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Finance for City Leaders Handbook

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Finance for City Leaders presents an up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth analysis of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization and the various financing tools municipalities have at their disposal. By providing city leaders with a wide array of financing solutions that emphasize sustainability, inclusion, and financial autonomy, this publication contributes to the growing conversation on how cities can look inward to finance major capital expenditures, infrastructure maintenance and operation, and public services.

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Final report - Venice City Solutions 2030 - Financing the SDGs at local level

Available in English

This document gathers the conclusions and recommendations by participants to the “Venice City Solutions 2030 – Financing the SDGs” that took place in Venice, Italy on 16th and 17th November 2018. Th...

Developed by UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNCDF, UCLG

Posted by UN-Habitat Local

Concept notes and papers

Strengthen local tax revenue to finance urban development in Africa

Available in English

This publication illuminates, through eight case studies of various African cities, the prominence of local taxation in the structure of local budgets and the importance of upgrading the latter for wi...

Developed by Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV...

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Guidance and systemization of experiences

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