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As the Sri Lanka moves ahead with its Strategic Cities Program to catalyze growth and reduce poverty, KGGTF’s two-year USD $500,000 program is working with the Government to create a spatially differentiated development strategy that encompasses green growth principles. The strategy will include policy recommendations and targeted investments to develop a system of well-planned and sustainable cities by 2020. The program complements World Bank efforts in support of the Sri Lankan Government’s urban vision.   

List of Activities

1. Greater Kandy Interventions: To relieve traffic congestion and upgrade downtown services and livability to improve and sustain the world heritage city
2. Greater Galle Interventions: To comprise investments in infrastructure/services at the Greater Galle coastal belt area to support the implementation of an integrated coastal management plan, especially key elements to manage the tourism development and balance with environment protection
3. Implementation Support and Capacity Building: To strengthen institutional capacity at metropolitan and local level, and support project implementation
4. Emergency Response Provision: To provide for any potential response necessary for a natural disaster event

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Improvement in urban services - People in urban areas provided with improved urban services (number). (Urban services here will be further defined during project preparation based on the investment items to be carried out in Kandy and Galle. It could potentially include: all season roads and drains, improved water supply, reduced flooding, and regular solid waste collection etc.)

Output 2:

• Improvement in livability - Accessible and usable urban public spaces and walkways created under the project area

Outcomes:

As an expected outcome, this project aims to support the Government of Sri Lanka in its continued effort to foster sustainable development in cities to create a network of well-linked sustainable cities. It is also envisaged that the proposed project will support the government’s capacity to design, plan and implement green growth initiatives, strategies and investments.

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Korea  has successful experiences in the past decades, especially in areas such as: (1) national territory planning, (2) metropolitan governance for Capital Region, (3) transport and infrastructure investment at national level and linkage of city centers, and (4) city management and local level governance. These areas are of priority to the proposed work in Sri Lanka and there will be opportunities of knowledge sharing.  

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The KGGTF’s USD $400,000 technical assistance program supports the Indian State Government of Tamil Nadu to design and prepare the Tamil Nadu Sustainable Urban Development Project (TNSUDP) to increase competitiveness of the state’s cities. Linked to a World Bank USD $400 million loan to co-finance the USD $600 million TNSUDP, KGGTF technical assistance will cover a number of green urban interventions to improve urban management and infrastructure, and promote municipal financial sustainability for Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) participating in the TNSUDP. Along with improvements to sewerage and solid waste management, the program will foster greater autonomy and accountability in city management, while integrating urban planning and improving financing instruments. These improvements will in turn help cities deliver better urban services to citizens and businesses.  

List of Activities

• Designing and preparing Green Interventions for cities under TNSUDP
• Designing and preparing holistic city development strategies, plans, and interventions for improved city governance and growth
• Designing and preparing Institutional and Financial Aspects

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Assessments for design and preparation of Green Interventions for cities under TNSUDP

Output 2:

• Assessments for design and preparation of holistic city development strategies, plans, interventions for improved city governance and growth

Output 3:

• Assessments for design and preparation of Institutional and Financial aspects

Outcomes:

This project will have outcomes on three components: (i) Results Based Grants for Urban Governance; (ii) Investments in Urban Services (comprising three sub-components); and (ii) Urban Sector Technical Assistance. Overall, it will enable the improvement of urban services in participating Urban Local Bodies in a financially sustainable manner and of urban management practices in the selected cities.

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As its economy grows, India faces burgeoning volumes of waste from electronics (e-waste). When harnessed, “e-waste” can be a resource, creating jobs and raising incomes for informal and formal sector workers, while preventing
toxic materials from harming citizens and the environment. Operationalizing the concept of green growth, KGGTF’s three-year USD $840,000 E-waste advisory program is creating the first-of-its kind E-waste take-back program in India.  Through successful pilot operations in three cities, the program team has established a sustainable business model that India and other countries can replicate in cities facing similar challenges. To scale up this successful model by collaborating with leading producers of electronic items and recyclers of e-waste, the team is developing a sustainable Industry-led solution to the e-waste challenges in India by establishing a Producer Responsibility Organization which will serve as a cost-effective, long term and countrywide solution to the e-waste challenges in India. 

