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06 June 2014
Local Leaders Champion Resilience Building – ICLEI South Asia at Resilient Cities 2014
06 June 2014
Making cities resilient to disaster and the impacts of climate change has undoubtedly become a responsibility of all local leaders. This became evident during deliberations by over 400 experts, and practitioners who convened for Resilient Cities 2014: The 5th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation in Bonn Germany.
The Congress brought together 90 local government representatives as well as experts from international organizations, national governments, research institutions, business and media.
Local leaders are realizing the need for an integrated approach that works towards building resilience in their cities. As His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales said in his opening message to Resilient Cities 2014, “The need for this integrated approach is now urgent and that is why meetings such as this are vitally important in order to articulate fully the vision and help establish ways to build the evidence base and galvanize the wheels of change. So I can only congratulate ICLEI for their leadership in this area over the past few years.” Read more.
As every year, the South Asian region was represented by ICLEI South Asia staff and a number of city representatives: Deputy Mayor of Shimla, Tikender Singh Panwar; Shamim Al Razi, Mayor of Singra, Bangladesh; Md Fayzul Karim Moyun; Mayor of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh; Tejas Shah, Health Officer, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, India; and Ms Seema Redkar, Researcher, Mumbai, India. The South Asian delegation showcased projects and initiatives from the region in several sessions.
Tikender Singh Panwar, Deputy Mayor of Shimla and Shamim Al Razi, Mayor of Singra, Bangladesh were interviewed at the event where both talked about the steps they are taking to make their cities more resilient.
Tikender Singh Panwar shed light upon looking at development from a different angle, "Yes it is the responsibility of the city governments to deliver! You need a totally different paradigm shift as far as developmental strategies are concerned and this is also the responsibility of the ones who own the city – the people!"
Find the full interview here.
While Shamim Al Razi spoke about his city Singra, its vulnerabilities as far as climate change risks are concerned and what steps they are and will be taking in the future as well to make Singra and the whole of Bangladesh a Resilient city.
“Training, motivation and orientation can make a vast difference”, Mayor Shamim Al Razi.
Click here for the full interview.
The final outlook plenary sent people off full of optimism and readiness to apply the extraordinary number of lessons learnt. In the coming two years there is a convergence of decisions in many of the most important workflows of global cooperation. As ICLEI Deputy Secretary General and ICLEI South Asia Executive Director Emani Kumar made more than clear: “Since a COP-21 agreement in Paris will not come into effect until 2020, the real responsibility of doing the necessary work until then will fall upon cities and local governments.”
Find out more about the South Asian delegation at Resilient Cities 2014 by checking the highlights of all the 3 days of the event:
Videos, pictures and the session outcomes can be found on http://resilientcitiesblog.iclei.org/
ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability seeks to build an international policy environment that strengthens local government and supports local sustainability. To facilitate this, ICLEI coordinates local government representation in several UN organizations. Our contributions in the form of side events, publications, verbal interventions and official background papers have been a consistent, major source of international attention to local initiatives and opportunities to enhance sustainability.
Examples of our advocacy work can be found under news and events.
To know more, click here
ICLEI helps strengthen the capacity of local government officials and leaders to drive a process of change towards sustainable development. ICLEI’s Global Capacity Centre (formerly the International Training Centre) organizes seminars, workshops, and conferences, and offers distance training, study tours, and exchange programs. Regular conferences focused on capacity building and exchange take place globally and regionally.
ICLEI South Asia offers local governments a range of services that support training and capacity building on a number of topics such as carbon emission inventorisation, vulnerability assessment, resilience strategy development, integrated water management, holistic waste management, urban mobility and local biodiversity planning. These trainings are sometimes included in programmes and projects, but could also be designed as stand-alone initiatives.
Conferences organized by ICLEI South Asia also provide opportunities for peer exchanges and capacity building, such as the Asia LEDS Partnership Forums and the Resilient Cities Asia Pacific Congresses.
