Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment LIFE Programme

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) Course Title How to use the dialogue between the local actors to establish a mechanism to localize the MDGs for the poor urban Dwellers The Presentations: United Nations Development Programme

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) LIFE - GLAN Dialogue – Partnerships. . Makes Difference United Nations Development Programme

To learn more about LIFE l Get our publications l Visit our website (UNDP + our own under construction) l Get involved with our network l Start practicing LIFE’s methodology

LIFE Uniqueness. . l Our tool is Local-Local Dialogue between the stakeholders l Our target is establishing healthy partnership aiming better livelihoods l By using the Upstream Downstream Upstream approach

LIFE makes difference … By creating the Critical Mass … We can get the Political Will

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) The Millennium Development Goals Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education Goal 3 Promote gender equality & empower women Goal 4 Reduce child mortality Goal 5 Improve maternal health Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) Localizing the MDGs. . before the Millennium Declaration The development context today is one dominated by the global commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Goals represent an urgent and timebound call to action. Poor urban areas present a particular challenge for MDGs localization. Decentralization, participatory local governance and localization have explicitly been espoused as enabling strategies for the MDGs.

LIFE and MDGs l by directly contributing to Goal 1 and Goal 7 (specifically Target 10 on sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and Target 11 on improving the lives of slum dwellers); l by contributing indirectly to others: Goal 3 and Goal 4; l most importantly, by providing a methodology and approach based on participatory local governance, by which the MDGs overall can be localized.

Zaida Colombia

Criteria of Healthy Dialogue Our Target is a Sustainable Partnership. . Study your target area before intervention l Empower communities and CBOs l Bring all actors for the dialogue. . Try not to forget or ignore any of them l The “Forum of Actors” is the first step towards the partnership l

Building the Confidence… l The different actors dialogue about the problems and agree on the priorities l Presenting the available resources that could be used l LIFE comes with a Magnet Fund

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) The LIFE Approach Upstream: Catalyzing a national dialogue, developing strategic plans and gathering wide support from various stakeholders. Downstream: Ensuring effective and collaborative small projects that address priority environmental problems; act as policy experiments and promote local-local dialogue, cooperation between local actors, and build local capacity. Upstream: Realizing micro-macro linkages through experience exchange, advocacy and policy dialogue to influence policy and upscale and mainstream the LIFE approach.

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) Strategy Support knowledge generation and knowledge exchange Local initiative in urban contexts Micro-level initiative to macro-level policy Local actors from civil, government and private sectors Give to the actors access to state of the art knowledge, information and opportunities

Tanzina Bangladesh

Example. . l The problem: - l Access to basic services Opposing positions of community and CSDIs & LAs Methodology: - Local – Local Dialogue

Example. . l Results: - l (Cont. ) Change of perception of CSDIs and Las Access ensured through creating innovative option Impact: - Government recognition of right of the urban poor to basic services

Maintaining the Process. . Our target is mainstreaming and replication l Dividing the responsibilities l Sign on commitments l Bringing the media in the process as full partners

Is Success Guaranteed? ! In most of the cases YES, , BUT even if the dialogue leads to no partnership l l This is also a Good Result because the actors are not ready and of course NO RISK

Important Tips. . l Document your actions l Derive lessons and learn from them l Disseminate them to existing and new forums

Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE Programme) @ LIFE New Phase. . GLAN : A Network and a programme to facilitate the knowledge of LIFE and to localize the implementation of the MDGs (through participatory local governance and providing solutions to urban problems)

LIFE GLAN & Knowledge Management Disseminate methodology and knowledge (publications, website and other media) Advisory services To set up Regional Resources Centers

LIFE GLAN & localizing the MDGs l LIFE countries’ networks dealt with 5 million of MDG 7 targeted 100 million squatters for outreach by 2015. l LIFE will continue working among these squatters till 2015, which might lead to double its coverage and contribute achievement of 10% of MDG 7 by 2015.

NOW It’s your time To tell us How we could do this With your …HELP