Local Governments Focus on Strategies to Improve Energy Efficiency in the Long Term
It has become clearly evident that in the post-COVID world, we would have to evolve our understanding and perspective about cities and urban services. There should be no doubt that local governments as well as State and National Governments need to find robust and resilient developmental models through cross-learning from peers. The answer could be […]
Bangladesh Municipality Initiates Free Delivery of Groceries in Eco-Friendly Vehicles during Lockdown
ollowing the imposition of a national lockdown in Bangladesh on March 24, to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Singra municipality has taken several initiatives for the people’s benefit. Leaflets are being used to spread awareness on the importance of staying at home, washing hands frequently and wearing masks. The municipality is also […]
Workshop for Udaipur Anganwadi Workers Promotes ITC Practices
Udaipur city hosted a two-day training workshop in October, in association with the Udaipur Municipal Corporation (UMC) and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), to acknowledge the role of anganwadi (infant and toddler care centre) workers in the Urban95 programme. The workshop covered all ‘urban’ anganwadi workers in the city who oversee anganwadis and play an […]
Shared Learning Dialogues Help to Assess Climate Risks to Urban Systems in Rajshahi, Narayanganj
ICLEI South Asia organised two Shared Learning Dialogues (s) in Rajshahi and Narayanganj in Bangladesh, on the 4th and 7th of August 2019, respectively. These SLDs were organised under the Urban LEDS-II project to conduct detailed climate vulnerability assessments, including validation of climate trends and past hazards, identification of climate-impacted urban systems, vulnerable places and […]
SHIFT Working Groups Discuss Strategies to Promote EcoMobility
The second SHIFT Working Group meetings were organised in Visakhapatnam and Ludhiana recently, under the Hewlett Foundation and EcoMobility Alliance-funded Cities SHIFT: Capacity building and Networking for Sustainable Urban Mobility project. The agenda of the meetings included providing training to stakeholders on the planning aspects of the EcoMobility initiative, and completing the SHIFT assessment using […]
Putting Children First: Udaipur Workshop Shares Peer Cities' Experiences
Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF), in collaboration with the National Institute of Affairs (NIUA), organised an Urban95 Peer Cities Learning Workshop in Udaipur on the 25th and 26th of July 2019. This is the first of a series of workshops — planned under the Urban95 Programme — that will be held in partner cities in […]
Urban-LEDS II Builds on Phase 1 Synergies, Successes
The Urban-LEDS phase II project is expanding work on low emission planning to Colombia, Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Rwanda. Funded by the European Commission, the project is being implemented by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI). This project, which is being implemented in the 2017-21 period, […]
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 – […]
Happy Cities Summit Calls for 'Blue-Green Cities'
ICLEI South Asia and the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority jointly organised the second Happy Cities Summit in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, from 13th to 15th February 2019. Emani Kumar, Deputy Secretary-General, ICLEI, moderated a session on nature-based solutions at the summit, focusing on the need to develop cities with blue-green infrastructure and not just […]
Sustained Cross-Country Learning and Collaboration through Regional Communities of Practice for NDC Implementation – NDC Partnership, the LEDS GP and regional partnerships at COP24
During the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the NDC Partnership and Government of Vietnam conducted a side event on “Sustained Cross-Country Learning and Collaboration through Regional Communities of Practice for NDC Implementation” on the 10th of December, at the NDC Partnership Pavilion. This event was convened […]