This placemaking guide builds on the experiences of the World Bank Group activity piloting participatory approaches for urban development in Serbia - placemaking and on other activities implemented under...
This note begins with a broad assessment of lagging regions in Serbia, identifying those that are significantly trailing behind in terms of income per capita (‘low income’) and those that, while not poor...
This report develops a roadmap for stakeholder and citizen engagement in Skenderija, Sarajevo. Skenderija serves as an excellent case study in citizen engagement given the high profile of the site situated...
Tirana is the engine of the Albanian economy. Tirana is the only major urban area with substantial density of economic activity in Albania and one of the few areas experiencing population growth. The city...
Ksamil is a small town on the southwestern shore of Albania, located at Buttint Lake in the west and the Ionic Sea in the east. Dependency on seasonal tourism is one of the main challenges Ksamil is facing...
The World Bank-Austria urban partnership program (UPP) is a regional program which aims to strengthen the capacity of local governments in South-East Europe (SEE), and to equip local elected officials...
The UPP has been furthering financial management and supporting capacity building with a network of local experts in the region through the Municipal Finance Self-Assessment and related tools. In the latest...
The Mayor of Nis, Darko Bulatovic, Urban Partnership Program (UPP) Team Leader Tamara Nikolic (TN) and workshop leader Roland Krebs (RK) welcomed around 40 participants of the first placemaking and participatory...
Peter Istjan- Holzl (‘P I-H’), Austrian Ministry of Finance and David Sislen, World Bank welcomed the 170 plus delegates to the conference in Vienna. They explained that this conference will launch the...