Metropolis News • General Secretariat
Number 3 • 2013
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Learn more about the 2nd workshop of Metropolis
Initiative: “Integrated Strategic Planning and Public
Private Partnerships” in Delhi!
The second round of workshops related to the Metropolis Initiative “Integrated Strategic Planning and Public Private Partnerships” will be convened during 2526 July 2013, at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
The event will be hosted by the National Institute of Urban
Affairs – India (NIUA) andwill be conducted over two days.
In line with the objectives of this Initiative the workshop
is directed primarily to Indian government and municipal
staff engaged in planning the provision and maintenance
of basic infrastructure. Whilst this Initiative is focused on
Indian cities, other interested Metropolis members are welcome. The workshop will be conducted in English only.
The first day will provide decision makers from all levels of government, the private sector and professional peak bodies with an opportunity to explore specific issues and compare experiences. This will be followed by a training workshop on the following day during
which the ‘Circles of Sustainability’ methodology will
be tested against a number of the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) projects.
The project is led by the Victorian State Government Department of Transport Planning and Local Infrastructure (for Melbourne) in partnership with the UN Global Compact Cities Program, and the National Institute of Urban Affairs – India (NIUA).
For more information about the project and the
forthcoming workshop please contact the Project Director, Mary Lewin (mary.lewin@dpcd.vic.gov.
au) and Prof Usha Ragiupathi uraghupathi@niua.org.
Provisional Program
Chair: Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs
Co-Chair: Halvard Dalheim, Director, State Planning Strategy &
Forecasting, Department of Transport Planning and Local Infrastructure
Day 1:
- Welcome by co-chairs
- Presentation of case studies and deliberations by participants
- Overview of ‘Circles of Sustainability’ methodology
Day 2:
- Review and summary of Day 1 proceedings
- Testing the ‘Circles of Sustainability’ model with JNNURM projects
Individual (or group) stakeholder and convenor consultations on
specific aspects of the implementation process
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Seoul will host the headquarters of the Metropolis
International Institute
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
the new headquarters of the Metropolis International Institute, between the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Metropolis, took place on 24 May 2013. The Mayor of Seoul, Park
Won-soon, and the Secretary-General of Metropolis, Alain
Le Saux, signed the document in the presence of several
officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The event
was also attended by a Metropolis delegation comprising
three of the four regional centres belonging to the Metropolis
International Institute, a representative from the Île-de-France
region, the Metropolis Country Director for India and the head
of development strategy in Barcelona.
The signing comes after a decision taken at the Board of
Directors meeting in Guangzhou to transfer the Metropolis
International Institute from Montreal to Seoul. The headquarters of said institute will be located in the Seoul Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC), which is accountable
to the City Council and which, thus far, had run the programmes in the Asia branch. Its mission is to provide Metropolis
members with training that capitalises on the expertise of
Metropolis, while taking the cultural and regional specificities
of its members into account.
The meeting fostered enriching dialogue between the team
in charge of managing the Metropolis International Institute
in Seoul (SHRDC), the three regional centres present* – the
School of Public Administration in Mexico City (EAPDF), the
Île-de-France Paris Institute for Urban Planning and Development (IAU), and the ISCO centre in Mashhad – and representatives from Île-de-France, Barcelona and the Metropolis
Country Director for India.
The programmes put forward by the Metropolis International
Institute can be viewed in the training section on the Metropolis website, which will be updated regularly. For further
information, you can follow our programmes via our website,
Facebook, or by contacting Agnès Bickart.
* The Cairo centre was unable to attend.
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Newsletter Metropolis • July 2013
Urban resilience, theme of debate at ICLEI
ICLEI, the global movement of cities and local governments
dedicated to sustainable development, organized the forum “Resilient Cities 2013”, in Bonn, between May 31st
and June 2nd.
The presence of decision makers and experts from around
the world facilitated the exchangeof innovative ideas, resilient urban planning strategies and current knowledge and
practices about these issues.
Metropolis joined the the meeting and took part in the debates about urban resilience and the adaptation and mitigation to climate change.
