Local Finance and Development

The regional workshop was part of a collaborative effort between the GIZ regional project, UCLG Africa, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the UCLG-OECD World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment.

The Live Learning Session that took place on April 23, 2020 organized in collaboration Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV) and UNCDF, provided an opportunity to foster exchanges among local and regional governments and key partners such as the Frenc

In order to assist the cities in preparing their project documentation for submission to the International Municipal Investment Fund, UNCDF has set up a Technical Assistance Facility - IMIF-TAF.

The three-day Annual Meeting was opened by Pieter Jeroense, Deputy General Director of VNG, followed by the remarks of Jelte van Wieren, Director of the Department for Stabilization and Humanitarian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

UCLG Committee on Local Finance for Development during the COP21 from December 2 to 8 in Paris 

UCLG Committee on Local Finance participated in the World Summit Climate and Territories,organized on 1 & 2 July in Lyon-France, by the Rhône-Alpes Region.

The debates on new local financing systems at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia (13-16 July 2015) will be critical to the quest for sustainable urban developm

Local and regional governments support article 31 of revised draft and call for commitments to tackling the urban infrastructure investment deficit in the Financing for Development Outcome Document.

By Wolfgang Obenland, Global Policy Forum