Peer Learning

• Local Co-creation Practices of Participatory Budgeting
  • Cuenca (Ecuador)
  • Colombes (France)
  • Esplugues de Llobregat (Spain)
  • Grez-Doiceau (Belgium)
  • Oeiras (Portugal)
• Citizen Assemblies and Deliberative Processes
  • Bogota (Colombia)
  • Brussels (Belgium)
  • Lisbon (Portugal)
  • Milan (Italy)
• Child and Youth Participation
  • Accra (Ghana)
  • Mar del Plata (Argentina)
  • Molina de Segura (Spain)
  • Nuevo León State (México)
• Inclusive Public Participation 
  • Mersin (Turkey)
  • Mogi das Cruzes (Brazil)

Good practcies featured in Peer Learning Note:

• Lleida (Spain): How broccoli and strawberries helped to revalue the Huerta and renaturalize the city…
• Cuenca (Ecuador): Integrated Watershed Management
• Envigado (Colombia): “Envigado Florece”
• Niepolomice (Poland): Vistula Bicycle Path
• Porto Alegre (Brazil): Sustainable and low carbon agriculture

Good practices available online:

• Niteroi (Brazil): Orla Piratininga Niteroi Park
• CBIMA (Costa Rica): Citizen’s Climate Change Monitoring Network
• Berlin (Germany): Blue Pearls of Berlin
• Bogota (Colombia): Co-creation of Nature-based Solutions
• Portoviejo (Ecuador): Portoviejo Urban Trees Technical Manual
• Tilarán (Costa Rica): Waste, Added Value
• La Paz (Bolivia): Polycentric Development
• Chemnitz (Germany): Pleisenbach Greenbelt
• Granollers (Spain): Palou rural site, from a degraded corner to an emblematic area
• Ubate (Colombia): PBOT focused on rural-urban symbiosis

Interactive workshops around Nature-based Solutions:

• Governance of NBS in urban-rural areas
• Regenerative Cultures
• Reimagining spaces with children and youth through Minecraft
• Backcasting

Approach: Tomorrow Cities’ future-oriented methodology

Policy discussion: What are the governance implications of adopting a future-oriented, risk-sensitive and participatory approach to planning?

Case Studies:

• Blantyre (Malawi) Reviewing Urban Structure Plans to account for climate impacts 

• Durban (South Africa) A Collaborative Approach to Strategic Planning for Inclusive Outcomes 

• Freetown (Sierra Leone) Decentralization of functions of basic service delivery, stakeholder engagement 

• Kisumu (Kenya) Partnerships with community & student co-researchers to advance local assessments and define actions 

• Kasese (Uganda) Mobilizing resources to meet today’s needs and face tomorrow’s risks 

• Sekondi-Takoradi (Ghana) Smart governance system for more effective development control 

– London (United Kingdom): Building London’s response to climate migrationg
– Nairobi (Kenya): City of Choice Project
– Hargeisa (Somaliland): Resettlement and resilient livelihoods for flood risk zones of Daami IDPs
– Manta (Ecuador): Proyecto PRORED
– Abasan Al-Kabira (Palestine): Innovative Solutions for Renewable Energy Sources
– Move Green (Spain & Morocco): (E)co-development for innovation and employment in the green and circular economy

• Buenos Aires, Argentina: “Nosotras Conectadas” (We, Women, Connected)
• Cauayan City, Philippines: Rehabilitation of IDPs and resilience building to better respond to future disaster induced displacement
• Dédougou, Burkina Faso: Welcoming internally displaced children to school
• Esteban Echeverria, Argentina: Reaching migrant populations in the city
• Fuenlabrada, Spain: City of Peace Plan
• Gaziantep, Turkey: Ensuring multilevel coordination for refugees’ rights
• Lampedusa, Italy: Migration as a window to the world
• Moron, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Language training for immigrants
• Nador, Morocco: Media training to combat xenophobic speech
• Commune of Notsé, Haho 1, Togo: Preventing conflict between herders and local communities
• Sao Paulo, Brazil: Keeping migrant children in school

