Global Perspectives on SDG 11

. Globally urban zones are extending at a quicker rate than their populaces. The key
challenges are meeting the increasing needs of the urban population, including
housing, transport, energy systems, water and other infrastructure, employment, basic
services such as health care, education, etc.
Assessment of Progress on SDG11 by Indicators:
 Proportion of urban population living in slums, informal settlements or inadequate
Housing.
 Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age
and persons with disabilities.
 Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to
disasters per 100,000 population.
 direct economic loss in relation to global GDP, damage to critical infrastructure and
number of disruptions to basic services, attributed to disasters.
 Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of
total municipal waste generated, by cities.
 Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter.
 Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies
in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
 Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk
reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies.
Government efforts to ensure sustainable cities and communities:

 Housing: The government has taken special program named the government’s
Ashrayan-2 is projected to rehabilitate 250,000 homeless families.
 Communication infrastructures: LGED, WASAs and ULGIs are constructing and
maintaining Road Networks and Drainage Systems.
 Roads: Roads and Highways Department have been included.
 Railways: Bangladesh has 38 on-going train services and connecting all major
points in 44 districts and 2,955 km.
 Water Transport: BIWTC has operated 19 ferries, 2 inland passenger boats, 12
water buses, 4 sea-trucks and 4 container transport vessels to enhance the quality
of operation.
 Air Transport: Construction of second runway in Hazrat Shahjalal International
Airport for Cargo planes, Expansion of runways at Chittagong and Sylhet.
 Padma Multipurpose Bridge – the Signature Mega Project: This bridge in
southern Bangladesh will change the fate of 30 million people.
 Drainage infrastructure: WASA, City corporations and pourashavas works for
develop and maintain drainage system.
 Waste management: For huge number of waste management The DoE is
implementing a pilot project ‘Programmatic CDM Project’ to develop
environment based waste management.
 Water supply: In order to reverse the situation, the government has carried out three
mega projects, namely the Padma Water Treatment Plant, the Saidabad Water
Treatment Plant and the Dhaka Environmentally Sustainable Water Supply Project.
 Air pollution: government try to de-centralization huge population of Dhaka
City and step away from the idea of Metropolis, towards self-reliant satellite
cities far from the major cities.
Key Challenges of implementing sustenable cites
 Adequate, safe and affordable housing: the implementation of verious schemes
would be very difficult due to rapid and unplanned urbanization, extremely
high population density and resource constraints, especially in urban areas.
 Affordable, accessible and sustainable urban transport: The transport
sector will face major challenges in terms of advances in transport, technical
advancements and solutions in the coming days and how they can meet the
additional transport demands of approximately 6 billion urban people at the
lowest possible social cost by 2050 without sacrificing the environment.
 Urban Resilience: To reduce the pressure on Dhaka, it is important to
establish secondary cities that are climate-resilient and migrant-
friendly. In the upazila headquarters, the government provides urban
services for reduce pressure.
 Resource constraints: The SDGs Finance Strategy 2018 of the GED
predicts that SDG11-related ventures will require additional costs of
$0.26 billion by 2020 and $0.28 billion by 2025.
 Air Quality improvement: Reducing traffic jams and eliminating old
vehicles from the lane, resulting in inefficient fuel burning, adding more
airborne particulate matter.
 Syn-chronisation of policies, strategies and master plans: CCs have a
growth agenda, strategy and master plans of their own. Such master
plans are scarcely coordinated during implementation, resulting in
disputes between master plans.