Urban Governance Support Project
Funded by: UNDP; US $724,300
Background
The project is anchored in the Millennium Development Goals
of Good Governance, Halving Poverty and Hunger and Ensuring
Environmental Sustainability, which amongst others provide the
reference points for the development targets set in the Future
– Regaining Sri Lanka.
Following the adoption in 1999 of its National Programme for
Sustainable Human Settlements, the government of Sri Lanka initiated
a number of pro poor urban capacity development projects as
part of its commitment to implement the Habitat Agenda. These
included the Sustainable Colombo Core Area Project (1999-2001)
and the Sustainable Sri Lanka Cities Project (2001-2003), both
supported by the UNDP. The success of these projects has created
firm foundations for broadening of support for participatory
urban governance to local authorities in Sri Lanka and the means
and the modalities have been developed, tested and put in place
Objectives
The objective of this project is to provide the foundations
and “core-resources” for a multi-donor assisted “National Programme
of Support to Strengthen Urban Governance” by deepening and
up scaling these experiences, and strengthening their upstream
policy impact. The project will also expand the participatory
urban governance support to other cities especially those in
the North and East of Sri Lanka. The “Core” set of activities
supported by the Project will include participatory governance,
poverty reduction and sustainable environment management synthesized
from those applied and proven through the SCP-SL (Phases One
and Two) supported by UNDP and the Urban Poverty Reduction Project
(UPRP).
Partners :
Government : Government of Sri Lanka; Provincial
Councils
Local Authorities : 18 Selected Municipal Councils
and Urban Local Authorities
Civil Society : Sevanatha and MaRGG (Management
Resources for Good Governance)
Institutions : Sri Lanka Institute of Local
Governance, Centre for Urban and Regional Planning
International Organizations : UNDP, UN-HABITAT
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