[{"bbox": [87, 153, 399, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [97, 199, 1160, 284], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that to make the City of Kigali more inclusive and resilient to climate change, upgrading informal settlements should be targeted as a priority in a pilot approach combining social, economic and environmental angles, providing a blueprint for replication at city scale."}, {"bbox": [97, 301, 1160, 444], "category": "Text", "text": "If a participatory approach to neighbourhood planning is adopted, informal settlements residents are engaged in identifying infrastructure needs and corresponding investments are made in the targeted neighbourhoods, then, provided there is sufficient commitment for community and sufficient capacities at the City of Kigali to drive the process, the access to urban infrastructure and basic services for targeted neighborhoods will be improved (Output 1)."}, {"bbox": [97, 461, 1160, 575], "category": "Text", "text": "If viable operational and financial models are identified and regulatory reforms are piloted to enable the implementation of these models then, provided these models are sufficiently profitable for investors (whether developers or landowners), then access to affordable and decent housing in the selected neighbourhoods will be enhanced (Output 2)."}, {"bbox": [97, 605, 1160, 776], "category": "Text", "text": "If drainage systems to reduce flooding and erosion; using nature-based solutions wherever applicable, are improved, wetlands rehabilitated and if capacity building activities take place to improve compliance with environmental safeguards, as well as on climate vulnerability/risk assessments, then, provided there is effective cross-sectoral collaboration and complementarity with upstream and downstream disaster risk reduction initiatives, infrastructure for minimizing the risks of floods, erosion, landslides and associated impacts on health and economic damages will be improved (Output 3)."}, {"bbox": [97, 806, 1160, 890], "category": "Text", "text": "These three outputs will also be fed by activities seeking to increase public access to accessible and relevant infrastructure investment information and, notably improve monitoring of infrastructure delivery; and to enhance the capacity of local authorities."}, {"bbox": [97, 920, 1160, 1006], "category": "Text", "text": "Should these 3 outputs be achieved, and the political will, collaboration and active engagement of neighbourhood dwellers, local authorities and other key actors be ensured over the course of the action, targeted informal settlements in Kigali will be upgraded (Outcome 1)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1023, 1160, 1166], "category": "Text", "text": "Achieving success in some areas of Kigali with regards to all dimensions mentioned above would lead to provide blueprint for a more systemic city-wide strategy and, ultimately, to replicate the approach to other cities in Rwanda facing the same issues (Overall Objective). A key principle is that the action will implement an urban upgrading strategy that will not expel the existing population, predominantly low-income people (e.g. tenants). Buy-in from the City to uphold this vision in the mid to long term is therefore a critical assumption for the success of the intervention."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 21"}]