Climate-Resilient Cities Finance Training Course

Participants can build a prioritised resilience investment pipeline from city plans and asset needs.

• Capital investment plans aligned with resilience strategies and asset-management priorities
• Project concept notes defining scope, beneficiaries, costs and delivery responsibilities
• Multi-criteria analysis scoring resilience, service, equity and implementation readiness
• Sequencing enabling works, core assets and complementary nature-based interventions
• Pipeline governance through project sponsors, stage gates and decision rights
• Data requirements for baseline conditions, asset condition and projected demand

Participants can prepare an evidence-based case for investing in resilient infrastructure.

• Theory of change linking investments to resilience outputs and outcomes
• Lifecycle costing for capital, operations, maintenance, renewal and decommissioning
• Avoided-loss analysis using damage estimates, disruption costs and recovery expenses
• Economic appraisal with discounted cash flow, NPV and benefit-cost ratio
• Distributional analysis identifying who pays, benefits and bears residual risk
• Sensitivity tests for climate scenarios, demand assumptions and cost escalation

Participants can assess municipal fiscal capacity to support resilience capital investment.

• Revenue composition analysed through taxes, transfers, fees and property income
• Operating surpluses, capital budgets and maintenance backlogs interpreted together
• Debt-service ratios and borrowing headroom calculated from fiscal projections
• Medium-term fiscal frameworks linking capital commitments to recurrent expenditure
• Contingent liabilities recorded for guarantees, PPP payments and revenue support
• Creditworthiness factors affecting lender confidence and borrowing terms

Participants can compare funding sources against project characteristics and institutional constraints.

• Municipal own-source revenues matched to service mandates and expenditure responsibilities
• Intergovernmental transfers assessed for predictability, earmarking and counterpart requirements
• User charges designed around cost recovery, affordability and collection performance
• Developer contributions linked to infrastructure demand generated by new development
• Land-value capture instruments including betterment levies and tax-increment financing
• Asset recycling and public-land monetisation assessed against public-value safeguards

Participants can identify suitable debt and bond structures for resilient urban assets.

• Projected cash flows tested against principal, interest and reserve requirements
• Term loans compared by tenor, grace periods, security and covenants
• Municipal bond structures using general-obligation, revenue and pooled-finance approaches
• Green bond proceeds tracked through ring-fencing, reporting and external review
• Credit enhancement options including guarantees, reserve accounts and subordinated debt
• Debt sustainability assessed under downside revenue and climate-shock scenarios

Participants can position urban projects for green and climate-finance eligibility.

• Climate-finance additionality distinguished from standard infrastructure financing needs
• Adaptation rationale evidenced through vulnerability assessments and climate projections
• Mitigation co-benefits quantified using emissions baselines and project alternatives
• Green Bond Principles applied to use-of-proceeds and impact reporting
• Climate Bonds Standard criteria reviewed for eligible urban infrastructure categories
• Climate fund concept notes structured around rationale, results and co-financing

Participants can design blended-finance structures that address identifiable financing barriers.

• Financing gaps diagnosed through risk, return, tenor and affordability constraints
• Concessional debt sized to reduce tariffs or improve project viability
• Grant funding allocated to preparation, viability gaps and resilience components
• First-loss capital assessed for mobilisation rationale and moral-hazard controls
• Results-based financing linked to verified service and resilience outcomes
• Blended-finance additionality tested against commercial-finance availability and market distortions

Participants can determine whether a PPP is suitable for a proposed resilient asset.

• PPP screening tests covering scale, output specification and payment certainty
• Conventional procurement compared with PPPs using whole-life cost drivers
• Service contracts, leases, concessions and availability-payment PPPs distinguished
• Resilience requirements translated into measurable output specifications and standards
• Market sounding planned to test investor appetite and delivery constraints
• PPP project preparation budgets estimated for advisers, studies and transaction management

Participants can select revenue and payment mechanisms that support service and resilience objectives.

