The report summarises the results of Action 5 of the Urban Agenda Partnership Security in Public Spaces. The objective of Action 5 is to measure the impact of social cohesion on security in public spaces with the purpose of:  

• Creating a common method for local security managers to measure the impact of existing local social cohesion Actions on (the feelings of) insecurity in order to make visible to local decision makers (council members) what already is “good value for money”
• Providing a new method that local security managers can implement to find new solutions for complex social or insecurity issues on which existing projects don’t seem to have an impact.

The work on this Action is based on the idea that providing local policy makers and security managers with a hands-on method that enables them to measure the impact of local social cohesion actions on urban security and feelings of insecurity within the local community, will contribute to building a more secure, safe and resilient local community.

The full text of the report will be publishes on the Futurium website