India
April 2015 - December 2020
India
December 2014 - November 2019
India
01 December 2014 - 31 January 2023
India
01 September 2013 - 31 March 2021
India
01 December 2015 - 31 October 2020
Planning and implementation of a sustainable urban transport system is improved in selected Indian cities.
The SMART-SUT project is implemented by the Indian Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH as the main project partner. The finances of the project are provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Its operations started in August 2017 and the project ends in June 2022. The main goal of the project is to improve the planning and implementation of sustainable urban transport systems in selected Indian cities.
The Project works at all three levels of government which are national, state and city. At the national level, most of the activities are anchored with the Urban Transport (UT) Division of MoHUA and some with the Smart Cities Mission Division. It works with the three Smart Cities of Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, and Kochi, and the respective state-level Urban and Transport Departments of Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. Upscaling measures are ongoing in Cuttack (Odisha), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Salem, and Madurai (Tamil Nadu) and other cities.
The project is part of the Green Urban Mobility Partnership (GUMP), a strategic partnership of the Indo-German bilateral cooperation between MoHUA and BMZ. This partnership between the German and Indian Governments was agreed upon in November 2019 and is planned to be in place till 2030. The stakeholders are the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ, and KfW (German Financial Cooperation).
Non-motorized transport, Capacity Development, alternative fuels, bus route optimization, tactical urbanism
Indian urban dwellers, transport planners, municipal administration, national ministries, state ministries, urban local bodies
India
August 2017 - June 2022
Provide increased access to fresher, regional food in adequate hygienic environment to urban inhabitants in Bangalore and 5 surrounding districts
To achieve the project objective, following will be two main areas of intervention:
A: Supply Chains for regional fruits & vegetables (F&V) are more effective and efficient:
The project team will work with five Farmer Producing Organizations (FPOs) in Karnataka to improve post-harvest management practices, operationalizing new marketing channels and improving efficiencies in logistics for each of the identified FPOs. Activities include grading and labeling to market requirements, developing direct marketing channels to end consumers, transport consolidation wherever feasible along the FPO’s supply chains. An improved marketing and logistics shall lead to decrease in waste and food mileage leading to a reduction of CO2 emissions and food losses as well as increased satisfaction of urban consumers.
B: Management as well as social and health standards for points of sale of fresh food are improved:
The project team will work with public authorities and all relevant stakeholders to transform an unorganized street market into a clean hygienic and attractive street market for the neighborhood. The approach will be to systematically create basic public infrastructure facilities, formalize and develop sustainable street market management systems through a participative & transparent planning process in the selected street market and ensure improvements to the infrastructure and hygiene conditions.
In addition, capacity building of FPOs and street vendors in enabling marketing and street market management skills will be carried out. Also, dissemination of these experiences through the Government Authorities for replication in other informal street markets are other activities envisaged.
India
November 2014 - December 2017
Within the Indo-German Partnership, the “Land Use Planning and Management Project” by GIZ, the Ministry of Rural Development and the two State Governments of Tamil Nadu and Odisha aims to improve the general culture of spatial planning in India. It wants to contribute to a better spatial governance that helps to avoid conflicts of land uses and spatial disorder. It aims to clarify the responsibilities for a spatial planning within the public administrations.
One core aspect of the project is to revive the constitutional provision of a spatial District Planning. This scale offers a great chance to introduce a consistent, normative and systematic spatial planning that covers the full country with a unique toolkit of instruments and guidelines. District Planning furthermore can help to introduce spatial and land use planning to the rural areas. It can continuously describe the use of land for both, urban and rural areas, and thus can become a great tool for avoiding the urban sprawl with its negative side effects on climate and environment. The project is in line with the general idea to promote the “compact city” that strengthens as well the urban, the rural and the nature.
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India
June 2014 - October 2018
During the past decade, the number of Indian towns and cities with over 5,000 inhabitants has grown rapidly. A 2014 UN-backed report estimates the population in India’s towns and cities will reach 600 million by 2031. According to the New Climate Economy Report by The
Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, such “unprecedented growth is leaving municipal governments with critical infrastructure shortages and service gaps.”
A major component of the infrastructure and services, the water supply and waste water management system, has not been able to keep pace with the needs of the rising urban population. Only around 10 per cent of all towns and cities have a sewerage network. A large portion of the waste water does not even reach sewage treatment facilities. Mostly, untreated waste water flows into surface as well as groundwater and pollutes these water sources. The management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in urban areas has emerged as a severe problem not only because of environmental and aesthetic concerns but also because of the large quantities generated every day.
Looking to address such challenges, in 2008, India’s Ministry for Urban Development launched the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP), a comprehensive policy framework for municipal sanitation systems
facilitating their improvement. In 2014, the central government reinforced its commitment by launching the Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission). The ministry also launched Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Smart Cities,
the two other important missions targeted to urban development, which focus on improving infrastructure and services in Indian cities.
While the missions provide opportunities for positive development, the administration of cities are facing the challenge of limited expertise, manpower and experience to fulfill the objectives of these initiatives.
India
01 April 2014 - 30 September 2018
Integrated, whole-city planning is vital for improving quality of life for all urban residents.
Urbanisation is accelerating everywhere in India: rapid population growth has turned villages into towns and towns into cities. The dividing line between rural and urban is no longer clear-cut. Administrative structures at local, state and national level struggle to manage such complexity and rapid change. Without a ‘joined-up’ approach, it is not always clear where responsibilities lie: who provides basic public services like water, sanitation and waste collection? Where, when and by whom is infrastructure built? Without planning, urbanisation has a devastating impact on the environment: wastewater pollutes surface and groundwater; fertile land becomes unproductive.
As the population expands to occupy more physical space, land becomes an increasingly precious commodity, land and house prices rise, and pressure increases on green areas and public spaces, both from developers and from the urban poor who, excluded from the housing market, make their homes on any available space. In 2012, over 18 million families in India were living in inadequate housing, mostly poor and in urban areas.
The Inclusive Cities Partnership Programme (ICPP) with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and selected state governments promote an integrated and holistic view of city planning. First, all three levels of government – central, state and municipal – need to work together, and need to interact also with the private sector and civil society. Second, planning should consider the whole city perspective, dependencies of any intervention. Third, inclusive cities design policies and programmes that favour the poor and marginalised, for example increasing access to affordable housing. Finally, liveable cities are more than just houses and workplaces: parks and green spaces, clean air, culture, public spaces… all of these determine quality of life.
India
01 July 2014 - 28 February 2018