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166 URBANIZATION AND THE MDGS GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2013 demonstrate more balanced and inclusive urban-rural development in Chongqing. Mongolia’s population was 2.8 million in 2011, including 1.3 million inhabitants of Ulaanbaatar City. Forty percent of Ulaanbaatar’s population lives in the city core while 60 percent (approximately 800,000 people, or about 30 percent of the national population) live in peri-urban, or ger, areas. During the past five years, the population of the country increased by about 220,000; all but 10,000 of these were in Ulaanbaatar City. In addition, the countryside population decreased dramatically while the populations of the aimag (provincial) capitals and other small cities remained almost stable. The population growth of Ulaanbaatar City mainly happens in the ger areas, which, despite their size, are considered temporary settlements and have never been formally integrated into the city development process or infrastructure programming. Thus, the continuing ger area densification and sprawl is putting tremendous pressure on the urban environment. The huge gap between services in the formal and ger areas remains one of the most difficult challenges for the government, especially as projections indicate that they will add another 350,000 people over the next 10 years. Approved loans for infrastructure in Mongolia during the past five years amounted to about $78.2 million. They included projects to improve water and other municipal infrastructure and services in small towns in the southeast area of the Gobi Desert ($15 million) and the improvement of urban transport in Ulaanbaatar City ($59.9 million). In 2011, a Public-Private Transportation Act was approved to prepare a multiannual financial framework for improving Ulaanbaatar City’s urban services and ger areas development. Central and West Asia: Multisector assessment for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan In addition to financial support, the ADB also provides analytical services to facilitate decision making by policy makers faced with urban and rural development challenges. For example, in Kazakhstan, the Country Partnership Strategy for 2012–16 includes a detailed sector assessment of urban transport and water and sanitation. 3 In Uzbekistan, the Country Partnership Strategy for 2012–2016 assessed issues surrounding water supply and sanitation, waste management, urban transport, and other municipal services. 4 The urban regional technical assistance projects fostered the work of the Urban Community of Practice, one of the core knowledge management areas of the ADB, and, in particular, the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), an international partnership program assisting medium-size Asian cities to bridge the gap between their development plans and implementation of their infrastructure investments. The CDIA uses a demanddriven approach to help identify and develop urban infrastructure investment projects in the framework of existing city development plans. These projects focus on urban environmental improvement, urban poverty reduction and gender, climate change mitigation or adaptation, and improved governance. To facilitate these initiatives, the CDIA provides a range of international and domestic expertise and advice to help cities move from strategic master plans to concrete policies and infrastructure projects ready to present to financiers and project developers. Core city-level CDIA activities include: • Advisory support for undertaking infrastructure investment programming and prioritization. • Consultancy support for preparing prefeasibility studies on high priority infrastructure investment projects that demonstrate integration within a city’s overall development process. • Identifying financial sources for selected investments from domestic and international finance markets as well as opportunities for public-private partnerships (PPPs). • Strengthening local institutional capacity through on-the-job training related to
GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2013 URBANIZATION AND THE MDGS 167 infrastructure investment planning and programming and project management. As of December 2012, the CDIA had approved applications from four cities in thirteen countries with a number of others under consideration. These interventions are estimated to lead to about $6.5 billion in strategic urban infrastructure investments. In the current portfolio, urban transport is the largest CDIA sector, followed by flood and drainage management, urban renewal, and wastewater management. While the ADB and the KfW (German government– owned development bank) are the primary downstream financiers, increasing emphasis is being placed on assisting cities to bring in additional financing through PPPs. Although the CDIA focuses on environmental improvement, poverty reduction, and governance aspects, its work has invariably contributed to a wider set of cross-cutting impacts. Especially through capacity strengthening, the CDIA has contributed to improved governance with city partner agencies (see also Linfield and Steinberg 2012). European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that address issues related to urbanization differ from those implemented by other multilateral development banks. The EBRD has a specific mandate that identifies the main goal as support for its member countries in their transition to market economies. Through a variety of products (both investment and technical co-operation) offered to private and public sector clients representing a range of different sectors, the EBRD therefore has a specific role that indirectly addresses the urbanization issue. This role involves improving the business environment and removing infrastructure bottlenecks, both of which are crucial in facilitating the urbanization process in EBRD’s 34 countries of operation. Examples include specifically targeting micro, small, and medium enterprises in rural underserved areas for finance loans and supporting the involvement of farmers by extending backward linkages in agribusiness. The EBRD also plays an active role in helping put adequate infrastructure in place to facilitate changing urban-rural dynamics and to minimize the negative impact of urbanization on cities. The EBRD’s activities in the water and wastewater sector aim at achieving an enhanced and sustainable provision of services to urban populations. These operations are based on sustainable cost-recovery tariff structures; the development of robust regulatory approaches with a focus on the modernization of infrastructure; the promotion of appropriate environmental, social, health, and safety improvements that result in high-quality service delivery; and management efficiency. Since its inception, the EBRD has rapidly expanded its activities in the water and wastewater sectors throughout its countries of operation. To date, EBRD has financed over 130 water and wastewater projects, for a total of e2 billion. Improvement in urban transport, in which the EBRD has been actively involved, is another essential component of facilitating urbanization processes. Urban transport has a unique ability to provide high-quality alternatives to use of private cars and is thus a viable antidote to urban congestion and pollution, two negative consequences of urbanization. Urban transport provides value added to the urban environment and increases the general quality of life for the urban population by improving air quality, reducing delays caused by congestion, and contributing to carbon reductions. The EBRD has financed more than 60 urban projects in different countries of operation, for a total of e1.4 billion. The EBRD addresses complex issues related to a variety of existing bottlenecks in the urban transport sector by implementing an integrated approach that consists of investments, technical assistance aimed at improving management capabilities, and policy dialogue with local and national authorities to
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