This project is designed to support (national) government efforts to institutionalise participatory urban governance approaches and to assist selected municipal councils.

Barrio Digital allows citizens to send real-time feedback, complaints and requests to the municipal government from their mobile phones or via the internet.

The construction of a new subway line will increase transport capacity and reduce the transit time for passengers who commute to work, study or socialize in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara.

Providence Talks is an early childhood program that puts parents at the heart of their child’s cognitive development. It helps disadvantaged children close the achievement gap by increasing parent-child interactions at a critical age.

The SmartData Platform is an open source predictive analytics tool that enables data-driven decision making to ensure city operations are smarter and more efficient.

Philadelphia’s FastFWD program provides a path for creative entrepreneurs to partner with government in tackling urban issues affecting the city.

The city of San Francisco has developed a resilience strategy that will increase the city's capacity to be better prepared and recover more rapidly from natural disasters and climate change events.

The City of Boston has adopted a Vision Zero strategy in an effort to eliminate traffic fatalities and reduce serious traffic accidents by 2030.

The TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the city of Bogota, Colombia provides residents with efficient and safe mass transit that encourages high ridership.

Improving the appeal of buying and donating quality second hand goods.

A project to reduce the environmental deterioration of the city's Natural Protected Areas

Transforming marginalized city areas into green spaces that foster social, economic, and environmental growth

Building community agroforests to ensure food security for citizens.

Addressing Urban forest management challenges in a complex setting

Promoting nature-based solutions through collaboration and gamification

Empowering informal workers and fostering entrepreneurial growth.

Collaborative governance pathways

Connecting citizens to their cultural heritage

Engaging cultural heritage in climate action

Culture that rewards your time

Guidelines for sustainability in the cultural sector

A new electoral model for local governance

Berlin’s Graefekiez is reclaiming street space step by step for safer, greener and more inclusive mobility.

How can informal settlements strengthen climate resilience when resources are limited and climate risks are part of everyday life? Tegucigalpa’s APCA project offers practical insights into a community-led approach.

A comparative exhibition explores how 13 European cities respond to heat, climate risks and the transformation of urban spaces.

In San José, ecoins combines digital incentives, education and partnerships to make participation in the circular economy simple, accessible and connected to existing recovery systems.

Facing habitat loss, heat stress and limited space, Paris has managed to make biodiversity a structural element of its urban planning, by incorporating it in building regulation, green roofs and façades, in citizen-led initiatives, and in the shift towards a sponge-city model.

In Cuenca, women waste pickers keep the city's recycling system running, often at the cost of their own health. RUMBOS worked with them to change that, through research, cooperative-building and policy change.

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