Cities to get grants for building climate resilience infrastructure
The Small Grants Fund that was constituted to support innovative and result-oriented interventions to build resilience in partner cities of Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) in India and Bangladesh, shall be disbursed to Gangtok and Nainital in India and to Singra, Mongla and Kustia in Bangladesh. The grant is aimed at encouraging local […]
Government of India releases manual on municipal solid waste management
The Minister of Urban Development Shri M Venkaiah Naidu launched the revised CPHEEO Manual on Municipal Solid Waste Management, while inaugurating the Swachh Survekshan 2017 in New Delhi, on 6 August, 2016. ICLEI South Asia was involved as the national technical expert in revising the first version of the manual. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale […]
ICLEI’s PROMISE to strengthen capacities of four cities in India
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability South Asia has selected four city governments whose capacities would be strengthened under Promotion of Inclusive, Sustainable Growth and Diversity to Strengthen Local Governments (PROMISE) project. The project that is supported by the European Union aims to build capacities on integrated, participatory, inclusive and sustainable development, and efficient resources mobilisation and […]
Meet Sasi Madambi: ICLEI employee who has championed the art of multi-tasking
Mr Madambi has spent four years at ICLEI and internalised the processes involved in ICLEI South Asia’s work. Not only does he handle multiple tasks at the organisation, he also tries his best to help out his colleagues. It has been more than four years since you have been working with ICLEI. Could you give […]
Abandoned borewell recharge in Solapur, an AdoptIUWM city, sets an example for drought-hit Maharashtra
A pilot project for recharge of abandoned bore wells in Neelam Nagar area of Solapur, being implemented under the AdoptIUWM project, has been inaugurated on July 29, 2016. Mayor Ms Abute, along with the representative from European Commission Mr Shouvik Dutta, inaugurated the roof top rain water harvesting structure at Shantai Ashram in Neelam Nagar. The […]
Habitat III: Months before Quito, nations come together for prep meet; ICLEI hosts side event
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability recently collaborated with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), Communitas Coalition, Iskandar Regional Development Authority, the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing of Indonesia, and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)-Japan for a side event at Habitat III PrepCom3, held on July 27 in Surabaya, […]
ACCCRN expands to two more cities of Bangladesh
ICLEI South Asia has begun work on building resilience in two more cities of Bangladesh by initiating stakeholder discussions. The discussions were held in in Kustia and Rajshahi cities using the ICLEI ACCCRN Process that was supported by Rockefeller Foundation. Going forward, ICLEI will coordinate with the “Core Teams” of these cities to identify resilience […]
Civil society comes together to launch India's first independent GHG emission estimates
India’s first civil society platform for GHG estimation and analysis – GHG Platform India – was launched on 15th July, 2016 in New Delhi. The platform provides national estimates for GHG emissions from the energy, industry, waste and agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sectors from years 2007-2012 by accounting CO2, CH4 and N2O […]
Nagpur and Rajkot from India are project cities for Urban Nexus
The Sixth Regional Workshop under the project “Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban Nexus” was organized in Santa Rosa, Philippines from June 22 to 23, 2016. The two-day workshop was conducted as a part of the project, Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban Nexus (thereafter called “Urban Nexus”), financed by the […]
Asia LEDS Forum 2016 unlocks finance for priority actions in Asia
Practitioners and advocates of low-emission, climate-resilient development in Asia – including state policymakers, officials from development agencies along with financial institutions, and potential investors – recently convened for the opening of the Asia Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Forum 2016: Mobilizing Finance for Priority Actions, at Sheraton Hotel in Hanoi. The event was organized by […]