The Road to the SDGs

– Urban housing and slum upgrading – Urban water and sanitation – Disaster, climate and environmental resilience. X It is driven by seven enablers: (1) urban governance; (2) national urban policy; (3) urban planning; (4) municipal finance; (5) citizen engagement; (6) building partnerships; and (7) STI & ITC applications. X In terms of guidance, it is oriented by four guiding principles: – Country-focused selectivity – Capacity building and knowledge sharing – Financing mechanisms, including PPPs – Women and youth empowerment. POTENTIAL IMPACTS X Given that any topic of national interest (e.g. health, education, climate change, social cohesion) affects urban space — that is, issues or forces that either impact cities or are impacted by them — there is a virtually limitless scope that can be ascribed to urban policy. Because of this somewhat unique feature, urban programmes are often thought of as the "integrators" of different sectors in a common space. X Therefore, an urban policy can have impact on the seventeen SDGs, in one way or another. IsDB's Urban Sector Policy is expected to impact mostly four SDGs, namely: SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities); SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation); SDG 7 (Affordable Clean Energy); and SDG 13 (Climate Action). INVESTMENT X From its inception to January 2021, IsDB has provided a net financing of US$ 7.6 billion to the urban sector in spite of the fact that a dedicated urban policy was not yet in place. X In the housing sub-sector projects, two key projects have been successfully completed in Bamako, Mali (Basic Social Housing Project and Support to the Social Housing Program, US$ 31 million) and in Saida, Lebanon (the Saida City Infrastructure Development Project, US$ 21 million). However, the biggest completed urban projects were in urban water supply (Bahrain US$ 191 million, Algeria US$ 63 million, Lebanon US$ 58 million, etc.) and sanitation sector (Iran, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.). F I N A N C I N G T H E U R B A N S E C T O R From its inception to January 2021, IsDB has provided a net financing of US$ 7.6 billion to the urban sector [ 43 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S