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City Development Strategies (CDS)Activities

Slum Upgrading Activities

List of Cities Alliance Financed Activities


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List of Cities Alliance New and Ongoing Activities

(As of 31 December 2006)

Grant Amount (US$) Start Date Country Activity

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REGION

380,640

Mar-03

Burkina Faso

CDSs and local Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers for the local governments of Bobo-Dioulasso, Banfora and Ouahigouya

330,000

Apr-06

Burkina Faso

Strategy for Developing Greater Ouagadougou and Improving Basic Infrastructure and City Services in Underprivileged Areas

330,000

Apr-06

Benin

Development Strategy for Greater Cotonou

500,000

(Approved FY06)

Cameroon

Urban Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy: City of Douala and its Greater Urban Area

249,000

Completed

Sept-04

Ethiopia

Addis Ababa CDS

75,000

Completed

Jun-05

Ethiopia

Ethiopia Housing Sector Study

41,870

Completed
Mar-04

Ethiopia,
South Africa

Preparation of the Johannesburg– Addis Ababa Partnership Programme (JAAPP)

580,000

Jul-04

Ethiopia,
South Africa

Participation of Johannesburg and Addis Ababa in the Johannesburg – Addis Ababa Partnership Programme

75,000

Jul-03

Ghana

Preparing for a CDS in the Kumasi Region

75,000

Oct-05

Ghana

Preparatory Assistance for Ghana Municipal Finance and Management Initiative

0

Cancelled

Kenya

Nairobi CDS and Upgrading of
informal settlements

240,000

Completed
Jun-04

Kenya

Collaborative Nairobi Initiative on Slum Upgrading Policy Frameworks

152,000

Completed
Sept-03

Madagascar

Slum Upgrading and Community
Development in four major cities: Antsirabe, Antsiranana, Mahajanga, and Toamasina

286,000

Completed
Dec-04

Madagascar

CDS for Antananarivo- Infrastructure development, urban services improvement, and city poverty strategy

75,000

Completed
Jun-01

Mauritania

Slum Upgrading and Urban Poverty Alleviation

495,000

Completed
Sept-04

Mozambique

Slum Upgrading and Vulnerability Reduction in Flood-prone Cities and Towns

75,000

Oct-05

Mozambique

Slum Improvement Demonstration Project for Maputo City

500,000 May-06 Mozambique Improving Water and Sanitation in Quelimane City

245,000

Mar-04

Niger

CDSs for poverty reduction for Dosso and Maradi

254,000

Completed
Jun-03

Nigeria

Scaling up Upgrading through a CDS approach in Karu

74,750

Completed

Jun-05

Nigeria

Preparatory Assistance for Lagos Strategy Development

100,000

Completed
Oct-01

Regional

Regional Roundtable on Upgrading Low-Income Settlements in Africa

50,000

Completed
Mar-04

Regional

Africities 2003 Summit

100,000

(Approved FY07)Aug-06

Regional

Optimising Cities Alliance participation in Africities Summit 2006

215,000

Jul-03

Regional

Building Partnerships for Cities Without Slums in Eastern and Southern Africa

364,450

(Approved FY07)Jul-06

Regional

Building Partnerships for Cities Without Slums in Eastern and Southern Africa

215,000

May-04

Regional

Cities Without Slums: toward implementing a support program for countries and cities of Western and Central French-speaking Africa

246,600

Dec-04

Regional

Housing Upgrading Finance Initiative

165,000

Completed
May-02

Rwanda

Kigali Economic Development Strategy

240,000 May-06 Rwanda Financial Management Modernization and Development Strategy for Kigali

380,000

Apr-06

Senegal

Greater Dakar Urban Development Strategy

430,000

(Approved FY06)

Senegal

National Programme for Slum Improvement and Slum Upgrading in Senegal’s Cities: “Senegalese Cities without Slums”

350,000

Completed
Mar-02

South Africa

Johannesburg City Level Comprehesive Development Framework

40,000

Completed
Mar-02

South Africa

Preparation of Southern Africa Cities Alliance

750,000

Completed

Jun-06

South Africa

South Africa Cities Support and Learning Network

500,000

Mar-04

South Africa

South African Municipal Water and Sanitation Partnership Initiative

75,000

May-05

South Africa

Preparation of the South African National Upgrading Support Programme

500,000

Sep-05

South Africa

Support for the Preparation of 2006 State of South African Cities Report

500,000

Jun-06

South Africa

Upgrading for Growth: Implementing the Breaking New Ground Policy within Ekurhuleni's City Development Strategy