• Maria Aguilar Interurban Biological Corridor (CBIMA) – San José, Alajuelita, Montes de Oca, La Unión and Curridabat (Costa Rica)
• Environmental and social recovery of the Congost River – Granollers (Spain)
• Local System of Protected Areas (SILAPE) – Envigado (Colombia)
• Reconnecting with and along the river – Portoviejo (Ecuador)

• Mersin, Turkey
  • Accessible Life Park: a park and service center for persons with disabilities and their families in the Yenişehir district
• Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina
  • Accessible and inclusive tourism: Offering city infrastructure and services adapted to the needs of all citizens regardless of whether they have a disability or not.
• Lisbon, Portugal
  • How better urban planning can improve gender equality
• Banjarmasin, Indonesia
  • Banjarmasin Inclusive City Movement: A multistakeholder initiative to promote social inclusion through participatory data collection, placemaking, and community participation
• La Paz, Bolivia
  • The EBAU Plan: An inclusive perspective in the delivery of works, services and activities carried out by the Autonomous Municipal Government of La Paz
• Santa Fe, Argentina
  • Generating an accessible communication channel in Argentine Sign Language to remove barriers to communication

• Sustainable Urban Mobility beyond COVID-19
• Sustainable Urban Logistics
  • Wiesbaden, Germany: Green City Master Plan
  • Taoyuan, Taiwan: Low-carbon transportation and EcoLogistics hubs
• Public Transportation
  • Tbilisi, Georgia: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)
  • Rhine Ruhr Transport Association (VRR), Germany: Flexible Ticket Models
  • Leipzig, Germany: Combined mobility app
• Cycling Infrastructure
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina: Accelerating bike infrastructure implementation in response to COVID-19
  • Lindau, Germany: BIKEHUBS – Innovative flexible parking facilities
  • Lalitpur and Tulsipur, Nepal: Building a cycling culture through gamification
• Peer-to-peer Consultation: Addressing curb management in Buenos Aires
• Action Planning: Cocreating strategies to bring back public transport demand in Sao Paulo

This Peer Learning Note is also available in German.

• Inclusive Local Citizenship: Recognition, inclusion and care
• Exploring the Accessibility of the City: The Storytelling Methodology
• Practices and local knowledge:
  • Grenoble, France: Guiding vision on migrants’ inclusion
  • Barcelona; Spain: Fostering institutional innovation to accredit migrants’ residency
  • Sousse, Tunisia: Reinforcing migrant participation and civic engagement
  • Seine Saint Denis, France: Highlighting the wealth that migration brings
  • Valencia, Spain: Addressing discrimination while fostering conviviality
• Shifting the narrative on migration: The Lampedusa Charter

• Assessment campaigns: Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient, Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities
• Practices and local knowledge:
  • Dominican Republic: Local Risk Management Plans
  • Panama: Local strategies for sustainable development and resilient municipalities
  • Honduras: Integrated municipal waste management
  • Costa Rica: Flood risk reduction for an urba micro-basin
  • Belize: Flood risk reduction in Twin Towns
  • Puerto Rico: Building Back Better after hurricane Maria in the municipality of Arecibo.
• City Resilience Profiling Tool “Light” (CRPT)

• Linking Climate Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainability
• Risk assessment
  • Niteroi, Brazil: Integrated Geoinformation Management System
  • Risaralda, Colombia: Localizing climate impact models
• Comprehensive planning
  • Dortmund, Germany: Integrated adaptation to climate change
  • Monteria, Colombia: Climate Change Master Plan
• Financing
  • ADAPTUR, Mexico: Mobilizing resources from the private sector
  • Portoviejo, Ecuador: Building Back Better
• Citizen participation
  • Niteroi, Brazil: Risk awareness in schools and communities
  • Paraná, Argentina: Water basins as a territorial unit for citizen-government coordination

• The role of civil society in the urban governance of migration in terms of advocacy, access to basic services, social inclusion, and local knowledge. 
• Mechanisms for articulation: Coordination and info sharing, policy development, implementation and joint service provision.
• Challenges and solutions from peer cities: 
  • Sfax, Tunisia: Cooperating with CSO networks to fill local and national gaps 
  • Malaga, Spain: Sharing leadership with migrants association to foster active citizenship
  • Brital, Lebanon: Coordination of arrival and reception services
  • Douala, Cameroon: CSO’s contribution to housing policy evalutation and development
  • Meknes, Morocco: Empowering foreign students as local and international ambassadors

