develop and document a heritage asset inventory of cities – natural, cultural, living and built heritage as a basis […]

•National Environmental Policy (NEP) 2006 •National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) 2006 •National Urban Housing & Habitat Policy (NUHHP) 2007 •National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP) 2008 •National Policy for Urban Street Vendors (NPUSV) 2009 •National Water Policy (NWP) 2012 •National Policy on Energy (NEP) 2017 draft stage Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) 2005 Atal […]

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India, has launched the Service Level Benchmarking (SLB) initiative covering water supply, wastewater, solid waste management (SWM) and storm water drainage. 28 performance indicators: •Water Supply 1.Coverage of water supply connections 2.Per capita supply of water 3.Extent of metering of water connections 4.Extent of non-revenue water 5.Continuity […]

Indicators are essential to a policy evaluation, as they are key tools that, when addressed/calculated, provide a clear, comparable measure of the impact of a policy. Indicators can: •Identify how actors are affected by the policy measure in question •Assess the impacts of a particular policy measure on food waste in qualitative and, if possible, […]

Participatory  approach  aimed at democratizing decision making at all levels of society. Participation has been intrinsically linked to the idea of empowering groups who are less able to make themselves heard, enabling them to effectively defend their interests against the powerful.  Participatory approach in different stages.9 Stage 1 Agenda setting, (initial) problem conceptualization •Stakeholder identification […]

Policy monitoring is the process of regularly checking and evaluating the implementation and impact of policies. 1. Managerial Approaches : The management of the public sector has now adopted more or less business-like style, the techniques of which were once thought of as private-sector methods. 1.1 CPM and PERT approaches Both CPM and PERT approaches […]

Monitoring is an activity which occurs in the course of implementing a programme or a policy. The objective of policy monitoring is to ensure, through the policy implementation process, that resource inputs are used as efficiently as possible to yield intended results. In simple words monitoring’ is the process of observing. Policy monitoring in brief […]

Decision-making is usually defined as a process or sequence of activities involving stages of problem recognition, search for information, definition of alternatives and the selection of an actor of one from two or more alternatives consistent with the ranked preferences. Decision making theory is a theory of how rational individuals should behave under risk and […]