List of Activities

• Capacity Building: Development of the e-waste collection capacity in cities through training and formalization of Last Mile Collectors to integrate them into the formal supply chain. This would support sustainable livelihoods for the collectors and curb the flow of e-waste to the informal sector thus working to address the immediate challenge of the dominant informal sector.
• Awareness Generation: Strategic and targeted awareness to (a) increase household sensitization to e-waste and, thereby, increase collection from households (b) increase e-waste channelization from bulk consumers, refurbishers and retailers; and (c) attract e-waste collectors to integrate into the formal supply chain.
• E-Waste Tracking: Support to develop waste tracking technology that ensures transparency and curtails leakage to the informal sector. The technology, in the form of a phone app will record all transactions and collection details from the point at which the e-waste is collected (e.g.: a household or retailer) till the final delivery to the recycler. This will mitigate the risk of leakage and provide transparent reporting to producers and government.

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1: Awareness and Outreach

• Cities of Ahmedabad and Hyderabad divided into various zones (18 for Hyderabad and 11 for Ahmedabad)
• Developed list of schools, colleges and residential colonies that would be targeted by each zone
• First set of creative materials produced and deployed
• Over 220,000 people reached through various awareness campaigns

Output 2: Setting up E-Waste Takeback System and Formalisation of informal sector

• Completed selection process for Franchisees and Last Mile Collectors
• Signed 12 Franchisee Agreements (7 in Hyderabad and 5 in Ahmedabad)
• Developed a network of 300 Last Mile Collectors (LMCs)
• Developed first set of Training materials for LMCs and tested it with 50 LMCs
• Developed protocols for E-Waste Takeback system including traceability for E-Waste up to franchisee level

Output 3: Toolkit Development

• Baseline study initiated with a sample size of 1200 (Pre/Post for awareness and Quasi-experimental for E-Waste Takeback System / Formalisation of informal players)
• Baseline findings completed for Hyderabad and expected to complete by March 2014 for Ahmedabad
• Lessons captured for all previous projects undertaken by IFC in waste sector (Vietnam, Pakistan, Mexico, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Albania)

Outcomes:

The outcomes of this project intend to achieve five main contributions: (i) enabling sustainable households, (ii) awareness and engagement, (iii) environmental preservation, (iv) sector growth, and (v) urban waste management infrastructure. Overall, it intends to facilitate the formation and establishment of a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) in India, which will serve as a long-term and cost-effective solution to the industry’s challenge of collecting e-waste in an economical and responsible manner.

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• GIZ (German Development Agency)

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To support LAC regional initiatives that have already reduced open dumps by an estimated 20% in the last decade, KGGTF’s two-year USD $400,000 program is providing technical assistance to review global case studies and select best practices in greening solid waste management. Working with Colombia and Argentina, the program team will produce options to help authorities make strategic decisions, policies, and investments. The program will also help countries put lessons learned into practice. This includes improving data resources for solid waste management, creating national green solid waste management investment programs, modeling management packages, creating source segregation and collection systems and providing training for food waste management.  

List of Activities

• Creating an enabling environment for financing of green solutions in solid waste
• Adapting and Implementing Green Solid Waste Management Technical Solutions with a focus on providing technical assistance to municipalities in the exploration and implementation of pilot solutions on the ground
• Improving Data Resources on solid waste management systems to support better and more sophisticated decision-making on technology choice

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Final portfolio with step by step documents that can be replicated for other SWM projects

Output 2:

• National governments informed on opportunities for future investments in green solid waste solutions

Output 3:

• Final portfolio with adapted programs that apply to the local situations

Output 4:

• Implementation of 1 source segregation and collection program in Argentina

Output 5:

• Informed sectorial country profile with recent data collection

Outcomes:

This project, based on knowledge-building activities to implement policies, programs and technologies, will contribute to resource recovery, efficiency and waste minimization. Particularly, optimization of waste collection routes with GPS technology will benefit from input by the ICT sector in designing computer programs that can be included in the tool-kit for collection optimization, as well as any other innovative applications that could be developed to improve collection efficiency throughout the waste collection process.