Technical and consulting services, as well as event organization, are provided on a contract basis, in a variety of areas including:
- Surveys, best practices identification and documentation, methodological research, and other studies;
- Development of pilot and demonstration projects;
- Fee-for-service technical consulting in key management areas relevant to local government.
- Organization of conferences, seminars, training courses tailored to the needs of local government experts.
Key areas where we provide research and consultancy services are as follows:
- Assessment of existing energy mix and potential for integration of local renewables
- Energy efficiency in municipal services and facilities
- Energy efficiency in the built environment
- Renewable energy and Energy efficiency technologies
- Climate Action planning : baseline GHG emission quantification, forecasting and target setting, Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) formulation and implementation
- Financing for RE deployment and climate mitigation solutions
- Integrated Urban Water management
- Integrated Municipal Solid Waste management
- Decentralized solutions for sanitation
- City Sanitation Plans
- Urban Climate vulnerability assessment and planning
- Urban Environmental Management action planning
- Smart City Action plans
- Heritage City Action plans
- Non-motorised Transport (NMT) plans
- Non-motorised Transport (NMT) assessments
- Integrating biodiversity management into urban planning
- People’s biodiversity register
- Biodiversity index of urban areas
- Pictorial Biodiversity handbooks, calendars and other publications for cities
- Policy analysis for urban built environment
- Parking policies and strategies
- Helping cities assess capacity to implement Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC)
- Urban Transport status assessments
- Pre-feasibility studies
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, over the last 20 years, has built considerable in-house research capacity drawing on inter-disciplinary teams of experts and practitioners across its offices worldwide. Links and transfers on research and projects have been continuously extended with partners and relevant actors. The results have supported the development of guidelines, manuals and policies, built capacity, furthered partnerships, as well as ICLEI’s advocacy work, especially at the global level.
Key areas where we provide research and consultancy services are as follows:
- Assessment of existing energy mix and potential for integration of local renewables
- Energy efficiency in municipal services and facilities
- Energy efficiency in the built environment
- Renewable energy and Energy efficiency technologies
- Climate Action planning : baseline GHG emission quantification, forecasting and target setting, Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) formulation and implementation
- Financing for RE deployment and climate mitigation solutions
- Integrated Urban Water management
- Integrated Municipal Solid Waste management
- Decentralized solutions for sanitation
- City Sanitation Plans
- Urban Climate vulnerability assessment and planning
- Urban Environmental Management action planning
- Smart City Action plans
- Heritage City Action plans
- Non-motorised Transport (NMT) plans
- Non-motorised Transport (NMT) assessments
- Integrating biodiversity management into urban planning
- People’s biodiversity register
- Biodiversity index of urban areas
- Pictorial Biodiversity handbooks, calendars and other publications for cities
- Policy analysis for urban built environment
- Parking policies and strategies
- Helping cities assess capacity to implement Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC)
- Urban Transport status assessments
- Pre-feasibility studies
Associate Partnership is available to non-governmental organizations, universities, state and national government agencies and not-for-profit research institutions. The purpose of Associate Partnership is to facilitate dialogues between local governments and these partners, to provide knowledge transfer in line with ICLEI’s Mission and Charter, and an avenue for which partners can support ICLEI’s work and mandate.
HARNESS the power of the ICLEI Network!" Governments need to give (the sense of) direction, as Business leaders we don't make the wind, we sail the boats. So policy should set the winds in the right directions if you want the boat going fast to the right harbor."Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council
on Sustainable Development
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Rates and Dues
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Associate Partnership is available to non-governmental organizations, universities, state and national government agencies and not-for-profit research institutions. The purpose of Associate Partnership is to facilitate dialogues between local governments and these partners, to provide knowledge transfer in line with ICLEI’s Mission and Charter, and an avenue for which partners can support ICLEI’s work and mandate.
