Urban Safety Monitor - The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture Urban Safety Monitor (USM) is designed as a global benchmark for safety and security in cities. The monitor is envisaged as a key tool to stimulate global, regional, national and critically, local awareness of the role of data, knowledge and evidence strengthening practice for improving safety in urban settings. 

The monitor indicators respond to a diverse range of safety interventions, from crime prevention through environmental design, to institutional capacity building and everything in between. 

The Bigger Picture is also a tool for advocacy, prompting cities to engage data and knowledge more actively, to use it to support evidence-led interventions and to understand local conditions and adapt as needed to meet them.

Learn more about the USM