• User-pay revenues forecast from demand, tariffs, billing and collection assumptions
• Availability payments calculated from asset performance and service-unit requirements
• Shadow tariffs and output-based payments matched to measurable service volumes
• Tariff indexation formulas address inflation, exchange rates and energy costs
• Targeted subsidies designed for affordability without weakening operating incentives
• Payment-security mechanisms include escrow accounts, guarantees and termination reserves

Participants can allocate project risks to parties best able to manage them.

• Risk matrix assigns ownership, mitigation, pricing and monitoring responsibilities
• Construction risks allocated through design maturity, site data and completion security
• Demand risk assessed using historical usage, elasticity and competing-service analysis
• Climate hazards addressed through design standards, insurance and adaptation measures
• Force-majeure clauses distinguish insurable events from government relief events
• Change-in-law provisions allocate regulatory, environmental and tax-related impacts

Participants can interpret a project finance model and test key resilience-financing assumptions.

• Integrated project model links capital costs, operations, financing and taxes
• Sources-and-uses schedule reconciles equity, debt, grants and contingency funding
• Debt-service coverage ratio tested under operational and climate-related downside cases
• Cash-flow waterfalls define payment priorities, reserves and distribution restrictions
• Scenario analysis compares base, downside and severe climate-event assumptions
• Model audit checks formula consistency, unit integrity and assumption traceability

Participants can evaluate affordability and value for money before approving a financing structure.

• Affordability ceilings tested against medium-term expenditure framework projections
• Fiscal commitments mapped across construction, operations, termination and guarantees
• Value-for-money analysis compares public-sector comparator and PPP lifecycle costs
• Risk-adjusted costing quantifies retained risks using probability and impact estimates
• Fiscal-risk statements disclose direct liabilities and contingent obligations transparently
• Approval decisions documented through evidence thresholds and governance checkpoints

Participants can plan the studies, documents and governance needed for a financeable transaction.

• Pre-feasibility studies establish demand, technical options and preliminary affordability
• Bankability assessments test revenue certainty, risk allocation and contract enforceability
• Transaction timetable sequences approvals, market engagement and procurement milestones
• Request-for-qualification criteria assess financial capacity, experience and technical capability
• Bid evaluation combines technical quality, price and resilience-performance commitments
• Adviser terms of reference specify deliverables, independence and knowledge transfer

Participants can establish contract-management arrangements for long-term resilience performance.

• Key performance indicators measure availability, quality, response time and recovery
• Resilience performance monitored through service continuity and post-event restoration targets
• Payment deductions calibrated to materiality, persistence and user-service impacts
• Independent engineer roles cover certification, monitoring and dispute prevention
• Variation-control procedures assess cost, risk and lender-consent implications
• Asset handback requirements protect condition, data records and remaining useful life

Participants can prepare clear communications for communities, decision-makers and financing partners.

• Stakeholder mapping identifies authority, interests, influence and likely objections
• Community engagement plans address tariffs, land access and construction disruption
• Investor narratives connect project economics, risk controls and climate outcomes
• Decision memoranda present options, fiscal exposure and recommended approvals
• Data rooms organise legal, technical, financial and environmental documentation
• Disclosure plans meet public-accountability obligations while protecting sensitive commercial information

Participants can assemble a coherent financing strategy for a priority resilience project.

• Financing strategy matches project stage with appropriate capital sources
• Funding-gap analysis separates preparation, capital expenditure and operating-support needs
• Capital-stack diagrams show senior debt, concessional funds, grants and equity
• Implementation roadmap assigns owners, approvals, studies and financing milestones
• Risk register integrates fiscal, climate, delivery and stakeholder risks
• Results framework defines indicators, baselines, targets and verification arrangements

Participants can build, review and present a complete financing proposal for a climate-resilient urban infrastructure project.

• Project brief consolidates climate rationale, service needs and investment scope
• Financial case presents lifecycle costs, revenues, funding sources and affordability
• PPP assessment states delivery rationale, payment mechanism and risk allocation
• Climate-finance case documents eligibility, additionality and measurable resilience outcomes
• Peer review challenges assumptions, fiscal exposure and implementation feasibility
• Final presentation defends financing strategy before a simulated city investment committee