During UCLG’s Learning Forum in Daejeon, on October 11, 2022, our constituency, partners, and members of our learning community were invited to showcase their learning products and processes in an interactive and engaging Learning Marketplace, in order to facilitate new connections, synergies and collaborations.
Discover below some of the showcased experiences aligned to the Pact for the Future for Planer adopted by the UCLG Congress in Daejeon, as follows:
The Pact for the The Future for the Planet promotes systems and ways of living in harmony with our planet while building resilience and sustainability through policies that renature our production and consumption models will be crucial cornerstones of the Pact for the Future – and an endeavor that no actor nor level of government can achieve alone.
Check also the learning products/processes showcased for the Pact for the Future for People and for Government.
Connective Cities – international community of practice for sustainable urban development
Connective Cities promotes the global exchange of municipal expertise and supports shared learning and peer consultation between German and international urban practitioners as well as the development of joint projects. It offers the opportunity to exchange international experiences on sustainable urban development at the local level within the framework of structured learning processes.
In their exchanges, they invite people to share experiences, discuss current challenges and develop new ideas for projects around specific topics. Their core peer consultation or peer review methodology, which focuses on needs-based outcomes, is a great way of engaging municipal representatives from respective cities and making the most out of their knowledge and expertise.
UCLG Learning has collaborated with Connective Cities on peer learnings around Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Urban Mobility, which have also helped identify key topics and bring up policy messages based on cities’ concrete challenges.
Discover more at: https://www.connective-cities.net/en/
Innovative learning tools by the Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC)
The International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a core partner of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative currently co-chaired by UCLG together with UNDRR. An auxiliary organization to many local governments around the world, IFRC presented innovative learning tools to foster risk awareness and build resilience developed and used by its Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC).
The Virtual Reality (VR) tools were particularly interesting for participants. They are used to train people and raise general public awareness on disaster risks and training through disaster simulations based on real-life scenarios.
With a very colourful board, the “Surviving on the Earth” game also gained participants’ attention. It is integrated serious game designed to teach how to respond in disasters, how to cope with mental stress in terms of disaster, and how to protect the earth from global warming, based on gamification principles also discussed in the Learning Forum’s masterclasses.
Find out more at https://www.apdisasterresilience.org/
Promoting South-South cooperation on sustainable development and climate action through ENLACE SUR by Mercociudades
Enlace Sur offers the opportunity to join a community of South American experts on a vast diversity of topics related to local management for sustainable development in the cities of the region. The community is able to share local solutions and cross-link technical strengths and needs to collaborate with other cities facing similar challenges.
This tool is part of Mercociudades‘ South-South Cooperation Program, which among its development areas also includes project financing and training on various topics of interest.
For more information visit www.enlacesur.org
Reducing disaster risk for the poor in Tomorrow’s Cities’ through city and academia collaboration
Through Tomorrow’s Cities urban disaster risk hub, IIED is working with partners to help cities in low-and-middle income countries transition from crisis management to multi-hazard, risk-informed planning and decision making.
The hub brings together academia, local governments, and communities in its four focus cities (Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi and Quito), to learn from each other and foster interdisciplinary, equitable partnerships and problem-focused research programmes that contributes to catalyse a transition from crisis management to multi-hazard risk-informed planning and decision-making that strengthens the voice and capacity of the urban poor.
Learn more about the hub and it’s different outcomes at https://tomorrowscities.org/
“Culture & Climate Change” Online Course by UCLG’s Culture Committee
The Culture Committee of UCLG presented the Massive Online Course (MOOC) on Culture & Climate Change, to be released in the framework of COP27, and that is based on the report “The Role of Culture in Climate Resilient Development”, coordinated by Andrew Potts. The course explores the fundamental role of culture in Culture and Climate Resilient Development, and focuses on the perspective of local or regional governments, as well as cultural actors and institutions from all continents.
It showcases a wide variety of case studies from all over the world drawn from an open call for contributions for the elaboration of the report, audio-visual resources highlighting how arts, culture and heritage can contribute to imagining and realizing new resilient futures, as well as complementary in-depth materials.
Register now at: https://learningwith.uclg.org/p/culture-and-climate
Sharing Seoul’s metropolitan urban policies with the world
The Seoul Human Resources Development Center (SHRDC) of Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has been contributing to solving global urban issues by sharing Seoul’s urban policies through international training programs. It invites foreign city officials to 5-10 day international programs including lectures, policy presentations by foreign cities, site visits, and interactive discussions. The main themes of the training programs include insights, issue, and challenges arising in the urban development area in the world and the following particular topics in the training programs : smart city, sustainable mobility and climate change.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the center temporarily stopped invitation-based offline international training programs. Instead, the center implemented several pilot online training programs successfully through 2020-2022. Following the congress, SHRDC further piloted a new model of online course complimented by offline workshop, through field visits for participants on the Resilient City Trainings co-organized with Metropolis and UCLG.
Read more here: https://www.uclg.org/en/media/news/resilient-city-training-program-seoul-and-metropolis-brings-together-35-city-officers-22
“The Learning Marketplace gave us a practical arena to share with the various organizations and institutes around the world which have the similar goals to expand the policy experiences and its transfer, and offered a good chance to explore and benchmark each other’s strength and know-hows.”
Kate Kim, Seoul Human Resources Development Center