Urban Infrastructure Management Training Course

Participants can forecast infrastructure demand and identify capacity constraints under alternative growth scenarios.

• Population, employment, and land-use scenarios driving infrastructure demand forecasts
• Peak-demand analysis for water, roads, transit, drainage, and solid waste
• GIS-based catchment mapping for service areas and infrastructure coverage
• Capacity gap calculations comparing projected demand with available supply
• Scenario testing for informal settlement growth and climate-related disruption
• Demand-management options including metering, pricing, reuse, and travel-demand measures

Participants can prepare asset-management priorities based on condition, criticality, risk and whole-life cost.

• ISO 55000 asset-management principles applied to municipal infrastructure portfolios
• Asset hierarchies, registers, and ownership records for public infrastructure
• Condition assessment scales linked to deterioration curves and renewal timing
• Criticality ranking using consequence, likelihood, and service interruption criteria
• Life-cycle plans covering inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation, replacement, and disposal
• Maintenance backlogs quantified through asset condition and intervention cost data

Participants can rank infrastructure investments using transparent economic, social, financial and delivery criteria.

• Capital investment plans aligned with service targets and municipal development strategies
• Multi-criteria analysis weighting economic, social, environmental, and implementation factors
• Project screening criteria distinguishing urgent repairs from expansion investments
• Options appraisal comparing demand management, rehabilitation, and new construction
• Portfolio sequencing based on dependencies, permitting, funding, and delivery readiness
• Investment pipeline registers recording costs, benefits, risks, and decision status

Participants can assemble a proportionate feasibility package for an urban infrastructure project.

• Pre-feasibility studies defining scope, alternatives, costs, benefits, and constraints
• Technical due diligence covering site conditions, utilities, standards, and constructability
• Environmental and social screening using impact pathways and mitigation measures
• Stakeholder mapping identifying affected communities, agencies, operators, and landowners
• Project preparation plans assigning studies, approvals, responsibilities, and decision gates
• Readiness assessments testing land, permits, designs, data, funding, and governance

Participants can evaluate project value using economic appraisal, distributional effects and public-service outcomes.

• Cost-benefit analysis identifying economic costs, benefits, externalities, and residual value
• Economic pricing adjustments for taxes, transfers, subsidies, and market distortions
• Value of time calculations for urban transport and access improvements
• Health and environmental benefits estimated from sanitation, drainage, and waste interventions
• Distributional analysis identifying who receives benefits and who bears costs
• Sensitivity analysis testing demand, costs, delays, and benefit assumptions

Participants can assess funding options and fiscal capacity for an urban infrastructure investment programme.

• Funding sources distinguished from financing instruments and repayment obligations
• Municipal revenue analysis covering taxes, user charges, transfers, and land-value capture
• Operating budget impacts from staffing, energy, maintenance, and service contracts
• Debt-service capacity assessed through forecast revenues, expenditures, and borrowing limits
• Fiscal commitments registers for guarantees, subsidies, termination payments, and availability payments
• Capital financing plans combining grants, debt, equity, tariffs, and developer contributions

Participants can build and interpret a basic project financial model for funding and PPP decisions.

• Model architecture linking assumptions, construction costs, operations, financing, and outputs
• Cash-flow forecasts separating capital expenditure, operating costs, revenues, and taxes
• Debt schedules calculating interest, principal repayment, debt-service coverage, and reserve accounts
• Financial returns measured through project IRR, equity IRR, and net present value
• Viability-gap funding calculated from affordability constraints and required investor returns
• Scenario analysis testing cost overruns, delays, demand shortfalls, and tariff changes

Participants can determine whether PPP delivery is suitable and identify an appropriate partnership structure.

• PPP suitability tests comparing public delivery, outsourcing, concessions, and availability-payment models
• Contract structures including management contracts, leases, BOTs, DBFOMs, and joint ventures
• Revenue-risk implications of user-pay, hybrid, and public-payment arrangements
• Value-for-money analysis comparing whole-life public and PPP delivery costs
• Bankability conditions covering revenue certainty, risk allocation, security, and lender protections
• PPP screening reports documenting rationale, affordability, market interest, and safeguards

Participants can allocate major project risks to the party best able to manage them.

