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Mashhad: Key Findings and Conclusions Across the KPIs

KPIs Reporting and Engagement

This has been the first year of Mashhad’s collaboration with ITU on this project that is designed,
in part, to assist Mashhad and other cities in evaluating their progress to becoming smarter and
more sustainable, and to meet the SDGs.

Within the framework of the U4SSC KPIs, ITU undertook a two-part approach to the indicators by
preparing a basic set of core indicators that can be reported easily by most cities, along with a list
of advanced indicators. The advanced indicators can be reported by cities that have attained good
scores on the basic indicators. Mashhad successfully reported on 91 per cent of all core U4SSC
indicators, and also on 84 per cent of all advanced indicators.

Mashhad was unable to report on the KPIs listed below. To obtain a full picture of the city’s
performance, Mashhad should carry out a review and determine how to collect data for these
indicators:

• Travel Time Index • EMF Exposure

• Shared Vehicles • Electronic Health Records
• R&D expenditure • Poverty
• Public Building Sustainability • Emergency Service Response Time

• Integrated Building Management Systems • Police Service

It is recommended that to evaluate Mashhad’s progress towards becoming smarter and more sustainable,
the data collection for the KPIs continue on a regular basis. Collecting data at regular intervals will enable
the effectiveness of the programmes to be evaluated by measuring year-over-year trend analysis, and by
progress benchmarking.
Mashhad should work closely with other Iranian cities – and similar cities around the world – on its SSC
efforts, in order to leverage any best practices and shared experiences in developing and instituting smart
sustainable policies and initiatives in the region. In addition, collaborative research programmes with
local universities are encouraged. University students at all levels of study are an untapped resource that
can be harnessed to provide the students with local research resources and real-life experience. Regular
knowledge-sharing and discussions with ITU members and other international cities are also encouraged
and can be facilitated through the U4SSC programme.
SDG View

The KPIs were developed to provide an overview of progress in the SDGs, particularly at the local level.
While most of the KPIs relate to SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities, data collected will also provide
information on progress for most of the other SDGs. What follows is an overview of progress to the SDGs
at the local level.

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