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The
"Cities Without Slums"
action plan was developed by the Cities Alliance in
July 1999 and launched by Nelson Mandela at the
inaugural meeting of the Cities Alliance in Berlin
in December 1999.
The
"Cities
Without Slums" initiative has been endorsed
at the highest political level internationally as a
challenging vision with specific actions and
concrete targets to improve the living conditions of
the world's most vulnerable and marginalised urban
residents. In his vision for the world organisation
in the 21st century -
"We the Peoples: The Role
of the United Nations
in the Twenty-first Century" (A/54/2000) - which
set the agenda for the
UN Millennium Summit, the
Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,
strongly supported the "Cities Without Slums"
action plan and asked all UN member states to
endorse and act on it.
The "Cities Without
Slums" action plan was subsequently endorsed by
the 150 heads of state and government attending the
UN
Millennium Summit in September 2000, and is
reflected in the
United Nations Millennium
Declaration (A/RES/55/2), along with the other
targets set under "Development and poverty
eradication". The goal is:
"By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement
in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
as proposed in the "Cities Without Slums"
initiative."
The "Cities Without
Slums" goal is now reflected as
Target 11 of the
Millennium Development Goals. Progress in achieving
this goal will be monitored through two indicators:
(i) the proportion of people with access to improved
sanitation; and (ii) the proportion of people with
access to secure tenure.
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