HARNESS the power of the ICLEI Network!" Governments need to give (the sense of) direction, as Business leaders we don't make the wind, we sail the boats. So policy should set the winds in the right directions if you want the boat going fast to the right harbor."Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council
on Sustainable Development
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Rates and Dues
Application Form
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Associate Partnership is available to non-governmental organizations, universities, state and national government agencies and not-for-profit research institutions. The purpose of Associate Partnership is to facilitate dialogues between local governments and these partners, to provide knowledge transfer in line with ICLEI’s Mission and Charter, and an avenue for which partners can support ICLEI’s work and mandate.
HARNESS the power of the ICLEI Network!" Governments need to give (the sense of) direction, as Business leaders we don't make the wind, we sail the boats. So policy should set the winds in the right directions if you want the boat going fast to the right harbor."Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council
on Sustainable Development
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Rates and Dues
Application Form
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Associate Partnership is available to non-governmental organizations, universities, state and national government agencies and not-for-profit research institutions. The purpose of Associate Partnership is to facilitate dialogues between local governments and these partners, to provide knowledge transfer in line with ICLEI’s Mission and Charter, and an avenue for which partners can support ICLEI’s work and mandate.
HARNESS the power of the ICLEI Network!" Governments need to give (the sense of) direction, as Business leaders we don't make the wind, we sail the boats. So policy should set the winds in the right directions if you want the boat going fast to the right harbor."Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council
on Sustainable Development
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Rates and Dues
Application Form
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Associate Partnership is available to non-governmental organizations, universities, state and national government agencies and not-for-profit research institutions. The purpose of Associate Partnership is to facilitate dialogues between local governments and these partners, to provide knowledge transfer in line with ICLEI’s Mission and Charter, and an avenue for which partners can support ICLEI’s work and mandate.
HARNESS the power of the ICLEI Network!" Governments need to give (the sense of) direction, as Business leaders we don't make the wind, we sail the boats. So policy should set the winds in the right directions if you want the boat going fast to the right harbor."Philippe Joubert Senior Advisor, World Business Council
on Sustainable Development
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Rates and Dues
Application Form
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
To join ICLEI means joining a global network of over 1,750 diverse cities, towns and regions with a strong group of Partners. ICLEI Members actively engage with their peers through conferences, workshops, webinars and online platforms and take advantage of our connections with businesses, financial institutions and other implementation partners that help strengthen innovation and resourcing.
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
To join ICLEI means joining a global network of over 1,750 diverse cities, towns and regions with a strong group of Partners. ICLEI Members actively engage with their peers through conferences, workshops, webinars and online platforms and take advantage of our connections with businesses, financial institutions and other implementation partners that help strengthen innovation and resourcing.
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
To join ICLEI means joining a global network of over 1,750 diverse cities, towns and regions with a strong group of Partners. ICLEI Members actively engage with their peers through conferences, workshops, webinars and online platforms and take advantage of our connections with businesses, financial institutions and other implementation partners that help strengthen innovation and resourcing.
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
To join ICLEI means joining a global network of over 1,750 diverse cities, towns and regions with a strong group of Partners. ICLEI Members actively engage with their peers through conferences, workshops, webinars and online platforms and take advantage of our connections with businesses, financial institutions and other implementation partners that help strengthen innovation and resourcing.
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
To join ICLEI means joining a global network of over 1,750 diverse cities, towns and regions with a strong group of Partners. ICLEI Members actively engage with their peers through conferences, workshops, webinars and online platforms and take advantage of our connections with businesses, financial institutions and other implementation partners that help strengthen innovation and resourcing.
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
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Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Fee Structure
Benefits
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Fee Structure
Benefits
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Fee Structure
Benefits
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Fee Structure
Benefits
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org
Fee Structure
Benefits
Eva Madeira Head of ICLEI Global Membership & Governance
Got any questions? I will be happy to assist. Please contact me at iclei(at)iclei.org