Initiate: Urban Pathways support to NGOs in partner cities to apply to the IKI Small Grants
Under Initiate, one of the four Urban Pathways pillars, the UP team supported several NGOs and other non-profit organisations working in partner cities and countries in Asia and Latin America in the development of project proposals that were submitted to the Call for Small Scale Projects launched by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry of Environment (BMU). The UP team guided 5 organisations in the development of project proposals that build on on-going initiatives been carried out in partner cities to mitigate and adapt to climate change. This is the list of projects that were supported by Urban Pathways:
- Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan Formulation for Birendranagar Municipality
- Playing with Mobility in the Santa Tereza neighbourhood
- Agroecology and Well Being: Waste Management and Urban Agriculture
- Implementing EcoZone pilot project in La Tola neighborhood
- Democratising disaster risk management and ecosystem-based adaptation
Using the EcoZones framework, an evolving concept put together by the UP team based on the initiatives observed in UP partner cities, most of the supported projects focus on neighbourhoods as the geographical scale, where an intersectorial approach is easily applicable, addressing simultaneously mobility and waste issues through a series of activities that could include tactical urbanism, awareness-raising, community participation and impact assessment. Thus, these projects do not only carry out pilot sustainable mobility and/or waste projects; they also empower local communities and promote social cohesion.
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