The Partnership for Sustainable Urbanization is a collaboration of the World Bank, DFID, the Government of Norway, and the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

CMAP is a is a collaboration between local and international community organisers, urban designers, filmmakers, broadcasters, architects, researchers and residents from across Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s informal settlements.

The AAPS is a peer-to-peer network of schools, departments or programmes, located at institutions of higher education on the African continent, offering degrees in city/urban and/or regional/rural planning.

The Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme for Habitat III commissioned this technical background paper on the implications of, and the value added by, partnerships with civil society organisations for implementing the New Urban Agenda at various levels.

This article by Julian Baskin, Head of Programmes at the Cities Alliance, and Dr. Rene Peter Hohmann, Sr. Urban Specialist, reviews the South African National Upgrading Support Programme (NUSP), a project facilitated by the Cities Alliance.