535,000

Jun-06

South Africa

The Tshwane Sustainable Human Settlement Strategy and Financing Plan

36,000

Completed
Mar-04

Swaziland

Preparation of the Mbabane Comprehensive Slum Upgrading and Finance Programme

500,000

Jul-04

Swaziland

Development of a Comprehensive Urban Upgrading Program for Mbabane

360,000

Sep-04

Tanzania

Action Plan to Upgrade All Informal Settlements in Dar Es Salaam by 2015

75,000

Jun-06

Zambia

Linking CDSs to Zambia's Emerging Intergovernmental Fiscal System

ASIA REGION

0

Cancelled
Jan-02

Bangladesh

Khulna: Options for Sustainable Upgrading

215,000

Nov-05

Bhutan

Bhutan National Urban Development Strategy and Thimphu City Development Strategy

185,000

Completed
Sept-03

Cambodia

Scaling up Community-Driven Development Processes in Phnom Penh

54,640

Completed
Dec-04

Cambodia

Improving Tenure Security and New Housing Options for the Urban Poor in Phnom Penh

500,000

Completed
Dec-02

China

Metropolitan Level CDS in One Major City-Region and One Provincial Capital

250,000

Completed
Dec-02

China

Changsha City-Region, Guiyang and Shengyan City Development Strategies: Urban Indicators Project

900,000

Completed March 2005

China

City-Region Development Strategies

298,450

Dec-05

China

Urban Upgrading Strategy, Yangzhou

500,000

Oct-05

China

Economic Revitalization by Cities in Heilongjiang Province

250,000

Sept-06

China

Shanghai Development Strategy in Regional Context

226,000

Completed
Sept-03

India

Local Partnership for Poverty-Focused CDS in Hyderabad

67,000

Completed
Dec-03

India

Preparation of Gujarat State Urban Slum Policy

150,000

Completed
Feb-03

India

City-Wide Scaling Up of Slum Upgrading (Ahmedabad)

387,000

Cancelled

India

Creating Community Federations for Urban Partnerships (Orissa)

98,065

Terminated Aug 2005

India

Improving Access of the Poor to Basic Urban Services in the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation

70,000

Oct-03

India

Tamil Nadu Urban Land Market Assessment for Chennai, Coimbatore, and Tiruppur

450,000

Feb-03

India

Scaling-up the Provision of Universal Minimum Sanitation to slums in cities

182,600

Jul-04

India

Community-Led Sangli Toilet Construction Activity

495,000

Jul-05

India

Transformation of Mumbai into a World Class City

180,700

Feb-05

India

Hyderabad City-Wide Slum Upgrading Action Plan

154,700

Mar-05

India

Visakhapatnam City Development Strategy and Slum Upgrading Action Plan

184,268

Dec-05

India

City Development Strategy for Hubli-Dharwad

478,300

(Approved FY06)

India

Cauvery Agamana – Extension of Water Supply and Sanitation Services to the Urban Poor in Bangalore City

237,933

(Approved FY06)

India

City Development Strategy for Pro poor Economic Growth for the Heritage City of Agra

75,000

(Approved FY07)Jan-07

India

Urban Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Enhancement Project

30,000

Completed
Mar-01

Indonesia

Proposal preparation: Poverty-focused CDS

600,000

Completed
Dec-03

Indonesia

Institutionalising poverty-focused CDSs

250,000

Completed June 2005

Indonesia

Yogyakarta (DIY): Regional Development and Poverty Reduction Plan through Strategic Urban–Rural Linkages and Regional Integration

250,000

Completed Dec 2005

Mongolia

Development Strategy for Secondary Cities

500,000

Nov-05

Mongolia

Citywide Pro-poor “Ger Upgrading Strategy and Investment Plan” (GUSIP)

160,000

Completed
Aug-01

Nepal

Kathmandu CDS and Informal Settlement study

30,000

Completed
Apr-01

Pakistan

Proposal Preparation: Peshawar CDS and City Assistance Programme

150,000

Completed
Jun-03

Pakistan

CDS and Cities Without Slums initiative for Peshawar

75,000

Feb-05

Pakistan

Towards a CDS System in Punjab

30,000

Completed
May-01

Philippines

Proposal preparation: Expansion of the CDS Program

600,000

Completed
Jul-04

Philippines

Scaling-Up Poverty-Focused CDSs

31,000

Completed
Sept-04

Philippines

Preparation of a Proposal on Strengthening Urban Shelter Programmes in the Philippines

