The Cities Alliance is a global partnership with cities to meet the challenges of pro-poor policies and prosperous cities without slums. It was launched in 1999 by the World Bank and UNCHS (Habitat), with two areas of focus:

1. Linking the process by which local stakeholders define their vision for their city, analyze its economics prospects and establish a city development strategy and priorities for action; and
2. Making unprecedented improvements in the living conditions of the urban poor by supporting citywide participatory urban upgrading programs and nationwide scales of action – with targets set in the Cities Without Slums initiative.

For more information:

• What is the Cities Alliance?
A 1-page Overview

• ‘The Cities’ Slide Show
A 10-slide overview of the Cities Alliance
PowerPoint format; 204k file size
Download: The Cities.ppt

• Cities Without Slums: Action Plan for Moving Slum Upgrading to Scale
Special summary edition, 23 pages, 2MB file size
Download: ActionPlan.pdf

• Cities Alliance Partners
Participating countries and organizations as of July 2000.

• Cities Without Slums: Progress at the Country Level 2000
Summary of 10 initiatives from around the world

• Visit the web site: www.citiesalliance.org

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