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Appendix A
The criteria articulated by the UN HABITAT. These criteria include:
- Sustainability : balancing the social, economic, and ecological needs of future generations;
- Subsidiarity : assigning responsibility for service provision to the closest level consistent with efficient and cost-effective delivery of service;
- Equity : ensuring equitable access to basic needs, such as nutrition, education, employment and livelihood, health care, shelter, safe drinking water, sanitation, and also the equal right to have one's voice be heard and to influence decision making;
- Efficiency : the financially sound and cost-effective management of revenue sources and expenditures and the administration of the delivery of services in light of the comparative advantage that each of the three sectors (public, private, and civil society) can offer;
- Transparency and accountability : an absence of corruption, access to information by all citizens, the application of laws and public policies in a transparent and predictable manner, and high standards of personal and professional integrity on the part of elected and appointed officials;
- Civic engagement and citizenship : the empowerment of citizens – and particularly women, the poor, and marginalized – to take effective part in local and regional decision making; and
- Security of individuals and their living environments : ensuring the right to life, liberty, and security of person, including protection from crime, natural or other disasters, and from unfair eviction or loss of services. 98