Case studies and best practices
Rede Nossa São Paulo (Our São Paulo Network), a non-partisan network that brings together 700 civil society organizations in the city of São Paulo, launched in 2012 a pioneering initiative in Brazil, the Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP). The programme´s 12 theme axes aims to raise awareness, mobilize and provide tools so Brazilian cities can develop in a way that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable, with the purpose of improving the living conditions of Brazilian municipalities aligned with the global changes. To achieve this goal, the programme provides public managers a Platform with various tools and urban sustainability indicators.
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How can countries in Asia and the Pacific create stronger, more adaptive and responsive enabling environments for cities - especially the strengthening of legislative frameworks to make the developmen...
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Promoting participation through community development projects and local decentralization has become a central tenet of development policy. The World Bank alone has invested about $85 billion over the...
