Secu4All Panel: Monitoring Safety and Prevention in public spaces to achieve the Global Goals
Juma Assiago
UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat
Gian Guido Nobili
Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy)
Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy)
Moderation: Dr. Felix Munger
Canadian Municipal Network on Crime Prevention
Abstract:
The emerging challenges faced in communities and public spaces require new and improved prevention strategies and measures. This requires a clear vision of safety (including crime and delinquency), and a better understanding of the risks, threats, and protective factors as well as an understanding how to systematically measure and monitor progress. In order to facilitate the design of human-centred prevention measures, it is of particular importance to incorporate data that goes beyond crime statistics including citizen-informed data.
Efus, UN-Habitat, and the Expert Group on urban safety co-developed the Urban Safety Monitor (USM), a tool that uses a multisectoral approach. This encompasses highlighting the value and impact of local safety work; adapting indicators locally; supporting evidence-based data; and promoting the sharing of good practices through a peer-to-peer learning process.
The USM tool allows to concretely address the need to understand and diagnose the security challenges in communities and public spaces. This panel will bring together key international speakers including members of the Expert Group on urban safety to discuss the needs, challenges, and implementation of the USM tool to better increase safety in communities and public spaces. The panel will also include discussions on training and capacity building tools. Scaling up the monitoring of security at the local level contributes to SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities; SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities; SDG 5 - Gender equality; and SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
Juma Assiago is an Urbanist and Social Scientist, a graduate in Sustainable Urban Development from Oxford University (UK). He currently coordinates the Global Safer Cities Programme at UN-Habitat. He has over 20 years of experience working in programme development with national and local governments and in the development and implementation of municipal-wide crime prevention and urban safety strategies in Africa, Latin America Carribean, Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe. He has developed a vast network of implementing partners under the Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC). A significant achievement of this work has been the adoption by member states of UN systemwide Guidelines on Safer Cities and Human Settlements in 2019, validating the working approach practiced at the city level. He is currently focussed on the provision of technical advisories to cities and in the piloting of an urban safety monitoring tool aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda.
He is Head of the Urban Security and Crime Prevention Unit of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy). He oversees research programmes, projects and data systems concerning crime, victimisation, juvenile delinquency, organised crime, urban security and crime prevention.
Since 2013, Gian Guido has been National Coordinator of the Italian Forum for Urban Security. Since 2006, he has been a member of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) and a founding member of the European Governance of Public Safety Network.
He is author or co-author of books and more than 50 articles in Italian and international journals and has edited books on topics such as the evaluation of crime reduction programmes, policing, organised crime, urban security and research on new crime prevention strategies.
Efus, UN-Habitat, and the Expert Group on urban safety co-developed the Urban Safety Monitor (USM), a tool that uses a multisectoral approach. This encompasses highlighting the value and impact of local safety work; adapting indicators locally; supporting evidence-based data; and promoting the sharing of good practices through a peer-to-peer learning process.
The USM tool allows to concretely address the need to understand and diagnose the security challenges in communities and public spaces. This panel will bring together key international speakers including members of the Expert Group on urban safety to discuss the needs, challenges, and implementation of the USM tool to better increase safety in communities and public spaces. The panel will also include discussions on training and capacity building tools. Scaling up the monitoring of security at the local level contributes to SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities; SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities; SDG 5 - Gender equality; and SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
Juma Assiago
Gian Guido Nobili
Since 2013, Gian Guido has been National Coordinator of the Italian Forum for Urban Security. Since 2006, he has been a member of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) and a founding member of the European Governance of Public Safety Network.
He is author or co-author of books and more than 50 articles in Italian and international journals and has edited books on topics such as the evaluation of crime reduction programmes, policing, organised crime, urban security and research on new crime prevention strategies.
Tuesday 13th of June 2023
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Room: Mahler-Saal III
