Transcript Cities Alliance: The First Five Years

Cities Alliance
Consultative Group
2004 Annual Meeting
eThekwini, South Africa
November 4-5, 2004
Secretariat Team
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Slum Upgrading:William
Cobbett
CDS: Peter Palesch
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Resource Management:
Françoise Aubry-Kendall
Financial Management:
V. Rama Krishnan
Programme Assistant:
Patria Consuelo Morente
Programme Assistant:
Susanna Henderson
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Urban Finance: Rajivan
Krishnaswamy
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Urban Economy: Pascale
Marie-Claude Chabrillat
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Communications: Chii
Akporji
Regional Advisors
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Programme Analyst:
Andrea L. Merrick
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Operations: Kevin Milroy
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South Asia: Alison
Barrett
West Africa:Jose Tonato
LAC: Ivo Imparato
Manager: Mark Hildebrand
Cities Alliance:
The First Five Years
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Established first global urban development goal
 City Without Slums action plan
 Millennium Declaration
 MDG Target 11
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Focused global knowledge sharing on how to
scale-up impacts
 city development strategies
 citywide slum upgrading
 sub-sovereign financing
…new tools and practical approaches now being
mainstreamed by our members and partners
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Linkage to investments for implementation
 $40m grants linked to $4,7bn investments
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Cities Alliance:
The First Five Years
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Membership is broadening –
 Brazil joined this year, and discussions
underway with:
 Spain
 South Africa
 European Commission
 Morocco
 India
 China
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Engagement of members is deepening
and strengthening coherence of effort
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Creation of UCLG is historic opportunity
to strengthen role of cities in the Alliance
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Looking Forward – The Next Five Years
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Cities Alliance Charter aims to:
 improve the quality of urban development
cooperation and lending;
 strengthen the impact of urban
development cooperation;
 expand resources reaching the urban poor
by increasing coherence and focusing on
scaling-up;
 advance collective know-how.
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Achieving these goals requires engaging
the vision, knowledge and political
commitment of city leadership
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Looking Forward – The Next Five Years
ASPAC
Citynet
ASIA
AFRICA
CCRA
MDP
UCLG
FLACMA
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LAC
MENA
EMME
AUDI
Priorities
 Strengthen working relationship with
UCLG and its regional networks
 Recognise a leadership role for cities and
UCLG within the Cities Alliance
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Looking Forward – The Next Five Years
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Defining new relationships with local
governments in Africa
 Nationally
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Regionally
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Improved links with national local government
associations;
Burkina Faso, Niger, South Africa.
Council of Cities and Regions of Africa (CCRA);
Nepad Cities Initiative.
Globally
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Institutionalize working relationship with UCLG.
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Looking Forward – The Next Five Years
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Unleashing the potential of cities
 Key lessons from our 2004 Annual Report:
 Realize the positive impacts of urbanisation by
addressing cities’ performance constraints;
 Encourage cities to be proactive developers of
urban infrastructure by mobilising domestic
capital;
 Recognize that migration is one of the most
effective coping strategies for the rural poor;
 Predicate policies on the growth of cities and
peri-urban areas to avoid the next generation of
slums.
MAIN MESSAGE: Instead of debating the
contribution of cities to development, more energy
needs to be spent on unblocking it.
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Looking Forward – The Next Five Years
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Improve Portfolio Quality
 Respond to city and national government
leadership;
 Strengthen emphasis on financial
sustainability, local resources;
 Consolidate where cities have clear vision.
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Promote Next Generation of Activities
 Hyderabad
 SACN
 Morocco
 Brazil
 MFTF
 Bombay
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eThekwini, South Africa. November 4-5, 2004