The Comprehensive Financial Solutions for City Resilience Conference, organized by the World Bank Group’s City Resilience Program, brought together city officials, private sector experts, donors, and investors to prepare for ambitious investments in urban resilience. The aim of the conference was to allow city leaders think through innovative ways to crowd in private sector resources to invest in urban resilience.
The event took the form of intensive learning and group discussion to allow city governments to exchange ideas with each other and apply the knowledge to their cities' urban resilience investment projects. Main topics covered include Capital Budgeting, PPP and LVC. City leaders had a chance to complete a rapid capital assessment, which evaluated their city's underlying condition for attracting private capital, and a project poster. The leaders then presented their projects, which were critiqued by financial experts in a "shark tank" event.