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ICLEI Africa, GIZ and the Kindondoni Municipality held a showday and final workshop for the Urban Nexus pilot project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania this week. The project titled “Operationalisation of the Urban Nexus in Metropolitan regions” is a two-country pilot in Tanzania and India, with a global study and review of methods for implementing … Continued

KwaDukuza Municipality, in collaboration with ICLEI Africa through the Urban-LEDS project, recently conducted a training session with KwaDukuza Environmental Ward Forum members to build their skills, knowledge and capacity so they can champion the rollout of an exciting new initiative, and be the community trainers in the next phase of the project. The purpose of the … Continued

9 July 2014 marked a momentous occasion for ICLEI Africa as it launched the State of African Cities 2014: Re-imagining sustainable urban transitions report in South Africa. The report seeks to stimulate discussions on the need for radically different, re-imagined development visions to guide sustainable urban growth and other transitions in Africa over the decades to come. … Continued

Gathering of policy makers, farmer leaders, researchers, and program officials will tap energy of major initiatives using the best in current landscape management knowledge and practice. How will African farmers deal with climate change? Can we preserve biodiversity while lifting millions of rural Africans out of poverty? What needs to be done to create healthy … Continued

African leaders attending the 23rd Assembly of AU Heads of State and Government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea have been unanimous on the strategies needed to step up agricultural transformation to promote the continent’s development. Championing the call was African Union Commission Chairperson, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma who spelt out strategic directions including increased public-private … Continued

In Working Paper No. 4, CCAPS researchers Dr. Robert Wilson and Todd Smith examine the responses and adaptations to climate change within ten African cities. Download the paper here!

The ability of cities and the way smarter use of land can unlock greater action on climate change now and into the future came to the fore in Bonn as governments work towards a new agreement in Paris in 2015. The positivity around the past two week’s meetings culminated at the close when governments asked that … Continued

The UCGS covers both the “what” and the “how” of local action on climate change. Capturing key information on cities’ climate plans, targets, and projects, it provides the most up-to-date portrait of urban responses to climate change. It is also the first to explore in detail how local government, civil-society, and private sector actors come … Continued

ICLEI and some key partners participated at the Cities Forum as part of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) SB 40 session on June 10, 2014. Conducted under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) agenda, the forum provided the platform for cities and subnational authorities … Continued

At the recent Resilient Cities Global Forum on Urban Resilience & Adaptation 2014, we were honoured to welcome several African Mayors to the high-level segment, the prestigious Mayors Adaptation Forum. The 2014 Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation (Resilient Cities) took place from 29 to 31 May 2014 in Bonn, Germany. Resilient Cities is … Continued