1000 Cities Challenge

Recruit a team to gather the necessary data, use the GOHSC data processing tools to compute policy and spatial indicators for your city, and advocate for their use to improve health and sustainability in your city.

• Your city will need people with expertise in:
  • Government policy
  • Spatial analysis (including use of Open Access Data)  advocacy
• Sign up for the 1000 Cities Challenge to gain access to our data processing tools. Fill out the signup form for yourself or your team [Survey asks about city/region, job title, organization, skills, willingness to share results in academic publications, and desired level of engagement (ability to provide data, already run code, advocate, provide funding]
• When you complete the survey, you can request to join an already signed up city or regional group, connecting you with other people from your region who have signed up to participate.
• Your team will then be contacted by a Regional/Country Coordinator, who can assist you with the next steps.

• City teams attend a short information session and/or training workshop (or watch the recorded webinar) to learn about the steps involved and how to collect, process and analyse policy and/or spatial data.
• Webinar recordings are available on the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities Youtube Channel

• Download and familiarize yourself with the Policy Checklist.
• Review the steps for the Indicators Software available from the Global Observatory website, Resources tab.
• Develop a policy data collection plan and identify who will collect the data.

The Global Observatory team, including country/regional coordinators can act as mentors or guides and will be able to answer questions related to the data collection plan, policy and spatial indicators computation, and generation of the Scorecard and Report.

Your team can continue to work together to advocate for progress and serve as a resource for city leaders.

Repeating the calculation of indicators every few years provides occasions to celebrate progress, identify continuing, and update goals.

1. Identify the relevant level(s) of government for your analysis, and the government sectors responsible for the policy areas covered in the Policy Checklist.
2. Conduct a search of government or public websites and repositories to identify relevant policy documents.
3. Find and enter relevant policy details into the 1000 Cities Challenge Policy Checklist.

You are now ready to organize one or more meetings or events to present results to city leaders and encourage their use in setting goals to improve policies and environments in your cities.

It is useful to have people from multiple sectors involved in the presentations.There are recordings of local events in which indicators are presented to city leaders on the website.

Send your city’s finalised Scorecard and/or Report to info@healthysustainablecities.org, for upload to the Global Observatorywebsite.

Your city will officially be included in the 1000 Cities Challenge, and city teams will become part of our Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Collaboration.

Check your data and indicator results to ensure they are as accurate as possible. Validation checklists and the Global Observatory team will assist with validation.

Please contact our team for support: info@healthysustainablecities.org

Use the GHSCI Software to:

• Configure and analyze spatial data
• Upload the Policy Checklist for analysis
• Generate indicator outputs (e.g., maps, summary reports for validation and comparison)
• Please contact our team if you require support using the GHSCI Software