Urban Finance Management System and Resources Desk major responsibilities

1.                Prepare policies, strategies and regulation to enhance cities financial management and improve revenue

§  Supports cities to manage properly their municipal finances by establishing a modernize financial management system

§  Supports cities to establish a modernize system so that their municipal revenue increases over time,

§  To benchmark/scale up best practices on municipal revenue collection system from our country policies and other countries

§  Prepare laws, manuals and regulation to enforce municipal revenue collection

§  Give training to regions and cities to improve cities financial management and municipal revenue collection.

2.                 Establish and improve performance systems

§  Establish a system to manage properly cities budget, resources, accounting and auditing

§  Supports cities to recognize and manage their resources and help them to establish a modernize resources registration and management system

§  To establish a system by which a city Credit Worthiness Capacity status can be identified.

3.                 Assist the implementation of policies, strategies and regulation that enhance cities financial management and improve revenue

§  Assist and monitor the establish and implementation of  policies, strategies and regulations; system to manage properly cities budget, resources, accounting and auditing;

§  Assist, support and monitor the establish and implementation of  a system to manage properly cities budget, resources, accounting and auditing;

§  By assessing gaps give training to regions and cities to improve cities financial management and municipal revenue collection;

§  By involving stakeholders support implementation of revenue system and operation laws;

§  Supports and monitor reforms so that the municipal revenue structure enhance cities financial management system, cities municipal revenue collection and cities to manage their resources

§  Support cities resources information (budget, revenue and expenditure, assets … etc.) consolidation and monitor their trends.

4.      Assist in different studies

§  Support, monitor and assist studies on new municipal revenues sources;

§  Support the study of a financial development strengthening system that enhance credit worthiness of a city;

§  Make assessment studies on system, services type, capacity and use of  municipal revenue;

§  Identifying the current problems on cities revenue collection system and study an improvement system that boost their revenue collection

§  Support and monitor the identification and transfer of best practices on financial management and revenue enhancement systems.