This document discusses bold actions needed to improve cities and prevent slums. It recommends long-term planning driven by consistent leadership to meet UN targets and goals. Specifically, it calls for providing basic infrastructure, services, and affordable shelter to create sustainable cities. It also suggests setting benchmarks for housing, infrastructure, health, education and other sectors and sharing best practices. Achieving these targets will require improved resources, political will, and institutional capacity at global, national and local levels including financing mechanisms to upgrade slums.

1. 4.5 Time for Bold Action:
Scaling up Improvements Today,
Preventing Slums Tomorrow.
State of the World’s Cities Report 2006/7
By Yu Tieng Wei (155498)

2. What kind of Bold Actions?
• “cities without slums”
• Long term planning – driven by patient,
consistent policies and leadership.
• Target 11 & Millennium Development Goals .
• Transparency and accountability – poverty
reduction – increased budgetary commitments.
• “Sustainable cities” – basic infrastructure, service,
shelter provision – available & affordable.
• Indonesia’s Kampong Improvement Programme

3. Targets?
Housing
Infrastructure
Services
Health
Educational
Goals?
Benchmark targets against the Goals
Established consultations, discussions, explanation, sharing
of experiences and best practices
Ensure Targets are bold enough to deal with shortfalls

4. How to achieve the Target & Goals?
• Global Level – National Urban Development Policy
• National Level :
– Municipal authorities / government
– City and community (stakeholders)
• Invest / Improve / Regularizing one sector – upgrade
slums’ living quality & conditions – ensure prevention.
• Resources need to be enhanced, prioritized,
restructured.
• Improve + harnessed political will, accountability and
institutional capacity (financial instruments + capital
markets).
• Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF)
– attract multiple forms of financing
– Risk reduction and sharing
– Mobilize domestic capital