How is civic engagement in your city?

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Take a brief survey to evaluate how participatory your city is and visualize your score in the map below.

Help us prevent SDG 11.3.2 indicator on civic participation in urban planning from being removed from the SDG Global Database!

SDG 11.3.2 indicator: "Proportion of cities with a direct participation structure of civil society in urban planning and management that operate regularly and democratically" is at risk of being removed from the SDG Global Database as less than 30% of countries have collected data for this indicator.

UN-Habitat has developed a new data collection and monitoring tool in the form of a user-friendly survey that can be translated into any language and only takes 3 minutes to complete. You can also visualise the scores on the map below and compare them with cities worldwide.

In 2024, official results were reported for 101 cities across 49 countries, but we still need data from 300 more cities in the next five months (May 2025). Official city-level results require a minimum of 5 responses from at least 3 sectors (government, civil society, academia, private sector, or professional body). There are many ways to participate in urban planning, and your response to the survey will help measure results at the city and country levels while monitoring the localization of SDG 11 worldwide.

Please contribute with your responses and share the tool with partners and stakeholders. We must join forces to safeguard this crucial indicator and ensure the continued advancement of our cities towards more sustainable cities and communities!

How are the scores calculated and what do they represent?

Scores are calculated based on the respondent's answers to the 4 questions of the survey, which correspond to the four elements included in SDG 11.3.2 indicator: a) direct participation structure, b) regular participation c) democratic participation d) inclusion of groups in vulnerable conditions, applied to three focus areas: i) urban planning and management ii) urban budget decision making iii) evaluation and feedback on the performance on urban management. Each question has an average result from a 4-point Likert scale, and they are all averaged to show a final score.

Scores are shown in percentages, representing the proportion of direct participation structure of civil society in urban planning and management that operate regularly and democratically in the city, based on citizen's perceptions. Preliminary city scores (represented with the dashed shaded area on the city box in the map) shown on the map constitute an average of all respondents' scores for that city. Average city scores only show when at least one person from each sector (government, civil society, academia, private sector and professional body) has responded to the survey. Official city-scores for this indicator require a minimum of 5 responses from at least 3 sectors to be reported.

Learn more about the results gathered in 2024 .

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