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Improvement without Barriers
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Medellín, Colombia

Improvement without Barriers

Increasing access and mobility for people with disabilities

The Stop
Toronto, Canada

The Stop

The Stop has pioneered a transformation from a traditional charity-model food bank to a new, empowerment model of ‘community food centre’.

Startblok Riekerhaven
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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Startblok Riekerhaven

Bringing young people and refugees together through housing

Community Development Centers
Bogotá, Colombia

Community Development Centers

A public service contributing to individual, family and community development.

Gender Mainstreaming in City Development
Berlin, Germany

Gender Mainstreaming in City Development

The program considers the needs of the different lifestyles existent in a city when planning urban development and building projects.

RUMAWIP
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

RUMAWIP

An innovative affordable housing policy

Gijon’s Citizen Card
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Gijon, Spain

Gijon’s Citizen Card

A single card, Gijon’s Citizen Card, allows Gijon's citizens to pay their bus fare, hire a bike and take out a library book. Today, 250,000 of Gijon’s citizens – 80% of the city’s population - carry this card, unlocking services and facilities across the city.

Dakar paving streets by hands
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Dakar, Senegal

Dakar paving streets by hands

The program aims at modernizing and embellishing the city of Dakar while more than 1,500 employments can be created.

Youth Lead the Change: Participatory Budgeting Boston
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Boston, United States

Youth Lead the Change: Participatory Budgeting ...

Through this participatory budgeting program, youth had the opportunity to collect ideas for capital projects, distill those ideas into concrete proposals, hold a city-wide vote to determine which projects get funded, and directly determine how $1 million is spent to improve Boston for everyone.