Table 4 National Urban Policy (NUP) scope and capacities supported

(1) Urban visioning and navigation for national development and international commitments [Capacities 1.1-1.3, 3.3]

• Collaborative national urban visioning and goals-setting, aligned with translated SDGs, international commitments (UNSDGs, NUA, Paris Agreement, CBD, Sendai), and emerging strategic trends, challenges, risks, opportunities, responses.

• National urban performance indicators, and monitoring and navigation processes, incorporating insights from upscaling of local urban research and innovations

• Guidance for line-of-sight equivalent at sub-national scales, including strategic urban planning processes, design and governance principles

(2) Horizontal and vertical policy coordination and coherence [Capacities 1.3, 3.1-3.3]

• Develop co-ordination and coherence, horizontally across social, economic, environmental, innovation, resilience, spatial policy areas at national level; and vertically between levels of government, clarifying roles, responsibilities and resourcing principles. Includes national settlement strategy with system-of-cities, and urban-rural connections.

• Develop implementation mechanisms with legal, regulatory, planning and financial tools; and accountability and integrity processes

(3) Stakeholder engagement and participation: [Capacities 2.1-2.2]

• Promote engagement and participation of governments/regulators with all stakeholders/ communities; develop engagement best practices platform; demonstrate engagement by inclusive approach to NUP development

(4) Financial and resource capacity building: [Capacities 3.1-3.5]

• Develop financial and resourcing principles and access across levels, including innovative sources

• Influence urban directions through national funding for collaborative urban infrastructure and place-based programs

(5) Policy-practitioner-research and knowledge/innovation capacity building:

[Capacities 1.3, 2.3, 3.4-3.6, 4.1-4.5]

• Contribute to policy–practitioner–researcher capacity-building programs and collaborations.

• Develop national urban systems research and innovation programs with challenge/ mission-oriented priorities and guidance for funding; and national urban data, knowledge and innovation sharing platforms, with space for collective reflection and learning. Ensure robust urban-scale data and indicators to support governance and navigation.

• Contribute to national network of distributed ‘hubs’ as catalysts for co-development and sharing of local knowledge, innovation, learning, engagement and capacity-building (see Table 5for potential Knowledge & Innovation Hub scope)