Each city starts by conducting a citywide survey of poor communities
and inviting as many communities and urban development partners as
possible to work together.
Some cities have organized city development
committees with the mayors or senior councillors serving as chairpersons,
while other cities have organized a looser style of groups working together.
Either way, the idea is to open up the slum upgrading work so that as many
key development agencies and local actors as possible are involved. But
the communities themselves are always the key actors, and the budget for
upgrading is only transferred from CODI direct to the communities with
the agreement of city development committees.