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166 URBANIZATION AND THE MDGS GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2013<br />
demonstrate more balanced and inclusive<br />
<strong>urban</strong>-<strong>rural</strong> development in Chongqing.<br />
Mongolia’s population was 2.8 million in<br />
2011, including 1.3 million inhabitants of<br />
Ulaanbaatar City. Forty percent of Ulaanbaatar’s<br />
population lives in the city core<br />
while 60 percent (approximately 800,000<br />
people, or about 30 percent of the national<br />
population) live in peri-<strong>urban</strong>, or ger, areas.<br />
During the past five years, the population<br />
of the country increased by about 220,000;<br />
all but 10,000 of these were in Ulaanbaatar<br />
City. In addition, the countryside population<br />
decreased dramatically while the populations<br />
of the aimag (provincial) capitals and other<br />
small cities remained almost stable. The population<br />
growth of Ulaanbaatar City mainly<br />
happens in the ger areas, which, despite their<br />
size, are considered temporary settlements<br />
and have never been formally integrated into<br />
the city development process or infrastructure<br />
programming. Thus, the continuing<br />
ger area densification and sprawl is putting<br />
tremendous pressure on the <strong>urban</strong> environment.<br />
The huge gap between services in the<br />
formal and ger areas remains one of the most<br />
difficult challenges for the government, especially<br />
as projections indicate that they will<br />
add another 350,000 people over the next 10<br />
years.<br />
Approved loans for infrastructure in Mongolia<br />
during the past five years amounted to<br />
about $78.2 million. They included projects<br />
to improve water and other municipal infrastructure<br />
and services in small towns in the<br />
southeast area of the Gobi Desert ($15 million)<br />
and the improvement of <strong>urban</strong> transport<br />
in Ulaanbaatar City ($59.9 million). In 2011,<br />
a Public-Private Transportation Act was<br />
approved to prepare a multiannual financial<br />
framework for improving Ulaanbaatar City’s<br />
<strong>urban</strong> services and ger areas development.<br />
Central and West Asia: Multisector<br />
assessment for Kazakhstan and<br />
Uzbekistan<br />
In addition to financial support, the ADB<br />
also provides analytical services to facilitate<br />
decision making by policy makers faced with<br />
<strong>urban</strong> and <strong>rural</strong> development challenges.<br />
For example, in Kazakhstan, the Country<br />
Partnership Strategy for 2012–16 includes a<br />
detailed sector assessment of <strong>urban</strong> transport<br />
and water and sanitation. 3 In Uzbekistan, the<br />
Country Partnership Strategy for 2012–2016<br />
assessed issues surrounding water supply and<br />
sanitation, waste management, <strong>urban</strong> transport,<br />
and other municipal services. 4<br />
The <strong>urban</strong> regional technical assistance<br />
projects fostered the work of the Urban Community<br />
of Practice, one of the core knowledge<br />
management areas of the ADB, and, in<br />
particular, the Cities Development Initiative<br />
for Asia (CDIA), an international partnership<br />
program assisting medium-size Asian cities<br />
to bridge the gap between their development<br />
plans and implementation of their infrastructure<br />
investments. The CDIA uses a demanddriven<br />
approach to help identify and develop<br />
<strong>urban</strong> infrastructure investment projects in<br />
the framework of existing city development<br />
plans. These projects focus on <strong>urban</strong> environmental<br />
improvement, <strong>urban</strong> poverty reduction<br />
and gender, climate change mitigation or<br />
adaptation, and improved governance.<br />
To facilitate these initiatives, the CDIA<br />
provides a range of international and domestic<br />
expertise and advice to help cities move<br />
from strategic master plans to concrete policies<br />
and infrastructure projects ready to present<br />
to financiers and project developers. Core<br />
city-level CDIA activities include:<br />
• Advisory support for undertaking infrastructure<br />
investment programming and<br />
prioritization.<br />
• Consultancy support for preparing prefeasibility<br />
studies on high priority infrastructure<br />
investment projects that demonstrate<br />
integration within a city’s overall development<br />
process.<br />
• Identifying financial sources for selected<br />
investments from domestic and international<br />
finance markets as well as opportunities<br />
for public-private partnerships (PPPs).<br />
• Strengthening local institutional capacity<br />
through on-the-job training related to