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• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• JICA

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Dealing with solid waste is an enormous challenge for many countries facing rapid urbanization and economic growth.
 In many countries, solid waste management contributes significantly to social stratification: “waste pickers” descend on waste sites in poor urban areas with especially poor solid waste management services. Governments can harness “waste” to generate profits, lower GHG emissions, and contribute to shared prosperity, while reducing poverty and improving quality of life. Green waste management can also save billions of dollars for citizens, cities, and nations. Countries such as Korea have used technology to harness solid waste management to tackle similar challenges since the 1960s. Peer-to-peer learning is one way the KGGTF’s USD $225,000 program is sharing knowledge about how governments can manage waste and promote economic growth and prosperity. Korea will “pay forward” lessons from its experience for the benefit of the countries of China, Benin, and the Central African Republic. As the cross-sector collaboration strengthens knowledge related to common challenges, the program will sup- port on-going World Bank initiatives, including municipal and global solid waste management programs, a regional and city improvement program, the Benin emergency urban environment program, and the Benin cities support program.  

List of Activities

• Assessing the needs of participating cities before producing case studies (e.g. solid waste value chain, from collection and transport, through to disposal, diversion and energy recovery) outlining lessons learned and best practices, translated into multiple languages and delivered over an online platform
• Assisting city authorities to put plans into action by combining the case studies with technical knowledge
• Organizing knowledge events, webinars, workshops, and learning visits for authorities facing acute solid waste management challenges

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Identify topics, ensuring relevance to Bank clients

Output 2:

• Develop case studies on each topic, telling the story of both successful and unsuccessful change

Output 3:

• Organize learning and knowledge exchange events, such as VCs, webinars, in-person workshops, learning visits, using the case study material that has been developed

Outcomes:

• Inclusiveness: This work will have a positive impact on inclusiveness in cities. In many World Bank client countries, solid waste management has a high social dimension due to the presence of waste pickers and the fact that poor areas of the cities are generally excluded from solid waste services.
• Green: Ecofriendly management of solid waste through reuse and recycling of waste contributes to sustainable green growth as it transform waste which otherwise would become nuisance to the environment into valuable commodities.
• Resilient: Implementing adequate solid waste management policies and technologies in developing countries to contribute to make cities more resilient to the effect of climate change.
• Growth: Improved waste management attracts investors and sustains economic growth. It also improves public health which has a direct correlation with productivity which leads to economic growth.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

This project was jointly implemented by EASIN, AFTU2, UDRUR, GPOBA and TWI with the objective to draw on the wealth of Korean knowledge and experience on best practices in solid waste management in the face of rapid urbanization and economic growth.

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Cities face a number of challenges to green urban development, including poor land cadaster systems (a comprehensive land ownership register), poor public services and living environments, and high unemployment and poverty-related violence. These challenges call for innovative, tested urban management solutions that promote shared prosperity and reach the poorest 40% of citizens. Following on the heels of the World Bank’s e-Government program on ICT for urban management, the KGGTF program tackles city challenges. Among its goals, the two-year USD $800,000 program will develop a national master plan to enable Tunisian authorities to access digital land information. It will also pilot ICT innovations to help authorities address urban challenges in Mumbai, India’s capital, and a city of 19 million people. The World Bank project provides examples for cities on how to overcome economic growth obstacles. Using Korean experiences from Seoul, a global leader in e-Government, the KGGTF will create a case study to help Tunisia acquire data for its cadastre system. The program will also share knowledge on Korean land management to Tunisia and other developing countries. For Mumbai, KGGTF program training workshops will demonstrate best practices to government officials. The program will also study establishment of a civil participation system (CPS) for Mumbai, including piloting CPS applications for the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, whereby Citizens will be able to submit information through mobile-phone-based surveys, hotlines, and user-generated maps. Applications will also include community mapping for urban disaster risk management.

List of Activities

• Developing ICT-based land information management system in order for a city to make the best use of land for inclusive green growth
• Promoting a mobile and big data based civic participation system in order to make urban management more participatory and inclusive
• Presenting practical examples and applications of specific how-to tools

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Development of the national DLMS master plan for Tunisia
• A case study for a pilot city to find the best suitable methodology and practical recommendations for data acquisition on establishing DLMS in Tunisia
• Capacity building and knowledge sharing activities

Output 2:

• A background study on the Korean experiences related to establishment of CPS and its best suitable methodology for Mumbai, India (the pilot city)
• Development and installation of pilot CPS applications for Mumbai Municipal Corporation
• Capacity building training

Outcomes:

As an expected outcome, this project intends to develop innovative best practices for sustainable urban development and smart cities that are tailed to developing countries. Specifically, under the ICT-based land information management system, the intended outcome will be a master plan including middle and long-term road maps on establishing a Digital Land Management System (DLMS) based on Korean experience and practical policy recommendations. Under mobile and big data based civic participation system, the intended outcome will be (i) improved use of information technology in the urban management and citizen participation, and (ii) innovative approaches and solutions through mobile and big data, which can be replicated easily to resource-constrained developing country cities.

