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Madinah

Saudi Arabia

City Details

Inhabitants

1.8m

Area

589 km²

Altitude

599 m

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City News

April 15, 2024

Madinah City Achieves Gold Level Recognition

Madinah joins SDG Cities Global Initiative

City Features

Facts

Madinah is known as the place from which Muhammad established the Muslim community (ummah) after his flight from Mecca (622 CE) and is where his body is entombed. [1]

Muhammad helped build the mosque, Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, in 622 CE (1 AH). It is the second-largest mosque in the world and the second holiest site in Islam. [2]

Data
Action Planning
Capacity Building
Investment
Monitoring

The data track ensures that cities can access and use data to describe their baseline on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) achievement and inform local action. City level statistical data, spatial data and perception data will be collected and analyzed to:

Report on the performance of the city such as through Voluntary Local Review,
Plan local transformative initiatives, and
Monitor progress.

Participating cities will be provided with digital data tools in line with the Global Urban Monitoring Framework.

The strategic planning track ensures that city data merges with community and stakeholder participation to generate inclusive, spatially represented strategic plans for 2030. Participating cities will be provided with guidance based on an existing range of strategic planning tools.

Cities must identify priorities, complete a Voluntary Local Review, and develop a Strategic Development Plan.

In line with the new urban agenda, this track aims to ensure adequate local systems and institutional capacities in areas of governance; integrated urban and territorial planning and design; effective revenue and finance; and effective, equitable urban basic services. participating cities will be provided with digital diagnostic tools and training materials and will be connected in learning communities with cities with similar capacity development priorities.

This track supports the financing of high impact projects in cities through the Cities Investment Facility, comprising of:

City Investment Portal - a digital platform through which project promoters and investors can interface. As projects advance their bankability and develop pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, the portal is updated to reflect the stage of the project;
City Investment Advisory - an advisory service on project preparation, financial design, blended finance, risk mitigation and optimizing SDG impact; it also provides early-stage investor linkages, and
City Investment Vehicles - that provides initial investment and necessary advisory to late-stage development projects with the goal of bringing them to financial close.

Coming soon.