It's all about the money: Secure the financing for walking and cycling in your city

Walking and cycling are critical modes of transport, providing a number of benefits to society. To effectively improve conditions for these modes requires money to fund the infrastructure, services, and maintenance required for their support.

In this session, we explore the need for funding and finance, as well as funding and finance options available to cities at various levels of government, from local to national to international. We will use several case studies to illustrate how these funding and finance sources have been used in practice to more effectively implement active transport as part of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Key take aways of the session include:
 

• Why are funding and finance important for active transport, and how do they relate to SUMPs? Hear more about it from Jacob Mason
• Why invest in walking and cycling? Take a glance at the multiple benefits of investments toward active mobility.
• How to unlock adequate funding and financing? Listen to Jacob share valuable insights and tips
• Learn about the typical funding and financing sources available for walking and cycling
• Local Funding Sources
• National Funding Sources
• International Funding Sources
• Listen to Santhosh Loganathan share an example of Chennai, India, where walking and cycling infrastructure finance scaled up from a local to an international source.
• Hear from Prisca Lablonde about the challenges of active transport modes in Douala and how the Douala Urban Mobility Plan is tackling this issue through various national and international funding

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