📋 Tender Overview
NDF grant: EUR 10.0 million
Project Period: 2023 - 2027
Partner Agency: African Development Bank (AfDB)
Implementing Agency: African Development Bank (AfDB)
Objective
The UMDF’s overall objective is to support more climate-resilient, liveable and productive cities in Africa, through improved and resilient infrastructure and service provision in better-planned and governed African partner cities. If African national and local governments have (i) improved governance and financial management, (ii) improved urban planning, and financial and technical support to (iii) invest in sustainable urban development, based on (iv) improved capacities, then the structural capacity and financing gaps on the continent can be reduced which leads to more climate-resilient, liveable and productive cities, underpinning national socio-economic development and poverty reduction.
The UMDF is firmly integrated into the AfDB strategic framework of global, regional, and sector-specific objectives, the overarching objective of which, at AfDB level, is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction. The UMDF is therefore a supporting instrument to achieve the AfDB’s overarching and sector policies, with a special role in supporting the implementation of the new Sustainable Urban Development Action Plan (SUDAP).
The UMDF was designed with the aim of being a flexible instrument to permit applications from various cities and countries with varying levels of development and capacities. The instruments below work together to respond to the demands from cities and there are possibilities to combine instruments to develop concrete investments.
Africa City Program: The Program provides technical assistance to cities to develop City Diagnostics and Action Plans in order to assess a city’s current development status, analyse key challenges including climate risk vulnerabilities, identify and do initial prioritisation and costing on key projects, and an actionable plan for implementation.
Project Preparatory Facility: The Facility provides financial or technical assistance with the aim of preparation and appraisal of high impact AfDB- or partner financed urban low-carbon and resilient infrastructure projects across African Cities. The Facility is demand based.
The Small Grants Initiative: This Initiative responds to the many demands and proposals from cities across the continent. The SGI supports studies, project origination and other small requests up to USD 30,000.
The African Cities Network: Cities that apply the UMDF methodology will be invited to join the African Cities Network. As participants in the Network, they will share experiences, benchmarks, best practices and lessons learned. The objective of the network is to support cross-continent learning and exchange of information and knowledge gained through the UMDF and partner activities.
The UMDF will
