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In line with the World Habitat Day theme, UN- Offers support to develop basic services/
Habitat is calling for cities to accelerate urban infrastructure projects and social housing
WHD CONCEPT NOTE climate action and in particular: to attract multilateral and other financing –
including climate investment to build back
In the run-up to COP-26, invites cities to join better and greener with a “just and green
the Global “Race to Zero” Campaign, as well recovery”.
mobility, promoting Local Reviews to • Facilitates the exchange
as UN-Habitat’s #ClimateAction4Cities
Offers support in conducting Voluntary
Campaign and to share their solutions.
clean energy generation assess progress against of lessons learnt and best
Local Reviews to assess progress against
Offers technical assistance and capacity
in cities and improving both the Sustainable practices among cities.
both the Sustainable Development Goals
building support to cities in planning and
and the Paris Agreement goals and present
waste management and Development Goals and • To join UN-Habitat’s
implementing climate-targeted actions
findings in forums such as the High Level
provision of water and the Paris Agreement goals Waste Wise Cities
including planning for more compact
review of the New Urban Agenda, planned
and walkable cities, support in enhancing
sanitation. and present findings in programme which aims
for early 2022.
national building codes, sustainable
building and construction practices,
Facilitates the exchange of lessons learnt
• Offers support to forums such as the High at ‘A Thousand and One
and best practices among cities.
improving public and non-motorised
develop basic services/ Level review of the New Waste Wise Cities’ by the
transport, introducing electric mobility,
To join UN-Habitat’s Waste Wise Cities
promoting clean energy generation in cities
infrastructure projects Urban Agenda, planned World Urban Forum 2022
programme which aims at ‘A Thousand and
and improving waste management and
and social housing for early 2022. in Katowice, Poland.
One Waste Wise Cities’ by the World Urban
provision of water and sanitation.
to attract multilateral Forum 2022 in Katowice, Poland.
and other financing
– including climate “With our attention focused on responding and recovering from the
investment to build COVID-19 crises, let us ensure that every action we take today, every
back better and greener investment and support we mobilise, stimulates more sustainable,
with a “just and green low-carbon and resilient development pathways that leave no one
and no place behind.”
recovery”. UN-Habitat Executive Director
Maimunah Mohd Sharif
• Offers support in Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Urban Climate Action
conducting Voluntary
ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAMME ON PROJECT FINANCING,
MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
HUDCO’s HSMI conducted formulation of viable schemes, persons who are experts
this program on 14th appraisal, documentation and in each domain. Director
September, 2021 as a part monitoring, loan servicing, Corporate Planning, HUDCO
of its training and capacity default resolution and NPA Shri M. Nagaraj and Shri D.
building efforts to infuse management were covered Guhan graced the valedictory
professionalism and to under the programme. The session. The training
strengthen capacities of training was imparted by coordinator was Dr. Sukanya
HUDCO’s own officials with HUDCO’s internal resource Ghosh, Senior Fellow HSMI.
the objective of sensitizing
participants regarding 6
various issues on HUDCO
Project Financing, Monitoring
and Management. A total of
56 participants from Project,
Finance and Law Disciplines
from various Regional
Offices of HUDCO including
Corporate Office participated
in the programme. Various
issues of HUDCO financing
including marketing at field
level, business generation,

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