Cities Alliance Annual Report 2018

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Country/ City Window This window provides technical assistance at the city and national level across multiple countries and cities. Our established Country Programme model is at the core of this window. Country Programmes have been successful, thanks to their integrated and systemic approach, ability to bring a range of development actors together, and, above all, their impact on the ground. 8 Cities Alliance
COUNTRY PROGRAMMES Country Programmes are longer-term programmes tailored to the country’s context and needs, delivered through financing a series of key urban initiatives in a coherent, sustained manner to achieve development impact at scale. They typically include activities at three levels: community, local and national. These programmes are implemented with the national government through members and partner organisations active in the country – particularly those representing the urban poor and women – and through direct implementation of selected activities where necessary. The Cities Alliance Secretariat provides the convening and collaborative design, programme oversight, technical coordination, financial support, fiduciary control and, in some cases, technical execution. In 2018, Cities Alliance had active Country Programmes in Liberia and Tunisia. Implementation for both programmes is ongoing, and both are on track to meet their objectives. Plans are also underway to expand the Uganda Country Programme, which has been active to a varying degree since 2010. The new programme aims to support the construction of the expressway between Kampala and Jinja. Cities Alliance will develop a set of social, economic and environmental activities at the community level to complement and reinforce the global environmental and social safeguards that apply to the main infrastructure project. The intended programme has four components: low cost housing and urban renewal, a community assistance initiative, small business transition, and sustainable wetland management. Introducing the Country Programme 3.0 Since the launch of the first Cities Alliance Country Programme in 2010 – the Transforming the Settlements of the Urban Poor in Uganda (TSUPU) programme – the Country Programmes have become the Cities Alliance’s flagship business line. They have demonstrated that greater development impact can be achieved by shifting towards longer-term programming with a focus on a coherence of effort and alignment. Various independent evaluations and internal assessments have found that the Country Programmes have been successful, thanks to their integrated and systemic approach, ability to bring a range of development actors together, and, above all, their impact on the ground. The evaluations have also suggested ways to further strengthen the Country Programme model. These include providing for excellence in programme management, coordination and mechanisms; systematically providing for sustainability and follow-up investments; exploring the potential to move beyond technical assistance; and broadening the range of implementing partners and financing modalities, with priority for local and national partners. Based on the lessons learned and a clear set of recommendations, the Cities Alliance Management Board has endorsed an enhanced approach to the Country Programme model, the ‘version 3.0’. The new approach is at the centre of the partnership’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021, which aims to strengthen the Country window and scale up operations on the ground. Some of the defining features of the Country Programme 3.0 are: • An in-country Secretariat presence to facilitate coordination, mutual accountability, and ownership by national and local partners; • Partner selection based on open competition to maximise quality; • Increasingly prioritising the use of local and regional capacity; • Mechanisms for mutual accountability among members and partners; Annual Report | 2018 9
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