Exploring the promising outcomes of the SUS programme

11 December 2013

 

Participants from seven cities, namely, Guntur, Gangtok, Guwahati, Malvan, Kochi (India), Rajshahi (Bangladesh) and Thimphu (Bhutan) were felicitated at the final international workshop of the Supporting Urban Sustainability programme (SUS) which was held in Ahmedabad, India, from 10th -12th December, 2013. The participating cities and the three core organizations – Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development (SWEDESD), Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and ICLEI South Asia, came together to present and discuss their achievements towards improving ecosystem services to alleviate poverty. 

 

Some of the significant changes that SUS programme brought in the cities were discussed and appreciated during the workshop.

 

The city teams have been successful in campaigning for capacity-building, garnering extensive media support, creating awareness among residents and publishing information towards their inquiries. Most of the city teams have made considerable progress towards adopting the concept of involving different stakeholders in their plan to move towards sustainability. The outcomes of the project showed that the specific SUS approach of introducing content on Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), reflexive governance and collaborative learning with methods based on a multi-stakeholder setup, repeated learning cycles and strategic inquiries formulated by the participants themselves led to promising results. This approach is therefore worth developing and implementing on a larger scale.

 

The programme embraced the true spirit of education for sustainable development by combining appropriate learning practices with a deeper understanding of the same. Based on the results and lessons learned from the first SUS phase, the respective partners and cities are now planning to deepen and broaden it over the coming years. 

 

For further information, visit:

http://southasia.iclei.org/our-goals/sustainable-city/supporting-urban-sustainability/

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