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