500,000

Mar-05

Philippines

Integrated Approaches to Poverty Reduction at the Neighborhood Level - a Cities Without Slums Initiative

541,100

Oct-05

Philippines

City Development Strategies in the Philippines: An Enabling Platform for Good Governance and Improving Service Delivery

500,000

Jul-06

Philippines

A Metro Manila ‘Cities Without Slums’ Strategy

500,000

Sep-01

Regional

City Networking and Investment Marketplace Development initiative in Asia

150,000

Completed
Dec-00

Regional

Asian CDS Workshop 2000

600,000

Completed Aug 2005

Regional

South Asia Regional Adviser

248,320

Jul-04

Democractic Republic of Timore Leste

City Upgrading Strategy for Urban Dili

300,000

Completed
Dec-03

Vietnam

Enhancing Access of the Urban Poor and Vulnerable Groups to Basic Infrastructure and Housing

250,000

Jul-04

Vietnam

CDSs in Medium Cities

357,225

(Approved FY07)

Vietnam

City Development Strategy focusing on Urban Environment Management in Haiphong City

EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

500,000

Jul-05

Azerbaijan

City and Regional Development Strategies in Azerbaijan

75,000

Completed
Jun-04

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Preparation of Mostar's Local Economic Development-Capacity Building, and Business Improvement Program

75,000

Completed
Jun-01

Bulgaria

Sofia CDS, - Phase I

249,800

Completed
Jun-03

Bulgaria

Sofia CDS, - Phase II

458,427

Mar-03

Latvia

Cities Programme - CDS for Economic Development

71,000

Mar-06

Moldova

Moldova Development Strategy

230,000

Jul-05

Russian Federation

Vologda Development Strategy Alliance

250,000

Sep-05

Russian Federation

Stavropol Regional Development Strategy – Financial Assessment and Investment Review

250,000

Sep-05

Russian Federation

Chuvash Republic Regional Development Strategy – Financial Assessment and Investment Review

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN REGION

195,000

Cancelled

Bolivia

Slum Improvement and Disaster Management Mitigation in La Paz

180,000

Completed
Jan-04

Brazil

Recife Metropolitan Region
Development Strategy

560,000

Completed
Jun-05

Brazil

Building an Enabling Strategy for Moving to
Scale

5,565,000

Completed
Mar-06

Brazil

Salvador, Bahia, Technical and Social Assistance Project

300,000

Completed
Jun-04

Brazil

Bairro Legal programme (Sao Paulo)

165,700

Feb-02

Brazil

Antipoverty and Anti-Exclusion Socio-economic Action Plan: City Networks for Development and Social Inclusion (Rio Grande do Sul)

75,000

Completed
Mar-04

Brazil

Housing and Urban Development:--Support to a Pro-Poor National Policy

500,000

Dec-04

Brazil

National Urban Development Policy: Support to the National Program for Land Tenure Regularisation and Socio-Environmental Risk Prevention in Precarious Settlements

450,000

Oct-05

Brazil

Strategies for the Sustainable Planning, Financing and Implementation of Low-Income Housing and Urban Development Policy (Municipality of São Paulo)

7,208,280

Dec-05

Brazil

Bahia Integrated Urban Development Program – Viver Melhor/BIRD: Technical and Methodological Assistance Project

232,000

Apr-06

Brazil

Enhancing Territorial Equity and Social Inclusion in Brasilia’s Land Markets

75,000

(Approved FY06)
Oct-06

Brazil

Preparation of materials for dissemination and capacity-building in sustainable land regularization actions - Regularization Toolkit

96,000

Completed
Jul-01

Central America

Urban Review

84,000

Completed
Sept-02

Central America

Regional Coordination towards a Sustained Programme for Upgrading

498,400

Completed
Jun-06

Chile

Local Development Strategies for Housing Solutions to Overcome Poverty

324,120

Mar-04

Colombia

Slum Upgrading and Land Tenure Regularization

298,000

Apr-05

Colombia

Housing and Land for the Urban Poor

216,500

(Approved FY07)Oct-06

Equador

Urban Expansion Strategy for Intermediate Cities in Ecuador

320,000

Completed
Sept-03

El Salvador

Improving Execution capacity for urban upgrading programme in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador

