Increased application of United Nations global agreements at the national and local levels, including those within the Istanbul Declaration and the Habitat Agenda that promote sustainable human development in an urbanizing world, capacity-building and institutional development, as well as those included in Agenda 21 and under section 1.7, Social and economic dimensions, of the Rio Declaration

Introduction of strategies and programmes of intervention, including municipal financing and investment programmes to reduce poverty at the urban level, which is facilitated, monitored and evaluated by the sub-regional task forces focused on policy design and assessment, which are to be established under the project. In this connection, a set of indicators and databases for monitoring urban poverty will be developed and management experiences will be compiled in the region

Access for local governments and urban institutions to new economic instruments to develop a better framework of municipal income and expenditure. Newly developed economic instruments will be exchanged and lessons learned widely disseminated among urban governments and NGO's at the sub-regional levels; Launch of an integrated urban management programme for the improvement of the relationship of human settlements to socio-economic development