Volume: 2 Issue: 1

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Urbanization is an essential pre-

requisite for development, Urban

areas are required to be better planned

and managed for providing improved

living conditions and economic

opportunities. Improved education,

heal th, environment , securi ty,

transportation and employment

opportunities are the major reasons for

the migration of rural population to the

urban centers.

T h e G o v e r n m e n t o f K h y b e r

Pakhtunkhwa has taken many new

initiatives to improve the living

conditions in the urban centres

through proper planning and good

governance.

To ensure the success of these

provincial initiatives, the Government

of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established

the Urban Policy and Planning Unit in

the P&D Department.

This unit is working in an integrated

manner towards improving urban

governance, planning, management

and development through research

and consultations with Provincial

Line Departments, Donor Agencies,

Academia and all other stakeholders.

I am pleased to observe that the Urban

Policy and Planning Unit is working in

a pro-active manner on framing urban

related laws, policies, studies, and

c o n d u c t i n g r e s e a r c h t o w a r d s

resolving urban issues in the province

of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The quarterly newsletter issued by the

Urban Policy and Planning Unit

published on a regular basis provides a

platform for informing all the

stakeholders regarding the ongoing

and new initiatives being undertaken

in the urban sectors.

I congratulate the Urban Policy and

Planning Unit, P&D Department

which encourages the stakeholders in

p r o v i d i n g f e e d b a c k a n d

recommendations for improving the

urbanization in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Message from Additional Chief SecretaryP&D Department

(Dr. Shahzad Khan Bangash)

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Major Achievements of The Unit

For Raising Urban Standards

Intermediate Cities Improvement

Investment Plan Prepared

Citizens Sensitization DriveConducted On Urban Issues

UPU Will Conduct Structural Auditof Secretariat Buildings

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Briefing to newly posted ExecutiveDirector Regarding UPU Mandate

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Urban Policy and Planning Unit

(UPPU) in the Planning and

D e v e l o p m e n t D e p a r t m e n t

(P&DD), Government of Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa was established

with the mandate to improve

urban governance, planning,

management and development in

the rapid growing urban centers of the

province.I am pleased to see that this specialized Unit is focusing

on urbanization issues and develop plans, strategies,

laws, polices and conducting studies in several urban

sectors i .e. Urban Planning/Town Planning,

improvement of Urban Transportation, Water &

Sanitation, Solid Waste Management, Institutional

Development, Urban Architecture, Urban Environment

& Economy and Geographic Information System

(GIS).

We are fortunate that the Urban Policy and Planning

Unit has committed to formulate policies and plans to

ensure that the urban centers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

are emerging as the engines of social, economic and

cultural growth.I am pleased to inform that UPPU is a demand

responsive unit, catalyzing and supporting formulation

of sector policies, institutional reforms, and capacity

development in the Provincial Line Departments, to

manage urbanization; with improved accountability

mechanisms.The Urban Policy and Planning Unit regularly issues its

Quarterly Newsletter to build a strong two-way

communication between the Unit & stakeholders. We l o o k f o r w a r d t o y o u r f e e d b a c k a n d

recommendations that would help us in improving

urban areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Newly posted Executive Director of Urban Policy &

Planning Unit, P&D Department, Mr. Aamir Afaq had a

detailed briefing with UPU team to review the progress of

the Unit.

Executive Director was thoroughly briefed regarding the

progress of Strategic Development Plans, Provincial

Landuse, transport planning, Urban Architecture, GIS, etc.

The Executive Director highlighted that UPU has a

challenging mandate. As a team, everyone should be

determined to dedicatedly work for transforming cities of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into engines of economic growth via

its research & planning initiatives.

Executive Director also hoped that UPU would focus on

streamlining the urbanization issues in the Province

through dynamic approach and would devise a consistent

reach-out strategy for regular consultation with the citizens

& all other relevant stakeholders for their active

participation in sustainable development.

Briefing to newly posted Executive Director Regarding UPU Mandate

(Mr. Zahir Shah)

Message from Secretary, P&DD

Major Achievements Of The Unit For Raising Urban Standards

Urban Policy & Planning Unit (UPPU), Planning and

Development Department (P&DD), Government of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is committed to improve urban

governance, management, planning and development in

the urban centers of the province. Several urban sectors

have been identified to work in for raising urban standards

in the province.

The Unit is also determined to take initiatives for

formulating laws, policies and essential studies to

improve the living standards that the citizens may live

safe and prosperous.

