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WB - Austria Urban Partnership Program Phase II

February 10, 2015 Vienna, Austria

Sabine Palmreuther

• Sr. Operations Officer

Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic Lead Urban Specialist World Bank

Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe  Professionalization of LG officials  Practical tools for city leaders

Addressing the Demand Priority issues identified and vetted with clients and partners

• Municipal finance
• Urban planning and land management
• Municipal service delivery (i.e. SWM)
• Urban governance/Anti-corruption
• Social Accountability

Strengthening Local Government Capacity in SEE: WB - Austria UPP Where We Work in South-East Europe

OVERARCHING GOAL More livable and sustainable cities in South East Europe that provide a high quality of life for the citizens OBJECTIVES

 Support cities and local governments in South East Europe in a process

• f modernization and reform, in order to promote local development

for inclusive and sustainable growth, and enhanced urban governance  Foster effective, responsive and participatory city owned strategies to address problems of corruption, urban land development, and revenue management  Supporting commitment of municipal champions to find innovative solutions to transform their cities  Support urban development towards greater accountability and transparency of local governments in meeting citizen demands for services

Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe

Content

E-learning

• Global curriculum: World Bank e-Institute
• Regional/local Partners: NALAS, LGAs

E-Institute Wholesale partners

DIALOGUES

City to City Dialogues

• Municipal finances
• Urban planning & land management

In depth engagement

• LGs engage in self-assessments (by

using different tools), and use the information for benchmarking/ monitoring, and public dialogue with citizens

• Anti-corruption capacity building
• Social Accountability Initiative
• Coalition building

Strengthening Capacities of Local Governments in SEE How it all comes together

WB urban curriculum: With an Edge…

URBAN PLANNING AND LAND MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SAFETY AND RESILIENCY EFFICIENT & INCLUSIVE SERVICE DELIVERY MUNICIPAL FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE

*Sustainable Urban Land Use Planning *City Mapping for Municipal Management *Municipal Finances: A Learning Program for Local Govts *City Leadership for Mayors *Municipal Self- Assessments *Upgrading Informal Settlements *Water Utility Reform *Integrated Urban Transport Planning *Urban Crime and Violence Prevention *Introduction to Disaster Risk Management *Safe and Resilient Cities

 E-learning curriculum delivered under the World Bank’s E-Institute

• ffered to a number of local government officials and urban

practitioners in SEE (i.e. Sustainable Urban Land Use Planning, City Mapping for Municipal Management, Municipal Finances)  Partner organizations instrumental in disseminating information about the learning programs and mobilizing a critical mass of participants, a key ingredient for sustainability  NALAS and LGAs translating and customizing e-learning curriculum to local languages, to serve as wholesalers in SEE

 Accountability - to promote financial self-assessment as part of the change management process of local administration  Transparency - to help LG share information with other LGs, and to inform central government, LG Association and citizens about their situation (open data)  Prioritization - to encourage municipal financial and technical departments (asset management, urban planning, strategic planning, mayor’s office) to work together on strategic and capital investment planning anchored in financial realism  Efficiency - to monitor and act on a set of key actions aiming at improving mobilization of local resources, rationalization public expenditures and improving financial management practices  Access to external funding - to share common methodologies and international indicators and facilitate negotiations with banking institutions and external donors

MFSA Objectives

MFSA 2011-2013

Date Title Activities

December 2011 Budapest, Hungary Improving Municipal revenues Presentation of the MFSA’s objectives and methodology May 2012 Mavrovo, Macedonia Modernizing Local Public Expenditure Management Sharing of the MFSA preliminary findings June 2012 Tirana, Albania Modernizing Legal and Regulatory Framework for Urban Planning in SEE November 2012 Budva, Montenegro Guided Urban Development: Reconciling Public and Private Interests Group discussion on the link between municipal finance and urban development January 2013 Vienna, Austria Towards Greater Transparency and Accountability: A Mayor’s Dialogue Group discussion on the link between municipal finance and urban development June 2013 Dubrovnik, Croatia From Local Government Self- Assessment to Implementation Group discussions on investment budgeting. December 2013 Skopje, Macedonia From MFSA to Municipal Investment Programming Discussion about the link between Urban Audit and MFSA

 25 Cities/Municipalities of the Region actively contributed to the experience (ranging from small municipalities to capital cities)  15 Cities/Municipalities successfully prepared Financial Improvement Plan based on MFSA  13 Cities/Municipalities presented their data profiles in MFSA brochure  More municipalities are ready to engage

MFSA Outcomes

Summarize through key data the institutional/administrative situation of the city, its demo-eco position and the main urban development issues

Step 1: Provide your City profile

Step 3: Financial position

Assess:

• Ability to generate

growth savings and

• perating surplus
• To promote Capital

Investment effort

• To strengthen Credit

worthiness

Step 5: Performance measurement through Ratio analysis

Stock ratios

• Credit worthiness
• Indebtedness
• Fiscal autonomy
• Capital investment effort
• Level of services
• etc.

Flow ratio: Margin ratio Comparison ratios: based on revenues and expenditures items Benchmarks: To base on country specificities (national database ?)

Step 6: Financial projections

• The 5Y financial projections are performed with the
• bjective to measure impact of decisions on finance

capacity and credit worthiness

• The main condition is to start with reliable and relevant

historical data and formalize through assumptions the impact of policy decisions (expenses, borrowing, tax pressure, etc. )

• Usually, several assumptions and scenarios are tested :

past trends projections and projections on the basis of significant changes.

Step 8: Municipal Finance Improvement Plan

The objective is to translate lessons learnt from the different steps

• f the MFSA into a few

actions to be implemented by the municipality to improve its financial situation and its financial management. Actions that are not under full control of LGs can be mentioned if they are part

• f State reforms currently

under discussion or if they are included in the current agenda of National Associations of Local Governments.

MFSA Brochure

Integration of MFSA and UA

Urban Audit

Urban Audit Framework

Urban Audit – Regional context

Urban Audit – Urban setting and Organization of the City

Urban Audit – Urban setting and Organization of the City

Urban Audit – Urban setting and Organization of the City

Urban Audit – Urban setting and Organization of the City

Urban Audit – Population trends and projections

Urban Audit – Urban Economy

Urban Audit – Urban Services (Infrastructure)

Urban Audit

Table 7 - Municipal Assets

Urban Audit – Urban Servises (ISPI tables)

Urban Audit – Urban Services (ISPI as database)

Urban Audit – Deficiencies and Needs

Urban Audit – Proposed projects presentation

Urban Audit – Criteria selection and validation

• Integrate Municipal Finances Self-Assessment (MFSA); Land

Use and Urban Planning Self-Assessment (UPSA); Urban Audit (UA); Social Audit (SA): Municipal Programs Investments+ capacity building

• Response to Flooding crisis: (1) exposure to fundamentals of

DRM (e-course); (2) CoP on urban floods; (3) Local resilience Diagnostics.

• Foster central-local government dialogue for improved policy

making: strengthen the dialogue between local governments, national associations of local authorities, and ministries.

UPP II: Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe

Areas of Focus

Thank you! For more information: www.seecities.eu tnikolic@worldbank.org