1 - urban day 2012 - uop implementation mike lindfield

7/30/2019 1 - URBAN DAY 2012 - UOP Implementation Mike Lindfield

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HIGH LEVEL PANELONUOP IMPLEMENTATION

RESULTS SUMMARYMichael Lindfield

Lead Urban Development Specialist

Regional & Sustainable Development Department

Asian Development Bank


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Integrated Urban Planning

Planning systems in many Asian cities are dysfunctional.

Planning cycles are unrealistically long in relation to the

dynamic nature of Asian urbanization.

No incentives exist for their implementation.

A possible approach: a combination of a high level strategic

plan and an infrastructure investment plan designed to

provide infrastructure which will reinforce the strategicdirections of the high level plan.


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Urban Governance Almost all Asian cities have outgrown their original

municipal jurisdiction.

However, systems of metropolitan governance are largely

inadequate, falling short in any or all of: their geographiccoverage for planning and representation, sectoral

coverage, and financial capacity to fund investment.

A more effective model: voluntary formation of metropolitan

councils and secretariats complimented by metro-wide serviceproviders managed on a corporatized or concession basis.


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Urban Financing

Local government finance in Asia is a three level problem. Local governments have often not collected the taxes they

are due and have not set realistic tariffs.

They have been given unfunded mandates.

The approach recommended: take the level of transfers as anopportunity rather than a problem.

Incentives can be built into transfers to

(a) collect taxes and fees due using matching grants;

(b) undertake the needed infrastructure investments usingmatching grants and access to finance; and

(c) leverage their funds using guarantees and facilitation funds

for PPP activities.


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Urban Financing (contd)

Local governments are either prevented, or are strongly

restricted in their access to the capital markets which in

turn are constrained from providing such finance.

The local government financing system needs to bedeveloped:

strengthening municipal development funds (which

most countries have),

fostering a more commercial approach to investment,

and

improving the enabling environment for local

government debt issues.


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Project and Program Design

Project design has tended to focus on technical solutions in specific

sectors investment to solve immediate problems usually of

capacity shortfall.

Program design has tended to utilize sectoral project modalities

which lack focus and systemic impact.

The recommended model: policy reform backed by clear and significantincentives allocated on a transparent basis.

ADB results-based assistance could provide incentives for:

improved revenue collection, reform of corporate governance, and

investment quality; formation of metro associations and metro wide, corporatized or

concessioned utilities; and

expanding the use of the capital markets both supply (finance)

side and demand side (local government).


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Knowledge

Knowledge activities should underpin all the

above activities, need to be very

operationally relevant and practical for users/

participants.

The panel was particularly enthusiastic about

peer-to-peer learning the ADBs Water

Operators Partnership (WOPs) could be

emulated by a City Managers Partnership.


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Thank You

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