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Ce blog se veut un espace de partage de connaissances, d'opinions, de plaidoyer et de débat, à la fois entre les membres de CGLU mais aussi avec la communauté internationale de gouvernements locaux et régionaux. Contributions et commentaires sont les bienvenus, de toute personne qui s'intéresse à la façon dont les gouvernements locaux et régionaux peuvent faire du monde un meilleur endroit pour leurs citoyens, sont ici les bienvenus.

Lisez et  découvrez les initiatives locales des plus variées, innovantes et actuelles des gouvernements locaux et de leurs partenaires de par le monde.

Belo Horizonte
Observatoire des Villes Inclusives : Belo Horizonte met en place un programme d'amélioration de la favela de la Sierra
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Inclusion Sociale - 29/09/2014
L´Observatoire Villes Inclusives est un espace d'analyse et de réflexion sur des politiques locales d´inclusion sociale geré par la Commission d’Inclusion Sociale de CGLU. (+)
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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