Highlighting Public Participation as a Crucial Tool in Forwarding Local Climate Action: A Discussion on Citizen Engagement by City Representatives, Experts, and Stakeholders
Every failure is an opportunity to learn how to do better is a sentiment that underscored the discussion in Plenary 3 of RCAP 2019. The session focused on sharing stories on good urban governance mechanisms to improve climate resilience. In this session, the critical role of public participation was discussed with reference to a range […]
Urban Nexus Presented as a Good Means of Implementation to Deliver Global Agendas
The ‘Policy Development Workshop on Applying Urban Nexus Concept to Implementing Global Agendas’ was organised on the 5th and 6th of March, 2019 in Bangkok under the framework of the Regional GIZ Urban Nexus Project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. The Urban Nexus project’s political partner is United Nations […]
Workshop Stresses Practical Solutions to Urban Problems
Regional GIZ Urban Nexus, Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA) and ICLEI South Asia jointly organised an Urban Nexus Training on 25th and 26th February 2019 in Pune. The event was organised under the framework of the Regional GIZ “Integrated resource management in Asian Cities: Urban Nexus” project. It was financed by the German […]
Stakeholders Call for Eco-Friendly Plastic Waste Disposal
A stakeholder workshop to discuss the baseline and potential strategies for improving plastic waste management was conducted on 11th March 2019 in Hyderabad. ICLEI South Asia is providing technical assistance to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to assess the baseline and prepare a plastic waste management strategy. This is in partnership with IGES – […]
Kochi Meeting Lays Groundwork for Biodiversity Action Plan
A Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) for Kochi will be one of the main outputs of the INTERACT-Bio project, supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Representatives from all the wards of Kochi attended a meeting in the city recently, with the aim of laying the groundwork […]
SUNYA Success Story Attracts Attention at NULM Workshop
The Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies, Mumbai, of the All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG), conducted the Converging SBM (Urban) and NULM for Clean Cities workshop on 7th February in Jaipur. The event was supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, GOI. AIILSG selected the SUNYA pilot as a best […]
Webinars Give Useful Pointers on Smart City Planning
Cities are engines of growth for India’s economy. Currently 31% of the country’s population lives in urban areas, contributing 63% of the GDP. This is expected to increase to reach 75% by 2030, with a simultaneous jump in the urban population to touch 40%. An inclusive and people-centric approach, comprising physical, institutional, social and economic […]
RURBAN Meeting Reviews Project Progress
Second Meeting in Solapur The second RURBAN meeting in Solapur was held on 2nd March 2019. It was conducted under the aegis of the IDRC-supported Integrated Rural Urban Water Management for Climate Based Adaptations in Indian Cities (IAdapt) project. The meeting was organised by ICLEI South Asia in collaboration with Smart City cell, Solapur. The […]
ICLEI Addresses Landscape Degradation in Himachal Pradesh
ICLEI South Asia is working on measures to address landscape degradation in the Lahaul, Pangi and Kinnaur landscapes of Himachal Pradesh, as part of the UNDP-supported SECURE Himalaya project. Detailed discussions were held with the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department to finalise the project methodology and to develop a deeper understanding of the landscape. The ICLEI […]
BLOG: Blended Finance for Climate and Food Security – The Potential of the Farm Sector
By Aditi Paul Reducing poverty in Asia, even in countries like India, Indonesia or others with relatively high per capita income, remains a challenge. Key priority areas like food and water security, gender equality, tackling climate change, and making cities more liveable can help eradicate poverty. The Asian Development Bank’s most current estimates suggest that […]