CITIES Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) released its recent Annual Report 2015 titled “Investing in Asia’s Urban Future”.
CDIA’s first annual report sums up our noteworthy achievements in 2014: A motivated CDIA Team, eight new accredited National Partner Organizations (NPOs); a workshop with 10 CDIA partner cities that will become our Centers of Learning; a 1:73 US$ ratio in terms of money invested in CDIA AND infra “linked”; and international recognition of CDIA in the G20, WEF, WB and others.
With this growing comes new challenges such as creating sustainable NPO relations, implementing mechanisms for cost recovery, increasing regional contributions, identifying pro-poor financing institutions, spreading good practices and lessons learned, and monitoring our 77 partner cities. Our Midterm Review gave positive results and we’re now busy preparing to streamline processes and have deeper involvement in our projects with cities and partners.
Here is our 2014 story.
We are in 15 countries.
CDIA aims to contribute sustainable and equitable urban development, leading to improve environmental and living conditions for all in Asian cities by:
Helping cities structure their project to attract market-based international private investment.
- Providing technical assistance in structuring priority infrastructure projects to a stage where they can be financed.
- Strengthening local institutional prerequisites for development of capital investment infrastructure projects and urban services.
CDIA focuses on developing investments in urban infrastructureand linking theseinfrastructure projects with domestic,international, public, or private financing.
Past Annual Themes
2008 Moving from Strategies to Bankable Investments
2009 Sustainable Urban Transport
2010 Linking Cities to Financing
2011 Pro-poor and inclusive infrastructure provision
2012 Cities and Climate Change
2013 Public Private Partnerships for Cities
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & HIGHLIGHTS
- During the city interventions, the focus is often on preparing bankable and better projects. Very few cities have actually institutionalized the CDIA approaches so far.
- How can additional cities be inspired to pursue similar innovation in their own locality?
- How can such replication can be monitored?
2014 ANNUAL THEME ACTIVITIES
An Experts Group Meeting on Learning Cities: Creating City to-City Synergy to Bridge the Infrastructure Investment Gapswas held inthe side-lines of the World Cities
Summit in Singapore
22 expertsfrom ADB,ATKINS, Bandung City,Yokohama City, C40,CityNet, KPMG, UCLGASPAC,UN-HABITAT, National University of Singapore, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World ResourcesInstitute attended.
The Flagship Event
The workshop revealed when, where and how CDIA-supported cities have shared their CDIA experiences refined the knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning methodologies to be more effective, creative and how they can reach a wider audience and brought together CDIA stakeholders to support the takeoff of the CDIA Centers of Learning.
