Municipalities that meet 51% to 67% of the criteria are recognized as silver-tier cities, while cities that meet 68% to 84% of them achieve gold status.īoth Carlsbad and Charleston met the silver-tier requirements. In all, the groups use 43 criteria to determine which cities to certify. That’s why they added criteria surrounding equity and made it a core benchmark for certification. But it also highlighted the “systemic inequities that needed to be in order to make sure that there was an equitable approach to data collection and to data use for decision-making.” The events of 2020 “revealed to us what we already knew: Data is important,” Su said. The partners updated their criteria in 2022 after a planned review in 2020 - which turned out to be an “upheaval year for local government” due to the pandemic, said Lauren Su, director of certification for What Works Cities. The program aims to create a standard for local governments’ use of data to make policy decisions, allocate funding, improve public services and track outcomes. Bloomberg Philanthropies and Results for America have certified 62 cities across the Americas since they launched What Works Cities in 2017, including 16 certified in the United States this year.
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