Udaipur Becomes First Indian City to Receive Global ‘Street for Kids’ Training
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia (ICLEI SA) with support from Udaipur Municipal Corporation (UMC) and the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Global Designing Cities Initiative (NACTO-GDCI), recently hosted the ‘Street for Kids’ (SfK) International Training Programme for Udaipur. Udaipur is the only Indian city among 12 cities selected globally by NACTO-GDCI […]
EcoLogistics: Shimla Approves Baseline Report on Urban Freight
Municipal Corporation Shimla (MCS) approved the baseline report on urban freight in the city on the 22nd of November 2021, following the incorporation of feedback and a review. The report was prepared by ICLEI South Asia. The baseline report was submitted for MCS’ approval on the 1st of November 2021. Earlier, in September 2021, Additional […]
Watch: EcoLogistics Project Implementation in Indian Cities
Urban freight transport is growing and adding to air pollution, congestion, and other problems in India. The EcoLogistics project looks at both simple and complex solutions that Kochi, Panaji, and Shimla can adopt for road freight management. As Indian cities compete on various parameters such as Swacch Survekshan, Ease of Living, Municipal Performance Index, etc, […]
Mainstreaming Climate Action into Urban Development: Learnings from India’s Innovative ClimateSmart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) Initiative
This post has been written as part of the UrbanShift project by Bhaskar Padigala, Karishma Asarpota, and Matteo Bizzotto. Among several critical themes discussed and negotiated by the world leaders at the recently concluded COP26, was the role of local and regional governments. This emerged as one of the main enabling factors required to keep the global […]
Successful Sustainability Solutions Emerge from KASpaces Regional Forum
The “KASpaces Regional Webinar on Sustainable Cities and Resilient Communities”, held virtually from the 16th to the 18th of November 2021, illuminated key learnings from the 10 KASpaces country-level webinars on sustainable cities, held across South and Southeast Asia between July and September 2021. The event was jointly organised by ICLEI South Asia, ICLEI South East Asia and Konrad […]
Six Bangladesh Cities Learn Climate Resilience Planning in CDKN Training Sessions
ICLEI South Asia organised an in-person training programme for city corporations and municipalities in Bangladesh on “Planning of Climate Resilient Strategy” on the 14th and 15th of November 2021, under the Climate and Development Knowledge Network- Knowledge Accelerator (CDKN-KA) project. The training was attended by representatives of the city corporations of Narayanganj, Rajshahi, and Gazipur […]
Bhutan’s Transition to Blended Learning: KASpaces Webinar Highlights Benefits, Challenges
ICLEI South Asia, Regional Programme Political Dialogue Asia of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Singapore, and the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) jointly organised a KASpaces Bhutan webinar on “Accelerating Progress and Equality in Education” on the 16th of September 2021. Attended by 135 stakeholders representing government, think tanks, and more than 10 educational institutions, the webinar […]
Thane Urban Flood Alert Network (TUFAN): Building Climate Resilience with Smart Tech
Thane city in the state of Maharashtra is successfully building resilience to the annual flooding and waterlogging events that it experiences, with the help of an early flood warning system called the Thane Urban Flood Alert Network or TUFAN. A densely populated and rapidly growing city in the Western Ghats, Thane is sandwiched between hills […]
Thane, Nagpur Reflect on Urban-LEDS II Achievements in Spurring Climate-Resilient Development
The cities of Thane and Nagpur have been able to accelerate their efforts to mainstream and implement climate action with the support of the Urban-LEDS II project. Both cities have successfully implemented groundbreaking demonstration projects, and have developed sector-specific strategies and action plans underpinned by technical assessments across priority areas. With the Urban-LEDS II project […]
Urban-LEDS II in Rajshahi & Narayanganj: Leading the way for Climate-Resilient Development in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has one of the world’s highest urban population growth rates. The country is also exceptionally vulnerable to climate change. It is, therefore, critical for Bangladesh’s cities to become climate-resilient and liveable in order to tackle these two major challenges, and for their sustainable development in the future. There is growing awareness that cities will […]