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This project is part of a larger effort in partnership with the 72-member World e-Government Organization of Cities and Local Governments, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the Korea Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

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Goals to improve efficiency, resilience, and competitiveness are driving the building of greener cities. Sustainability need not come at the expense of growth, but the building of sustainable cities requires knowledge of challenges and GHG emissions expertise. KGGTF’s urban portfolio continues efforts started in Y1 by building human resource capacity to help cities plan sound climate programs based on green growth implementation standards. The three-year USD $1.37 million program, which will reach 150 cities by mid-2015, has completed a strategy paper and roadmap for developing a City Climate Planner Certification program. The program team has finalized an emission inventory training program, and the partners will meet to commit financial resources and identify roles to take the program forward. The program will certify its first group of professionals in the summer of 2015. The program is also helping build cities’ capacity to access private capital to finance low-carbon, climate resilient infrastructure. The Low-carbon Livable Cities initiative’s City Creditworthiness Academy held five-day workshops in Colombia, Tanzania, and Korea in 2014 for municipal finance officers from several dozen regional cities. The program will hold its final regional event in Senegal in 2015.

List of Activities

• Building the human resource base that will help cities establish high quality climate plans based on technically sound and standardized methods
• Offering workshops that offer a set of intense training modules ranging from revenue management to climate smart capital investment planning, and from debt financing options to the enabling environment for sub-national finance
• Preparing summary reports detailing the outcomes of the academies, with a special focus on what creditworthiness impediments have been identified by the city participants as the most challenging going forward

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Coalition partner workshops to discuss pressing program development issues
• Meetings with sovereign and/or local authorities to discuss deployment of the program within their jurisdiction
• Development of emission inventory training program and support materials
• Development of certification standards for certification focused on knowledge of citywide emission inventory development
• Development of certification standards for certification focused on knowledge of climate action plan development
• Institutions accredited to train individuals on different certification program elements
• Individuals participating in training programs related to personnel certification

Output 2:

• Cities attending Credit Worthiness Academy workshops
• Academy workshops that pursue implementation partnership agreements with the WB or other funding partner organizations
• Cities making demonstrable progress on two or more initiatives identified as part of their post-workshop roadmap
• New partnerships with external funding organizations

Outcomes:

The outcomes of this project will build and strengthen the capacities of individuals and public/private institutions of the Bank’s client countries to promote low carbon and climate resilient development. Ultimately, those holding the city climate planner certification can be expected to work within local government, civil society organizations, and consultancies supporting local climate work. In this regard, their presence will lead to tangible changes in local knowledge and conversations around local climate planning. In the short run, we expect to see a marked increase in the number of cities with comprehensive GHG inventories, while over the long run, more and more cities crafting climate change action plans that build on inventory data will be seen.

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This project was launched in Gwangju, Korea, supported by the Gwangju Metropolitan City, the Gwangju-based city network Urban Environmental Accords, and 16 external organizations.

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As Turkey embarks on a national effort to promote sustainable cities, KGGTF’s two-year USD $500,000 program is providing technical assistance to create a green growth information plat- form. The platform will include green growth indicators and collect baseline data to analyze key urban planning variables, including land, housing, transport, energy efficiency, and infrastructure. The program team will also prepare sustainable city action plans using a framework informed by the platform. The program will prepare a report for Turkey modeled on the Korean Industrial Complex Corporation. The report will present options for the Government to transform industrial zones into eco-friendly areas.  

