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| Comprehensive
Development for the City of Luxor |
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Total cost
$992,600
Partners
Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban
Communities
Higher Council of Luxor City
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat)
Background and objectives
This project supports the Ministry of
Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities in extending technical assistance
to the Higher Council for Luxor City to formulate and implement a strategic
development plan for sustainable development of Luxor and for enlisting
worldwide support for implementation of priority projects. UN-Habitat is using $120,000 of the budget for capacity-building.
The project will create an efficient framework for guiding development,
attracting investment from the private sector and international institutions
for priority projects; prepare a strategic development plan drawing on
worldwide expertise and initiate implementation of priority projects; formulate
a major programme to involve local human resources in the development process
and generate new jobs in tourism-related small enterprises; establish an
environmental management programme to deal with pollution and environmental
degradation; and accomplish an integrated training and human resources
development programme for the local administration staff, community leaders
and NGOs.
Activities
The project is using urban planning and
management techniques developed by the Sustainable Cities Programme, particularly
consultations and working groups as a participatory interface between an
international consulting consortium preparing the development plan and
the interested parties. As the project is of national importance,
working groups have been formed at the national and city levels.
This approach ensures involvement of beneficiaries and interested parties
throughout the process. Four working groups have been established on tourism,
investment, development and follow-up of ongoing authorizations.
The working groups have assessed the current situation, highlighting major
issues, problems, developmental needs and deficiencies. These findings
are conveyed to the international consulting consortium so as to be addressed
in their plans. Furthermore, the working groups provide inputs to
the consortium and participate in the decision-making process regarding
proposals.
Results
Through the participatory approaches used
including city consultations and thematic working groups, the project has
been able to ensure involvement of parties in the comprehensive development
planning process. The comprehensive development plan has been completed
and the implementation stage is under way. Ministry and local staff
is being trained on the job and through study tours. The project
will organize a donor round table to fund the plan.
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Sustainable
Growth and Development in the Governorate of Ismailia:
Urban
Upgrading in the Ismailia Governorate |
Total cost
$2,980,000
Partners
Governorate of Ismailia
Social Development Fund of Egypt
Danish International Development Agency
(DANIDA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat)
Background and objectives
The project, building on the success of
the first phase of the sustainable Ismailia project aims at promoting environmentally
sustainable economic growth in the Governorate of Ismailia. The project
has two components: sustainable use of natural resources through participatory
urban and environmental planning and management and, job creation
and investment through entrepreneurial capacity-building of NGOs to enhance
their access to credit and to create an improved business environment to
attract large-scale private investment to the Governorate. Because
one of the priorities raised by the city consultations was slum upgrading,
an application was submitted to the joint World Bank/UN-Habitat Cities Alliance
for additional funding to prepare feasibility studies for upgrading two
pilot areas in Ismailia (El Hallous and El Bahtini).
Activities
The project started in May 1997 and is
being executed by the Ismailia Governorate, with UN-Habitat as the
cooperating agency. Lessons learned and experience gained are the
point of departure of this project, where replication of the environmental
planning and management process in the four towns surrounding Ismailia
City has been completed. National and international experts have
been recruited to assist in formulating an environmental profile for the
Governorate and for each markaz to undertake four markaz-wide consultations
and to assist working groups in strategy formulation and action planning
establish an environmental management information system in order to produce
an updated base map for each of the four marakez and to provide detailed
project development information for bankable investment projects. Implementation
of the Cities Alliance component on slum upgrading began in the fall of
2000.
Results
The environmental profiles of the Ismailia
governorate and the four towns have been completed and a training centre
rehabilitated, where project training activities are taking place.
The training centre, managed by an NGO, serves various sustainable development
training requirements within the governorate. The environmental planning
and management approach has been institutionalized as the Governorate has
established a sustainable development council to discuss development issues
in the Governorate. The Governorate has commenced work on activities
of Cities-Alliance-funded project aiming at producing feasibility studies
for slum upgrading (social and physical surveys already completed).
The project is also developing a framework for replication at the national
level with the Ministry of Local Development, as main focal point, together
with other partners at the national level.
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