Issue - 18
March 2024
Monthly
In our endeavour to link NBS with the UrbanShift Country Project goals, an RfP on Guidelines for Preparing Resilient Coastal Zone Development Plan (RCZDP) was published on 10 January 2024. The bids received were opened on 20 February 2024. The Project Management Unit (PMU) at NIUA, is now evaluating them as per the pre-qualification criteria of the RfP.
Stakeholder consultations were initiated with the Divisional Commissioner of Pune United Metropolitan Transport Authority (PUMTA) to further the project activity of preparing the Roadmap of Institutionalising and Operationalising Urban Transport Fund (UTF).
NIUA has entered into a Strategic partnership with GIZ for the phase-II of Sustainable Urban Development - Smart Cities (SUDSC) project and is rendering an ‘end-to-end’ ecosystem support in executing the following 4 components i.e., Policy Support, Capacity Development, Mainstreaming Innovations and Knowledge Exchange.
Snapshots of the recent advancements:
Capacity Development
NIUA has supported executing the Capacity Budling program on Data Analytics and Visualisation (DAV) in the partner states/ cities.
Mainstreaming Innovations
Knowledge Exchange
7th SUDSC Webinar series was initiated for deliberations on themes of Climate resilience, Digital innovations, and Municipal finance. The 7th webinar under this series titled 'Climate-proofing Urban Infrastructure (focus on Flood Resilience)' was conducted on 23 February 2024.
The webinar focussed:
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Editor: Ila Singh