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ICMA International Publications

ICMA International shares its expertise through an array of case studies, white papers, program reports, and other publications. Documents and reports appear throughout the ICMA International Web site. Here is a selection.

Case Studies

Teaching Communities to Fish: Local Economic Development in Bulgaria

Improved Water Supply Services in India 

Enhancing Economic Development Opportunities in Communities in the Russian Far East

Ending the Cycle of Decay: Rebuilding Infrastructure Through Management (Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, and Golden, Colorado)

Economic Development: Taking Action to Create Jobs (Pazardjik, Bulgaria, and West Bend, Wisconsin)

Improving Municipal Financial Management (Rayong, Thailand, and Portland, Oregon)

Eliminating Vehicle Pollution and Increasing Economic Productivity (Bekasi, Indonesia, and Gresham, Oregon)

White Papers 

Building Transparent Communities: ICMA's Approach

ICMA International and Professional Local Government Worldwide 

Providing Water and Sanitation to the Urban Poor in Less Developed Countries: An ICMA Approach

International Insights

International Insights is a series of knowledge resources from ICMA that provides an inside look at local government, tailored to the interests of the international development community. To subscribe, go to "Newsletter & Communications Preferences" here and check "International Insights." Following is a list of Insights selections:

Financial Resiliency: Time to Prosper

Shared Services & Cost Sharing Collaboration

State-of-the-Art Measures in Economic Development

Economic Development in Hard Times

Perspectives on Urban Sustainability

Charting Capacity for Local Government Success

The Rationale for Capital Budgeting

A Networked Approach to Emergency Management

Balancing Ethics and Climate Change: A Framework for Decision Making

Public-Private Partnership Structures and Arrangements

Decentralization, Democratization, and Professional Municipal Management

Meeting Fiscal Challenges: Innovation and "Re-Invention"

Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor

Community-Based Crime Prevention and Security

Pandemic Flu: Community Planning in Prioritizing Medical Services

Cluster-Based Economic Development Strategies

Disaster Recovery: A Local Government Responsibility

Five Key Elements to Building Transparent Communities

Innovations in Climate Change and Sustainability

CityLinks Program Annual Reports

CityLinks 2003-2008 Report

CityLinks 2007 Annual Report

CityLinks 2006 Annual Report