Structure & Process

Overview

The Cities Investment Facility and its implementing partners provide advisory services and/or financial support, in SDG, technical and investability realms to prepare projects for investments, connect projects to investors, participate in financial products design and provide projects a platform to showcase their progress.

Selected projects actively participate in all three pillars of CIF, the Cities Investment Portal, Cities Investment Advisory Portal and Cities Investment Vehicles, which maintain a close relationship and function within an effective feedback loop supporting and cooperating with each other.

A platform which allows city officials to reach out to a global audience of investors, bringing together a community of stakeholders at the ideation stage. The Portal will display information about available projects, host a grant platform, and a knowledge hub.

An incubated initiative advising pre-feasibility and upstream project preparation and design, bankability, and SDG-impact.

Brokers within which diverse and blended sources of capital can be pooled to finance de-risked, bankable, and sustainable urbanization projects.

The Cities Investment Portal, Cities Investment Advisory Portal and Cities Investment Vehicles maintain a close relationship and function within an effective feedback loop supporting and cooperating with each other.
CI Portal
CI Advisory Platform
CI Vehicles

Intake

Project Selection Committee

Concept to mid-stage development

Late-stage development

Financial Close

Open calls

Track1

Evidence of Continued Government Support

Definitive Project Agreements & Guarantees

Draft Project Agreements

Final Financial Model & Project Economics Determined

Intermediate Financial Model & Associated Analysis

Operation Design / EPC + O&M Tender / Vendor Selection

UN-Habitat Flagship programmes

Draft Technical Assessment

Final ESIA / Establish ESAP & ESMP → Implement ESAP / ESMP

ESIA Scope of Work

Permitting / Licences / Rights of Way, Implemented

Track2

UN-Habitat Projects

Identification and Status of Required Permits and Approvals

Identify and Implement PRI, Construction & Commercial Insurances

Identification and Status of Land/Rights-of-Way

Project Finance Or 3P Equity Tendering / Lender(s) Selection → Financial Close (Debt/Equity)

SDG Cities Global Initiatives

Viability Grant Funding Application → Grant Funding secured and drawn

Track3

Re-apply

Track4

Donor Funded

Blended Finance