Why in news? ‘City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain 2.0 (CITIIS 2.0)’, launched

About CITIIS 2.0

• Implemented by – Ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA)
• Partners – French Development Agency (AFD), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the European Union (EU), and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)
• Period of implementation – 2023 to2027
• Aims – leverage and scale up the learnings and successes of CITIIS 1.0 ( launched in 2018)
• What it entails –
  • Construction of a circular economy with related projects such as combined waste management
  • Climate change observatories and institutional strengthening and knowledge dissemination at the national level
  • Program Management Unit (PMU) at NIUA will coordinate the provision of technical assistance and strategic support to state governments
• Components –
  • Financial and technical support for developing projects focused on building climate resilience
  • Adaptation and mitigation in up to 18 smart cities at centre, State and city levels to further climate governance
• Support to States and Union Territories
  • on-demand basis
  • set up/strengthen their existing state climate centres/ climate cells/ equivalents
  • create state and city-level climate data observatories
  • facilitate climate-data-driven planning, develop climate action plans
  • build capacities of municipal functionaries