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.


CI Portal |
CI Advisory Platform |
CI Vehicles |
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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 |
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Draft Project Agreements |
Final Financial Model & Project Economics Determined |
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Intermediate Financial Model & Associated Analysis |
Operation Design / EPC + O&M Tender / Vendor Selection |
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UN-Habitat Flagship programmes |
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Draft Technical Assessment |
Final ESIA / Establish ESAP & ESMP → Implement ESAP / ESMP |
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ESIA Scope of Work |
Permitting / Licences / Rights of Way, Implemented |
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Track2 |
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UN-Habitat Projects |
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Identification and Status of Required Permits and Approvals |
Identify and Implement PRI, Construction & Commercial Insurances |
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Identification and Status of Land/Rights-of-Way |
Project Finance Or 3P Equity Tendering / Lender(s) Selection → Financial Close (Debt/Equity) |
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SDG Cities Global Initiatives |
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Viability Grant Funding Application → Grant Funding secured and drawn |
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Track3 |
Re-apply |
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Track4 |
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Donor Funded |
Blended Finance |