Challenge
Smaller cities are hardly considered. Although these smaller cities play a vital role in national development, they suffer from extensive environmental degradation, the extent of which is often not even known.
These smaller cities are rather neglected in the overall development planning as well as in national and international consideration. They lack capacities to generate sufficient local financial resources and often suffer from weak capacities to utilise available resources.
Strong and effective administrative structures are rare and adequate numbers of trained technical personnel are lacking.