WB - Austria Urban Partnership Program Phase II Sabine Palmreuther Sr. Operations Officer Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic Lead Urban Specialist World Bank February 10, 2015 Vienna, Austria
Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe Addressing the Demand Professionalization of LG officials Practical tools for city leaders 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
Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe O VERARCHING G OAL More livable and sustainable cities in South East Europe that provide a high quality of life for the citizens O BJECTIVES Support cities and local governments in South East Europe in a process of 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 Capacities of Local Governments in SEE How it all comes together E-learning • Global curriculum: World Bank e-Institute • Regional/local Partners: NALAS, LGAs Content City to City Dialogues Wholesale E-Institute • Municipal finances partners • Urban planning & land management In depth engagement • LGs engage in self-assessments (by using different tools), and use the DIALOGUES information for benchmarking/ monitoring, and public dialogue with citizens • Anti-corruption capacity building • Social Accountability Initiative • Coalition building
WB urban curriculum: With an Edge… URBAN PLANNING AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE EFFICIENT & INCLUSIVE PUBLIC SAFETY AND LAND MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE SERVICE DELIVERY RESILIENCY *Urban Crime and *Sustainable Urban *Municipal Finances: *Upgrading Informal Violence Prevention Land Use Planning A Learning Program Settlements for Local Govts *Introduction to *City Leadership for *Water Utility Reform *City Mapping for Disaster Risk Mayors Municipal Management *Municipal Self- *Integrated Urban Management *Safe and Resilient Assessments Transport Planning Cities E- learning curriculum delivered under the World Bank’s E -Institute offered 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
MFSA Objectives 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 2011-2013 Date Title Activities Presentation of the MFSA’s objectives and December 2011 Improving Municipal Budapest, Hungary revenues methodology May 2012 Modernizing Local Public Sharing of the MFSA preliminary findings Mavrovo, Macedonia Expenditure Management June 2012 Modernizing Legal and Tirana, Albania Regulatory Framework for Urban Planning in SEE November 2012 Budva, Guided Urban Development: Group discussion on the link between municipal Montenegro Reconciling Public and finance and urban development Private Interests January 2013 Towards Greater Group discussion on the link between municipal Vienna, Austria Transparency and finance and urban development Accountability: A Mayor’s Dialogue June 2013 From Local Government Self- Group discussions on investment budgeting. Dubrovnik, Croatia Assessment to Implementation December 2013 From MFSA to Municipal Discussion about the link between Urban Audit Skopje, Macedonia Investment Programming and MFSA
MFSA Outcomes 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
Step 1: Provide your City profile Summarize through key data the institutional/administrative situation of the city, its demo-eco position and the main urban development issues
Step 3: Financial position Assess: • Ability to generate growth savings and operating 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 objective 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 of 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 of 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
UPP II: Strengthening Local Government Capacity in South-East Europe Areas of Focus • Integrate M unicipal 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.
Thank you! For more information: www.seecities.eu tnikolic@worldbank.org
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