The project proposes that the use of a strategic approach to urban safety and good governance should be based on an in-depth understanding of how a wider set of localised risk factors interact with illicit external flows to create conditions of insecurity, including different forms of ‘criminal governance’ that seek to subvert established structures. To develop a holistic and strategic approach to the challenge of insecurity, the project uses a ‘safety governance’ lens that seeks to enhance the well-being of people and communities through appropriate management and allocation of resources across a city. UNODC’s planned intervention aims to broaden the model of the traditional safety audit that UNODC (as well as other partner organizations) have used, to include a broader spectrum of areas--including those related to corruption, transnational organized crime, preventing violent extremism, and health--and to develop the results of such audits into a safety governance approach.