For the first time, it was held in the framework of the conference, the forum “Resilient Urban Food Systems”, in which
examples of food innovations worldwide were presented.
Another parallel meeting was the Young Researchers Forum, where young researchers from various universities
discussed their knowledge, views and difficulties of how to
integrate their proposals with the decisions taken by political leaders. If the youth of today will be the leaders in
twenty years, their vision of urban resilience must be taken
into account.
The congress was attended by 528 participants, from
which 117 were representatives from local governments
coming from 60 different countries. They explored responses to the challengesof climate change, and came to the
conclusion that in most of the cases it is crucial to consider
integrated solutions. However, the big question remains:
how should cities move towards adaptation and resilience
to climate change?
More information at the website of the forum.
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The Indian International Certification Programme
in Urban Management meets Metropolis
An Indian government delegation comprising 30 city and
public administrators from 20 different cities across India
visited Barcelona from 27 to 30 April 2013. Metropolis
coordinated and took part in the event, where Indian city
stakeholders participated in four day-long interactive sessions with stakeholders from the city of Barcelona.
During the course of the visit, the delegation had the opportunity to exchange views on policies and urban activities
with representatives from the city of Barcelona, where they
learnt about the City Protocol project (part of one of the
Metropolis Initiatives).
The group also had the chance to discover Barcelona’s
22@ district, while a presentation by the company Urbiotica
provided them with an overview on how to bring the most
innovative technology to bear in society, through its application on urban spaces. Clabsa (the Barcelona sewerage
company) provided an interesting underground visit to the
city’s sewerage system; Agbar (the Barcelona water company) also drew the participants’ interest not only because
its headquarters are a reference point in contemporary architecture in the city (designed by Jean Nouvel) but also
because of its innovative water-management solutions. A
talk by the urban development agency Barcelona Regional,
along with Barcelona City Council’s presentation at Urban
Habitat, helped improve the visitors’ understanding of the
way Barcelona is planned and organized. The delegation
was also invited to a comprehensive visit around the Council premises.
The delegation was led by Prof Chary from the Administrative Staff College, India. Metropolis, together with ASCI and
the NIUA (National Institute of Urban Affairs), are promoting
capacity-building and partnerships to establish smarter cities and sustainable urban infrastructures in India, working
at the international level to engage Indian cities and public
forums in the run-up to the 11th Metropolis World Congress to be held in Hyderabad from 6 to 10 October, 2014.
As India continues on its urban journey and addresses the
challenging issues of urbanization, the Metropolis World
Association is committed to assisting states and cities
across the country in capacity-building, partnerships and
international knowledge-sharing.
Check the photo gallery of the visit here.
To learn more about the presentations made during the visit:
City Protocol (Barcelona City Council)
Urbiotica: Solutions for Smart Cities and Smart Waste Collection
Agbar
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Newsletter Metropolis • July 2013
Check out the web platform for UCLG’S World
Congress 2013 in Rabat!
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) has launched
the ‘Rabat 2013’ web platform for its World Summit of
Local and Regional Leaders, to be held in Rabat, Morocco,
this October. The platform www.uclg.org/Rabat2013 will
provide information on the strategic and thematic debates
of the Summit, and will function as a resource for the exchange of good practices.
It will also allow representatives and partners of local and
regional governments to follow the Summit live from 1-4
October 2013, and to participate in the activities of the global network. You will be able to directly access information
on registration and your stay in Rabat during the Congress.
The UCLG World Summit 2013 in Rabat will be inspired
by the lema: “Imagine Society, Build Democracy”, the central theme of the Summit. It will include an extended and
on-going dialogue between local and regional authorities
and their key partners - international organisations, development agencies, experts, practitioners, and civil society
organizations - in order to analyse and evaluate the extent
to which development goals have been met, and to define
new priorities.
are implementing to meet the challenges they face. As such,
the plenaries and workshops will be a unique occasion, not
only for reflection, but for interaction. The key strategic debates of the Summit will centre on the possible goals and
targets of Post-2015 Development and on the preparation
of the path towards Habitat III, with the aim of developing
a set of concrete proposals to represent local and regional
governments in these international negotiations.
