The Civil Society Urban Development Programme (CSUDP) is a joint effort between urban civil society organizations in Kenya, funded by the Swedish embassy. Its vision is to create vibrant, dignified, and secure living environments for urban communities. CSUDP aims to strengthen coordination between CSOs and local authorities to facilitate equitable and sustainable urban development, especially for the urban poor, through improved access to basic services, governance, and urban planning. It seeks to influence policies around these issues and employ civil society experience to inform legislative and policy development processes in Kenya.

1. The Civil Society Urban Development Programme

4. About Us Our Mission: To facilitate equitable and sustainable urban development through improved management, access to basic services, governance and coordination, particularly fore the urban poor.

6. To facilitate and promote pro-poor basic service delivery by inculcating the rights based approach on both the duty bearers and the right holders

8. Transparency, integrity and accountability

9. Effectiveness, innovation, diversity and creativity

10. Participation, inclusiveness and openness

11. Non-discrimination

12. Sustainable use of environmental services

14. The Challenge – The Three (3) Programme Pillars Access Services/Shelter On this Pillar an assortment of best practices and lessons learnt in pro-poor service delivery exists among the CSO’s actors, these need to inform mainstream planning and design of pro-poor inventions and hence a complement to government efforts at achieving targets such as the MDGs and Vision 2030

15. The Challenge – The Three (3) Programme Pillars Policy Development All actors in the urban development arena work within legal space provided through legislation and polices. The Civil Society stakeholders from their vast experience can make informed contribution to legislative and policy development processes. CSUDP envisages an important role in employing the vast experience and constituency of the CSO’s to make informed contribution to policy developments especially the development of the urban Policy that has just been initiated.

16. The Solution – Five Programme Focus Areas Coordination CSUDP will engage other actors through the Civil Society Urban Forum (CSUF) which is a multi-stakeholder platform that brings together all relevant actors in the informal settlements urban development arena to dialogue and generate consensus on best intervention and policy models that embrace the human rights approach. CSUF participants are drawn from Local Authorities and Line Programme Secretariats at the policy level; CSO’s and NGO’s at the intervention level; and CBO’s at the grassroots level. Exit Show

17. The Solution – The Five (5) Programme Focus Areas Access to Services / Shelter The CSUDP implementing partners will deliver an assortment of best practices and lessons learnt in pro-poor service delivery exists among the CSO’s actors, these need to inform mainstream planning and design of pro-poor inventions and hence a complement to government efforts at achieving targets such as the MDGs and Vision 2030 Exit Show

18. The Solution – Five Programme Focus Areas Governance / Human Rights The CSUDP through CSUF will engage community level consultative groups in the process of ensuring that the voice of the marginalized is effectively captured and the principles of transparency, accountability, inclusiveness and other human rights applied

19. The Solution – Five Programme Focus Areas Urban Planning / Manag. The CSUDP is cognizant of the new approaches and programmes in urban planning and management underway to address among others the growing concern of expanding informal settlements. Specifically CSUDP is paying attention to national programmes such as the Kenya Municipal Programme, the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Programme.

20. The Solution – Five Programme Focus Areas Cross-cutting Issues The CSUDP will apply logic driven mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues such as governance and ethics, human rights, environment management, gender, HIV/AIDS and conflict resolution in the affected urban communities.

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