City Planning Labs and Spatial Planning

Project Summary:

The objective of this grant is to Strengthen data-driven and integrated spatial and urban planning in Indonesian cities. The Municipal Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) foundation is being established in multiple Indonesian cities under the World Bank’s City Planning Labs (CPL) Initiative. The MSDI development is funded by Indonesia Sustainable Urbanization (IDSUN) Multi Donor Trust Fund, which builds upon the pilots carried out in Indonesian cities under a previous KGGTF grant. This secondary KGGTF funded program will build on the MSDI foundation by addressing the gaps preventing optimal utilization of MSDI for spatial planning. It will enhance community engagement within MSDI and city-level planning systems, with particular focus on inclusion of urban poor. It will improve the sustainability of information generated and systems created under ongoing World Bank investment operations. 

List of Activities:

1. Creation of a city base map by leveraging Earth Observation products and community engagement and linkage with National Land Administration database

• Established MSDI with a wider range of data
• Integration of MSDI with NSDI, particularly land information  
• Increasing awareness of clients and WBG staff on benefits of MSDI

2. Enhance inclusive planning by mainstreaming community-based data and information into the local government’s planning processes by linking MSDI with the National Slum Upgrading Project (NSUP)

• Integrating data created by World Bank operations to a city’s planning procedures
• Mainstreaming data created by citizens to World Bank operations
• Multidimensional analysis of spatial inequalities of slum areas in a city 

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• Creation of base maps as inputs for fit-for-purpose cadaster mapping  
• Organizing a mapping event based on community engagement
• Integrating maps and data produced through the CPL to the National Land Administration Database 
• Dissemination of product and the collaboration to link MSDI and National platform 
• Increasing operational knowledge of city officials’ and other decision makers’ capacity to manage data infrastructure and data sharing among relevant national departments 

Output2:

• Digitalization of slum maps created by communities as a resource for NUSP and City 
• Development of affordable tools for communities to create and update data in an ICT platform
• Multidimensional analysis of spatial inequalities of slum areas in a city 
• Development of a spatial dataset combining GIS information and analysis on status of service provision of slum areas in a city and perception of poverty 

Outcomes:

• Improved efficiency: The activities of the CPL will result in building essential foundation for more integrated and efficient urban planning that cut across city and national level, encompassing different sectors from water, transport to housing. In order for cities to enhance efficiency in service delivery, the urban plans has to be comprehensive connecting cities to national infrastructure as well as harmonizing different sectoral plans. However, urban planning in Indonesia has been sector-oriented (such as transport, water supply, drainage etc.) with lack of quality data to do a long-term planning. Through the Activity 1 and Activity 2, targeted cities will be equipped with quality digitalized data that are sharable among different departments and planning entities. This will provide the strong point of departure for enabling cost-efficient service delivery.   
• Greater resilience: With the improved sets of geospatial data, the client cities will be able to identify and predict areas/sectors that are vulnerable to climate change. This is particularly important considering geographical and topological context in Indonesia. Activities 1 and 2 are also supported by a strong capacity building framework under the broader City Planning Labs initiative to help participants gain practical knowledge of how to leverage the data to make cities more resilient, being developed using good practices from cities like Seoul and elsewhere.    
• Increased competitiveness: As the city officials will see economic gains of leveraging MSDI framework, the client city will be encouraged to become a spokesperson for other neighboring cities to plan evidence-based (hence strategic and smart) investments that will not only enhance their competitiveness, but also enhance future financial capacity. 

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• Seoul Metropolitan Government
• Korea Land and Geospatial InformatiX Corporation (LX)