• Case studies:
  • Bochum – Municipal administration and management of extraordinary cases of crises
  • Bogor: Municipal disaster management agency
  • Christchurch: Building community leadership capacity for DRR
  • Sao Paolo:Coordination of protection and civil defense
  • Tokyo: Measures addressing stranded people in emergency situations
  • Albay: Zero Casualty strategy 
• City to city cooperation and capacity building to increase resilience at local level
• Organization of local public administrations and their efforts in legislative and educational measures are crucial to make their territory more resilient.

• Green economy approach to ensure sustainable development in the Amazonian regions
• The establishment of a network of multi-level governance which will enable integrated sustainable development policies
• Roadmap of actions for Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and globally to facilitate the progress in the construction of the long term vision for sustainable and integrated development of Amazonia
• Case studies:
  • Florencia, Colombia: Prevention of teenage pregnancies through innovative education
  • Riberalta, Bolivia: Value-added chain of the Brazil nut
  • Beni, Bolivia: Santa Rosa Youth Project
  • Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador: Green bonds to reduce or halt mining and petroleum activities
  • Consejo Interregional Amazónico (CIAM), Peru: Promotion and reinforcement of local production
  • Terrassa, Spain: Strategic planning through metropolitan city networks

• The case studies of Essen (place for culture), Nuremberg (Integrated urban renewal), Vigan (community participation), and Surakarta (sustainable and integrated cultural management) show transferable strategies and lessons to revitalize Kota Tua  
• Route map towards being an UNESCO Culture Heritage site for national and regional governments.

• Technopole Angus, Montreal: urban renewal through sustainable development, revitalization with employment, and social commitment led to local mobilization, good partnership among stakeholders, and financial support from governments.
• Seoul – SSE special districts: local governments involvement with legal frameworks, governance building, and financial support for communities to identify local needs and organize their ecosystem of alternative social economy. 
• Johannesburg: urban regeneration initiative managed by state, private, and civil society actors which were inclusive of the poor by being flexible towards informal and subletting activities. 
• Barcelona: SSE policies reveal citizen’s importance to drive the process and co-produce policies that guarantee citizen control, community based actions, and cooperation through networks. 

• Lisbon’s policies fostering and reinforcing integration of immigrants into the city: “Inclusive Lisbon” and Action Plan for Social Rights for 2014-2017 ensures intercultural and interreligious dialogue, among others. 
• Social cohesion in Canada: Grounded under the basis of belonging, inclusion, participation, recognition and legitimacy. 
• Debunking myths and realities of mediterranean migrants in Europe.

• Transportation management: integrated and systematic regional management and division of responsibilities.
• Waste management: Need to recognize waste as a resource, convert it into energy and create jobs ( waste pickers in Brazil) 
• Barcelona Activa supports micro-scale businesses as a good investment and aid for economic diversification.
• 22@ initiative demonstrated comprehensive urban planning revitalised the area.

• Alignment of planning policies and instruments
• The South African perspective: Johannesburg’s Strategic Spatial Plan

• The promotion of decent work from intermediate cities and its linkage with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
• Case Studies:
  • Participatory budget for 2038 Action Plan in Pasto, Colombia
  • Network of Decent Work municipalities in São Paulo
• Creation of framework of territorial policy, the process of analysis diagnostic of specific production and development conditions to achieve certainty and effective impact

• Discussion of the roles of municipalities as employers (The Netherlands Municipalities) and associations approach (South Africa Small Town Regeneration)
• Localize and mainstream the SDG targets into local development agendas
• Charting a path for collaboration and network requires territorial planning and management of Local Economic Development through cooperation and coordination between Cities, local governments, private sector, social partners and relevant actors.

