Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Sustainable Cities & Communities


Goal 11 is about making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Cities represent the future of global living. The world’s population reached 8 billion on 2022 over half living in urban areas. This figure is only expected to rise, with 70 per cent of people expected to live in cities by 2050. Approximately 1.1 billion people currently live in slums or slum-like conditions in cities, with 2 billion more expected in the next 30 years.

However many of these cities are not ready for this rapid urbanisation, and it outpaces the development of housing, infrastructure and services, which led to a rise in slums or slum-like conditions.

Urban sprawl, air pollution and limited open public spaces persist in cities.

Good progress has been made since the implementation of the SDGs began in 2015, and now the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies has doubled. But issues still remain and in 2022, only half of the urban population had convenient access to public transport.

Sustainable development cannot be achieved without significantly transforming the way urban spaces are built and managed.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development

1989 Georgetown Guyana G

J Paul Getty Trust

1953 Los Angeles CA USA G f

Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security

1997 Toronto ON Canada N

Jane Goodall Institute

JGI 1977 London UK E j

JCC Global

1947 Jerusalem Israel C y

JDC International Centre for Community Development

JDC-ICCD 2005 J

Jesuit Conference of European Provincials

JCEP Brussels Belgium F

Jesuit Educational Association of South Asia

JEASA 1961 Delhi India E

Jesuit European Social Centre

JESC 1956 Brussels Belgium E

JesuitenWeltweit Deutschland

Nuremberg Germany G

Jewish Legal Heritage Society

JLHS 1981 Jerusalem Israel G

Jewish National Fund

JNF 1901 New York NY USA F f

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1925 New York NY USA N f

Johnson Foundation, The

1959 Racine WI USA G f

Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organisation

JAA TO 1970 Hoofddorp Netherlands F g

Joint Committee of IAHR and IAW on Urban Drainage

JCUD 1982 Burlington ON Canada E v

Joint Committee on Structural Safety

JCSS 1971 Aalborg Denmark E v

Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management

1997 T g

Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities

JLI 2012 Washington DC USA F y

Joint Meetings Industry Council

JMIC 1978 Brussels Belgium E yt

Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries

Development Committee 1974 Washington DC USA E g

Just World Partners

1981 Edinburgh UK G

Kangaroo Group - Free Movement and Security

1979 Brussels Belgium F v

Keep A Breast Foundation Europe

KABE 2008 G f

Keeping Children Safe

2001 Skipton UK G y

KFOR

1999 Pristina Kosovo F g

KickStart

San Francisco CA USA G

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes

KDIGO 2003 Brussels Belgium C

King Baudouin Foundation

KBF 1976 Brussels Belgium G f

King Faisal Foundation

KFF 1976 Riyadh Saudi Arabia G f

Kiwanis International - European Federation

1963 Ghent Belgium E

Kofi Annan Foundation

Geneva Switzerland G f

Kurdish Institute of Paris

1983 Paris France F jv

La Prévention Routière Internationale

PRI 1957 Rabat Morocco B

Laborers' International Union of North America

LIUNA 1903 Washington DC USA N

Labour Law Research Network

LLRN 2011 F jy

Ladies European Tour

LET 1978 Denham UK F

Land Tenure Center, Madison WI

LTC 1962 Madison WI USA N

Landmine Survivors Network

LSN 1995 Washington DC USA G

LandsAid - Verein für Internationale Humanitäre Hilfe

LandsAid 2014 Kaufering Germany G

LANDSCAPE EUROPE

Nitra Slovakia F

Landscape Institute

LI 1929 London UK G j

Landscape Research Group

LRG 1968 Oxford UK N

Lanka Mahila Samiti

1930 Colombo Sri Lanka G

Latin America Bureau, London

LAB 1977 London UK G

Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association

1980 Miami FL USA D

Latin American and Caribbean Alliance of YMCAs

LACA 1914 Mexico City Mexico D

Latin American and Caribbean Education Innovation Network

INNOVEMOS 2000 Santiago Chile E gy

Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning

1962 Santiago Chile E gj

Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

REDLAC 1999 Buenos Aires Argentina F

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