The web platform, ‘Rabat 2013’, will be a space for online discussion and exchange on the thematic issues of
the Summit: Fostering wellbeing, strengthening solidarity
among territories, supporting new governance and the dynamics of change, promoting diversity.
This platform will also allow you to stay connected to the
World Summit 2013 via live streaming of the debates and
workshops, regular tweets and Facebook updates by experts, speaker and participant interviews, as well as a blog
of ideas and projects, with a view to establishing new partnerships.
Stay connected:
The Summit will address the key priorities of the local and
regional government agenda. It will focus on access to basic services, the construction of societies that are diverse,
open, and innovative, the promotion of tolerance, solidarity
and exchange, gender equality, and the reinforcement of
the role of culture in society.
www.uclg.org/Rabat2013
Twitter: @uclg_org
Hashtag: #Rabat2013
Facebook: /UnitedCitiesandLocalGovernments
The Summit will be an opportunity for participants to share
and exchange experiences, highlighting the innovative policies and programmes that local and regional governments
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Metropolis Initiative on Metropolitan Governance
convenes leaders in São Paulo to discuss
public-private partnerships
The Comparative Study on Metropolitan Governance, the Metropolis Initiative led by the Secretariat for Metropolitan Development in the State of São
Paulo, with technical support from
Empresa Paulista de Planejamento
Metropolitano SA (Emplasa), had its
last meeting in the city of São Paulo,
Brazil, from April 25 to 26.
São Paulo welcomed leaders from
various metropolitan regions, such as
Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Gauteng and Rosario, to present
and discuss cases of different arrangements for financing public services
and infrastructure projects. Specialists
shared their experiences in public
projects that count on some type of
funding from private enterprises, in the
fields of transportation, healthcare,
waste management, social housing
and urban renewal.
One of the main conclusions of the
event is that the reality of public-private partnerships is very complex, and
their specificities vary according to the
context of each metropolitan region
and to the type of service or infrastructure that is being provided. Still, it
is possible to find common threads,
especially regarding investment and
operation efficiency. This shall be the
goals of the upcoming steps of this
Metropolis Initiative, whose next meeting is scheduled for the Metropolis
Annual Annual meeting in July in Johannesburg.
For a detailed report about this meeting, with participants’ names, main outcomes and next steps, click here.
Click on the links below to access the presentations of case studies discussed
at the meeting:
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Introduction Emplasa - Metropolis Initiative (Portuguese)
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Sao Paulo’s public-private partnerships (Portuguese)
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Brazilian public-private partnerships (Portuguese)
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Brasilia - housing (Portuguese)
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São Paulo - housing (Portuguese)
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São Paulo - healthcare (Portuguese)
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Buenos Aires - urban renewal (Spanish)
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Rosario - urban renewal (Spanish)
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Gauteng - transportation (English)
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Minas Gerais - waste management (English)
Click here for more pictures of the meeting.
Newsletter Metropolis • July 2013
Calendar
Venue
Event
15-16
Johannesburg
Peer Review Training Johannesburg Bus Rapid Transit System organized by
16-19
Johannesburg
Metropolis Annual Meeting & Board of Directors
17-18
Johannesburg
5 Metropolis Initiatives Workshops: Kreanta/ Durban & São Paulo/ Living
Day
july 2013
Berlin and Johannesburg
Labs , The Climate Group, Citymart/ Melbourne / Berlin/Estado de São Paulo
august 2013
22-24
Buenos Aires
Kreanta Metropolis Initiative Workshop
september 2013
1-8
Seoul (SHRDC)
Metropolis International Institute Seminar on Climate Change
9-11
Toronto
Meeting of the Minds
9-12
Istanbul
The 6th Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS-2013)
22-29
Seoul
Metropolis International Institute Regional Seminar on “Risk management:
24-27
Abidjan
experiences and learning in the global context”
International Forum “Dynamic Cities Need Women”
october 2013
1-4
Rabat
UCLG World Congress
10-14
Mashhad
Metropolis International Institute - Training Workshop: “Strategic Planning
and Performance measurements”/”Smart Cities”
november 2013
19-21
Barcelone
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