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A Growing Problem
Poverty Statistics
What is Adequate Shelter?
Actions Needed
• Infrastructure
• Investment
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ACTIONS NEEDED
Challenges and Actions Required to Achieve Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11
Recognize that the urban poor are active agents and not passive beneficiaries of development:
- Work with local communities and municipalities to upgrade slums.
- Negotiate planning decisions and the use of public resources.
Improve governance:
- Recognize the “Right to the City.”
- Plan for development.
- Adopt local strategies.
Support and enact local pro-poor policies:
- Enact legislation banning forced evictions and provide security of tenure.
- Take action on land issues.
- Provide adequate and affordable infrastructure and services.
- Enable community contracts and partnerships.
- Build and maintain public transport systems and services.
- Enact building codes and regulations that reflect the needs of communities.
- Plan for adequate alternatives to the formation of new slums.
- Involve the private sector.
- Create jobs citywide.
Mobilize resources and investments:
- Mobilize financial, land, and human resources.
Empower local action:
- Develop and strengthen networks.
- Support international initiatives.
- Adopt Millennium Cities strategies and launch campaigns.
Monitor progress toward Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11:
- Link local actors and local knowledge with global monitoring.
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