Masuo Mieko - Kitakyushu City's SDGs Indicators and ideas towards the common indicator framework of cities and regions under the OECD programme. City of Kitakyushu, Japan. OECD: Joint WPURB-WPTI workshop - May 14, 2019

1. May 14th, 2019
Kitakyushu City’s SDGs Indicators
and Ideas towards the Common Indicator
Framework of Cities and Regions
under the OECD Programme
City of Kitakyushu, Japan

2. Kitakyushu City’s Basic Views on Indicator Development
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① Indicators that can indicate our contributions to the national and
international indicators (Shared responsibilities)
② Indicators that can confirm the contributions to city development even if
we cannot compare with other cities
③ Indicators that can show the expansions and results of the activities
derived from partnership (strength of citizens’ initiatives)
④ Indicators that takes into account the special circumstances of the city
Kitakyushu City aims to develop the indicators such as in the below in which
the citizen can visualize the impact of citizen’s activities on their own while
grasping how their activities are contributing to the goals of the city.
(Example: Indicators such as ratio of introduction of renewable energy, and CO2 emissions
may not be fairly comparable among different types of cities such as industrial city,
agricultural city because the energy demand varies widely.)

3. Other Comments for Common Indicators
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 Target Areas of Data
Kitakyushu City requests to use the conventional administrative unit
of a city instead of Functional Urban Areas (FUA) for the following
reasons: 1) we can only provide the data of our city, 2) combining the
two different units may produce confusion and inexactness, and 3) we
can only reflect the policy recommendation to our city therefore the
supporting evidence also should based on the city.
 What to Measure
Kitakyushu City wishes to measure not only the final outcome-level
results but also output- and input-level efforts.
 What constitutes the overall evaluation
Kitakyushu City thinks the evaluation of each goals should be composed
of well balanced and multi-factor indicators. (Avoid just one indicator
tells a whole sector like the Well-being)

4. Examples of
① Indicators that can indicate
our contributions to the national
and international indicators
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(Sorting exercise at brainstorming level)

5.  Kitakyushu City issued the instruction to Education Council to mainstream the SDGs into education.
 Based on the above instruction, all public elementary and junior-high schools in Kitakyushu City are
incorporating the SDGs into teaching materials.
 High schools and universities in Kitakyushu City are also incorporating the SDGs as a theme of
education programs as problem identifying and solving tools. 4
Related UN Indicators
4.7.1
Extent to which global citizenship
education and education for
sustainable development …
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicator
Proportion of educational institutions
that incorporate the SDGs into
education curriculum
Incorporation of the SDGs
into Education Curriculum
Society

6. International Cooperation
in Environment Sector
Kitakyush
u
Prosperity
(Economy)
People
(Society)
Planet
(Environment)
-Prevent climate change
-Aim at Low carbon society
-Affordable energy
in partner cities
-Expand business field
to overseas
Cities in Asia
etc.
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Kitakyushu’s Local Indicators
① Number of international cooperation
projects implemented by Kitakyushu City
② Number of trainees from overseas who
received training in Kitakyushu City
Related UN Indicator
6.a.1
Amount of water-and sanitation related official
development assistancethat is part of a government
coordinated spending plan
13.b.1Ph
Number of least developed countries …that are
receiving specialized support … for climate change …
17.6.1
Number of science and/or technology cooperation
agreements and programmes between countries
-City-to-city collaboration
-Citizen enlightenment
Environment
 Kitakyushu City implements a great number of
international cooperation projects in environment
sector with the cities in developing countries.
 Kitakyushu City and Asian cities including Dalian
(China), Haiphong (Vietnam), Phenompen
(Cambodia), Davao (Philippines) concluded the
sister-city agreement in environmentcooperation.

7. Examples of
② Indicators that can confirm the
contributions to city development
even if we cannot compare with
other cities
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8. SDGs Shopping Street ”Uomachi”
 The most crowded shopping street, “Uomachi” in Kitakyushu City, launched the collective initiative to become the
“SDGs shopping street”, with aim to not only sell goods but achieve the SDGs through various activities such as below.
 Installation of solar-panel roof to reduce energy use.
 Conduct seminars for working women and citizens on various topic, experience of wheel chairs to know how disabled
person feel, examination of universal-manner and promotion on no left-over food declaration.
 Human resourcesdevelopment for store owners and worker to expand ideas for increasing customers.
 Renovation of empty assets into restaurants, hotels, offices, community spaces. etc.
Utilization of unused property
Solar panel roof
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Related UN Indicators
4.7.1
Extent to which global citizenship education and
education for sustainable development…
7.2.1
Renewable energy share in the total final energy
consumption
8.1.1
Annual growth rate of real SDG per capita
11.7.1
Average share of built-up area of cities that is
open space for public use for all
12.8.1
Extent to which global citizenship education and
education for sustainable development are
mainstreamed ..
Clean-up volunteer
Economy
Wide variety from infrastructure-related to human resource development of store owners

9.  Kitakyushu City established/supports the above three initiatives for/by the elderly with aim to provide
opportunities and networks for the elderly to live health and lively for their lifetime.
Creation of a Society in which Elderly Live Lively
through Initiatives of
①“Circle to Pursue Dream in Lifetime”,
②“Activity Station for Joy of Life”, &
③“Training University for Elderly”
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Kitakyushu’s Local Indicator
Extension of health life span
Related UN Indicators
3.4.1
Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular
disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic
respiratory diseases
3.4.2
Suicide mortality rate
Society

