The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy offers the best experience of local urban observatories in Arab cities to those who wish to develop their skills and gain sufficient experience in the management of local urban observatories in all the Arab cities that have witnessed the most urbanization.

Increasing urbanization trends and growing growth in large cities have generated many problems, such as lack of employment opportunities, poverty, a dense prevalence of sluggishness, there is therefore an urgent need to establish urban observatories within the Geographic information Center for cities, with the aim of achieving the best benefits from the collection, analysis and operation of private data and information in the areas of urban development, operating within the global observatory system and in light of global urban indicators.

The process of controlling urban development economically and environmentally is one of the most difficult local administrative practices and this obvious difficulty both in the policyـmaking and decisionـmaking stage or at the level of executive matters.

Arab British Fellowship Training Academy offers this course to the following categories:

• Managers and heads of Arab municipalities Alragain in the introduction of a system of urban observatories.
• All employees of the development departments in the municipality.
• The heads of the urban development departments in the Arab municipalities.

After completing the program, participants will be able to master the following topics:

• Experience in the management of problems related to urbanization.
• The great ability to manage the problems left by the problem of urbanization.
• Learn about the best experiments related to urban observatories.
• Management of municipalities according to scientific basis.

• Definition of urban observatories and their experiences.
• Mechanisms of Urban Observatories in Cities.
• Importance of the urban observatories’ experience in the management of municipalities in the cities.