The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative
(ESCI) 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.
ESCI
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.
