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The 4th offering of the Executive Short Course on ‘Effective Urban Infrastructure Programming’ will be held from 23 January to 1 February 2013. The Technical Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign affairs, Singapore and the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) have agreed to continue their partnership of cooperation under the Singapore-CDIA Third Country Training Programme ... [Continue Reading]
Short Course for City and Municipal Officers The CIFAL Kuala Lumpur/KLRTC Training Course 25 URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING OPTIONS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Short Course for City and Municipal Officers, will be held on 4-7 December 2012, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The course offers an introductory orientation aimed to raise awareness and help prepare cities in their efforts to identify ... [Continue Reading]
The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) in collaboration with UN-HABITAT and CDIA national partner organizations from China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines organized a training session within the framework of the recently concluded 6th World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy. Many local governments are often not sufficiently equipped to undertake the task of translating their plans ... [Continue Reading]
An interactive 4-day short training course entitled, “Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): Training for Facilitators" will be held from 17-20 July 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. The objectives of the training course are to: Enhance participants’ knowledge on effective urban investment programming and financing in preparation of the formulation of strategic and bankable infrastructure projects ... [Continue Reading]
The training programme to be held in January 11 – 20, 2012 in Singapore is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore and Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) under the Singapore-CDIA Third Country Training Programme (TCTP) and will be conducted by the Singapore Civil Service College and CDIA. This is the third staging of such a programme and the course will ... [Continue Reading]
The Master’s Programme in Financial Management (MFM) with a specialization in Urban Infrastructure Finance for January 2012-December 2012 is a joint programme of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The combined approach of RSM and IHS prepares ambitious young professionals for a successful ... [Continue Reading]
The Local Development Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), is launching a new session of the e-learning course Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries, from 14 November 2011 to 2 March 2012. The e-learning course aims to enhance the capacity of local decision ... [Continue Reading]
This is to inform you about 3- Months International Course on Housing and Urban Development offered by IHS. Duration of the course: 3 Months Course date: February 2013 – May 2013 Degree Awarded: Post Graduate Diploma Tution Fees: EURO 5,500 3-month post-graduate diploma course Applicants have to select one of the following seven specialisations in offer: Land Development ... [Continue Reading]
The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) will hold a training event entitled “Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS): Translating Urban Development Strategies into Bankable Projects” on 13-15 December 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The PFS course aims to train facilitators from National Partner Organizations (NPOs) that are active in urban development planning and urban infrastructure projects. The ... [Continue Reading]
SINGAPORE: 28 senior government officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are currently in Singapore to attend a course on “Effective Urban Infrastructure Programming”, including 8 Mayors/Vice Mayors. Jointly organised by the Singapore Cooperation Programme of the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CDIA, it is our inaugural collaboration ... [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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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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