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Acknowledgements

In 2016, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), together with the Internation-
al Telecommunication Union (ITU), launched the global initiative United for Smart Sustainable Cities
(U4SSC). One of the aims of U4SSC is to develop guidance and training materials for city leaders to make
their cities smarter and more sustainable and to support the achievement of international agreements
such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and the New Urban Agenda.
In 2020-2021, the secretariat of the UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land
Management was leading the U4SSC thematic group on “Innovative Financing Instruments for Smart
Sustainable Cities”, which compiled the “Compendium of Practices on Innovative Financing Smart Sus-
tainable Cities Projects”.
UNECE wishes to thank all the contributing members of the U4SSC Thematic Group on “Innovative Fi-
nancing Instruments for Smart Sustainable Cities” who provided case studies for this Compendium: Irina
Zapatrina, Ukrainian PPP Academy; Adetutu Balogun, InfraCo Africa; Eduardo Avila, Revolusolar; Özge
Yildiz, PPP Department of Turkey; Paloma Taltavull de la Paz, University of Alicante; Raul Garcia Rodrigues,
Deloitte; Alexander Bazhenov, InfraKap; Jiangrong Yu, SwissEngineers AG; Anne Hornung-Soukup,
Transports Publics Genevois (TPG); Pedro Neves, Global Solutions; Yu Namba, Toyo University; and
Dmitry Pozhidaev, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). UNECE also wishes to thank the
U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi (U4SSC Chair), Katrina Naut, Abdurahman Al Hassan,
Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and Giampiero Bambagioni (U4SSC Vice-Chairs) for their assistance and
contributions.

UNECE is also grateful to the contributing organizations and representatives: Oliver Hillel, Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester and Vera Kiss, United Nations Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Simone Borelli, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations, Cristina Bueti and Mythili Menon, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Iryna
Usava, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Murombedzi, United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme Canela, Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and
the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Martina
Otto and Sharon Gil, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Matthew Ulterino, United Nations
Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), Motsomi Maletjane, United Nations Framework
Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), Andre Dzikus, Tania Lim, Jean Yves and Robert Lewis-Let-
tington, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Mark Draeck, Katarina Barunica
Spoljaric and Nicholas Dehod, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), William
Kennedy, United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP), Soumaya Ben Dhaou and Judy Backhouse,
United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), Sylvia
Hordosch, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women),
Sandra Carvao from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), and Alexander Baklanov, World Mete-
orological Organization (WMO).

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