Annual Report 2005

The report’s foreword by Jeffrey Sachs stresses the pivotal role that cities can play in meeting the MDGs by developing bold, long-term city development strategies which link investments in infrastructure and services with economic growth and poverty reduction. The first chapter discusses the challenges of financing these investments, in particular, on how domestic long-term capital can be mobilised to finance city development strategies, including citywide slum upgrading. The report’s remaining chapters illustrate how Cities Alliance members and partners are designing and implementing Alliance-funded activities worldwide to empower cities in this process.

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• Cover and Table of Contents (3 pages, 453 KB PDF)

• Cities and the Millennium Development Goals (1 page, 72 KB PDF)

• Empowering Cities to Attract Finance (12 pages, 470 KB PDF)

• Cities Alliance in Action (3 pages, 139 KB PDF)

  • Africa (12 pages, 634 KB PDF)

  • Asia (9 pages, 335 KB PDF)

  • Eastern Europe and Central Asia (6 pages, 224 KB PDF)

  • Latin America and the Caribbean (10 pages, 404 KB PDF)

  • Middle East and North Africa (7 pages, 331 KB PDF)

• Learning and Knowledge Sharing (9 pages, 316 KB PDF)

• Cities Alliance Organisation (4 pages, 131 KB PDF)

• Financials (10 pages, 274 KB PDF)

• Acknowledgments, Abbreviations and Acronyms  (1 page, 39 KB PDF)