CitiIQ Adds Progress Reporting for UN Sustainable Development Goals
Toronto, February 17, 2022 – The CitiIQ measurement system, providing quarterly scores for the 35 most important Considerations of a city, now includes a reporting feature indicating if a city is gaining or losing ground on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Advancing SDGs at a city level is crucial to achieving the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
CitiIQ provides a standardized scoring framework based on a 1-100 scale to enable clear comparability between a city’s own Considerations and those of other cities. It is a cloud-based subscription service that includes data collection thereby alleviating a city’s need to resource the acquisition of such comprehensive measurements on their own.
The automated updates to CitiIQ scoring will now drive the “SDG 17” feature. It will display if a city’s progress toward the 17 SDGs is increasing or decreasing as a percentage change illuminating the effectiveness of the city’s SDG strategy.
35 CitiIQ Considerations and Compatibility with the 17 SDG's
Measuring cities is critically important. Don Simmonds, Chief Executive Officer of CitiIQ explains, “The complex challenges for city leadership are profound - ever demanding, ever-changing, with the enormous pressures of caring for the needs and demands of citizens. Surprisingly, there are few places leaders can look to find objective measurements comprehensive enough for the broad considerations of the city along with a framework to compare to other cities. This is the very reason CitiIQ exists.”
It is recognized that the United Nations Agenda 2030, a concerted effort to see the world adopt its 17 SDGs, is highly dependent on the successful implementation of SDGs at a city level. Cities are being encouraged to adopt a Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of their progress. The CitiIQ platform can be implemented in a city within 14 days and can be adopted by any city as its own VLR.
Additionally, municipal lenders increasingly require a city to self-measure, often difficult for smaller cities to create and maintain on their own. The CitiIQ measurement framework can be readily adopted as a comprehensive self-measurement approach without the need to resource an internal department to do so.
CitiIQ provides timely data for city leaders, policymakers, and community leaders to improve the quality of life for people in their communities. Clients access a cloud-based dashboard displaying comparable, consistent measures for their and compared cities on any device.