Kota Kita provided technical assistance for a project implemented by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to strengthen capacity for designing and implementing resilience development investment targeted at the urban poor in Indonesia. In the initial implementation phase, we are contributing to the development of a country report providing information that includes:

1. Possible and appropriate approaches for strengthening the resilience of urban poor by including interventions at the household, community, and local government level

2. Capacity building needs of national government and city governments in designing and implementing resilience-building investments targeted at urban poor,

3. Investment opportunities for strengthening the resilience of the urban poor

Through this project, Kota Kita provided our expertise on urban development and urban poverty in Indonesia and was actively involved through a series of national workshops and data collection at the ministerial level. Working with International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Kota Kita has linked both national and international expertise in a collaboration to build a national report, which will inform further processes for the project preparatory phase and project implementation.

The initial process of the project began in November 2018 through a national inception meeting with the ministerial government, national civil society, and academia. This was followed by a series of preliminary data collection through meeting with several ministries such as Bappenas (Ministry of Development Planning), Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Home Affairs,  National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB)  and the National Committee for Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K).