GEF’s UrbanShift Global Platform brings together global, national, and local champions that want to work together towards a common vision of sustainable and integrated development. The project will complement and provide a common structure and cohesion to child project investments, through the creation of a knowledge sharing and learning platform, that will help to build momentum, raise ambitions, secure commitments, and implement integrated solutions on the ground. The UrbanShift Global Platform will create opportunities for cities to see and be inspired by peer cities advancing the sustainability agenda, share stories and work through challenges, build relationships and mobilize, and build capacity to implement sustainable, integrated approaches at the local level. A virtuous and reinforcing circle will emerge between the UrbanShift’s Global Platform and the Child Projects, where the capacity development informs the implementation of more innovative, sustainable, and integrated projects, which in turn set an example for replication within the city, country and beyond, serving as an inspiration for others, an outlet for knowledge and further building capacity in its wake.