Urban Development Technical Facility, as part of INTPA F.4.
The UDTF focuses on supporting partner countries in their urban development challenges. It delivers technical assistance and policy advice to improve the quality and impact of the EU’s interventions in urban development at all levels—local, regional and global—with a focus on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Integrated urban planning coupled with greener infrastructure and coordinated urban expansion can increase a city’s urban resilience while minimizing the negative environmental impacts of human settlement.
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Competent Authority / EUTR workgroup member (Czech Republic). Responsible for checks on operators, importers in particular. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-…
Carlos de Freitas has been working since 1999 in the field of sustainable development. He was the recipient of an AVINA Award in 2008 for investigative journalism, a fellow researcher at the Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms, a former Strategy Director of an Asset Management Company.
In 2011, he joined FMDV-Global Fund for Cities Development.
He currently serves as Executive Director of FMDV, with 20+ years of experience in the design of multi-stakeholder urban development finance programs and strategies.
From March 2021 to February 2023, he served as Coordinator of the Moroccan National support Program for Subnational Climate Action, called SISTIF, an institutional, strategic and financial expertise hub, implemented together with the Moroccan Ministry of Internal Affairs (Directorate General for Subnational Governments), FMDV and the two National associations of Mayors and Governors.
He focuses mainly on sustainable, climate and inclusive financing topics, as well as local economic development for Local, Regional and Central governments worldwide.
He co-authors articles, reports and mass-market publications, such as "Viva Favela! When the poor take their destiny in their own hands" - Michel Lafon Publishing (France, 2009), also published in Brazil in 2013, on the exceptional experience of Brazilian Community Development Banks.
