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India, Brazil and South Africa Address the Challenge of Slums

Since 2007, the Cities Alliance and World Bank Institute (WBI) have supported the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Human Settlement (HS) Group, a part of the IBSA Trilateral Agreement, to address the challenge of slums in their respective countries
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Cities Alliance Issues Second Call for Proposals for the Catalytic Fund

The Cities Alliance Secretariat is issuing a thematic Call for Proposals for funding under its Catalytic Fund dedicated to the theme “Youth and the City: Challenges of and Visions for Demographic Change”. Deadline for Concept Note Submission is 30 April 2012.
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A Global Partnership for Inclusive Cities: The Cities Alliance 2011 Annual Report

The Cities Alliance 2011 Annual Report defines the new strategic decisions and roadmap adopted by the partnership to revitalise its operations, moving forward, following its adoption of a new Charter at its Consultative Group meeting in Mexico City in November 2010.
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Handshake Issue #4 - Cities & PPPs

The Cities Alliance is pleased to present the latest issue of Handshake, a quarterly journal on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) published by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group focused on how PPPs help cities improve their infrastructure, and put citizens first.

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Cities Alliance in Action

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Developing New Strategies for City Planning in the Philippines

For more than a decade, the Cities Alliance has supported the Philippines’ City Development Strategy in three phases, in partnership with the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP).

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Rapid Slum Growth Spurs Need for Development in Peri-Urban Areas

International Partners Release Pilot Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Innovative Approaches Urgently Needed to Deliver Energy to Urban Poor

Cities and Regions Working Together Towards Rio+20

Independent Evaluation of the Cities Alliance Lauds its Role in Promoting International Urban Development Cooperation

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By 2050, Africa’s urban population will increase from 414 million to over 1.2 billion;  that of Asia will soar from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion.

 

Both regions together will account for 86 per cent of all increase in the world’s urban population.

 

Source: World Urbanization Prospects - 2011 Revisions.

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