10.  Kitakyushu City established Opening of “Women Work Café Kitakyushu” in 2016 in collaboration with nation,
prefectureand city, as Japan’s first one-stop facility with aim to assist women for job hunting, career
enhancement, entrepreneurship, and life balance between work and child care.
 Visitors to the Women Work Café Kitakyushu exceeded over 16,000 people annually.
Creation of a Sound Society to Empower All Women
“Women Work Café Kitakyushu”
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Related UN Indicators
5.5.2
Proportion of women in
managerial positions
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to
track and make public allocations for
gender equality and women’s
empowerment
8.5.1
Average hourly earnings of female and
male employees, …
8.5.2
Unemployment rate, by sex …
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicators
Number of annual users of the Work Women
Café Kitakyushu
Society
Women Work Café Kitakyushu

11. Improvement of Production
by the Use of Robots
Kitakyushu City implements the following supports with aims to improve the productivity by
utilizing the robots and AI against the background of decline of working population. Support
center for industrial robot
Subsidy for industrial robot
Support for verification and commercialization for infrastructure inspection robot
Visualization of nursing work (Observation & analysis at nursing facilities)
Manufacturing robot
Robot for
Infrastructure inspection
Nursing care
Robot
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Related UN Indicators
8.2.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
9.5.2
Researchers per million inhabitants
9.b.1
Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value
added in total value added
Economy
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicators
Number of development and improvement
cases on verification results of nursing care
robots, etc.

12. Examples of
③ Indicators that can show the
expansions and results of the
activities derived from partnership
(strength of citizens’ initiatives)
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13.  Kitakyushu City established the “Community Restaurant for Children” (“Kodomo Shokudo” in Japanese) with aim
to provide free or low-cost home-made meals as well as comfortable and safe place after school hoursto
elementary and junior-high school students mainly whose parent(s) is/are working around dinner time.
 A total of 22 Community Restaurants for Children are now operated by the initiatives of private or NPO
organizations with the support of Kitakyushu City.
 It also created multi-benefits such as joyful multi-generation communication among volunteerswho are university
students and elderly, and reduction of food waste by utilizing free-given foods from local food industry, etc. 12
Community Restaurant for Children
“Kodomo Shokudo”
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicators
Proportion of households that feel they
receive support for child care by the
various stakeholders in the community
Related UN Indicators
(Impact at outcome level)
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
4.1.1
Proportion of children and young people: in grades
2/3; at the end of primary; and at the end lower
secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency
level in reading and mathematics
12.3.1
Food loss index and food waste index
Society

14.  “Citizen Center” is an public community house located in 130 small community districts in the Kitakyushu. It is an
open place for residents to gather, discuss, enjoy, carry out events, etc. Heads of the Citizen Center are recruited by
public annually, and currently female heads are in office for 94 centers among 130 centers.
 Based on the Citizen Center, the “Town Development Council” composed by various organizations such as residents
associations and social welfare council, works on community development by setting its own goals, activities,
budgets to respond to the specific issues in the area.
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Community Development by Residents
based on “Citizen Centers”
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicators
① Proportion of residents’ participation
in community activities
② Number of crime incidences
Related UN Indicators
11.3.2
Proportion of cities with a direct participation
structure of civil society in urban planning and
management that operate regularly and
democratically
16.1.1
Number of victims of international homicide
per 100,000 population
16.1.4
Proportion of population that feel safe walking
alone around the area they live
Society

15.  Kitakyushu City established the “Kitakyushu SDGs Club” to promote multi-stakeholder engagement including
organizations, companies, schools, individuals, etc. with aim to provide a place to exchange information among
members, disseminate the SDGs, and create good practices by organizing regular gathering, study group, business
seminar, the SDGs award, etc.
 Many schools are members of the SDGs Club since adoption of the SDGs at schools is increasing.
 Current members of the SDGs Club reached to 446（95 companies, 70 organizations, 183 schools, 98 individuals)
Kitakyushu SDGs Club
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Related UN Indicators
11.3.2
Proportion of cities with a direct participation
structure of civil society in urban planning and
management that operate regularly and
democratically
17.14.1
Number of countries with mechanism in place
to enhance policy coherence of sustainable
development
17.17.1
Amount of US dollars committed to public-
private partnership and civil society
partnership
Means of
Implementation
Exchange gathering
Kick-off event

16. Examples of
④ Indicators that takes into account
the special circumstances of the
city
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17. Offshore Wind Power Generation
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People
(Society)
Prosperity
(Economy)
Planet
(Environment)
-Activities of women, youth,
elderly, etc.
-Reliable and disaster-
resistant town planning
-Circulation of economy
-Revitalize environment-
related industry
-Expansion of Clean energy
-Energy circulation in the area
Kitakyushu’s Local Indicator
Amount of renewable energy
introduced into the city area
Related UN Indicators
7.2.1
Renewable energy share
in the total final energy consumption
Environment
 Special circumstancesof Kitakyushu with regard to energy
Despite the production amount of renewable energy is top level among the municipalities in Japan,
industrial city such as Kitakyushu City especially centered on heavy manufacturing has to consume large
amount of energy for the industry therefore indicators for energy should take such consideration.