New Urban Agenda
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programmes and projects for implementing the New Urban Agenda, particu larly in
developing countries.
143. We support access to different multilateral funds, including the Green Climate
Fund, the Global Environment Facility, the Adaptation Fund and the Climate
Investment Funds, among others, to secure resources for climate change adaptation
and mitigation plans, policies, programmes and actions for subnational and local
governments, within the framework of agreed procedures. We will collaborate with
subnational and local financial institutions, as appropriate, to develop climate
finance infrastructure solutions and to create appropriate mechanisms for identifying
catalytic financial instruments, consistent with any national framework in place to
ensure fiscal and debt sustainability at all levels of government.
144. We will explore and develop feasible solutions to climate and disaster risks in
cities and human settlements, including by collaborating with insurance and
reinsurance institutions and other relevant actors with regard to investments in urban
and metropolitan infrastructure, buildings and other urban assets, as well as for local
populations to secure their shelter and economic needs.
145. We support the use of international public finance, including official
development assistance, among other things, to catalyse additional resource
mobilization from all available sources, public and private, for sustainable urban
and territorial development. This may include the mitigation of risks for potential
investors, in recognition of the fact that international public finance plays an
important role in complementing the efforts of countries to mobilize public
resources domestically, especially in the poorest and most vulnerable countries with
limited domestic resources.
146. We will expand opportunities for North-South, South-South and triangular
regional and international cooperation, as well as subnational, decentralized and
city-to-city cooperation, as appropriate, to contribute to sustainable urban
development, developing capacities and fostering exchanges of urban solutions and
mutual learning at all levels and by all relevant actors.
147. We will promote capacity development as a multifaceted approach that
addresses the ability of multiple stakeholders and institutions at all levels of
governance and combines the individual, societal and institutional capac ity to
formulate, implement, enhance, manage, monitor and evaluate public policies for
sustainable urban development.
148. We will promote the strengthening of the capacity of national, subnational and
local governments, including local government associa tions, as appropriate, to work
with women and girls, children and youth, older persons and persons with
disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, and those in vulnerable
situations, as well as with civil society, academia and research institu tions in
shaping organizational and institutional governance processes, enabling them to
participate effectively in decision-making about urban and territorial development.
149. We will support local government associations as promoters and providers of
capacity development, recognizing and strengthening, as appropriate, both their
involvement in national consultations on urban policies and development priorities
and their cooperation with subnational and local governments, along with civil
society, the private sector, professionals, academia and research institutions, and
their existing networks, to deliver on capacity development programmes. This
should be done by means of peer-to-peer learning, subject matter-related
partnerships and collaborative actions, such as inter-municipal cooperation, on a
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