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Cities Alliance Annual Meetings in
Manila, Philippines, 5-9 November 2007
The Cities Alliance is pleased
to announce that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
will host a dinner at the Malacaňang Palace to open the
Cities Alliance annual meetings in Manila on 5 November
2007. The president’s speech will open the Public Policy
Forum, a three-day event that precedes the two-day
Consultative Group meetings of Alliance members. High-level
delegates to the meetings include Philippine Vice President
and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
Chairman, Noli de Castro, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Khun
Paiboon Wattanasiritham, Philippine government officials,
and senior representatives of Cities Alliance members and
its Policy Advisory Board.
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Shack/Slum Dwellers International to
join Cities Alliance
In an historic step, Shack/Slum Dwellers International
(SDI), a network of federations of the urban poor, have
indicated their intention to join the Cities Alliance.
Pending formal membership, SDI will attend the Alliance’s
annual meetings in Manila as observers. Writing to Cities
Alliance Manager William Cobbett, the SDI Co-ordinator
indicated that SDI had canvassed possible support for
membership amongst a number of Cities Alliance members,
including Brazil, South Africa, the UK Department for
International Development, the United States Agency for
International Development, and Norway, all of whom have
reportedly responded positively.
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Cities for All Meetings in Brazil,
20-21 September 2007
From 20-21 September 2007,
Brazil’s Ministry of Cities, Caixa Econômica, the National
Congress, the National Front of Mayors (FNP), the National
Forum of Urban Reform, and the Cities Alliance organised a
special event entitled Cities for All, focusing on
slum upgrading policies.
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Metropolis Board of Directors
Meetings, 17-19 September 2007
Cities Alliance Manager
William Cobbett attended the Metropolis Board of Directors
meeting in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The meetings also
coincided with those of the Standing Commissions on the
Financing of Urban Services and Infrastructure,
Comprehensive Neighbourhood Regeneration and Metropolitan
Performance Measurement. More than 20 metropolitan
governments and 140 participants attended the event, hosted
by Acting Mayor Hery Rafalimanana.
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MINURVI Meeting in Chile, 10-17
October 2007
At the annual MINURVI meeting
of Housing and Urban Development Ministers hosted in
Santiago de Chile 10-17 October 2007, delegates assessed
their collective progress in social housing programmes and
urban upgrading initiatives, while grappling with the
region’s backlog of social housing. Cities Alliance staff
William Cobbett and Pelle Persson attended the meetings.
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SDI Donor Meeting, London, 12 October
2007
On 12 October, representatives
from the Cities Alliance, Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation,
Rockefeller Foundation, Norway, United States Agency for
International Development, and the UK Department for
International Development (DFID) met in London.
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World Bank Appoints New Urban Sector
Manager
The World Bank announced the
appointment of Abha Joshi-Ghani as Urban Sector Manager for
the Finance, Economics, and Urban Department (FEU) in the
Sustainable Development Network Vice Presidency.
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Government of Thailand and UN-HABITAT
celebrate the Baan Mankong Upgrading Programme
The Government of Thailand
celebrated the 80th birthday of the Thai king and World
Habitat Day, 1 October 2007, by reviewing progress with Baan
Mankong, a nationwide upgrading programme with a fiscal 2008
budget of $50 million. Baan Mankong was launched by the Thai
government in 2003 to address housing problems confronting
the country’s poorest citizens.
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