India-UK PACT Market Engagement Webinar: urban planning and mobility sector

Join our market engagement webinar to find out how you can apply for grant funding for the urban planning and mobility Call for Proposals within the UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme in India. Please note, this event will be hosted in English.

Who is this event for?

We invite all organisations with relevant experience in delivering technical assistance and capacity-building projects in the urban planning and mobility sector to register. This could be both international and local think-tanks, consultancies, academic institutions, NGOs, professional associations, or any similar organisations with the knowledge, skills and experience to receive grant funding and deliver an eligible project.  

What will we be funding?

We are looking to award grant funding for projects aimed at supporting the municipal corporations in Thoothukodi and Erode, located in Tamil Nadu, India. This funding will accelerate low-carbon development and strengthen climate resilience, improve governance, and facilitate the delivery of integrated urban planning and sustainable mobility solutions in these cities. Project activities should be directed towards providing technical assistance and capacity-building for key counterparts.  

Funding is available for one project each covering all the three themes in the city of Erode and  Thoothukudi as mentioned below. We welcome applications from a consortium that could deliver on all the three themes in each city. A single consortium can apply for all themes across both the two cities. The consortium must endeavour to have one local partner from the state.

• Theme 1- Integrating climate into city level urban plans: Develop a climate-integrated urban planning and governance strategy across sectors, to be prioritised by the city administration, which maximises climate mitigation goals along with adaptation co-benefits, while also supporting capacity-building of key city departments for enabling institutionalisation.
• Theme 2- Climate data-driven approaches to urban planning and mobility: Develop a climate-integrated data-driven urban planning and mobility framework across key public (municipal) services for city-level decisions, leveraging existing data-related infrastructure such as the integrated command and control centres.
  
• Theme 3- Access to accelerated climate finance: Technical assistance for strengthening the city’s financial planning and budgeting process to maximise climate mitigation benefits and adaptation co-benefits, while designing innovative financial/ business models that can access climate finance for delivering climate integrated priority projects.  

UK PACT may also support the urban planning and mobility sector in Tamil Nadu, including supplementing these grant projects, for larger impact, using smaller pieces of technical assistance called Expert Deployments. Examples of short-term expert deployments may involve a review of a city master plan to integrate climate mitigation, finance and governance strategies; long-term deployments would provide embedded expertise to government agencies to bolster capacity and/or support the delivery of portfolios.

Visit the India-UK PACT web page to learn more about our work.