MTSIP (Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan for UN-

HABITAT)

Focus Area 1: Effective advocacy, monitoring and partnerships

Objective: To promote sustainable urbanization through evidence-based research, policy

dialogue, strategic partnerships, global campaigns, education, communication and exchange of
best practices.

Indicator of Achievement:
(a) An agreed number of countries, municipalities and partnerships engaged in monitoring,
reporting and dissemination of key urbanization trends, including urban poverty and slums;
(b) An increased number of strategic partnerships among national and local governments,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and civil society, including women and youth groups,
engaged in sustainable urbanization endeavours;
(c) An agreed number of countries that include or observe integrated urbanization principles and
urban poverty issues in their respective national development plans, poverty reduction strategies
and United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks;
(d) An agreed number of best practices replicated and scaled up.
Focus Area 2: Promotion of participatory urban planning, management
and governance

Objective: To strengthen the capacity of national governments, local authorities and other
stakeholders to develop more liveable, productive and inclusive cities.

Indicator of Achievement:
(a) An agreed number of countries adopting legislation and measures developed to promote
fiscal and political decentralization to the relevant levels of government;
(b) An agreed number of cities adopting disaster mitigation, environmental planning and
management policies and strategies and crime reduction;
(c) An agreed number of countries adopting inclusive and effective urban planning and local
development practices at both central and local government levels with gender and age
perspectives;
(d) An agreed number of cities and towns developing integrated city development strategies,
including land use.

Focus Area 3: Promote pro-poor land and housing

Objective: To assist national governments and Habitat Agenda partners to adopt pro-poor,
gender and age-sensitive housing, land management and property administration through
enabling policies and improved legal and regulatory frameworks.

Indicator of Achievement:
(a) An agreed number of countries adopting effective gender and age sensitive housing, land and
property strategies and associated improved legal and regulatory frameworks;
(b) An agreed number of countries adopting pro-poor housing, land and property delivery
systems for the urban poor and populations affected by crises, incliding climate change threats;
(c) An agreed number of countries developing and implementing sustainable gender-sensitive
shelter relief and reconstruction models in post-conflict and post-disaster areas;
(d) An agreed number of countries enacting legal reforms to empower women with land and
property rights, including through inheritance.

Focus Area 4: Environmentally sound basic urban infrastructure and

services

Objective: To expand access to and sustain provision of adequate clean drinking water, improved
sanitation and waste management, ecologically sound energy-saving transport and power supply
technologies in urban and peri-urban areas, with due regard to small secondary towns.

Indicator of Achievement:
(a) An agreed number of countries and cities adopting improved infrastructure governance
frameworks ensuring the involvement of local authorities, communities and vulnerable groups;
(b) An agreed number of urban centres, including secondary and small towns, adopting
environmentally sound and energy-efficient technologies in the construction and provision of
services and basic infrastructure;
(c) An agreed number of countries demonstrating increased and sustainable access by the urban
poor to adequate clean water, improved sanitation and waste management;
(d) An agreed number of cities with strategies to minimize and deal with climate change effects.

Focus Area 5: Strengthened human settlements finance systems

Objective: To improve access to finance for housing and infrastructure, particularly for the urban
poor, through innovative financing mechanisms and improved institutional capacity to leverage
the contributions of communities, local authorities, the private sector, government and
international financial institutions.

Indicator of Achievement:
(a) An agreed number of slum-dwellers empowered, through effective organization, to access
institutional credit for housing;
(b) An agreed increase in measurable Official Development Assistance flows allocated to pro-
poor housing and urban development;
(c) An agreed number of countries with pro-poor housing programmes, finance institutions and
support systems utilizing domestic capital;
(d) An agreed number of private sector, regional and international finance institutions and civil
society organizations investing in innovative pro-poor housing and infrastructure development in
urban areas;
(e) An agreed number of countries making increased national budgetary allocations for pro-poor
urban infrastructure and housing developmet, including transfers and other forms of support to
local authorities to improve planning, governance and the provision of basic services.
CLIFF
The Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility (CLIFF) is distinctly different from
municipal Development Fund mechanisms. It provides venture capital and other financial
products directly to organizations of the urban poor, rather than to government, to support
community-led slum upgrading schemes conceived in partnership with city authorities - CLIFF
can only therefore work where poor communities have built the capacity to manage slum-
upgrading initiatives. CLIFF uses finance as a tool to bring poor communities (and the
organizations which support them) right into the heart of urban development planning and
action by’s Allowing communities to demonstrate strategies, processes and initiatives in practice
that will either set, tester challenge existing slum development policies’ Acting aa forum for
engagement between the poor and other stakeholders’ Helping communities consider city-wide
development issues through prioritizing flagship projects Supporting organizations of the urban
poor in taking, managing and mitigating risks to achieve slummprovements at scale. Slum areas
like Dharavi(reputedly India’s largest slum) are characterized high density, poor housing and
inadequate infrastructure Homeless International manages the global facility, which is currently
operational with the Alliance in India and with a similar Alliance in Kenya.

CLIFF financial products

Meeting the challenge of slums, particularly in large cities, generally requires collective housing
and infrastructure solutions, as opposed to separate individual/household solutions.
Consequently, CLIFF has been designed as adventure capital facility rather than a microcredit
institution – in other words it supports flagship community-led slum development projects rather
than providing credit to individual households. CLIFF therefore offers the following forms of
financial support’s Technical assistance grant– so that professional help can be bought in to
help communities to “package “projects in a way that banks and state authorities can deal with
Loan financing to projects – to kick start community-led flagship initiatives while further
negotiations with formal finance institutions and public officials to unlock local financial
resources take place. Providing schemes at least break-even, CLIFF finance gets fully repaid to
Nirman from income streams, which can then be recycled to pre-finance further projects
Knowledge grants – for exchanges, visits and workshops so that as many people as possible are
able to learn from the projects as they are developed and implemented Grants for core
operational and administration costs – for the agencies managing CLIFF.o Guarantees –
Homeless International’s Guarantee Fund can also be used to compliment CLIFF, by providing
financial guarantees to underwrite some of the risk taken by banks when lending to projects.
Sources of funding

The facility is financed through Cities Alliance with funds from DFID (approximately £6.8
million) and Sida(approximately £1.5 million). Homeless International has also generated £0.6
million to date in its Guarantee Fund. CLIFF began implementation in 2002, and was designed
as a pilot with an initial timeframe of 6 years.

FINANCING AND INSTITUTION ASSOCIATED WITH HOUSING

AND INFRASTRUCTURE
MTSIP Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan for UN-HABITAT

CLIFF The Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility

Submitted by;

Mohit kumar

Aseem dhall