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...

Lessons for Integrating Resilience Assessment and Infrastruc...

I am working to develop and implement tools that integrate climate change and disaster resilience into municipal decisions, infrastructure planning in particular.  One of the challenges I see is the v...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Urbanization and Property Rights (World Bank Policy Research...

Urbanization and Property Rights (World Bank Policy Research...

The Potential Catalytic Role of Subnational Pooled Financing...

This is a sharp, hot-off-the-press, 28-page report aimed at providing a policy framework and recommendations for national governments and their development partners to assess and consider support to S...

The Potential Catalytic Role of Subnational Pooled Financing...

This is a sharp, hot-off-the-press, 28-page report aimed at providing a policy framework and recommendations for national governments and their development partners to assess and consider support to S...

SMARTER CITIES WITH URBAN RESILIENCE: From Barcelona (MOOC) ...

We are pleased to invite you to join the free Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) "Introduction to Resilient Urban Services...”. This open on-line course intends to contribute to improve our cities by p...