Items tagged:
Citizen Action
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Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
The Frontline Funds Accelerator coalition seeks to speed up investment in grassroots-led ‘frontline funds’ for climate action. The coalition is anchored in individual and collective agency, co-production, climate justice and effectiveness
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How community mapping of storm water drains is fighting evictions in Karachi’s informal settlements
Urban poor communities are generating their own evidence to uncover the reasons – overlooked by authorities – that Karachi floods
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No time to lose – collective action for our common future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 9
In the New Year edition of Make Change Happen, we look ahead to 2021 as a super year driven by global action to tackle environment and development challenges
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Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
This project aims to understand community-led adaptation responses and citizen engagement mechanisms to strengthen locally led and socially just climate action and national level climate policy decision-making
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Can the impact of COVID-19 unite coalitions of young and old?
Guest blogger Michelle Winthrop discusses whether acute global challenges can drive intergenerational solidarity, helping to get the needs and rights of the young and old met
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Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions
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New issue of Environment and Urbanization: City governance and citizen action II
The magazine includes an editorial and several papers discussing the roles of mayors and civil servants in addressing urban poverty.