Since the establishment, the Unit has been working on

various assignments to improve urban transportation

system, Urban Planning & City Strategic Development

Plans for divisional headquarters of the province,

Sustainable water & sanitation, boosting institutional

capacity of the existing entities as well establishment of

new institutions.

Urban Policy Unit in collaboration with various donor

agencies initiated several planning and policy reforms (as

some detailed below) in the best interest of the public.

a) Water Supply and sanitation Master Plan for

Peshawar.

b) Beautification Master Plan for Peshawar

c) Pre-Feasibility Study for Peshawar BRT

d) Identification of Slums and informal Settlements

in Peshawar and Kohat

e) KP Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment

Project

f) Provincial Land Use Plan for the Districts of

Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Swabi and

Mardan

a) Identification of Slums and informal Settlements

in Mardan, Nowshera, Abbottabad, Mansehra and

DI Khan

b) City Strategic Development Master Plans For

Seven Divisional Headquarters

PLANS IN PIPELINE:

a) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urban Mobility Authority

Act 2016

b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Model building bye-laws

2017

c) Mass Transit Law / Authority /Company

d) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Antiquity Act 2015

a) Greens and Landscaping (Parks & Horticulture)

Authority Act.

b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Land Use Management and

Building Control Act

c) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urban Tenancy Act

d) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Condominium Act

a) Developed U-Track an Android based application

for finding points of interest (POI) in Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa

b) Study of Slums in Urban Areas

c) Design of Pedestrian Precincts and Parking Plaza

in Peshawar

d) Architects Competition for Soliciting city

beautification concepts

e) Media Campaign (Advocacy & Citizens

Behavior Change)

f) Improvement of Branch Roads in Peshawar.

g) Geometric Design Standard Manual

COMPLETED PROJECTS:

URBAN LAWS:

DRAFT LAWS UNDER CONSIDERATION:

COMPLETED PLANS:

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Urban Policy & Planning Unit (UPPU), Planning and

Development Department (P&DD), Government of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has prepared an integrated, climate-

resilient urban environmental infrastructure investment

plans based on the City Development Plans (CDPs) for

improving the appalling condition of Utilities,

Infrastructures & other urban features in the cities of

Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad & Kohat.

The Unit is overseeing future developments and

recommends feasible solutions for raising the living

standard in the provincial urban centers and builds linkages

with the donor agencies for future investment in the

province.

Following the similar spirit, the Unit with the Technical

Support of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Cities

Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) initiated the

process of preparing Provincial Strategies for Urban

Inclusive Growth.

The objective of the Study is to assist the Government of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in preparing integrated, climate-

resilient urban environmental infrastructure investment

plans based on the City Development Plans (CDPs) for the

three cities i.e. Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad and later

Kohat was also included. The Study also builds on the

outputs of an ADB Policy and Advisory Technical

Assistance tasked to identify regional resilience options for

infrastructure investments impacting the urban cities.

It builds on the Regional Integrated Urban Plans (RIUPs)

through Urban Resilience Assessments (URAs)

provisionally identified. The outputs of the Team as well as

contributions by the UPU and subsequent consultation and

engagement process have shaped the Study's analyses and

recommendations. The Study undertook numerous

consultations with the private sector, government and non-

state actors (NSAs), including civil society. The Study team

introduced stakeholders to the Study process and the

expected outputs, identifying opportunities for

participation.

The consultations were followed by focus group

discussions and further community consultations. The

process culminated in consensually-agreed city visions,

unique to each city. Concurrently, the Study Team engaged

in rapid urban assessments (RUAs) and technical analyses

to better understand the needs of the cities and their

constituents. This also included an assessment of the

capacity of each city. The PFS investments proposed herein

therefore consider the URAs and the needs and

requirements articulated by communities, the private sector

and governments at Tehsil, District and Provincial levels.

The result of this approach has been an initial package of

investments.

Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, District and Tehsil

governments and the Water and Sanitation Service

Companies (WSSCs) in each of the cities have confirmed

the initial investments as both necessary and desirable.

Further investments would be expected to follow from this

initial and catalytic round of investments.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inclusive Urban Growth

Program (IUGP) aims to achieve the following objectives:

1. Improve urban management and development, and

support city processes and productivity;

2. Boost access to reliable and affordable services in

support of health, income and other outcomes;

3. Increase investment into services, particularly where it

directly supports growth, including through innovative

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Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Plan Prepared

ways of attracting private, and increasing public,

financing;

4. Drive better asset and financial management for

sustainable investments into services in the city Tehsils

and the city level Water and Sanitation Services

Companies (WSSCs).

