City Development Consultants - UN-HABITAT

*Request for Expression of Interests from City Development Consultants*

UN-HABITAT Indonesia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works – Directorate General of Human Settlements (DGHS) is calling for interested experienced consultants to register their interest and submit their updated cv’s. In early 2010, DGHS and UN-HABITAT plan to start a new programme on pro-poor and participatory urban development planning.

Funded by the Cities Alliance and building on the earlier experiences to promote citywide development and funding strategies (‘CDS’) in Indonesia and elsewhere, the programme shall engage consulting teams and three city governments to develop best practice city development strategies that lead to new urban investments. Together with Surakarta, Pekalongan and Banjarmasin, a new generation of CDS consultations and planning documents will be developed, concrete investments assisted and training provided to other cities to share in the lessons-learned. For DGHS, the 18 month programme will be an opportunity to improve the available urban mid-term investment planning instruments.

The consultants should have proven strengths in consultative planning processes engaging citizens groups directly, creative skills to present planning ideas for a citywide public and/or a good understanding how to go from strategy to investment action, either institutionally, regulatory, financially or entrepreneurially.

Further information on how to apply is available at:
www.unhabitat-indonesia.org

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