List of Activities

• Sustainable City Planning and Management Systems: to provide technical assistance support to municipalities, preparation of feasibility studies, environmental assessments and basic engineering designs and support to Iller Bank (Ilbank) in grants management and capacity building.
• Municipal Investments: to finance targeted infrastructure investments in participating municipalities.
• Project Management: to finance goods and consultant services for monitoring and evaluation, outreach and communication and local technical consultants for the engineering supervision

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Database and Information Platform Report completed

Output 2:

• 8 city specific Action Plans prepared

Output 3:

• KICOX Model Adaptation Report

Output 4:

• One Study Tour and Training Program in Korea
• Multiple clinics, hands‐on advisory services, and virtual learning

Outcomes:

The expected outcomes of this project are to incrementally improve the sustainability of participating municipalities as measured by a Sustainable Cities Index. To a satisfactory degree, all participating municipalities will be able to prepare, adopt and commence implementation of their Sustainable Cities Action Plan; at least 5 participating cities will be able to record an increase in their Sustainability Index score; and the population (number) and built assets (value) with will be subject to a reduced exposure to disaster risk in pilot areas.

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• KICOX
• MoLIT
• Green Technology Center of Korea
• Seoul National University
• KEXIM
• KRIHS

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Metro Manila is home to 12 million people, accounting for one-third of the population of the Philippines, and half of the country’s economic output. Regular flooding affects 2.4 million in Manila, creating an urgent need for safe shelters for the city’s 100,000 informal settler families. To promote inclusive growth and bolster flood resilience, KGGTF’s USD $350,000 program supports citywide development under the National Informal Settlement Upgrading Strategy. Piloted in three of seven cities in Metro Manila, and reaching 400,000 citizens living in vulnerable slums, a citywide shelter plan will guide new construction and create jobs. Participatory, community-led planning, mapping, and surveying approaches also will empower residents. Once tested, authorities can replicate the program in other cities. Partners already supporting the KGGTF program include the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights.  

List of Activities

• Conducting spatial mapping and socio-economic profiling of all informal communities in the city (or district/village) overlaid with hazard maps
• Building a citywide shelter development plan based on supply (land, subsidy, other financing) and demand-side (shelter needs, affordability etc.) analyses and prioritization of communities based on a clear set of criteria
• Planning community-driven slum upgrading project for priority communities in each pilot city
• Establishing or revitalizing a platform for government-CSO-private sector collaboration
• Providing capacity building for the key stakeholders

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• 1-1. CDA concept paper developed.
• 1-2. Pilot city profiled developed.
• 1-3. CDA operational guidelines and tools developed.
• 1-4. Functional project management system established.

Output 2:

• 2-1. CDA strategy developed and approved by the LGUs in each pilot city.
• 2-2. Achievement of interventions prioritized in each pilot city’s CDA strategy.

Output 3:

• 3-1. Rapid assessment of pilot cities’ CLUPs and CDPs conducted.
• 3-2. CLUPs and CDPs revised and approved by the LGUs.

Output 4:

• 4-1. CDA training materials developed.
• 4-2. CDA experts mobilized to provide guidance to the Project.
• 4-3. Exchange visits conducted.
• 4-4. Knowledge products developed.
• 4-5. Dissemination workshops held at the LGU and national levels.

Outcomes:

The outcomes of this project are intended to establish the Citywide Development Approach to Informal Settlement Upgrading (CDA) as a viable solution for reducing vulnerability and improving the resiliency of flood-affected informal settlers in Metro Manila. The CDA will allow the Government to address the informal settlement issue at scale in a timely manner by adopting a programmatic, decentralized, and highly participatory slum upgrading approach.

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• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS)
• Asian Coalition of Housing Rights (ACHR)

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Vietnam’s consumption of electricity has increased by 400% over the last decade, in part due to low efficiency, obsolete industrial technologies. Government studies show that the cement, textile, steel, and food processing sectors could use at least 20% less energy if managed efficiently. Using examples from Korea and International Finance Corporation (IFC) experience in Bangladesh and China, the KGGTF’s two-year USD $750,000 program is creating a scalable model for Vietnam’s industrial zones. The program team will demonstrate clean, efficient energy usage in multiple neighboring factories to show local authorities, the private sector, zone management companies, and Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment how to create low-carbon industrial parks. Through workshops with these stakeholders, the program will share case studies and raise awareness about innovative technologies for greening industrial parks. Interventions planned for pilot cities will reduce CO2 emissions by 100,000 metric tons while decreasing freshwater use by 500,000 m3 annually.  

