Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People

It is estimated that around 600,000 motored vehicles enter the city of Asunción each day, adding a lot of pressure to the already dense traffic.

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: My Neighborhood Without Waste

The first step to recover valuable waste is to sort it at the point of origin, separating recyclables from non-recyclables.

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The Urban Butterfly Effect

This is a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets.

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Clean and Low-Carbon Cities: the Relationship Between the Solid Waste Management Sector and Greenhouse Gases

Municipal solid waste contributes to the generation of GHGs, mainly methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Building Back Stronger: Urban Resilience Through Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Rebuilding cities and towns after protracted conflict is a more common occurrence than many

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Orange is the new colour of city competitiveness: The role of local governments in promoting cultural and creative industries

Cities have the power to stimulate and harness culture, creativity and innovation for local development.

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Gender and Sustainable Cities

Climate change is set to exacerbate existing inequalities across regions and negatively impa

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Valuing the Benefit of Nature-Based Solutions for Integrated Urban Flood Management in China (Available in English and Chinese)

Such solutions have the potential to integrate natural habitats, processes, and services as part of a coherent and holistic approach to water management, particularly in the ur

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Nature-Based Solutions in Latin America and The Caribbean: Regional Status and Priorities for Growth

This paper discusses how the Latin American and Caribbean region is on the verge of a transition from experimenting with nature-based solutions (NBS) to adopting it on a much wider scale that can

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Urban Green Infrastructure II: Implementing and Monitoring (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Urban Green Infrastructure I: Challenges, Opportunities and Good Practices (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Guidance Note. Community Participation in Slum Upgrading

With its focus on community participation, this Note helps to promote participatory slum upgrading in their dialogue with the client and

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COVID-19 Vaccination and Municipal Waste Management. Technical Brief

There are over twenty serious vaccine preventable diseases with immunization estimated to

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Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities. Policy Brief

One important way for urban leaders to rise to today’s challenges is to bring biodiversity and nature into urban design through urban eco

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Primer on Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Urban areas are responsible for the majority of GHG emissions.

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Integrated Programming in the Global Environment Facility: Learning from the GEF-6 IAP Programs

This report summarizes key findings from a learning exercise on the GEF-6 

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GEF-6 IAP Programs: Synthesis of Experiences and Emerging Lessons from Addressing Key Cross-cutting Issues

In addition to key principles for advancing the integrated approach, the design and implementation of t

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GEF-6 IAP Programs: Synthesis of Experiences and Emerging Lessons from Establishing and Operationalizing Governance Framework

To ensure that each of the 

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GEF-6 Sustainable Cities IAP Program: Emerging Lessons from the Global Platform for Sustainable Cities

The Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) program on Sustainable Cities aims to promote sustainable

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Addressing Gender Gaps in Housing Interventions

With more than half of the world’s population already living in cities, continued urbanization presents great opportunities as well as significant

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