Based on the findings of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urban

Inclusive Growth Strategy (Program) several projects were

identified for implementation in the desired urban cities of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Asian Development Bank

(ADB) is agree to provide Technical Assistance to Urban

Policy Unit (UPU), Planning and Development

Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

regarding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Intermediate Cities

Improvement Investment Project (KPCIIP), an investment

project of KPIUGP, for which a pre-feasibility study (PFS)

has already been conducted to improve cities of Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa.

The Consultants have also worked-out a detailed cost

e s t ima te s and financ ing mechan i sm p l an fo r

implementation of the project proposals. The PC – II of the

assignment has been approved by CDWP in its meeting

held on 22 May 2018. ADB is agreed on a Grant-based

Transaction Technical Assistance (TRTA) and providing

Technical Assistance for broader project preparatory work

including PC-II preparation, forthcoming due diligence

assessments, and other pre-requisites required for

implementation of the projects.

The major benefits of the KPCIIP would include:

I. provision of clean drinking water will greatly reduce

water born diseas particularly in the young children and

women that will reduce the health-related bills of the poor

and disadvantaged groups and will help to reduce pressure

on the provincial exchequer.

ii. health benefits from improved sanitation and solid waste

management,

iii. travel time savings and reduction of traffic accidents

because of reduced congestion and more efficient urban

transport operations, that will create more jobs and

economic activities.

iv. the provision of better municipal services and urban

space improvement will increase property values including

enhanced rental prices will increase revenue generation for

local municipal administration and WSSCs that will ease

burden on the provincial exchequer.

The proposed projects fall under essential service delivery

and the implementation of these projects will enable the

target cities remain engines of sustainable growth and

continue to fuel provincial economy as well as social

progress.

Projects identified for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities

Improvement Projects in four cities are as under:-

1. Water Supply 2. Sewage Management 3. Solid Waste

Management 4. Special Package for Shaheen Muslim Town

(Model town development & management) 5. Transport &

traffic Management 6. Street livability / smart city 7.

Sponge City 8. Capacity enhancement

Asian Development Bank (ADB) Project Preparatory

Technical Assistance (PPTA – Feasibility Study &

Preliminary Design) Consultant has already been

mobilized since March 1, 2018 to be followed by Project

Readiness Financing (Detailed Designs).

The investment program aims to produce outcomes that

would make cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa more inclusive,

safer and socially and economically resilient. The program

will also enable the cities to foster inclusive economic

growth and provide opportunities for incomes and

employment.

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Citizens are considered the key for social development in

any country and have vital role in sustainable development

of the society. Citizens sensitization is an important element

to increase enthusiasm and support for an activity that is

being introduced for the betterment of society, therefore,

their education is the need of time through sharing

information regularly.

Raising citizens awareness in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is

lacking, due to which the citizens are not receptive towards

owning the public infrastructures and absorbing new

interventions. The Urban Policy Unit, Planning &

Development Department has been mandated to initiate

new interventions in urban sectors in consultation with the

relevant stakeholders to increase concern, informing the

targeted audience, creating a positive image, and attempts

to change their perception for better planning in the

province.

Urban development and its management are critically

linked with integrated and strategic planning. There are a

range of structural and institutional impediments to urban

development and management in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Several steps could be taken to curtail these and initiate a

journey of sustainable development in the province. Among

several other interventions citizens education through

social & behavioral change communication is very

significant for stimulating perception of the public into

adopting and promoting social change.

To achieve the desirable goals and divert the citizens

enthusiasm for supporting the provincial entities already

working in promoting urban sectors of the province

especially in provision of municipal services, the Urban

Policy & Planning Unit, P&D Department in collaboration

with USAID launched a Media Campaign (Advocacy &

Citizens Behavior Change).

The Campaign was aimed to sensitize the citizens of

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly Peshawar, Malakand

and D.I. Khan to increase their support with public entities

and not to misuse or waste the public provided facilities, as

well influence and change public opinion and behavior on

basic issues.

The broad objectives of the Outreach Communication Plan

were to sensitize and educate the communities through

communicating key messages/information for increasing

public awareness, educating & encouraging masses

behavior for playing efficient role in municipal services

activities.

It was also aimed to influence positive behavior and

increase community enthusiasm & knowledge for long-

lasting relationship. The target audience/beneficiaries were

to be effectively educated through dissemination

Information, Education & Communication (IEC) Materials

along with other effective means of communication for

CITIZENS SENSITIZATION DRIVE CONDUCTED ON URBAN ISSUES

Public Education Is The Need Of Time

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thorough knowledge, motivation and behavior change.

