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This programme uses micro-credit loans and provides business training to alleviate poverty and unemployment in the city of Addis Ababa.

In 2008, the City of Gwangju has initiated a program to spark voluntary carbon-saving steps by citizens. Five years later, 1.5 million Gwangju citizens were already participating or 62 percent of the city’s population.

The aim of the Línea Verde is to provide public spaces that contribute to enhance community life for more than 300,000 inhabitants living in the poorest area of the city.

A comprehensive action plan to increase the City of Ahmedabad’s resilience to extreme heat events.

After the Marmara earthquake in 1999, the City of Kocaeli decided that living with risk cannot be business as usual. The city is using risk mapping to revisit its development priorities. Moreover, the city is engaging the community in innovative public awareness efforts.

Inhabitants of a former informal settlement are supplied with clean water, sewage, and waste disposal.