​Regional Replication: Africa, Latin America and Asia

Urban Pathways events on mobility and waste under ‘environMENTALISE’ initiative

Urban Pathways is organising several events under an initiative ‘environMENTALISE –co-creating safe, friendly and green neighbourhoods’ in cities in Latin America, Africa and Asia that contribute to raising awareness about the environmental, health, social and economic benefits of non-motorised transport, as well as of waste reduction. EnvironMENTALISE, an initiative of Wuppertal Institute, UN-HABITAT and UN Environment under the Urban Pathways project, includes awareness raising and capacity building activities on-site (car-free day, tactical urbanism, etc.) and online (webinars). For this purpose, Urban Pathways is collaborating with municipalities and local stakeholders in the region and cooperating with several organisations (such as ITDP Mexico, WRI India, ICLEI, FabLab Barcelona and Ciudad Emergente) and initiatives (such as World Habitat Day 2019, Waste Wise Cities Campaign, European Mobility Week 2019, Day of walking and cycling to school 2019, African Mobility Month). The participating cities will be provided with an air quality monitoring device ‘Smart Citizen kit’ to measure the impact of the activities on-site.
The cities joining the initiative are Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Quito (Ecuador), Aguascalientes (México), Cuenca (Ecuador), Kochi (India), Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Kathmandu (Nepal). 
The topic and date of the webinars are:

• Walking and Cycling for Safer, Friendlier and Greener Neighbourhoods on 5thAugust 2019 (in Spanish), in September (in English)
• Transforming waste to wealth: Global challenge, local solutions on 8thAugust 2019 (in English), 13thAugust 2019 (in Portuguese) and 15thAugust (in Spanish)

​Regional Replication: Nairobi

Easing movement and logistics of small-scale businesses in Mombasa through adoption of 
Electrical Handcarts (E-Handcarts)
The population growth is in a rise in Mombasa and also informal settlement is high in urban fringes. Those areas are underserved by infrastructure and other amenities. The small scale traders, peri-urban farmers or street hawkers living in urban fringes of Mombasa have difficulty due to inadequate urban services and the situation is more difficult due to poor economic condition. Using minibuses for goods transportation to urban market from fringes is costly for small business. Therefore, manual handcarts are widely used for cargo services by small businesses in Mombasa. However, they are labour intensive, provide poor productivity and the infrastructure does not support its ease in movement. This has created a delay in services, traffic congestion and caused health impact. Indirectly, the traffic congestion or traffic snarl up due to manual handcarts has led to more carbon emission.

Regional Replication: Hai Phong & Kochi

Sustainable Transportation in Asian cities
Regional Replication I 25 April -2 May 2019 I South Korea
24 participants from 10 Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) joined the training course on urban mobility, and discussed on modes, options and strategies for sustainable, safe, accessible, and innovative urban transportation in global as well as in the context of Asian cities.​

​Regional Replication: Belo Horizonte

Fahrradstrasse – Example from Brazil – Replication in Latin America
Belo Horizonte has an innovative Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, called PlanMob-BH, with comprehensive measures including TOD, BRT and Bike solutions. In September of 2013, Belo Horizonte for- malized PlanMob-BH as a guide for improving mobility for the next 20 years. Belo Horizonte becamethe first city in Brazil to have a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan with a long-term vision that links mobility tourban development goals (Secretariat Municipal de Governo BH, 2013).

The plan consists of elements such as an integrated public transport network composed of metro lines and a bus rapid transit (BRT) system with exclusive bus corridors; a bikeway network with the installation of pro- tected bike lanes and a public bicycle sharing system; and a pedestrian facilities network. By 2030, the plan expects that the measures implemented contributes to reductions of 36% in GHG emissions, 25% in travel time and 19% in transport costs (Secretaria Municipal de Governo BH, 2013). A process of review and adjust- ment of the plan started in 2016 and was approved in 2017. The plan contains 176 measures to be implemented until 2030, from which 56% were already implemented until May 2018. Beyond the immediate mobility related issues, Belo Horizonte also recognises these measures as an oppor- tunity to revitalise the downtown area and enhance the quality of life by creating pedestrianised streets and giving the space back to people from cars.

In this context, Belo Horizonte established a partnership with the city of Bremen, Germany to help BH in the implementation of a Zone 30 and a bicycle street (Fahrradstrasse). The main purpose of these mea- sures is to increase the modal share of bicycle that at present represents only 0.4%. Belo Horizonte’s Urban Mobility Plan has the goal to in- crease the bicycle trips to 6% by 2020. In order to achieve this goal, a programme that aims to promote the use of the bicycle as a mean of transportation, called PEDALA BH was created. The Zone 30 pi- lot-project foresees a wide deployment of vertical and horizontal sig- naling, reallocation and repositioning of parking spaces to provide the reduction of speed, and enlargement of sidewalks with the creation of small areas of coexistence for pedes- trians with the insertion of urban furniture. Until 2015, there were 70km of cycling infrastructure in the city. The plan aims at expanding it to a total of 411km by 2020. In this sense, the success of the pilot project would contribute to the replication of the initiative in other parts of city with the goal of reaching the 6% of bicycle trips target by 2020. Belo Horizonte is really engaged to deliver the pilot-project of a Zone 30. BHTRANS already identified po- tential locations and are planning the implementation of the measure for this year. Figure 1 illustrates the map of the current Zone 30, Fahrradstrasse, bike lanes and bike paths, as well as the pilot-project of Zone 30 and Fahrradstrasse.

​Regional Replication: Cape Town

Placemaking Activity
Cape Town  Friday, 26 October 2018 - Urban Pathways partnered with UN Habitat, Transform Urban Mobility Initiative and Open Streets Cape Town for a one week workshop (from 22 to 28 October 2018) with representatives from ten (10) African cities on implementing the New Urban Agenda in Cape Town, South Africa. The African ten cities representative comprised of policy-makers and civil society associations working in areas including urban mobility, development, health and education. The Urban Pathways project team engaged with policymakers and civil society on the 3 board areas of the projects objectives, namely, waste management, energy and transport. Discussions centred on how to practically implement the new urban agenda in different African cities taking into consideration the socio-economic policy priorities, local context and on the ground behaviour. Urban Pathways, going forward, will provide capacity building, partnership engagements and project identification and development for support with our established partners and stakeholders from this workshop - building board consensus and practically bringing to life the Paris Agreement commitments. One of the focus discussions was how to implement non-motorised transport activities in local communities, develop policy and shift behaviour toward low/no carbon emissions. 

• Provide a “real-life” experience of Open Streets activities / place making as a participatory and collaborative process that inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces and streets in order to maximize shared value.
• Equip participants with an understanding of how to plan, facilitate and implement an Open Streets initiative.
• Provide guidance to participants upon return and support them in planning for their own Open Streets programme.
• Share and interrogate experiences about the promotion of Non-Motorised Transport in African cities
• Develop a stronger network between streets enthusiasts in different African cities