This study was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It was conducted as part of the Programme of Work of the Regional Development Policy Committee and its Working Party on Urban Policy. This report was made possible through the financial support of the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management (GIDRM), a project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, to which the OECD is grateful.
The OECD Secretariat is particularly grateful to Olaf Handloegten, Friedegund Mascher, Martin Dirr, Hajo Junge, Katharina Schaaff, and Stephan Huppertz from GIDRM for their expert inputs, participation in meetings and workshops, and other operational support. Earlier drafts of the report benefited from the comments and inputs of the local teams of the five case study cities in Southeast Asia: Bandung (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand), Cebu (Philippines), Hai Phong (Viet Nam) and Iskandar (Malaysia). Valuable insights were gathered from a broader range of stakeholders during five Knowledge Sharing Workshops on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia supported by the OECD Knowledge-Sharing Alliance in 2014-15.
The report was co-ordinated by Tadashi Matsumoto, Coordinator, National Urban Policy Programme, Climate Change and Green Growth, under the supervision of Aziza Akhmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division and Rudiger Ahrend, Head of the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-Level Governance Section. The report was drafted by a core team composed of Tadashi Matsumoto (OECD), Loïc Daudey (OECD), Martin Abbott (OECD) and Richard Carlos Worden (international environmental consultant). Valuable comments were provided by Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Karen Maguire, Taku Honiden, Jack Radisch, Kwame Boye Frimpong, Christophe Etienne and Jonathan Crook of the OECD Secretariat. Pilar Philip prepared the manuscript for publication.