Building Agreement in Urban Sector policy: What is the policy shift in government, when did it happen and how was it brought about
Financial Reforms
1. Moving from public Investment to private financing of urban infrastructure
2. Credit rating and IFI notions of "Creditworthiness" : Reducing risk for the private sector?
3. The role of the state: guaranteeing cost recovery for hte private sector.
Governance Reforms
1. Promoting formation of institutional intermediaries dominated by bureaucrats
2. Outsourcing of government tasks to private companies through PPPs.
3. Designing model policies and legislation favoring PSP in urban infrastructure
4. Enriching consultants who typically build opportunities for the private sector in the name of capacity building
Integrating IFI reforms through GOI, private sector and other Donors.
1. State Level Interventions: The case of KUDCEMP and KMRP
2. National Level Interventions: The case of JNNURM
3. Reforms that encourage burrowing infrastructure funds from market
4. Reforms encouraging PPPs.
5. Consultant driven vision plans for the city that exclude citizens participation
6. A deeply flawed programme? Resistance to the JNNURM from citizens, state and local governments.
7. IFI focus on smaller cities and towns: The wave of the future?
Municipal restructuring: what does it mean? whom does it affect, and how
1. The impact of municipal restructuring on basic services
2. Targeting large infrastructural projects at the cost of basic services.
3. Acquisition of land for large infrastructural projects
4. Achieving commercial viability of paramount importance.
5 Erosion of local democratic powers and processes
6. Redefining accountability in urban governance
7. Cotrolled public participation and its effects.
Conclusion

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