• Nairobi: 
  • The Nairobi Integrated Urban Development Master Plan created public spaces for wealth generation by reclaiming, restoring, and rehabilitating public spaces across the city with community inclusion in the governace and management of the spaces. 
• Durban:
  • Pedestrianization of the city with spatial legacy projects like Rivertown, Pocket Parks, and Pixley ka Seme Walk left the city witha sense of ownership by its participatory process.
• Blantrye to develop pubilc spaces through an assessment tool that offers solutions. opportunities, and short-term interventions that align with the SDGs

• Reactivating the food market network and strengthening  chains of production through The Logistics Platform, the Supply Centre, and Pasto’s Network of Municipal Markets. 
• Updated land registers, the formalizing tenancy and ownership of land, and geographic information to guarantee access to resources and opportunities for rural development.
• Strengthening urban-rural relationships by combining economic, sociocultural and work-related factors in a sustainable commercial model.

• Case studies demonstrating the use and management of public spaces initiatives: Bogota, Colombia: recovering and rehabilitating spaces with parks, roads, and an inclusion criterion.; Santa Fe: Argentina: Strategic Provincial Plan and the Basic Plan creating participatory urban development processes; Guarulhos, Brazil: inclusion policies and maintenance of public space 
• Participatory Budget generated awareness and trust by the public in public management. 
• UCLG developing a guideline to assist with public space planning and targetting local government practitioners.

• Preserving cultural, agricultural and natural environment key to sustainable urban-rural policies
• General guidelines for local economic development
• Technical and structural tools to strengthen local economic development: Decentralized cooperation, cooperatives, labelling, professional training and schools for entrepreneurs, freelance jobs, micro-credit, technical and structural support for local authorities.

• Methodology: Knowledge and experience sharing among technicians
• Inclusive Land registry as a basic tool for management and administration of municipal services: requires the fundamental use of GIS, 
• Evaluate its implementation, and coordinate between municipalities to share information and experiences.

• UN-Habitat’s Resource on Public Space Principles and Practice: Towards a Global Toolkit’ consists of  principles, defines public space approach, and a selection of tools and case studies
• Case studies in:
  • São Paolo, Brasil: public policy includes neighbourhood equipment and new parklets
  • Bogota, Colombia: educational campaign and team building with citizens, ciclovias (closing main roads on sundays and holidays for cycling), development of TransMilenio rapid train system
• Durban starting to define, reclaim, and reflect on the value of public space by engaging the public, providing tailor-made responses,  recognizing the importance of placemaking, and changing policies, planning frameworks, structures and systems.

• Revenue management: paying for services, credit control, clean audit mechanisms
• Sharing of policies and processes: poverty reduction, biodiversity and conservation, and prioritising capital budget
• Municipal service improvements: road and water recycling technologies, street cleaning procedures
• Clear mapping
• Informal market control

• Regional planning and multi-level governance:
  • Use of the Basic Plan to define priority projects, identify interventions, and survey urban planning regulations and plans.
  • Provincial Strategic Plan 2030- Vision 2030: coordinates different levels of the State and consolidates strategic plannning. 
• An active presence on the international agenda

• Profound knowledge of the land and its economic value by doing a cadastral mapping of the city and developing a detailed plan through participatory planning.
• Participatory budgeting strategy.
• Revision of public policies by knowledge exchange

• Local range planning for intermediary cities should  ensure provision of infrastructure and development projects coordination
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation preparedness for intermediary cities
• Active community participation in the preparation and implementation phases of long term strategic growth and development plans.
• Clean financial management to promote and maintain community trust in the government.

• Preparation of City Development Strategy (CDS): Promoted a broad regional integration and cooperation.
• Implementation HIghlights: management tools and review of by-laws in governance; upgrade of two informal settlements in Lilongwe and allocation of residential plots; and upgrade of roads and improvement of solid waste management. 
• Managing Capacity Building through peer learning approach
• Bridging gap between planning and implementation.
• International recognition of mentorship program

• Warwick Junction Project: Urban Management / Informal traders right to the city
• Local Economic Development (LED) in Maputo markets
• Understanding the importance of Maputo’s markets as local culture. 
• Integrated development between the public and private sectors

• Brazilian cities’ urban issues are similar to Indian and South African cities
• Connecting national and regional governments with local authorities.
• Transportation’s key role in economic development
• Mentorship initiatives between cities
• City Future Programme

• Solid financial strategies – long term planning
• Strong local political and administrative leadership
• The right to belong to the City
• Socially inclusive projects
• Mentoring partnership between Maputo & Rosario and Durban & Sao Paolo