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This blog is a space for knowledge-sharing, opinion, advocacy and debate, both between UCLG members and the wider international local and regional government community. Contributions and comments are welcome from anyone who is interested in how sub-national governments can make the world a better place for their citizens.

Read on to discover the most varied, up-to-date and innovative initiatives of local governments and their partners from across the globe.

Belo Horizonte
The Inclusive Cities Observatory: Belo Horizonte implements a programme to upgrade the Sierra favela
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Social Inclusion - 29/09/2014
The Inclusive Cities Observatory is a space for analysis and reflection on local social inclusion policies managed by the Committee on Social Inclusion of UCLG. Among these case studies, the Committee presents a study based on the rehabilitation. (+)
Lucia Tengani - Organic waste in Mtandire
How women in Malawi are turning waste into wealth
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Access to basic services, Women, Sustainable cities - 29/09/2014
Baziwell is one of the pioneers of a movement started several years ago to improve the urban environment in this unplanned settlement on the edge of Malawi’s capital. Lilongwe city authorities have long neglected waste collection in poor areas like this. (+)
Climate Summit for resilient cities
Climate Summit boost for resilient cities
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Disaster Risk Reduction - 29/09/2014
This week’s UN Climate Summit has generated commitments to raise $2 billion of in-kind and direct support for cities threatened by extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. (+)
Local priorities to achieve effective development
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Development Cooperation, Sustainable Development - 25/09/2014
Célestine Ketcha Epse Courtés, Mayor of Bagangté Municipality (Cameroon) thinks that it is crucial to take local priorities as the starting point for development co-operation. She developed a project to provide drinking water to my citizens. With support from the International Association of Francophone Mayors. (+)
“Reimagining Public Spaces” Durban
Leadership from Durban and UCLG on Public Spaces and Placemaking for Urban Equity
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Urban Strategic Planning, South-South Cooperation - 25/09/2014
Leaders from Southern African cities gathered in Durban to talk public spaces and came out champions of Placemaking. The resulting report, summarizing the pioneering gathering of over 200, highlights the transformative role a focus on public spaces can have on addressing equity and governance in Africa. (+)
David Satterthwaite
A review of the Istanbul Declaration and the Habitat Agenda in relation to their consideration and priority given to poverty reduction
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Habitat III, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Poverty - 10/09/2014
As preparations begin for Habitat III (The 3rd UN Conference on Human Settlements) in 2016, it is worth reflecting on the impact of its predecessor, Habitat II in 1996. This paper, published in 1998, considers how the two documents agreed by governments at Habitat II as a guide for action addressed urban poverty. (+)

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