1. Presentation Ekurhuleni Municipal Council Chambers, Kempton park
South Africa Cities Network/ PPIAF/World Bank Municipal Finance Project
Presentation Ekurhuleni Municipal Council Chambers, Kempton park
25 May 2011

2. The Mandate of the SACN Network of SA cities and partners
information generation
information exchange
Non-profit voluntary organisation
Initiative of COGTA, nine city municipalities, and SALGA
Thematic program areas: City Development; Productive Cities; Inclusive Cities; Well Governed Cities; Sustainable Cities

3. Initial Project Concept
Credit Assessments – knowledge demand for financing for infrastructure can partly benefit from borrowing
Good financial understanding of cities (basis of report)
Capacity Building: attain impact through a focussed capacity building programme
Lead to improved credit-worthiness and borrowing
Based on infrastructure needs assessment
Design suitable loan instrument
The latter quickly gained in significance
Creditworthiness is systems, processes, people, policies
Need to create the capacity to deal with them

4. Choice of location Tempted to interact with as many cities
Lilongwe chosen on basis of
Looked close to creditworthiness
Chief Executive confronted some financial challenges with positive results
Other assistance programmes ongoing provided (twinning Joburg City Could have carried it out in any of the cities
Time and budgetary constraints

5. Structuring program for the future
The results
Lilongwe will tell
Sense that good level of participation
High level buy in crucial
It can be too much ...

6. Thanks!