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The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) based in New Delhi, India. The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) is a premier institute for urban research in India supported by the Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD), Government of India. It was established in 1976 under the ... [Continue Reading]
In recent decades, the rise of mega-cities across Asia has become a phenomenon. The speed and scale of China’s urbanization, however, is unprecedented in human history. CDIA is one of the multilateral donor agencies that have been contributing in the promotion of sustainable urban development in China. Recently, the European Union signed the Joint Declaration with China on “EU-China ... [Continue Reading]
CDIA signed a Letter of Intent with 5 organizations in India on August 12, 2011. With the signing of the LOI, CDIA formally enters into a collaboration agreement with these 5 reputable institutions in the field of urban development, namely: Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) National Institute of Urban Affairs ... [Continue Reading]
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CITYNET and CDIA was signed at the Executive Committee meeting of CITYNET in Bangkok, Thailand. CITYNET and CDIA share a common agenda to support urban governments in the Asia-Pacific region to promote more sustainable and equitable urban development that will result in improved environmental and living conditions in Asian Cities. Both parties have ... [Continue Reading]
Philippines: The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippines and the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 6, 2011. DILG is identified as its appropriate National Partner Agency for CDIA in the Philippines to enable cities to meet the challenges of transforming their urban infrastructure plans to investment within ... [Continue Reading]
In its first phase of building synergies at the national level, CDIA has signed partnership agreements with 21 national organizations in 7 countries. This range of partnerships has initially focused on adapting and spreading the CIIPP toolkit within a number of countries, and will soon expand to include supported application of the PFS mechanism. A list of the organizations can be found at ... [Continue Reading]
The CDIA Stakeholders Forum is currently organizing a series of events during the first halve of 2011: Mid-March 2011: Sub-regional meeting for Southeast Asia to be held in Jakarta Late-March 2011: Sub-regional meeting for South Asia to be held in Mumbai Mid-year 2011: Annual meeting of the wider Stakeholder Forum, tentatively identified for Bangkok Please check the stakeholder forum ... [Continue Reading]
9-11 March 2010 - Jakarta, Indonesia. CDIA is supporting UCLG-ASPAC as they jointly work with FCM and VNG International to organise the 4th Asia Partners Workshop taking place in Jakarta from March 9th to 11th, 2010. The first workshop was held in Phuket in March 2007, the second in Manila in April 2008 and the third in Hanoi in February 2009. The Fourth and last Asia Partners Workshop will ... [Continue Reading]
6 November, Manila, Philippines. The Program Review Committee (PRC) meets approximately twice a year. The mandate of the CDIA PRC is to provide policy guidance to the CDIA Core Management Team (CMT) and other CDIA partner agencies on to how CDIA should fulfill its long-term aim of contributing to the promotion of sustainable and pro-poor urban development, leading to improved environmental and ... [Continue Reading]
5 November, Manila, Philippines. The CDIA Stakeholders’ Forum periodically convenes (typically once per year) to inform the CDIA management structure of the demand for CDIA services, reactions to CDIA services rendered, and more generally acts as a forum for stakeholder dialogue on all CDIA matters. The Stakeholders’ Forum comprises representatives of individual CDIA client cities, ... [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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