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• Integration into the existing urban infrastructure
• Listing the urban quality and upgrading priorities, depending on the immediate needs
of partners and the availability of funding.
• Stages and potential levels of community participation.
• Role of specialists and professionals in the actual application.
• Identifying partners’ needs, expectations and services, especially those of the most
vulnerable groups.
• Basic guidelines on who to deal with the historical areas.
• Developing a development strategy in conjunction with all sectors, containing
economic, social and physical features.
b. Establish guidelines and detailed steps in different stages that should be followed in the
process of MENA cities upgrading since its inception, policies development to
implementation.
c. Preparation of comprehensible planning for facing the adverse impacts of climatic
changes and regulations for construction as well, to enhance successful implementation
on the ground .
d. Propose legislation aimed to develop urban and rural areas as well, to enable
municipalities and local administrators to do their daily work and deal with emerging
issues.
e. Preparing the costs of various phases of the project's based on the previously approved
list of priorities.
f. Preparing a comprehensive action plan, based on the projects which were approved,
containing clear financial estimates for each work and contribution of each partner, such
as: local government, business community, NGOs, central government, international
lenders etc.. In short, what is the role of each partner, including the contribution and
participation of urban and rural dwellers
The expected impact:
Increasing the public awareness of the climatic change subjects such as: nature, impacts and
importance of climatic change impacts, urban spaces and rural areas upgrading and improvement
projects and their social and economic impact on residents, local population, municipalities, and
local and national businesses in general..
Expected results:
a. Public participation will be positive factor in implementing such policy and its strategies and
action projects.
b. The preparatory guidelines and steps to be followed prior to climatic change effects and the
implementation of any urban upgrading project.
c. Planning and construction regulations that govern any future urban spaces upgrading
project respecting controlling climatic change issues
d. Administrative legislations that enable municipalities and local administrations to address
climatic change impacts in general, and in particular, resettlement, compensation of the
displaced population issues, controlling the new urban changes, … etc.
e. Experience of various cities in funding and upgrading projects, in the region and extended to
the attached regions respecting the vision of: "climatic change impacts are not limited in one
region … but it affects and affected by the surrounding environment".
f. Improving the management capacity within the local authority and civil society, to carry out
and manage local development.
7. References and readings:
1 David Dodman, (2009), Urban Density and Climate Change, An Agenda for Mitigation and Adaptation,