[WEBINAR] Implementing Digital Resilience: The role of Digitalisation in Emergency Response and Post-war Recovery

As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the second webinar on Implementing Digital Resilience aims to support Ukrainian cities to consider how to use digital technologies and innovations to respond to emergencies, reconstruction and recovery. Building on the experiences shared by European cities and experts during the first webinar on Understanding Digital Resilience: Opportunities […]

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[WEBINAR] Plastic pollution convention under negotiation: what about the cities?

Plastic pollution has become central in today’s world, with a devastating impact on our environment. Local and regional governments (LRGs) are among the first to be concerned by this phenomenon. Yet they are nowhere to be seen in the negotiation, which aim at providing an international framework to prevent and address plastic pollution. This discussion, […]

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[SURVEY] UNDRR 2023 Survey on Persons with Disabilities and Disasters

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is currently conducting a poll aiming to surface how those with disabilities or those who care for them live with disasters. The poll is open for respondents until 3 March 2023. The results of this poll will be used to guide the final seven years of the […]

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Climate central report reveals cities affected by climate change

Climate shift has greatly impacted daily temperatures and weather phenomena in some cities in Indonesia, the Global Climate Shift Index (CSI) revealed. A report titled “365 Days on Warming Planet” by CSI details that four cities in Indonesia–Makassar, Banjarmasin, Batam and Tasikmalaya–are among the towns in Asia with the highest levels of CSI and thus are […]

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UN-Habitat and GIZ publishes research on Multilevel Governance for SDG Localization

With the assistance of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), UN-Habitat and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have teamed together to create cutting-edge expertise on multilevel governance for SDG localization. The paper outlines new developments, significant insights, and practical considerations on how national and local governments may improve their multilevel collaboration for […]

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[CALL FOR PROPOSALS] S²Cities Youth Innovation and Capacity Building Grantee [PH]

The Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB), on behalf of the Safe and Sound Cities Programme (S²Cities), is looking for new local partners to lead the implementation of a hands-on programme on youth participation in urban planning for urban safety and wellbeing in Cuenca and Ambato in Baguio and Naga in the Philippines. If you are […]

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