The Smart Sustainable City Profile of Almaty was developed based on the results of the evaluation of the performance of the city against the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities. This City Profile includes an analysis of the outcomes of the evaluation, information on the city's policies, programmes, projects and partnerships that aim to accelerate the city's progress towards achieving the SDGs, as well as policy recommendations for consideration of the city government.

The Smart Sustainability Profile of Tbilisi presents the outcome of the evaluation of the city against the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities. It proposes actions for the city to make progress toward achieving the SDGs. The City Profile will guide Grodno in developing, reviewing and implementing urban policies, programmes, and projects, and in building partnerships with other stakeholders with a view to reinforcing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and SDG11 at the city level.

The Smart Sustainable Cities Profile for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, presents the outcomes of the city evaluation against the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) and proposes actions for the city to make progress towards achieving the SDGs. It provides guidance for Bishkek city government for the development, review and implementation of urban policies, programmes, and projects, and for building partnerships with a view to reinforcing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and SDG11 at city level.

This Smart Sustainable City Profile presents the outcomes of the city evaluation against the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSCs) and proposes actions to improve progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on the KPI evaluation, this profile makes a series of recommendations to further accelerate the progress of Nur-Sultan towards achieving the SDGs. They suggest improvements in areas such as solid waste management, public building sustainability, urban and spatial planning, decent-quality affordable housing, and the availability of urban data.

Cities are engines of economic growth; hence, the development of countries depends on how their cities will develop in the future. At the same time, the expanding cities are vulnerable to economic, social and environmental risks and the high level of urbanization presents serious challenges for sustainable development and climate change adaptation. This situation has the potential to become critical and irreversible if not acted upon soon. To address the major urban challenges, UNECE and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) developed, jointly with 15 other UN bodies and other partners, the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities. This is a set of 91 indicators, which are an important tool to assess the performance of cities in the areas of environment, economy, social and cultural development, and support the achievement of the SDGs at the local level. By using these indicators, UNECE develops Smart Sustainable City Profiles with concrete recommendations for actions, including priorities for investments into city development. The city profiles when prepared will support local authorities in establishing priority actions for their cities’ development. These initiatives are included in the programme “United Smart Cities” (USC). Goris was selected as the first pilot city for this project upon request from the government of Armenia. The Smart Sustainable City Profile for Goris provides the first case study for this work and could be used as an example that not only other cities in Armenia, but cities with similar economic, environmental and socio-cultural development, can use as a model.