The Mongolia City Development Strategies for Secondary Cities Project (CDS-2), funded by Cities Alliance and implemented by PADCO under World Bank Contract No. 80010043, provided assistance to selected secondary cities in Mongolia to develop new visions and strategic plans for their future development. Since the project began in April 2004, the five secondary cities of Erdenet, Darkhan, Tsetserleg, Khovd and Choibalsan have: diagnosed their development status; analyzed their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT); and identified key issues and assets; clarified their city development visions through a participatory process; formulated City Development Strategies (CDS) and prioritized actions plans to realize the adopted visions; and shared and discuss the outputs at four milestone workshops.
The CDSs and action plans prepared under this project are designed to provide a strategic framework for improved rural-urban linkages and will form the basis of support to the cities from the national government and donors. The Strategies build on strengths in each city to create an enabling environment for economic growth, to alleviate poverty through job creation and sustainable livelihoods, to build institutional capacity for improved governance, and to ensure the sustainability of the proposed projects and programs. A participatory approach involving all stakeholders was emphasized in the planning process to meet the above objectives. Transparency, comprehensiveness in the planning process and consensus among stakeholders at the local level on development priorities are keys to this approach. The methodology employed includes a four-stage stakeholder consultation process, seeking inputs on four questions: (a) Where are we now? (b) Where would we like to be? (c) What issues do we need to address? and (d) What action must we take to get there?  Read the full report (pdf format, 5.2MB)
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