500,000

Jul-06

El Salvador

Preparation of an Urban Development Strategy for the Region La Paz in the Department of La Paz and San Vicente

75,000

Sep-05

Guatemala

Guatemala Program for Slum Upgrading Through Financing from the Private Banking Sector - Phase 1 - Project Preparation

256,445

Nov-02

Jamaica

Kingston and St. Andrew Sustainable Development Plan

55,000

(Approved FY07)
Sept-06

Jamaica

Preparation Grant for Squatter Management and Low-Income Housing Policy Development and Program Implementation

245,000

Completed
Jul-04

Mexico

Scaling up Upgrading and Managing Informal Urban Growth in the Metropolitan Mexico City Area

500,000

Cancelled

Panama

Public-Private Partnership for the Provision of Sanitation Services in La Cabima, Panama City

250,000

Completed

Dec-04

Peru

Metropolitan Lima City Poverty Strategy

475,000

Completed
Jun-04

Regional

Moving to Scale in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Italy)

879,195

Jul-04

Regional

Scaling Up Successful Methodologies in the Latin America and Caribbean Region (Italy)

213,500

Completed

Mar 2005

Regional

Build capacities in Urban Knowledge Management

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION

130,000

Completed
Mar-02

Egypt

Upgrading informal areas in the Ismailia
Governorate

200,000

Completed
Feb-06

Egypt

Alexandria CDS for Sustainable Development

74,000

Jul-05

Egypt

Preparatory Assistance Proposal for Egypt Urban Sector, Slum Upgrading and City Development Strategies

350,000

Dec-05

Egypt

Alexandria City Development Strategy for Sustainable Development: Phase II

75,000

Completed
Dec-03

Iran

National Dialogue on Citywide Slum Upgrading

75,000

Mar-05

Iran

Preparatory assistance to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development for the institutionalization of the CDS into the urban planning process in Iran

200,000

Mar-04

Jordan

Greater Amman Development Strategy

379,231

(Approved FY06)

Lebanon

Al Fayhaa Sustainable Development Strategy

295,000

Aug-01

Morocco

Upgrading project for the Koraat Sbaa neighborhood in Tetouan

245,000

Apr-03

Morocco

Metropolitan Cooperation in the Tetouan Region: the Role of the CDS

490,000

Sep-05

Morocco

Partnership Framework Agreement for Ministry of Housing and Supporting and Monitoring of the Program Urban Development "Cities Without Slums"

250,000

Feb-05

Regional

Establishing a Regional City Development Strategy Facility at the Arab Urban Development Insitute (AUDI), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

250,000

Completed

Jun-04

West Bank and Gaza

Establishment of an Integrated Strategic Planning Process for the Neighboring Towns of Ramallah, Al-Bireh and Beitunia

150,000

Completed

June 2004

Yemen

Aden Medium- to Long-Term CDS for Local Economic Development

200,000

Jan-05

Yemen

Medium to Long Term City Development Strategy for Local Economic Development for Hodeidah and Mukalla Cities

250,000

(Approved FY06)

Yemen

Sana’a City: Medium to Long-Term City Development Strategy for Sustainable Development

GLOBAL AND MULTIREGIONAL ACTIVITIES

50,000

Completed
Jul-02

Global

Urban Indicators Linkages

150,000

Completed
Sept-02

Global

Preparatory Assistance Fund

49,000

Mar-00

Global

Cities Alliance website

50,000

Nov-01

Global

Knowledge Dissemination - increase (website, publications)

100,000

Oct-03

Global

Knowledge Dissemination - increase (website, publications)

100,000

Nov-04

Global

Knowledge Dissemination - increase (website, publications)

150,000

(Approved FY07)Dec-06

Global

Knowledge Dissemination - increase (website, publications,etc)

100,000

Jul-02

Global

Knowledge Generation and Learning

75,000

Oct-03

Global

Knowledge Generation and Learning - increase

100,000

Nov-04

Global

Knowledge Generation and Learning - increase

150,000

Nov-05

Global

Knowledge Generation and Learning - increase

150,000

(Approved FY07)Dec-06

Global

Knowledge Generation and Learning - increase

50,000

Completed
Jul-00

Global

Public Policy Forum, - June 2000

60,000

Completed
Jun-01

Global

Urban Upgrading: A Resource Framework

75,000

Cancelled

Global

CDS Action Plan

300,000

Cancelled

Multiregional