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In 2011, the Suva, Lami, Nasinu and Nausori Councils sought technical assistance from the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) to help realize the councils’ shared vision for the Greater Suva Area (GSA) to become a “well serviced and economically vibrant” urban area. The ensuing CDIA study prepared a 5-Year Medium Term Infrastructure Investment Program (MTIIP) covering eight ... [Continue Reading]
The Government’s Peoples Charter for Change, Peace and Progress, 2008, has a vision for rebuilding Fiji that includes amongst other objectives, “uplifting of the disadvantaged in all communities”. Against this background, the four Councils of Suva, Lami, Nasinu and Nausori have a shared vision for the Greater Suva Area (GSA) to become a “well served and economically vibrant” urban area. ... [Continue Reading]
Over the past two decades PCMC has implemented phased development of its water supply system, most recently utilizing JnNURM funds. As the city has grown there has been a strong political and social need to meet water demand at tap by augmenting and expanding raw water transmission, water treatment works, service reservoirs, feeder mains, and the distribution network. To date, PCMC has been ... [Continue Reading]
The Study, financed by CDIA/ADB, was carried out in the period February to June 2012 and its objectives are to assess at prefeasibility level for the city of Danang: Improvement of waste water management at Hoa Khanh and Lien Chieu industrial zones and identify and scope priority projects. Separate storm water from municipal waste water in Eastern Coastal area (districts of Son Tra and Ngu ... [Continue Reading]
Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is a prosperous, industrial city situated on the Mumbai-Pune corridor, with a current population of 1.73 million people. The population is expected to double within the next 20 years. PCMC has won national awards for its municipal infrastructure, including water supply and sewerage, slums rehabilitation and e-governance. There is no question that PCMC ... [Continue Reading]
Introduction: Integrated Transport Planning Ltd. (ITP) has been employed by Cities Development initiative in Asia (CDIA) to support Cebu City Government in the development of the public transport strategy for SRP. Phase II was presented to an executive meeting of the council in June 2011. The strategy takes full account of the Cebu BRT Pre-Feasibility Study approved by Cebu City Council in ... [Continue Reading]
Background: Naga City is a City with a rapidly growing population, increasing from 160,516 in 2007 to over 170,000 today and with a daily transient population boosting its day-time population to over 200,000. ... [Continue Reading]
This summary report is based on the Pre-Feasibility Study Report submitted in February by Cities Development Initiative for Asia to the city of Handan as a part of the program in China. ... [Continue Reading]
Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in southern Thailand has with support from the Ministry of Interior applied for assistance from the Cities Development Initiative for Asia. CDIA agreed to appoint a consultancy team to analyse the project idea of constructing a Cargo Distribution Centre in Thungsong Municipality, including possible linkages to other urban infrastructure. This report presents the ... [Continue Reading]
This report was prepared at the request of the Thanh Hóa Provincial People’s Committee on behalf of the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) under Asian Development Bank Regional Technical Assistance TA-6293: Managing The Cities in Asia, with additional funding from the Governments of Sweden and Spain. » Download Executive Summary Thanh Hoa Pre-feasibility study - wastewater ... [Continue Reading]
CDIA is a regional initiative established in 2007 by the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Germany, with additional core funding support of the governments of Sweden, Austria and Spain and the Shanghai Municipal Government. The Initiative provides assistance to medium-sized Asian cities to bridge the gap between their development plans and the implementation of their infrastructure ... [Continue Reading]
Below you will find various materials from CDIA’s participation in recent events. This will often include presentations by CDIA CMT members, partner cities and other key stakeholders as well as other materials and documentation.
Financing Local Infrastructure – Linking Local Governments and Financial Markets
"Financing Local Infrastructure – Linking Local Governments and Financial Markets" addresses capacity development needs from both a public finance and a financial market perspective. Its purpose is to help partners, their advisors, local governments and financial institutions to explore the ways and the means by which local infrastructure can be financed.
This handbook presents a guide to a better understanding and assessment of framework conditions. It will enable more informed decisions to be made in terms of developing and supporting financing options for local services and infrastructure provision involving the local financial sector.
The Handbook is available for download at the following link: Infrastructure FinanceClick on a link below to view article archives:
 Where CDIA is Active Links to the latest Project overviews, Executive summaries of completed projects, City intervention summaries and recently approved applications.
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 PPP and Urban Infrastructure Latest in PPP guides, case studies and external materials.
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 PFS Mechanism Latest in PFS guidelines for sectors, municipalities and consultants, and executive summaries of completed studies.
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 Linking Cities to Finance
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 Articles on CDIA Latest external articles related to CDIA.
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 CDIA Funding Members
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 CIIPP Toolkit Latest info on available downloads for CIIPP manuals, case studies and workbooks. |
 CDIA Newsletter archives
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 Building Capacities Latest training events and YAPP.
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 Conferences
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 Partnerships (and Synergies) Latest on regional, LGU, international, NPO, YAPP partners and city to city mentoring.
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 Services
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By clicking on the map, it will link to downloadable project overviews of CDIA partner cities for which applications have been approved. Also on the same page, you will see a list of countries whose cities are eligible to make application to CDIA for support.
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