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The Cities Alliance Assembly as an Opportunity for Learning

At each Assembly, Cities Alliance explores key topics that impact our work programme. For 2019, the topics chosen were city resilience, informal economies, and the global agendas for cities.

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Empowering the Urban Poor to Improve Their Communities

How the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme is achieving results at the community level.

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Positioning Liberia's Cities to Drive Economic Growth for All

How the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme is achieving results at the municipal level.

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Cities Alliance Hiring Urban Economic Development Specialist

Apply by 2 June 2019.

Urban Journalism Academy, Oslo, Norway

Clare Short, Chair of Cities Alliance Board, will deliver a keynote address at the Urban Journalism Academy 24 May 2019.

Cities Alliance Workshop in Cape Coast Featured

Cape Coast, Ghana is part of the Cities Alliance Campaign Cities initiative.

Introducing Connecting Systems of Secondary Cities

How Soft and Hard Infrastructure Can Foster Equitable Economic Growth Among Secondary Cities, by Prof. Brian Roberts
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Facilitating Solid Waste Management in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia

Tackling Waste: Cities Alliance Donates to Small Sanitation Firms In Liberia

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Mobilising Communities in Burkina Faso

Settlements, West Point, Monrovia, Liberia

Local and Regional Governments in the Follow-up and Review of Global Sustainability Agendas

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Incremental innovation has the potential to create inclusive development and to bring sectors together to position housing at the centre of urban development.
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Secondary cities are among the fastest growing in the world, and the arrival point for tens of thousands of migrants each year.
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Countries seeking to implement National Urban Policies need a strong legal framework. A Cities Alliance study on urban laws in the LAC region offers insights.
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Call for Proposals - Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation
Cities Alliance: Supporting the Returning Migrants of Guatemala

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24 May 2019

Cities Alliance at the Urban Journalism Academy (Urban Future Global Conference 2019)

Oslo
Norway
The UJAs are pioneering and innovative initiatives to further the knowledge and understanding amongst journalists and media professionals of the social, economic and environmental issues facing cities in the twenty-first century
27 - 31 May 2019

UN-Habitat Assembly

Nairobi
Kenya
19 June 2019

European Development Days 2019 - Cities Alliance Policy Dialogue

Brussels
Belgium
Towards more equitable cities economies. A policy dialogue exploring public goods and services as a pathway to more equitable economic development in secondary cities in the global south
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Training-Facilitators-Guide
This Facilitator’s Guide prepared by UN-Habitat and Cities Alliance accompanies the Quick Guides for Policy Makers: Housing the Poor in African Cities series.
UNH-Streets
Historically, governments have implemented slum upgrading projects and programmes of varying scale and scope
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This joint report from Cities Alliance and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) finds that the rapid pace of urbanisation represents an opportunity to build more sustainable, innovative and equitable towns and cities
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This brief explores how the global agreements relate to cities and how they provide a framework for action on sustainable urban development that can be implemented by governments at the national, local and regio
National-Urban-Policies
This joint report from the Cities Alliance and UN-Habitat reviews the experience of national urban policies in selected countries around the world