Results-based financing to deliver urban sanitation services with Inga Afanasieva

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Results-based financing to deliver urban sanitation services

Working within the project cycle with Sany Lutalo, Isabel Blackett, and Peter Hawkins

Working within the project cycle

Tools for institutional and Political Economy Analysis for Sanitation Solutions with Isabel Blackett

Tools for institutional and Political Economy Analysis for Sanitation Solutions

Institutional and Financial options for sanitation service delivery with Sophie Tremolet

Institutional and Financial options for sanitation service delivery

City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks- Part I with Sanyu Lutalo, Isabel Blackett, and Peter Hawkins

City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks- Part I

City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks- Part II with Sanyu Lutalo, Isabel Blackett, and Peter Hawkins

City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks- Part II

Condominial Sewerage Systems with Klaus Neder

Condominial Sewerage Systems

Decision-making Support for Urban Sanitation with Peter Hawkins

Decision-making Support for Urban Sanitation

Behavior Change in Urban Sanitation with Jacqueline Devine

Behavior Change in Urban Sanitation

Integrated Urban Water Management with Lizmara Kirchner

Integrated Urban Water Management

The percentage of the world’s population that lives in cities is rising, approaching 70 percent by 2050. Rapid urbanization – particularly among the growing middle class in many low-income and emerging economies – is changing the traditional dynamics of energy systems and supply globally. Green growth strategies can help economies and societies become more resilient as they work to meet demand for food production, transport, housing, energy, and water. For example, lighting and cooling of buildings already make up half of global energy use, and by 2030 building-related GHG emissions are set to double, with emerging markets contributing the majority of emissions. Energy efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways to combat climate change while meeting rising energy demand. Information and communication technology (ICT) is an important driver for clean-tech and green growth. It enables the collection and processing of immense volumes of data that can be used for improved urban systems and new business models. It also allows developing countries to adapt successfully tested international solutions to their local needs, which can help them leapfrog and develop domestic clean technology markets. The Negawatt Challenge taps into local and global talent to identify hardware and software solutions that can reduce urban energy use, improve quality of service delivery in energy sectors, generate new or improved data, and offer cost-efficient energy management tools for city residents and policymakers. In its first stage, focusing on resource efficiency and open data, the Negawatt has been piloted in four cities globally, including Accra, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, and Rio de Janeiro. It aims to use an open innovation competition methodology to surface technology and business innovations that catalyze behavioral change and have the potential to transform cities into more sustainable and efficient places.

Negawatt Challenge – Turning Urban Challenges into Opportunities with Dr. Flavia Carloni

The percentage of the world’s population that lives in cities is rising, approaching 70 percent by 2050. Rapid urbanization – particularly among the growing middle class in many low-income and emerging economies – is changing the traditional dynamics of energy systems and supply globally. Green growth strategies can help economies and societies become more resilient as they work to meet demand for food production, transport, housing, energy, and water. For example, lighting and cooling of buildings already make up half of global energy use, and by 2030 building-related GHG emissions are set to double, with emerging markets contributing the majority of emissions. Energy efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways to combat climate change while meeting rising energy demand. Information and communication technology (ICT) is an important driver for clean-tech and green growth. It enables the collection and processing of immense volumes of data that can be used for improved urban systems and new business models. It also allows developing countries to adapt successfully tested international solutions to their local needs, which can help them leapfrog and develop domestic clean technology markets. The Negawatt Challenge taps into local and global talent to identify hardware and software solutions that can reduce urban energy use, improve quality of service delivery in energy sectors, generate new or improved data, and offer cost-efficient energy management tools for city residents and policymakers. In its first stage, focusing on resource efficiency and open data, the Negawatt has been piloted in four cities globally, including Accra, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, and Rio de Janeiro. It aims to use an open innovation competition methodology to surface technology and business innovations that catalyze behavioral change and have the potential to transform cities into more sustainable and efficient places. With Alison Roadburg, Program Manager, iSpace Foundation Ghana

Negawatt Challenge – Turning Urban Challenges into Opportunities - Alison Roadburg

Negawatt Challenge – Turning Urban Challenges into Opportunities - Planet NI (Eloisa Acha)

Cities can re-validate and rejuvenate urban services that reflect both the needs of citizens and those of the city hall by asking citizens to contribute to the design of services, products, business models and environments. Various instruments such as crowdsourcing campaigns, offline meetings and interactive policy workshops can be used to open up the planning process to citizens. Beyond the contribution to the city’s overall innovation policy, such strategies increase ‘innovation literacy’ among civil servants allowing the city hall to adopt a more agile approach to implement innovation by using service design and rapid prototyping methods. This enables administration to better address complex urban problems by engaging users and citizens in planning process. Examples from Amsterdam (Chief Technology Office) show how cities can foster civic innovation, entrepreneurship and re-thinking of city spaces through implementing specific strategies, thematic programs and flagship projects. Speaker: Ms. Katalin Gallyas, Open Innovation Manager, CTO Office, City of Amsterdam

Flagship Initiatives to Foster Civic Innovation

In an age of rapid urbanization, the delivery of quality public services by local governments will become more difficult and critical at the same time. The potential for e-Government to help meet these urban challenges has been widely acknowledged but there is a deficiency of e-Government initiatives that are focused on city -- rather than national -- agenda. This podcast, based on the webinar of the same name, is presented by Mr. Frederick Lim, WeGO IT Consultant, accompanied by a City Case Study presentation by WeGO member city, Ulyanovsk Region, Russia, and will provide an overview to the CeDS toolkit. The City e-Government Diagnostic and Solution (CeDS) toolkit, based on a partnership between the World Bank, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and WeGO, was developed and designed specifically for cities.

e-Government Self-Assessment Tool for Cities

The Open Learning Campus provides convenient and reliable access to the latest developments in topics, which address complex, real-world issues in priority areas such as governance, health, cities, climate change and public private partnerships.

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