Municipal Reforms

Objectives

Our objective is to help municipalities deliver better quality services and infrastructure. The five reform areas which will result in irreversible municipal strengthening are –

• Rationalising fiscal decentralisation,
• Optimising city/ULB revenues,
• Creating a functional municipal borrowings market,
• Building institutional capacities (enhancing human capital), and
• Fostering transparency and accountability at the neighbourhood level.

We adopt a three-track approach to encourage government action in the areas of municipal finance, capacities and citizen engagement –

• Padvocacy at the national level (encouraging and promoting reforms),
• Reform implementation support to the state government of Odisha (creating proof-of-concepts), and
• Dissemination of playbooks to other state governments (helping achieve scale)

Presently, have partnered with the Housing & Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha to design and implement widescale Municipal Reforms across all 114 cities of Odisha.