The Awareness drive was devised into two stages for easily

approaching the specific nature target audience. In 1st stage

of the drive (Advocacy) the policy makers, experts and the

representatives of provincial line departments were

targeted.

Seminars, workshops, specific nature training and group

discussions were organized and to comprehensively brief

and sensitize the stakeholders five video documentaries

were produced on urban topics to highlight issues of

haphazard planning and proposed appropriate solution in

urban service deliveries, and continuously screened during

the above-mentioned forums for the ease of the experts to

visually see the existing appalling condition.

ndWhile the 2 stage of the campaign was regarding citizens

behavior change that was aimed to sensitize, educate, and

encourage citizens for playing efficient role in using public

utilities. For the purpose a comprehensive Action Plan was

prepared under the supervision of Communication Cell,

UPU, P&DD.

Before launching the awareness drive different provincial

government line departments and agencies i.e. PHE,

WSSCS, MSDPKP, Traffic Police, etc were consulted for

identification of ground hurdles being faced in field.

Accordingly, the issues were identified, and themes were

developed as desired for the Action Plan of the assignment.

The Citizens were educated through communicating

several public service messages under the broad theme of

the campaign that is “Kami Bus Sirf Ihsas Ki Hy” for

which certain citizens awareness tools were applied i.e.

television commercials (TVCs), Radio Spots, Print Media

Advertisements, Radio Talk Shows, and Information,

Education & Communication Materials. These were

properly monitored in target areas through UPU

representatives, social networking sites of Provincial

departments and other entities like WSSCs, Information

Department, Traffic Police, etc.

Social impact of the campaign over the citizens was

assessed to know that how much the campaign was

effective for citizen behavior change in respect of water &

sanitation and other municipal services. Several

beneficiaries were asked to record their comments

regarding the Awareness drive that how much was it useful

in changing users' behavior.

The feedbacks of the citizens were as;

Amjad Khan (driver) – Cars crash deaths have been

increased and there is dire need of driver's education

regarding the safety measures to reduce the ratio. Public

Awareness Messages for citizens education would play

better role in changing drivers behaviors for obeying traffic

rules. After listening public service messages in a very

concise form the people would impact people behavior.

M. Arshid (Citizen) – Ways to raise awareness about

environmental issues is a good step taken by Urban Policy

& Planning Unit and USAID. “I watched the water aid

TVC, telling us not to waste water because it is valuable gift

of Allah (SWT). Yes, we should not waste the Water as it is

going to be decreased in future. This awareness message

made me to think about it and don't waste water in my daily

life.”

There is a need to build a sustainable awareness approach to

educate the citizens through consistently sharing

information for changing their behaviors. Integrated and

sustainable socio-cultural approach would be required for

strengthening and development of local knowledge about

environmental and other urban related issues, and it may

take the substance of law and consistent enforcement for

putting in practice.

The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa needs to launch

Social Awareness Programs through which the citizens

would be made knowledgeable and sensitized for a

sustainable social development.

The citizens of the province are willing to absorb the

interventions in respect of social developments to have

sustainable development in best public interest.

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Urban Policy & Planning Unit would conduct a

structural audit of secretariat building to prepare

necessary instructions for all provincial line

departments so as to ensure that all new & existing

public building become accessible for Persons With

Disabilities (PWDs).In this regard the Urban Architect, UPU Mr. Vasif

Shinwari formed teams of UPU staff to conduct surveys

regarding the PWDs accessibility measures.The Urban Architect has given necessary instructions

to surveying teams for conducting a structural audit of

buildings inside the premises of Civil Secretariat in

light of the provisions of Accessibility Code of Pakistan

2006 and furnish its report on how to make these

building accessible for PWDs.A team of UPU, under the supervision of Urban

Architect Mr. Vasif Shinwari, met with the

representatives of PDMA and Paraplegic Center in the

Conference Room of PDMA to prepare & review the

checklist for internal & external audit of buildings in

civil secretariat Peshawar in respect of Persons With

Disabilities and also determine future line of action.UPU would conduct this structural audit within a

stipulated time and submit the report clearly identifying

the necessary measures needs to be taken for ensuring

these buildings accessible for Persons With Disabilities

(PWDs).

UPU WILL CONDUCT STRUCTURAL AUDIT OF SECRETARIAT BUILDINGS