Cities to Succeed : An IEG Special Study
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The purpose of this Independence
Evaluation Group (IEG) special study is to illuminate the
scale and scope of Bank support for municipal development
and to draw specific lessons from the achievements and
failures of a sample of individual projects. The study
focuses on three dimensions of municipal management:
planning, finance, and service provision that figure
repeatedly in Bank financed municipal development projects
(MDPs). The planning dimension refers to the capacity of a
municipality to forecast and oversee its own progress. It
includes information systems, monitoring and evaluation
(M&E), city planning, and investment strategies. The
finance dimension refers to how a municipality manages the
resources needed to provide services to its constituents. It
covers financial management, own-resource mobilization,
access to credit, and private funding. The service provision
dimension refers to the capacity of a municipality to manage
the services required by city residents and business people
through the effective prioritization of investments,
management of competitive procurement, and the ability to
sustain services through operations and maintenance (O&M).
