
Municipalities and Finance
A Sourcebook for Capacity Building
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal finance capacity and ways of addressing financial constraints.
The ideas come from real-life innovative practice in four countries - India, Brazil, Kenya and Uganda - with additional examples from elsewhere. Emphasis is given to how those innovations and improvements were developed and sustained. The book identifies a strategic framework for diagnosing municipal finance capacity and focusing financial goals. It applies the analysis to a number of critical areas of municipal finance including local taxes, charges for services, budgeting, cost control, accounting reforms and investment finance.
This is the third in a series of capacity-building sourcebooks that includes Focusing Partnerships: A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-Private Partnerships and Municipalities and Community Participation: A Sourcebook for Capacity Building.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- About the Authors
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Series Foreword by Janelle Plummer
- Preface
- Chapter 1. A Strategic Framework for Municipal Capacity Building in Finance
- Part 1: Strategies for Capacity Building
- Part 2: Mobilising More Money
- Part 3: Spending Money Better
- Part 4: Sustaining Improvements
- Annexe: Background to the Case Studies
- References
- Index