Sustainable City Programme [SCP] is a world–wide technical cooperation programme of the UN-HABITAT and UNEP. It works at the city level in collaboration with local partners to strengthen their capabilities for environmental planning with an objective to meet the aspirations of LA- Agenda- 21 and the targets of the Millennium Development Goals. It helps local authorities and their partners to achieve a well-managed urban environment as part of a sustainable urban development process founded on broad-based stakeholder-participation, which includes and empowers all city dwellers, especially urban poor.

The SCP process follows the principle that the environment is not an end in itself, not something to be merely "protected" from development; instead, the environment is viewed as a resource to be carefully managed on a sustainable basis for the betterment of human living environment. The SCP aims to support cities in finding and managing development paths, which are more effectively fitted to their environmental opportunities and constraints. Development, environment protection and poverty alleviation are three major themes of the sustainability agenda of the SCP.