Sustainable Cities

The development objective of Sustainable Cities Project for Turkey is to improve the planning capacity of and access to targeted municipal services in participating municipalities and utilities. This project has three components. (1) Sustainable city planning and management systems component will support reforms including policies and legislation that improve sustainable urban development planning and enhance urban sustainability. This component will be financed through an EU-IPA 2 Recipient Executed Trust Fund Grant worth 25 million US dollars. It has three subcomponents as follows: technical assistance support to municipalities and utilities; preparation of feasibility studies, environmental assessments, and engineering designs; and support in grant management and in improving capacity in managing sustainable city systems. (2) Municipal investments component will finance demand-driven municipal infrastructure investments. (3) Project management component will finance goods and consultancy services for project management, monitoring and evaluation, outreach and communication, and hiring of local technical consultants for the engineering supervision of Component B.