A Fundación Avina project is helping Guatemala City become a more inclusive place for deportees, one that builds on their skills, energy and ideas in a way that benefits the city as a whole. The project is funded by the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund. By Andrea Haefner

The recent LAC Housing and Habitat Forum highlighted regional innovations in housing that offer many lessons to share with cities and countries around the world as they implement global agendas, writes Anaclaudia Rossbach.

Cities Alliance is proud to congratulate the Safetipin project, one of our Catalytic Fund grantees, on the prestigious international recognition it has received in recent months.

The Cities Alliance is co-organising several side events to highlight the role of local governments in implementing the global agendas, and participating in two official HLPF sessions. We will also feature three best practices that show how local actors are accelerating the implementation process.

Cities Alliance has selected five best practices that take an integrated approach to the FuR process for the global sustainability agendas. The projects will inform global discussions and efforts on how local actors are accelerating the implementation of the global agendas