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Dakar, Senegal
Municipal Finance Program
Under the leadership of the Municipal Council of Dakar, the Dakar Municipal Finance Program (DMFP) has been developed to enable the City of Dakar to gain access to capital markets for its investment needs.
Hangzhou, China
Urban Public Bicycle Sharing Program
With 80 percent of residents and commuters identifying a serious traffic problem in the city, Hangzhou launched China's first public bicycle project. Serving some 280,000 passengers daily, the system (free for the first hour) complements the city's extensive bus system.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social and Urban Integration in Barrio Mugica (...
Integrating a large informal settlement to the City’s urban, social and economic fabric.
Rosario, Argentina
Integrated Metropolitan Governance in Rosario
Through the creation of new metropolitan structures, Rosario Metropolitan Area strives for an integrated approach of metropolitan planning processes.
Ahmedabad, India
Slum Electrification Program
A programme to connect 200,000 poor households to the public electricity grid.
The Hague, Netherlands
Sustainability in The Hague neighbourhoods; par...
The Hague is harnessing the commitment, time and skills of citizens to help achieve its goal of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Practical support and grants for cooperative action at grassroots level are turning good ideas into reality across the city.
Oslo, Norway
The electric vehicle capital
With 60% of emissions in Oslo coming from the transport sector, encouraging people to use electric vehicles (EVs) has the potential to make a real difference. In 2008, Oslo adopted a ten-point plan to reduce CO2 emissions, to which the large scale introduction of EVs plays a big part.
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.
Melbourne , Australia
4°C Cooler – Using green infrastructure to buil...
In 2010 the city of Melbourne appointed a new Urban Landscape Team to produce a Green Infrastructure Program to cope with a difficult future climate and maintain its economic prosperity and liveability.