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September 2023 Volume 7 Issue No. 3

PAC-GIZ Project

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusam‐
menarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is implementing the pro‐
ject “Sustainable Urban Development ‐ Smart Cit‐
ies II” (SUDSC II) on behalf of the German Federal
Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Develop‐
ment (BMZ). The project supports the Ministry
of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the
partner State Governments (Karnataka, Kerala,
Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana) in resilient,
sustainable approaches and solutions for urban
development including infrastructure that con‐
sider disaster risk management and the leave‐no‐
one-behind (LNOB) principle. It also supports five
Smart Cities (Mangaluru, Kochi, Bhubaneswar,
Coimbatore and one city in the State of Telanga‐
Director Dr. Chaya Degaonkar & Head of Public Engagement and Com‐
munications Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander made a presentation to the na) in implementing concepts of risk‐informed,
Research Officers in Planning Department, Government of Meghalaya
integrated, resilient and sustainable urban devel‐
opment.
GIZ India has approved a consortium between the
Public Affairs Center (PAC) and Swastik Harish
and Associates (SHA) to support their SUD‐SC II
project, through a series of capacity building in‐
itiatives on working with data. As a part of this
support project, PAC‐SHA will conduct a Training
Needs Analysis (TNA), conduct three (3) capacity
building programs and develop training modules
that can be institutionalized through e‐learning
approaches. PAC‐SHA will conduct these train‐
ing programs in three (3) partner states of GIZ,
namely, Kerala, Telangana and Tamil Nadu

Current Progress
1. Training Need Analysis for Kerala is complete.
The TNA for Tamil Nadu and Telangana is cur‐
rently in progress
2. Training modules are developed for three‐day
Public Affairs Centre team with senior Govt. officials in Meghalaya workshop. The modules cover working with
tabular data, working with spatial data and
data visualisation and decision‐making
3. The three‐day capacity‐building program con‐
ducted for Kerala in the month of July.

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