CDIA offers a number of important services to help cities achieve their development plans through supporting the formulation of well defined infrastructure projects that emphasize one or more of the following impact areas: (1) urban environment improvement; (2) urban poverty reduction; (3) climate change mitigation or adaptation; and (4) good governance.
These 4 tabs provide a brief overview of the key service areas CDIA provides.
Preparation of Pre-feasibility Studies (PFS)
Through direct Technical Assistance to cities comprising the development of a project concept to its initial scoping, including:
- a review of technical options and features for the potential project
- initial assessment of potential economic benefits,
- assessment of environmental, poverty, relocation and other socio-economic impacts
- preliminary estimates of project costs and of financial sustainability;
- flagging of issues to be considered in detail in the ensuing Feasibility Study.
Medium Term Infrastructure Investment Programming:
CDIA supports the development of rational, comprehensive and financeable medium term infrastructure investment programs to implement existing city development strategies and comprehensive development plans. This comprises:
- review and harmonization of sector plans, identification of most efficient provision of services;
- develop and review infrastructure investment proposal concepts (with indicative costing) for inclusion in the investment program;
- development of screening criteria for priority-setting;
- assessment of local investment financing capacity;
- assist cities to prioritize their investment proposals, constrained by the identified financing limitations;
- support the adjustment of local regulatory frameworks where needed;
To help cities in quickly identifying their development priorities, analysing against their financial capacity and headroom and structuring within their investment programmes, CDIA has formulated the “City Infrastructure Investment Prioritization and Programming (CIIPP) Toolkit”. You can see more at this link: http://www.cdia.asia/knowledge-materials/ciipp-toolkit/
Linking Cities to Finance for Infrastructure Investments
As part of its advisory support, CDIA also assists cities to market their investment proposals elaborated in the PFS to potential financiers through the following:
- Help to ensure that the pre-feasibility study addresses the technical aspects as well as serve as a marketing tool;
- Early identification and involvement of potential infrastructure financiers at national and international levels within the PFS preparation
- identify potential private sector involvement at the early stages of project definition and structure projects so that they are attractive to private investors;
City-level capacity development
The key activities under this heading at city level comprise a judicious mix of supports that cut across the range of core interventions:
- capacity building support for investment programming and development;
- integrated sector dialogue, fostering practices for dialogue with all stakeholders;
- support for improving inter-municipal cooperation in agglomeration regions for more efficient provision of urban services;
- twinning arrangements as needed;
- fund-raising and fund management capacity-strengthening in cooperation with financing agencies and/or private-sector investors;
- private sector dialogue regarding their investment in and support for the intended project(s);
- demonstration and support to implementation of best practices; and
- performance-related evaluation and reporting.
Regional level capacity building and networking
CDIA interventions at regional level include support to knowledge management and dissemination of experience to enhance urban environmental quality and promote poverty reduction. In addition to all of the above financial and structuring inputs, this also entails:
- organizing and participating in regional (and occasional national) conferences and workshops, most frequently together with other CDIA partners;
- dissemination of good urban practice in the region through the CDIA website;
- promotion of interactive web-based blogging on strategic CDIA themes;
- promotion of IT-based networks together with national or international local government associations;
- selective support to revision of concerned national urban strategies and regulatory frameworks to facilitate increased local authority and utility autonomy, if required to overcome bottlenecks in urban infrastructure development; and
- co-operation with selected regional organizations in areas of mutual interest and benefit.
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