List of Activities

• Developing firm-level demonstration projects that can serve as models of manufacturing green growth
• Developing Industrial Zone level demonstration projects that can serve as models of infrastructure green growth and raising awareness
• Providing technical advice to MPI for EIP development in Vietnam that is consistent with the national green growth strategy for the country
• Facilitating implementation and replication of clean technology solutions and international best practices via audits, feasibility studies, and multi-stakeholder engagement

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1: Firm-Level Intervention

• Number of factories that implement IFC recommended changes or projects: Fifteen (15)

Output 2: IZ Level Intervention

• Number of IZs that implement IFC recommended changes or projects: Four (4)

Output 3: Advice to MPI

• Number of procedures/standards/guidelines developed by IFC: One (1)

Outcomes:

This multi-sector project is expected to demonstrate a scalable, replicable model for green growth in industrial zones (IZs) in Vietnam by systematically developing energy/resource efficiency (REF) and clean energy (CE) projects in targeted IZs. It is intended to leverage a new type of aggregator – IZ Management and Infrastructure Companies – to drive change from the business-as-usual scenario and promote green growth. Based on the planned interventions, this activity will avoid 100,000 metric tons of CO2-equivalent per year and avoid freshwater use of 500,000 m3 per year.

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The project leveraged on the partnership with the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation (KICOX) to benefit from their successful EIP experience in Korea, as well as to tap into opportunities for knowledge exchange and other activities during project implementation.

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The Rwandan Government’s 2013 Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy envisions urbanization as a driver of growth. The KGGTF’s multi-year USD $650,000 program is providing technical assistance to Rwanda to develop the green growth economic potential of secondary cities. Rwanda needs a network of secondary towns to absorb rural migrants as the Government expects the agricultural workforce to decrease to 30% in 2040 from 50% in 2020. At the Government’s request, the World Bank had assessed investment priorities in six target cities. The KGGTF program will, in part, support further investment prioritization. The KGGTF support will support technical assistance and capacity building to the GoR in developing better and more sustainable, multi-sectoral urban plans, prioritizing investments and building capacity of local governments and the national ministries in developing and implementing their urban vision.

List of Activities

• Increasing awareness on the application of green urban development approaches and tools among key policy makers at the national and sub-national levels of government
• Conducting feasibility studies for prioritized city level investments in secondary cities and linking the prioritization of resilient and sustainable infrastructure investments (e.g. transport, energy and rural development) that would foster the economic role and development of secondary cities in Rwanda leading to more balanced urban growth
• Hosting exchange visits between Korea and Rwanda in key areas of green urban development where Korea has relevant experience, including affordable housing, planning, use of ICT in urban development and transport management
• Providing a vision and implementation plan for the green, sustainable, and efficient economic growth for Rwanda’s secondary cities

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• 6 Economic Profiles/development plans

Output 2:

• 3-6 updated urban plans

Output 3:

• 6 Sets of Investment Priorities

Output 4:

• Capacity developed at national and local level

Outcomes:

Through this project, the Government of Rwanda will be better equipped to articulate and implement a national program aimed at fostering sustainable and resilient urban development to facilitate inclusive economic growth. This support has also better enabled approaches to integrated, multi-sectoral spatial planning and management, including integration of water and energy sector.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korea: Korea through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is advising the GoR on green growth broadly, and during the implementation of activities, the Bank will work closely with the Korean government to ensure synergies and complementarity between the programs.
• UN Habitat: UN Habitat is advising on urban planning and development of national urban policy and would be a partner in support on sustainable urban planning.
• GIZ: GIZ is advising on housing and this is an area of support by the World Bank requested by the GoR
• IFC: IFC is investing in housing development and housing finance in Rwanda
• European Union: The EU is supporting housing market development
• IGC: International Growth Center (Oxford University and LSE) are supporting knowledge work in urbanization in Rwanda in partnership with the World Bank.
• Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is developing a support program on green urban growth in Rwanda, mainly through advisory support.

