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Collaboration and Coordinator Vital in Fast Moving Refugee S...

As I continue to prepare for my fact-finding trip to Bangladesh (and hopefully Myanmar) in December, I was pleased to review a comprehensive review of the situation: https://social.shorthand.com/devex...

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Summer and Fall 2017 = Major Push to Focus SDG around the Gl...

Wow, what a rush the last 2 months have been.  I have been studying the effects of war on young minds over the last few weeks.  I have been looking at how war is so horrible that it is so difficult to...

last modified: William Tarpai
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Sharing the Creditworthiness Academy content at Porto Alegre

About 15 employees of the Finance Secretariat and the Local Governance Secretariat of the City of Porto Alegre participated on Tuesday, 27, in the sharing session of the World Bank's Creditworthiness ...

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Public-Private Partnerships Reference Guide: Version 3

The next version of the Public-Private Partnership Reference Guide is being drafted for release in 2017. https://ppp.worldbank.org/public-private-partnership/library/public-private-partnerships-refere...

last modified: William Tarpai
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Turkey Municipal Finance and Creditworthiness Academy - Live...

We are happy to announce that the Municipal Finance and Creditworthiness Academy for Turkey has begun!   The Academy will run from April 10 to April 15 in Ankara and it's organized in partnership with...

last modified: Giulia Pivetti
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Kigali: a Competitive City for Jobs and Growth

Today the report “Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who, and How” was presented in Washington DC. The report was prepared by the World Bank Group with funding from the Competitive Industri...

last modified: Giulia Pivetti
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Empowering the Public Management of the Advanced City’s Infr...

By Luis Fontanals Jaumá                                                   Tecnically in a supposedly intelligent city four specific networks interact: the transport and communication network, the wat...

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Cities Leadership Role in Climate Change

Dear Community Members, with the Paris Climate Conference under way, I believe you'll find the article below very interesting. It demonstrates the importance of our work to facilitate financing for cl...

last modified: David Painter
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Launching the City Creditworthiness Diagnostic and Planning ...

Introducing the new online toolkit on City Creditworthiness. It's a quick way to identify challenges to your city's creditworthiness and, at the same time, to plan corrective actions. Please let us kn...

last modified: Joshua Gallo
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Launching the City Creditworthiness Diagnostic and Planning ...

Introducing the new online toolkit on City Creditworthiness. It's a quick way to identify challenges to your city's creditworthiness and, at the same time, to plan corrective actions. Please let us kn...

last modified: Joshua Gallo
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Blended/Parallel Financing

The occasion for this blog is the attached 4-page paper by Rajesh K. Advani, Scaling Up Blended Financing of Water and Sanitation Investments in Kenya (World Bank, 2015). As municipalities in emerging...

last modified: Joshua Gallo
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Learning Program in Municipal Finance

To all my colleagues and whoever is interested. I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming e. learning course in Municipal Finances. That course is good opportunity to accumulate our knowledg...

last modified: Osama Nabahin
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