1. 2004 Annual Meeting eThekwini, South Africa November 4-5, 2004 Cities Alliance Consultative Group

2. 2004ANNUALMEETING Secretariat Team  Slum Upgrading:William Cobbett  CDS: Peter Palesch  Urban Finance: Rajivan Krishnaswamy  Urban Economy: Pascale Marie-Claude Chabrillat  Communications: Chii Akporji  Programme Analyst: Andrea L. Merrick  Operations: Kevin Milroy  Resource Management: Françoise Aubry-Kendall  Financial Management: V. Rama Krishnan  Programme Assistant: Patria Consuelo Morente  Programme Assistant: Susanna Henderson Regional Advisors  South Asia: Alison Barrett  West Africa:Jose Tonato  LAC: Ivo Imparato Manager: Mark Hildebrand

3. 2004ANNUALMEETING Cities Alliance: The First Five Years  Established first global urban development goal  City Without Slums action plan  Millennium Declaration  MDG Target 11  Focused global knowledge sharing on how to scale-up impacts  city development strategies  citywide slum upgrading  sub-sovereign financing …new tools and practical approaches now being mainstreamed by our members and partners  Linkage to investments for implementation  $40m grants linked to $4,7bn investments

4. 2004ANNUALMEETING Cities Alliance: The First Five Years  Membership is broadening –  Brazil joined this year, and discussions underway with:  South Africa  Morocco  India  China  Engagement of members is deepening and strengthening coherence of effort  Creation of UCLG is historic opportunity to strengthen role of cities in the Alliance  Spain  European Commission

5. 2004ANNUALMEETING Looking Forward – The Next Five Years  Cities Alliance Charter aims to:  improve the quality of urban development cooperation and lending;  strengthen the impact of urban development cooperation;  expand resources reaching the urban poor by increasing coherence and focusing on scaling-up;  advance collective know-how.  Achieving these goals requires engaging the vision, knowledge and political commitment of city leadership

6. 2004ANNUALMEETING Looking Forward – The Next Five Years  Priorities  Strengthen working relationship with UCLG and its regional networks  Recognise a leadership role for cities and UCLG within the Cities Alliance ASIA LAC AFRICA MENA UCLG ASPAC Citynet FLACMA CCRA MDP EMME AUDI

7. 2004ANNUALMEETING Looking Forward – The Next Five Years  Defining new relationships with local governments in Africa  Nationally  Improved links with national local government associations;  Burkina Faso, Niger, South Africa.  Regionally  Council of Cities and Regions of Africa (CCRA);  Nepad Cities Initiative.  Globally  Institutionalize working relationship with UCLG.

8. 2004ANNUALMEETING Looking Forward – The Next Five Years  Unleashing the potential of cities  Key lessons from our 2004 Annual Report:  Realize the positive impacts of urbanisation by addressing cities’ performance constraints;  Encourage cities to be proactive developers of urban infrastructure by mobilising domestic capital;  Recognize that migration is one of the most effective coping strategies for the rural poor;  Predicate policies on the growth of cities and peri-urban areas to avoid the next generation of slums. MAIN MESSAGE: Instead of debating the contribution of cities to development, more energy needs to be spent on unblocking it.

9. 2004ANNUALMEETING Looking Forward – The Next Five Years  Improve Portfolio Quality  Respond to city and national government leadership;  Strengthen emphasis on financial sustainability, local resources;  Consolidate where cities have clear vision.  Promote Next Generation of Activities  SACN  Brazil  Bombay  Hyderabad  Morocco  MFTF

10. 2004ANNUALMEETINGHttp://www.citiesalliance.org eThekwini, South Africa. November 4-5, 2004