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Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Dissemination of lessons learned from other similar projects worldwide

Output 2:

• Development of base for potential pilots through the data collection, quantitative and qualitative data

Output 3:

• Indicators based on studies results

Output 4:

• Identified objectives, timelines and responsible entities for pilots demonstration

Outcomes:

Four areas have been considered where ICT applications could possibly be leveraged to lessen the serious environmental challenges listed above. However, the areas outlined below are provided as examples only for potential initiatives; an essential part of this project will be conducting feasibility studies in each particular area. These assessments will eventually reveal the real possibilities and detailed costs for potential demonstrative pilots that might potentially be undertaken. The preliminary areas for feasibility studies are identified as follows:

1. Greening the ICT for government infrastructure. The outcome of this initiative will be materialized in cost-effective and eco-friendly data centers that will allow governments to offer flexible and non-stop services to users through effective resource allocation. Additionally, energy optimization for all existing data centers could also be high priority as that alone could help reduce energy consumption by at least 5-10%. A major priority of this initiative will be to develop a systematic approach for retiring ICT equipment.
2. Smart Water Management. This initiative aims to improve operational efficiency through applying monitoring and management technologies in order to operate end-to-end distribution, from reservoirs to pumping stations to smart pipes to intelligent metering at the user site. The deployment of intelligent metering at the user site is likely to produce behavioral changes through incentivizing households to moderate their water consumption. The pilot ICT project might involve replacing conventional electric meters with smart meters and upgrading the water system where it can be monitored and managed remotely.
3. Smart Grid Infrastructure Adoption. This initiative aims to improve the electric grid performance to reduce electricity loss during T&D, accommodate the large-scale introduction of renewable energy, and involve customers through smart metering. It seeks to promote energy conservation by changing resident awareness of energy use through distributing intelligent home electricity controllers which display the amount of power consumption.
4. ICT applications for urban administration. This initiative aims to transform and improve the city as a system by deploying smart technologies to create new, intelligent ways of making cities more resource efficient and reduce their carbon footprint. The following two components will be considered as part of this larger initiative:

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Mexico’s 383 cities, home to 78% of Mexico’s population, are engines of economic growth and prosperity, but rapid urbanization through a large spatial expansion, decades-old low-density urban growth, and decaying infrastructure have led Mexican officials to pursue green growth strategies. The urban growth pattern for the last thirty years was a large spatial expansion that led to a low-density development that resulted in inefficient resource use for economic development. Hence it is required to redefine urban landscape to amplify the gain from urbanization and to promote green and inclusive growth.

List of Activities

• Facilitating the incorporation of a set of activities to inform the policy reforms
• Designing and implementing instruments for sustainable and inclusive cities
• Fostering learning and knowledge-sharing

Outputs and Outcomes

Outcome 1:

• Develop a methodology to assess the environmental, social and economic implications of various urbanization patterns and design suitable instruments to mitigate externalities and reap potential benefits accordingly

Outcome 2:

• Develop a spatial planning tool for cities. Preliminarily, the team would seek to support initial efforts by the Centro Mario Molina think-tank to apply the Calthorpe model to Mexican Cities

Outcomes:

The expected outcome of this project is support for the government of Mexico in their sustainable urban and housing policy priority in order to increase the sustainability and inclusiveness of the urban sector and to improve the affordability and diversification of the housing market.

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• Ministry of Land, Transport and Infrastructure (MOLIT)
• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS)
• Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
• Seoul National University
• Yonsei or Korea University

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Cities are important engines of economic growth, but rapid urbanization also can cause severe congestion, poor air quality, increased road accidents, and rapid increases in energy consumption. Transportation is a critical issue that affects people’s health, economic prospects, and well-being—and
the sustainability of cities. The program aims to help connect, share and develop technical capacity among leaders, including senior decision makers who influence urban transport policies, to apply green transport principles and methods to promote economic growth.  This is necessary as urban transport cannot be approached in a piecemeal manner and all aspects need to be rolled into a holistic learning approach.

List of Activities

• Developing capacity amongst leaders on approaching urban mobility in a comprehensive and holistic manner to derive the desired outcomes of sustainable, low carbon and inclusive mobility
• Bringing together the different dimensions that need to come together for problem solving and designing sound urban transport systems
• Leveraging the opportunity of continuous learning through collaboration platforms to feed participants with new knowledge and information and supporting discussion forums

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• 15 offerings of the program over a period of three years, out of which at least three will be in Seoul  

Output 2:

• Additional learning material development in terms of 8 new case studies and three new self-study modules. This material will be used by KOTI and other delivery centers. It will be part of a regular body of learning tools for this capacity building effort and can be used for any offering.  It would also be useful learning material that can be used by educational institutions that take up urban transport teaching programs.  

