Ministerio das Cidades, Brazil
The Ministry of Cities is responsible for: urban development policy; sectoral policies for housing, environmental sanitation, urban transportation and transit; promotion, in conjunction with the various levels of government, the private sector and non-governmental organizations, actions and urbanization programs, housing, basic and environmental sanitation, urban transport, traffic and urban development; subsidy policy for public housing, sanitation and urban transport; planning, regulation, standardization and management of application resources into urban development policies, urbanization, housing, basic and environmental sanitation, urban transportation and transit; participation in the formulation of general guidelines for conservation of urban water systems as well as for the adoption of river basins as basic units of planning and sanitation management.