Your needs
Making our municipal development plan fundable
“We have a development plan. It is dormant, because none of its projects is fundable as it stands.”
What is happening
Your situation
Your municipality or region has a development plan — often drawn up under an earlier programme, sometimes an old one. It lists legitimate intentions. But none is sized, none is costed defensibly, none is prioritised against an explicit criterion. The result: when a financial partner asks “which project, for what amount, with what social return”, you have no answer to give.
What you risk
- A development plan that has not been operationalised is not a plan: it is a list. No funding window finances a list.
- Local authorities without a portfolio of ready projects are systematically served after those that have one — funding goes to what has been appraised, not to what is needed.
- Without explicit prioritisation, every change of executive reshuffles the deck and the territory starts again from zero.
- The Global Infrastructure Hub reference framework establishes that preparing a project accounts for 5 to 12% of its total cost in an emerging economy. Under-investing at this stage is the leading cause of stalling.
Our answer
What we do
We turn the plan into a portfolio. Socio-economic territorial assessment and GIS mapping of the municipality, multi-year investment programming with written and contestable prioritisation criteria, then technical and financial sizing of the three to five most mature projects up to a file that can be put to a funding window. The plan stops being a document and becomes a queue of appraised projects.
In the Central African context
The decisive lever
A local authority rarely pays for this work itself. Funding comes from a national programme, a development partner or a decentralisation fund. Our first piece of work with you is therefore not to sell you a study: it is to profile your territory from the public data in our Observatory, free of charge, and to identify together the window that can fund it.
What you receive
Deliverables
Things delivered, not intentions.
- Socio-economic territorial assessment and GIS mapping
- Prioritised multi-year investment programme, with criteria set out
- Rural development master plan or updated municipal plan
- Three to five project files, sized and costed in FCFA
- Matrix of funding windows available for each project
Services involved
ODT structures and operates territorial programmes. XP-NOVA delivers the engineering.
Sources
- Chapter 3 — Financing Project Preparation, Global Infrastructure Hub — edition date not shown on the chapter consulted
Recommended first step: A free profile of your territory, from the public data in our Observatory.
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