Output 3:

• Three faculty development workshops aimed at developing capacity to manage action learning approaches to capacity development and teaching/writing case studies  

Output 4:

• A restructured version of the program focusing on secondary cities, where the unique needs to cities at early stages of growth will be addressed.  

Output 5:

• Continuous and active management of the activity on the collaboration platform to help it become a kind of gateway for advice on urban transport related issues. This would require dedicated professional manpower that would monitor activity on the platform and keep it vibrant and updated.  

Output 6:

• Marketing and outreach through flyers, booklets and a promotional film 

Outcomes:

The outcomes of this project place an emphasis on the case study method of learning, coupled with group exercises and site visits. This methodology has been specially chosen keeping in mind the learning style of the target group which comprises of decision makers with several years of work experience. This program has already been offered in several cities, in English, French and Spanish. Offerings have been in Singapore, Seoul, Marseille, Ahmedabad, Buenos Aires and Mexico. Starting with a self-study phase, this program moved on to a face-to-face event requiring intensive discussion of real-life cases, group exercises and site visits. Finally, participants joined a Community of Practice platform that aided continuous learning through discussion forums, news, and continuing learning events. The results of these offerings have been very encouraging and the demand for this program has been growing.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

Korea particularly has excellent examples to present in terms of planning and managing an integrated transport system. Through institutionalized partnerships with KOTI as a key strategic partner, offerings have been made in Seoul, which aimed to strengthen the capacity of partner institutions to offer this program on a regular basis. KOTI was particularly collaborative during this phase, which emphasized the development of new learning material, faculty development, and continuous learning through the collaboration platform. In addition to KOTI, this program was also run in partnership with the LTA in Singapore, CEPT University in India, AFD in France and Embarq in Mexico.

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Basic Information

Grant Activities

Project summary

With a metropolitan population of 17 million, which is expected to rise to 28 million by 2030, Karachi contributes 20% of the GDP and nearly 45% of the national economic value-added, despite many challenges to competitiveness and livability. The Karachi Strategic Development Plan (KSDP) 2020 lays a foundation for future policy and investment planning. The Plan is guided by principles safeguarding quality of life, promoting inclusivity, and fostering sustainability, and includes green initiatives in trans- port, drainage, solid waste management, and other sectors. The program aims to support analytical work and knowledge exchange on master infrastructure investment planning to move the KSDP along from simply a vision to a true operational business plan.    

List of Activities

• Conducting a Rapid City Assessment that identifies the specific nature of constraints to Karachi’s livability and competitiveness, based on historical trends and projected growth over the next two decades in terms of population, economic, and spatial characteristics
• Documenting constraints to unlocking land and bringing housing on to the market, meeting the shortfall in services, increasing investments, and providing effective policies and institutions for Karachi’s sustainable growth
• Reviewing of the background studies and inputs into the preparation of the KSDP to be undertaken to identify whether additional analytic work is needed to tackle the constraints identified and mainstream principles of green growth
• Preparing a detailed investment financing plan based on the final set of initiatives (from the KSDP and supplemented by additional analytic work), which culminates in the final business plan that brings together an integrated approach for implementation of specific initiatives to make the city more livable and competitive

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Rapid City Assessment 

Output 2:

• Evaluation of KSDP and Supplemental Studies 

Output 3:

• Investment Plan  

Output 4:

• Business Plan

Output 5:

• Implementation Mechanism

Output 6:

• Capacity Building

Outcomes:

The expected outcomes of the project include the completion of a rapid city diagnostic report, evaluation report of KSDP, additional analytic reports necessary to supplement the KSDP, an investment plan to supplement the KSDP, a business plan that reflects green growth principles, and stakeholder consultation events to obtain buy-in. The ultimate goal of the project is to support the analytical work and knowledge exchange on core themes related to master planning and infrastructure investment planning needed to move the Karachi Strategic Development Plan (KSDP 2020) from theory into an operation-able business plan.  

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

The work will be undertaken in close coordination with the Pakistan Urban Sector Assessment and the South Asia Regional Urbanization Flagship, as well as through a partnership with the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS).

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