John Hopkins University - Financing Infrastructure in African Cities
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Financing Infrastructure in African Cities at Coursera Overview
Duration | 22 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
Financing Infrastructure in African Cities at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Financing Infrastructure in African Cities at Coursera Course details
- The world is urbanizing fast. In less than a century more than 1 billion people have been urbanized. That translates into the fact that more than half of the world?s population is already living in cities. Experts forecast that very soon Africa will become one of the most urbanized continents. However, almost 70% of world?s urban population is living in the cities where governments are struggling to provide basic services like sanitation, schools, hospitals, and adequate clean water.
- The reason is that, their governments do not have enough money. This may also be true also for the city where you live or work. Poor infrastructure affects your daily life. Local governments struggle with mobilizing finances so that they can improve your quality of life but many times they are not aware of the right mechanisms.
- Imagine that your government wants to know how can they finance cities and they want you to advise ? where will you begin with? Our finance experts are bringing their experience right at your Desk through this MOOC. This MOOC has five modules and in five weeks you will learn:
- Financial decision making environment in urban syste
- ? Mechanisms for mobilizing local revenue
- ? Innovative mechanisms for financing infrastructure projects through partnerships, and
- ? Financial decision making under uncertainties and risk
- We will provide you a carefully selected set of literature, quizzes and interactive discussion forums. So join our MOOC and find out the ways to make your city a better place to live in for yourself and for your next generations.
- (This MOOC was developed in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-Africa), African Local Governments Academy (ALGA), and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Financing Infrastructure in African Cities at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the Course
Video Trailer
Introduction to UCLG-Africa
Introduction to UCLG-Africa and the MOOC by Dr. NaJat Zarrouk, Director of UCLG-Africa
Introduction to Course
Meet the FIAC Team
Urban Systems and Financial Decision-Making
The Principles of Finance
Urban Local Bodies and Their Role in Managing Cities
Conclusions from the week
Readings for Week 1
Recap for Week 1
Financing Current Expenditures
Introduction to Financing Current Expenditures
Revenues and Expenditures of a City Government
Basic Concepts: Principle of Subsidiarity and Decentralization
Conclusions: Principle of subsidiarity and decentralization
Sources of Current Revenues
Taxonomy of Goods
Basic Concepts: The Benefit Model
Conclusions from the week
The Principle of Subsidiarity
Local Governance and Decentralization
Intergovernmental Finances in a Decentralized World
Municipal Revenues
The Benefit Model of Local Government Finance
Week 2 Readings
Recap of Week 2
Financing Capital Expenditures
Introduction to Financing Capital Expenditures
The role of the private sector, stakeholders? involvement and financial structuring
Financial structuring, the environment for PPP projects, sustainable finance and the lessons learned by the Inter-American Development Bank
Getting private sector skills and assets through PPPs and dealing with risks
Conclusions and lessons learned from the Week
The Failure of the Cochabamba drinking water Concession in Bolivia
Lessons learned by the Inter-American Development Bank
Learning more about PPPs in the water sector
List of Recommended Resources
Recap of Week 3
Financial Decision Making for Municipal Governments
Introduction to Week 4: Decision Alternatives, Risk Analysis and Methods for Decision Making
Decision Alternative: Introducing three different approaches
Understanding Uncertainties
Risk Analysis
The presence of games
Decision Making
Methods for Decision-Making
MCA Case Study and Conclusions of Course
Week 4 Readings
Recap of Week 4
Capstone Project
Financing Infrastructure in African Cities at Coursera Admission Process
Important Dates
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Student Forum
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