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UP Toolbox
Factsheets and guidelines to provide best-practice input for implementation actions & policy papers on sustainable development potentials, providing advice to the pilot and replication cities

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​UP Action Tracker
Project Action Tracker to report on the projects progress in the pilot and replication cities

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UP E-learning
Mobility - Energy - Resources

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Factsheets

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Pilot Countries

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Webinars

​Pilot Cities

Action Tracker

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Nairobi - Kenya

Nairobi​ is the capital of Kenya and is located on the edge of the country's agricultural region of the central highlands and 1800 meters above sea level - this contributes to lower average temperatures and creates an area where rainfall is relatively higher than in the surrounding areas.  Nairobi as a city was established by the colonial powers in the late 1890s, initially as a railway camp, and now is the second largest city by population size in the Great Lakes region – after Dar es Salaam in Tanzania – and is Africa’s Green City in the Sun and East Africa’s economic powerhouse (World Bank, 2016). More ... 

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Hai Phong - Vietnam

Hai Phong: With a population of 1.96 million (2015), Hai Phong is the third largest city in Vietnam. The city plays a critical role within the region owing to its strategic location within the Red River Delta and along the coast of the South China Sea, as well as its proximity to the capital city of Hanoi, situated 100 km to the east. More ... 

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Belo Horizonte - Brazil

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 became the first city in Brazil to have a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan with a long-term vision that links mobility to urban development goals (Secretariat Municipal de Governo BH, 2013).
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Kochi - India

Kochi, formerly known as Cochin, is the second largest city in the south-western Indian state Kerala. Kochi is also a major Indian port-city on the south-west coast. The municipal corporation of Kochi has a population of over 600,000 inhabitants and the metropolitan region is home for over 2 million inhabitants. More ... 

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​Replication Cities

Accra - Ghana
Addis Abeba - Ethiopia
Aguascalientes - Mexico
Buenos Aires - Argentina
Cape Town - South Africa
​Casablanca - Morocco

Cuenca - Ecuador
Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam
Johannesburg - South Africa
Ibagué - Colombia
Kathmandu - Nepal
Lusaka - Zambia

Melaka - Malaysia
​Quito - Ecuador
Suva - Fiji
Thimphu - Bhutan
Maputo - Mosambique