Expert Group Meeting on Urban Indicators: Secure Tenure, Slums and Global Sample of Cities

Secure Tenure, Slums and Global Sample of Cities,” held from 28 – 30 October 2002, in
Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by UN-HABITAT in close collaboration with the United Nations
Statistic Division and the Cities Alliance, the EGM assembled 35 international professionals
as well as staff members of the Urban Secretariat and the Global Division of UN-HABITAT.
Participants fulfilled the stated objectives of the EGM: to contribute to the development of
indicators for the “Cities without Slums” or “Target 11” of the Millennium Development
Goal 7, “Ensure Environmental Sustainability.” Assembling in small working groups for two
days, participants accomplished this objective first by formulating an operational definition
for security of tenure and for slums. They produced a series of sub-indicators for the purposes
of measuring security of tenure and slums as defined, and establishing composite indices and
“meta-indicators.” A third working group recommended ways the United Nations report on
progress achieved on the Cities without Slums target by specifying a global sample of cities
and related methods of data collection and analysis.