The Alliance gratefully acknowledges the ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS contributions of the following members and AfD Agence Française de Développement [French Development Agency] partners to the development of the content for AUHF African Union for Housing Finance AVSI Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale [Association of Volunteers in the following chapters: International Service] BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Empowering Cities to Attract Finance CAIXA Brazil’s Housing and Urban Development Bank Rajivan Krishanswamy, with inputs from Mark Hildebrand, CAS Country Assistance Strategy William Cobbett and Rama Krishnan Venkateswaran of the CDS development strategies Cities Alliance; Thierry Paulais—AfD; James F. Hicks—World CIDA Canadian International Development Agency Bank; Matt Glasser—World Bank; Vincent Gouarne—World CLIFF Community-Led Infrastructure Finance Facility DBSA Development Bank of Southern Africa Bank/IFC; Tony Pellegrini—Centennial Group; Roland Hunter— DCA Development Credit Authority (USAID) City of Johannesburg; Stefan Jansson—GuarantCo; John DFID Department for International Development (UK) Wasielewski—DCA/USAID; Kathy Shandling—IADF. EU European Union FAC Fonds Français d’Aide et de Coopération Cities Alliance in Action FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation Africa: Kubeshni Govender Jones—City of Johannesburg; FEC Fonds d’Equipement Communal (Morrocco) Gerhard Mai—GTZ/Addis Ababa; Antonio Yachan—UN-HABI- FEICOM Fonds Spécial d’Equipement et d’Intervention Intercommunale (Cameroon) TAT/Nairobi; Jaime Comiche—Maputo Municipality; Mathias FICOM Fonds d’Investissement des Communes (Burkina Faso) FINDETER Financiera de Desarrollo Territorial (Colombia) Spaliviero—UN-HABITAT/Maputo; His Excellency, Celestin B. FODECOM Fonds de Démarrage des Communes (Burkina Faso) Koussoube—Mayor of Bobo Dioulasso; Tiambal Sourabie and GDP gross domestic product François Yatta—Bobo Dioulasso; Benedict Gamedze—Mbabane GTZ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) City Council; His Excellency Idi Malé—President of Urban IADF International Association of Local and Regional Development Funds in Emerging Community Development Council, Maradi; Hanmidou Countries Aboubacar—Urban Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, Niger IDB Inter-American Development Bank Republic; IEF Infrastructure Economics and Finance (World Bank) IFC International Finance Corporation Asia: Edward Leman—Chreod Ltd, Canada; Zhang Rufei— IMF International Monetary Fund Chreod Limited, China; Giang Thi Huong Nguyen and Hoa Thi INCA Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited (South Africa) Hoang—World Bank/Hanoi; Hubert Jenny— World Bank/Beijing; ISTED L’Institute des Sciences et des Techniques de l’Equipement et de l’Environnement pour le Andreas Suhono—Ministry of Public Works, Indonesia; Geoffrey Développement. Payne—GPA Associates; Beng Khemro—Ministry of Land KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (German Development Bank) Management, Phnom Penh; LED local economic development MDFO Municipal Development Fund Office Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Dina Grube—World Bank/ MDG Millennium Development Goals Riga; Andis Kublakovs—Riga City Council; Vilnis Vitkovskis— MFTF Municipal Finance Task Force Liepaja City Council; Zenta Ilkena—Valmiera City Council; Ilga NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development Muizniece—Jelgava City Council; Eugene Levkin—USAID/ NGO nongovernmental organisation Russia; NSDF National Slum Dwellers Federation OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Latin America and the Caribbean: David Sislen—World Bank; PDM Partenariat Pour le Développement Municipal Taimur Samad –World Bank; Manuel Castro Boca—Lima City PIDG Private Infrastructure Development Group Strategy Project; Ivo Imparato—World Bank/São Paulo; Alex PPIAF Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Kenya Abiko—University of São Paulo, São Paulo; World Bank, PRODUR Programa de Desenvolvimento Urbano do Estado da Bahia (Brazil) São Paulo; Orlando de Alemida Filho—City of São Paulo; SAGEDECOM Service d’Appui à la Gestion et au Développement des Roberto Moussallem de Andrade—Bahia, Brazil; Mila Freire— Communes (Burkina Faso) World Bank; Judy Baker—World Bank; SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency SACN South African Cities Network Middle East and North Africa: Ahmed Eiweida, Caroline SUF Slum Upgrading Facility Bollini, Dina Mohammed Samir El Naggar—World Bank; TNUDF Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund (India) Ibrahim Kreis—Greater Amman Municipality; Stephen Karam— UCLG United Cities and Local Governments World Bank; Mohammed Zemam—and Iskander Satter— UCLGA United Cities and Local Governments of Africa Port Cities Development Programme, Yemen. UNCDF United Nations Capital Development Fund UNDP United Nations Development Programme

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