Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting "Urban Development Financing: The challenges of Local Governments in Developing Countries” held in Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 June 2014

This report is based on a dialogue process through 2014, whose purpose was to respond to the following questions: how will the Post-2015 Devel-opment Agenda be implemented at the local level?; what local governance processes, tools, institutions, mechanisms, and other means of implementa-tion are needed to achieve the future sustainable development goals (SDGs)?; and how can the voices of local stakeholders be amplified and their inclusionin…

Developed with the collaboration of 14 UN agencies, this guide aims to support UN Country Teams (UNCTs) across the Asia-Pacific in the design and delivery of urban programmes that are effective, integrated and multi-sectoral.

This book teaches us that the fight against inequality requires the establishment of a new governance paradigm which coordinates efforts, strengthens formal coordination mechanisms, establishes
joint responsibilities and provides the resources and incentives
necessary at every level of government. Responsibilities should be
shared in such a way as to facilitate a more decisive and better coordinated way of confronting inequality in cities.

Los países y las ciudades de Latinoamérica han entrado en una senda de reducción de desigualdades. Sin embargo, las brechas que separan pobres de ricos siguen siendo las más elevadas del mundo.

The UN-Habitat Country Programme Documents are tangible components of the plan and a genuine endeavour to strategically develop country programmes in a consultative and inclusive process involving UN-Habitat’s country team and headquarter branches, national governments, sister agencies from the UN Country Team, and development partners

This report examines the fiscal decentralisation experience in Philippines. Since 1991, the central government has devolved significant spending, taxing, and borrowing powers to local governments.

This report presents the outcomes of UN-HABITAT 's International Conference on Decentralization, Local Governance and Service Delivery: Sharing Experience and Sustaining Progress in Urban Iraq, which took place in Amman, Jordan from 8-10 May 2011.

Japanese fiscal system places a high premium on tax and expenditure harmonization and on the control by higher level governments.