This project supports the design of monitoring tools to improve the availability of and access to data and statistics at city and urban national level for the formulation of evidence-based policies. To ensure evidence based city performance monitoring at the global, regional and national levels, national statistical systems need to work with a national sample of cities. These nationally representative cities will be used to study the indepth aspects of SDGs and other urban agenda targets. To date, no country has explored this aspect, although as part of the City Prosperity Initiative under UN-Habitat, a set of cities have been studied and compared using a uniform set of indicators in selected countries. Some of the lessons from this exercise informed the need for working with a national sample of cities to monitor and report on all urban/city related SDGs indicators. Therefore, this project aims to strengthen the capacities of national governments to: a) create a multilevel coordination of national/local monitoring and reporting; b) reinforce inter-linkages of Goal 11 indicators and other SDG indicators with an urban component, adopting a city-wide approach to monitoring urban development; c) facilitate a systematic disaggregation of information along key dimensions of urban development; d) assist in the aggregation of locally produced city indicators for regional and global monitoring and reporting.