Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC)

Scale
National
Sub-national
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Specialist
Resource Type
Technical Support
Language
English
French
Spanish
Membership Requirement
No
Support Type
Direct Support
Developer or Source
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC) is the IDB’s non-reimbursable technical assistance program providing direct support to national and subnational governments in the development and execution of city Action Plans. ESC employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to tackle the main roadblocks that prevent the sustainable growth of emerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. This transversal approach is based on three pillars: (i) environmental and climate change sustainability, (ii) urban sustainability, and (iii) fiscal sustainability and governance.