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The Value of Well-Managed
Cities in USAID Programs
Anthony Kolb
USAID Urban Health Advisor
ICMA Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
19 September 2011
My talking points
 Evolution of USAID’s urban programming
 Current priorities (GCC, FtF, GHI)
 How can USAID benefit from ICMA
expertise?
USAID Regional Urban
Development Offices
(RUDOs)
Circa 2000
RUDO/E&E (Sofia) Slated for early 2001
Albania, Romania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Croatia, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
Staff: 2 (1 USDH, 1 FSN)
USAID
Office of Infrastructure and Engineering
RUDO/Morocco
(Rabat)
RUDO/LAC
(GuatemalaEnergy
City)
Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras,
Panama, Paraguay,
Dominican Republic
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia,
Nicaragua, El Salvador
Staff: 6 (2 USDH, 3 FSNs, 1 PSC)
Morocco
Egypt, Jordan,
West Bank/Gaza
Staff: 2 (1 USDH,
1 FSN)
Information
Communication
Technology (ICT)
RUDO/Southeast Asia
(Jakarta)
Urban Programs
RUDO/South Asia
(New Delhi)
India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Nepal
Staff: 5 (2 USDH, 3 FSNs)
5 person team
in Washington
RUDO/Southern Africa (Pretoria)
Red: Active Countries
Green: Potential Countries
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia
Botswana, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria
Staff: 5 (3 USDH, 2 FSNs)
Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines
Mongolia, Cambodia
Staff: 4 (2 USDH, 2 FSNs)
Engineering
Services
Direction moving forward
What has been suggested:
a) Better integrate sectoral
programs across the urban
landscape
b) Seek synergies among assistance
programs
Key Foreign Assistance Initiatives
• Global Climate Change (GCC)
• Feed the Future (FtF)
• Global Health Initiative (GHI)
Global Climate Change (GCC)
Adaptation Costs - largely urban
Sector
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Water supply
Human health
Coastal zones
Infrastructure
Extreme events
Total
2005 Constant Prices, 0% Discounting
Source: World Bank Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
($ billions)
Climate Scenarios
DRY
WET
2.5
2.6
19.7
14.4
1.5
2.0
27.6
28.5
13.0
27.5
6.4
6.7
71.2
81.5
Feed the Future (FfF)
1) Improved Food Markets
Expanding access to larger and better
functioning regional markets – making the
Rural-Urban connection
Feed the Future (FtF)
2) Nutrition of Vulnerable Groups
• Urban poor lack subsistence safety net
• Most vulnerable to global price spikes
Global Health Initiative (GHI)
Urban Poor = The fastest growing demographic
Sanitation
140
120
121
109
100
74
80
69
60
55
60
40
20
0
IMR
% Underweight
% Stunted
Infant Mortality and Nutrition: Poorest Quintiles in India ‘92-‘93
Source: Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population, The World Bank, 2000
Urban
Rural
Global Health Initiative (GHI)
One billion urban dwellers lack safe water and sanitation and
we’re losing ground!
Region
Water
Sanitation
How has ICMA
already helped?
My firsthand
experience…
Moving forward
• Good governance is key to all initiatives
Hoping for continued
“Teaming”
success
• In a rapidly urbanizing
world
– improved city
governance is especially
…with critical
ICMA
• In that world, North American urban challenges
start to look a lot like common global challenges
City Partnerships
Kabul, Afghanistan
Rioverde, Mexico and Campbell, California
Good governance at the core