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Cities Alliance Consultative Group

Cities Alliance Consultative Group. Slum Upgrading: William Cobbett CDS: Peter Palesch Urban Finance: Rajivan Krishnaswamy Urban Economy: Pascale Marie-Claude Chabrillat Communications: Chii Akporji Programme Analyst: Andrea L. Merrick Operations: Kevin Milroy. Secretariat Team.

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Cities Alliance Consultative Group

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  1. Cities AllianceConsultative Group eThekwini, South Africa November 4-5, 2004

  2. Slum Upgrading:William Cobbett CDS: Peter Palesch Urban Finance: Rajivan Krishnaswamy Urban Economy: Pascale Marie-Claude Chabrillat Communications: Chii Akporji Programme Analyst: Andrea L. Merrick Operations: Kevin Milroy Secretariat Team • Resource Management: Françoise Aubry-Kendall • Financial Management: V. Rama Krishnan • Programme Assistant: Patria Consuelo Morente • Programme Assistant: Susanna Henderson Regional Advisors • South Asia: Alison Barrett • West Africa:Jose Tonato • LAC: Ivo Imparato Manager: Mark Hildebrand

  3. Cities Alliance:The First Five Years • Established first global urban development goal • City Without Slums action plan • Millennium Declaration • MDG Target 11 • 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 • Linkage to investments for implementation • $40m grants linked to $4,7bn investments

  4. Cities Alliance:The First Five Years • Membership is broadening – • Brazil joined this year, and discussions underway with: • South Africa • Morocco • India • China • Engagement of members is deepening and strengthening coherence of effort • Creation of UCLG is historic opportunity to strengthen role of cities in the Alliance • Spain • European Commission

  5. Looking Forward – The Next Five Years • 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. • Achieving these goals requires engaging the vision, knowledge and political commitment of city leadership

  6. Looking Forward – The Next Five Years CCRA MDP ASPAC Citynet • Priorities • Strengthen working relationship with UCLG and its regional networks • Recognise a leadership role for cities and UCLG within the Cities Alliance ASIA AFRICA UCLG EMME AUDI LAC MENA FLACMA

  7. Looking Forward – The Next Five Years • Defining new relationships with local governments in Africa • Nationally • Improved links with national local government associations; • Burkina Faso, Niger, South Africa. • Regionally • Council of Cities and Regions of Africa (CCRA); • Nepad Cities Initiative. • Globally • Institutionalize working relationship with UCLG.

  8. Looking Forward – The Next Five Years • 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.

  9. Looking Forward – The Next Five Years • Improve Portfolio Quality • Respond to city and national government leadership; • Strengthen emphasis on financial sustainability, local resources; • Consolidate where cities have clear vision. • Promote Next Generation of Activities • Hyderabad • Morocco • MFTF • SACN • Brazil • Bombay

  10. 2 0 0 4 A N N U A L M E E T I N G Http://www.citiesalliance.org eThekwini, South Africa. November 4-5, 2004

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