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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