The Municipal Finance Task Force
The objective of the Municipal Finance Task Force (MFTF) is to identify ways to increase the flow of domestic long term private capital to developing cities in support of their slum upgrading and city development strategies. The Task Force will serve as a forum for collecting the experience and views of international experts on municipal finance and private capital mobilization.

Inter-American Development Bank Municipal Finance
The website provides links to IADB studies, documents, and web pages of other organizations in the field of municipal finance.

USAID Development Credit Authority
DCA is a broad financing authority that allows USAID to use credit to pursue any of the development purposes specified under the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) of 1961. DCA seeks to give USAID the flexibility to make more rational choices about the appropriate financing tools - loans, guarantees, grants or a combination thereof - used in project development.

Municipal Finance Toolkit
One of the principal reasons that municipal services are inadequate in almost all developing and transitional cities is that municipalities are not adequately financed. Even when local governments have been assigned clear service responsibility, lack of revenue-raising powers and predictable intergovernmental transfers often preclude them from discharging these functions efficiently to meet the needs of local residents. At the same time, underdeveloped financial markets (both weak capital markets and the banking systems) are typically unable to provide long-term financing for essential municipal infrastructure. The amount of project funding that is available from central governments and development banks is almost always inadequate to meet the need. The assessments contained here will help the user to analyze municipal finance and develop potential projects and interventions.

World Bank Institute Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management Program Course on Budgeting, Section on Capital Budget and Investment Planning
The focus of this paper is to outline the role of budgeting as a critical tool of local government finance and to provide guidelines to strengthen local public finances in improving the financial management and creditworthiness of local government entities. The Section on Capital Budget and Investment Planning describes the various steps and implications local governments face in developing and improving its long-term assets, including roads, pipes, schools, and water treatment plants.

World Bank Toolkit for Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation
The website provides three toolkits in fostering private sector participation in water and sanitation. They include: 1) Selecting and Option for Private Sector Participation, 2) Designing and Implementing an Option for Private Sector Participation, and 3) What a Private Sector Arrangement Should Cover.

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