• Risk registers identifying probability, impact, mitigation, ownership, and residual exposure
• Construction risk allocated through design responsibility, price basis, and completion guarantees
• Demand risk assessed through forecast uncertainty, tariff policy, and competing services
• Force majeure clauses distinguishing political, natural, and insurable events
• Change-in-law provisions addressing cost, revenue, and service-delivery consequences
• Termination payment formulas reflecting default, lender step-in, and asset handback

Participants can prepare a procurement strategy that attracts capable bidders and protects public value.

• Procurement routes selected by project complexity, risk profile, and market capability
• Market sounding plans testing bidder appetite, financing capacity, and contract concerns
• Prequalification criteria assessing technical experience, financial capacity, and integrity
• Request-for-proposals documents specifying outputs, payment terms, risks, and evaluation rules
• Bid evaluation matrices separating technical quality, price, finance, and social commitments
• Negotiation protocols preserving competition, governance records, and approval discipline

Participants can establish governance, monitoring and escalation arrangements for operational infrastructure contracts.

• Contract-management plans defining roles, approvals, reporting cycles, and decision rights
• Service-level agreements linking output standards to inspection and verification methods
• Key performance indicators covering availability, quality, response times, and safety
• Payment mechanisms calculating unitary charges, indexation, deductions, and bonuses
• Variation-control procedures documenting scope, cost, time, and approval consequences
• Dispute-resolution ladders using negotiation, adjudication, mediation, and arbitration

Participants can incorporate climate resilience and environmental performance requirements into investment decisions.

• Climate risk screening for heat, flooding, drought, storms, and sea-level rise
• Resilience measures assessed through redundancy, recoverability, adaptability, and emergency capacity
• Nature-based solutions compared with engineered alternatives using life-cycle performance criteria
• Greenhouse-gas inventories covering construction materials, energy use, and transport operations
• Environmental management plans assigning mitigation measures, monitoring indicators, and responsibilities
• Climate adaptation costs incorporated into options appraisal and financial models

Participants can design stakeholder engagement and accountability measures for contested urban infrastructure projects.

• Stakeholder influence-interest matrices identifying engagement priorities and communication approaches
• Consultation plans addressing affected households, businesses, vulnerable groups, and civil society
• Grievance mechanisms defining intake channels, response times, escalation, and reporting
• Gender-responsive design considerations for safety, access, sanitation, and mobility
• Resettlement and livelihood risks identified before site acquisition and construction
• Public disclosure packs presenting costs, benefits, service commitments, and safeguards

Participants can establish governance arrangements that align urban infrastructure decisions, oversight and accountability.

• Institutional mapping clarifying policy, ownership, regulation, delivery, and operating responsibilities
• RACI matrices assigning accountabilities across municipal departments and external agencies
• Project steering committees structured around approvals, escalation thresholds, and reporting
• Regulatory frameworks governing tariffs, service standards, competition, and consumer protection
• Anti-corruption controls covering procurement records, conflict declarations, and audit trails
• Intergovernmental coordination agreements for metropolitan networks and shared-service infrastructure

Participants can monitor infrastructure portfolios using operational, financial, social and delivery indicators.

• Balanced scorecards connecting service outcomes, asset health, finances, and delivery milestones
• Portfolio dashboards tracking costs, schedules, risks, benefits, and decision status
• Benefits-realisation plans assigning baseline measures, owners, targets, and review dates
• Independent verification procedures validating outputs, performance data, and payment claims
• Post-implementation reviews capturing lessons on design, procurement, operations, and governance
• Corrective-action logs linking underperformance to accountable owners and completion dates

Participants can build, review and present a complete urban infrastructure project preparation and management package.

• Service problem definition supported by demand, condition, and stakeholder evidence
• Investment option appraisal combining economic value, affordability, and delivery feasibility
• Project financial model presenting funding sources, cash flows, and fiscal commitments
• PPP or procurement recommendation supported by risk allocation and market analysis
• Implementation plan covering governance, milestones, approvals, safeguards, and communications
• Performance dashboard specifying service levels, payment measures, risks, and review cycles