The Metropolitan Legislation Toolkit invites countries and metropolitan territories to review their existing legal arrangements, identify legal gaps, and overcome institutional fragmentation. Its purpose is to turn legislation into an enabler of integrated metropolitan solutions, capable of responding to contemporary urban dynamics and improving quality of life.
Metropolitan areas are today one of the most relevant territorial expressions of urbanization. Their growth exceeds traditional administrative boundaries and raises complex challenges related to governance, planning, financing, sustainability, and interjurisdictional coordination.
To respond to these challenges, UN-Habitat presents this practical tool, designed to support governments, metropolitan authorities, legislators, technical teams and strategic stakeholders in the formulation, assessment and strengthening of metropolitan legal frameworks.
The Toolkit is based on the premise that clear, coherent and adaptable metropolitan legislation is essential to enable integrated, inclusive and sustainable territorial management, by defining responsibilities, governance structures, decision-making mechanisms, planning instruments, financing schemes and spaces for citizen participation.
The toolkit brings together three complementary products: a guide to formulate and strengthen metropolitan legal frameworks, an assessment methodology for metropolitan legal systems and comparative case studies. Together, they provide concepts, analytical criteria, methodological guidance and international lessons that can be adapted to different contexts.
Developed within the framework of MetroHUB, the Toolkit strengthens capacities to learn, share, develop, apply and disseminate tools that promote sustainable metropolitan development, in line with the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 11.
Share