[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "Development Unit and its potential contribution to future implementation of integrated urban policies. To ensure regional and global coherence, the Urban Observatory could also serve as an entry point for connecting Ghanaian cities to a global network of cities and expertise."}, {"bbox": [97, 257, 487, 284], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Indicative activities relating to Output 1.2:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 284, 1134, 520], "category": "Text", "text": "Urban services and investment are often planned and managed from a sectoral perspective, which leads to an unefficient use of resources, inadequate services and unappropriate answer to the challenges of climate change. To improve quality of planning but also sustainability, it is essential to move towards a more comprehensive and integrated approach anchoring planning and prioritisation within the context of spatial planning. The MMDA Planning and Coordinating Units (entities responsible for multi-sectoral planning and development plans at district level) will be strengthened through a capacity building programme (to be possibly complemented by on-the-job training, city-to-city exchanges both nationally and internationally). The programme will be developed with the Local Government Service (LGS), based on a need assessment of the MMDA in northern Ghana, and implemented at local level to cover issues such as:"}, {"bbox": [134, 522, 1133, 576], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Integrated urban planning, focusing on the need to develop a vision (mid & long-term priorities), integrate resilience and climate change reality, promote dense/compact development, use a participatory approach;"}, {"bbox": [134, 576, 1133, 629], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Spatial planning, land management, focusing on the use of appropriate cadastral, plot demarcation and attribution practice, land digital information/management systems and land value capture;"}, {"bbox": [134, 629, 1133, 681], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Project design and management, focusing on the ability to mobilise domestic and external investment/funding, and on monitoring;"}, {"bbox": [134, 682, 1133, 759], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Data management, focusing on collection and updating of database at local level (in relation to the Urban Observatory) in collaboration with the M&E Unit of MLGDRD, GSS and NDPC and aligned to existing data collection mechanisms and tools;"}, {"bbox": [134, 761, 675, 788], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Municipal finance and domestic resource mobilisation."}, {"bbox": [97, 800, 1129, 987], "category": "Text", "text": "Because there is a limited recognition of “integrated urban planning” as a discipline – development planners are economic planners, physical planners are infrastructure specialists – academia will also contribute to the training modules and to change this perception. In addition, an assessment of the existing curricula offered by academic institutions in Ghana on topics related to urban planning, environmental management and climate mitigation will be conducted and a strategy developed to increase and improve the education offer (part of phase 2). At national level, similar training modules will target the capacity of the Ministries (MLGDRD and others) in their strategic and technical advisory role to equally ensure a culture and understanding of integrated urban development."}, {"bbox": [97, 1011, 487, 1036], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Indicative activities relating to Output 1.3:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1037, 1134, 1223], "category": "Text", "text": "The supported MMDAs will benefit from technical assistance for the implementation and the revision of legal and strategic frameworks to foster Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM). A strategy and operational plans will be developed to effectively increase the revenue directly generated, accessed and utilised by district assemblies, while ensuring an adequate allocation of spending for social services, in particular for marginalised groups. Support will also target reforms of tax policies (including environmental taxes and lands value capture), improvement of accountability mechanisms for budget execution, promotion of the role of the civil society and citizen's awareness raising campaign to build tax-payer \"education\"."}, {"bbox": [97, 1235, 1133, 1369], "category": "Text", "text": "Directly related to improving urban planning and increasing mobilisation of domestic resources, technical assistance and provision of equipment will be at the core of the support provided to the MMDAs to transform their tools and mainstream digital technologies for improved delivery of urban services. This technical support will include, in particular, the provision and training on the use of financial and geo-data/referencing (GIS) open-source software to increase MMDAs internally generated funds."}, {"bbox": [97, 1393, 487, 1418], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Indicative activities relating to Output 2.1:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1419, 1133, 1579], "category": "Text", "text": "Complementing the capacity building programmes described above (related to Outputs 1.2 and 1.3), planning units will be trained to increase their knowledge in climate change adaptation and mitigation and of the use of related tools such as Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), Environmental & Social Impact Assessments (ESIA). The targeted cities will be supported in preparing strategies to fight against climate change and, when appropriate, in translating or updating in their local development plans the Ghanaian climate commitments and targets (including the NDCs), and track progress of implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 1604, 487, 1631], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Indicative activities relating to Output 3.1:**"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 25"}]