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NIUA has entered into a strategic partnership with GIZ for the Sustainable Urban Development -Smart Cities II (SUDSC II) project, which is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Under this project, NIUA and GIZ have jointly initiated the “SUDSC-II Webinar Series” to support setting up of Communities of Practice. The webinar series is a set of curated dialogues focusing on urban topics related to the municipal finance, climate resilience, digital innovations for urban governance and shall be conducted on the ‘Connective Cities Network’. The third webinar under this series is titled as "Mobilising Resources for Green Infrastructure Projects: Green Bonds". The webinar intends to initiate discussions on the need for identifying the investment gaps and infrastructure needs; need for shifting from traditional ‘grey’ financing instruments to options of green financing (green bonds in particular); how to seek financing via green bonds; requirement of a policy framework at different levels (central, state, local government level), etc.

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NIUA has entered into a strategic partnership with GIZ for the Sustainable Urban Development in Smart Cities - Phase II (SUDSC II) project, which is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Under this project, NIUA and GIZ have jointly initiated the “SUDSC-II Webinar Series” to support setting up of Communities of Practice. The webinar series is a set of curated dialogues focusing on urban topics related to municipal finance, climate resilience, digital innovations for urban governance and shall be conducted on the ‘Connective Cities Network’. In the webinar series, the second webinar is on 'Improving Urban Finance through Value Capture Financing'. The webinar will bring together experts from the field of VCF and agencies/ departments that have utilised VCF as an innovative tool for financing. The focus will be on understanding the process for adopting a VCF tool for undertaking urban development projects (including decision w.r.t choice of VCF tool, required legal framework, implementation mechanism, etc.); how can mega transit projects impact development of land around them and support the 4 key steps of the VCF process [value creation, value realisation, value capture and value recycle]. In addition, representative from Urban Local Body/ Departments will showcase their journey in the implementation of VCF tools to capture value from increased land values resulting from public investments. The focus will be on discussing the challenges and the ways adopted to emerge successful and achieving improved municipal finance.

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National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), under the grant ‘Strategic Partnership for Mainstreaming Risk-Informed, Integrated, Resilient, and Sustainable Urban Development in Cities’ of the GIZ- implemented project ‘Sustainable Urban Development - Smart Cities II’ (SUDSC II), has initiated a webinar series for supporting in setting up the Communities of Practice (CoP) under this project. The webinar series shall be conducted on the ‘Connective Cities’ platform, and moderated by the SUDSC team and NIUA. The first of the webinar series, titled ‘Enhancing Service Delivery through Integrated Digital Systems’, will be organised with two expert presentations followed by a case study discussion. This webinar aims to explore the merits of digitally transforming city functions and service delivery while also understanding the challenges (namely, capacity of the organisation, resource constraints, digital divide, data security, and privacy, interoperability and integration, and organisational change management, etc.) that arise during the process and the means to overcome the same. By leveraging integrated digital systems, cities can enhance their efficiency, effectiveness, and overall quality of service delivery to meet the evolving needs of their residents and stakeholders.