Thefourth edition of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (Guangzhou Award) will be held from Dec 6 to 8. Updated:2018-12-05. Print Mail FontSize Large Medium Small. The fourth edition of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation will kick off in the Guangdong capital of Guangzhou on Dec 6
Picture source Metropolis The concept of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation abbreviated as Guangzhou Award is derived from the city's long-term cooperation with United Cities and Local Governments UCLG from its foundation in 2004 and with the World Association of Major Metropolises Metropolis since 1993. Co-hosted by UCLG, Metropolis, and Guangzhou Municipal Government, the Guangzhou Award aims to reward innovations to improve the socio-economic environments in cities and regions, promote sustainability, and hence advance the livelihood of their citizens. Presented biennially, the award will encourage and recognize outstanding innovative projects and practices in the public sector. Against the background of a rapidly changing social, economic and environmental context in the 21st century, the Guangzhou Award contributes to the progress of city performances by promoting innovations in the public sector and presenting a platform for cities and regions around the world to share and disseminate their achievements. The award is open to all cities and local governments, including members of Metropolis and UCLG as well as other cities. Applicants can submit innovative achievements in such thematic fields as Public Services, Organization and Administration, Partnership and Citizen Involvement, Smart City, Sustainable City, and others. The Guangzhou Award will be granted to up to 5 winners. Each of the winners will be awarded with USD 20,000, apart from a trophy and a certificate. Winners will also be invited to attend side events including seminars and exhibitions on urban innovation. SOURCE Guangzhou Award
Milan Guadalajara, Wuhan, Mezitli, New York City are the winners of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation. The 2018 edition was held in the framework of the Global Mayors' Forum & 2018 International Seminar on learning from urban innovation. This award, co-sponsored by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Metropolis (the
By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya Updated 2019-05-30 2153Nicholas You, Executive Director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban InnovationThe Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation has become a vital platform for cities across the world to share best practices and learn from each other on localization of new urban agenda or NUA and sustainable development goals or its fourth edition, the competition has intensified over the years as cities embrace innovation to tackle both existing and new challenges. In 2018, a total of 313 initiatives1 were submitted by 213 cities and regions from over 70 technical committee identified a list of 45 commendable initiatives, followed by a shortlist of 15 initiatives and finally five award-winning the context of the Guangzhou award, urban innovation is defined as the deliberate act of introducing new policies, programs, strategies, business models and types of partnerships to tackle existing and new to Nicholas You, the executive director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation, cities are entering into a new era, where they are taking on roles that were traditionally not within their mandate, perhaps due to inability of the existing institutions to respond effectively to local cities are mandated to basically collect garbage, keep streets clean, and manage traffic, You said most of them are currently creating jobs and new institutional frameworks to deal with issues outside the local government mandate."This is an important take away. That implementation of the new urban agenda, and SDGs at the local level, is going to compel many cities to think beyond their traditional mandate," he gave the remarks at a side event in the first UN-Habitat Assembly, where four of the five cities that are the finalists for the 2018 Guangzhou award for Urban Innovation, shared their experiences on localizing NUA and Budworth, CEO of Compass Housing based in Australia, shared how Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, became an eco-friendly city where the 3Rs- recycle, reduce and reuse have become normative city promoted the 3R principles to a poorly educated community unfamiliar with the concepts. This was piloted in Kampung, one of the city's informal the 3R concept, the city-owned buses accept plastic bottles as a form of payment. Through this, Surabaya reduced waste by 10 percent per year even as the city population grew by 5 percent Birch, professor of Urban Research and director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, shared how Mezitli, a coastal Turkish city of nearly 250,000 with 60,000 registered Syrian, established a network of public markets for women women grow agricultural products or make homemade goods from in or around the metropolitan the first market having been opened in 2014, the network has grown to nine markets serving 612 women producers. Their wares range from citrus and tomatoes to jams and Vancutsem, secretary general of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, shared the Italy's Milan city food policy compels the municipal agencies to think about the regional food shed, the geographic radius from where Milan feeds its people, and discusses policy approaches that can encourage a more sustainable food policy considers how food gets from producers to market and whether it's possible to reduce emissions in Katz from Habitat for Humanity International shared the Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz traffic zebras, a citizen culture the program, young creative people show zebra crossing, wearing costumes that emulate a zebra. This is aimed at reducing road said the Mezitli case is being replicated in Southern Syria, while the La Paz case is being replicated in Latin the next 10 years, You said they will document the innovative case studies and bring them to the attention of the national governments."We want a situation where a mayor can go online to find a solution to the challenging his city is experiencing," You said the delegates he interacted with at the UN-Habitat Assembly expressed concerns on how to support local implementation of the new urban agenda and SDGs."Cities need to map out the SDGs against what they are already doing and then look at where the opportunities and gaps lie. That is the starting point," he Saiz, secretary general of the United Cities and Local Government or UCLG, said the new agenda is about cooperation between cities and making the link between the roles that cities need to play in the global agenda."Through localization of the SDGs, we are able to connect the thoughts in a different manner. We are able to identify the areas we have been developing policies on but have not given us the results that we thought and we can identify why. That's why we are bringing this agenda to our members to enable them reshape their priorities," she said innovation is not always about new, but rethinking the methodologies and putting new people around the The original text contains a factual error which has herein been corrected by the Guangzhou Award Secretariat. Theaward was jointly established by the city of Guangzhou, United Cities and Local Government and the Metropolis (World Association of the Major Cities), and fully demonstrates global cities' creativity and responsibility amidst a wave of global urbanization.12 In the ļ¬rst three presentations of the award, over 700 urban innovation cases
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The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the Guangzhou Award is co-hosted by the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, the World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis and the City of Guangzhou. The aim of the Guangzhou Award is to recognize innovation in improving social, economic and environmental sustainability in cities and regions and, in so doing, to advance the prosperity and quality of life of their citizens. Presented biennially, the award encourages innovation in public policy, projects, business models and Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation "GIUI" was established in 2012 under the framework of the Guangzhou Award. The Institute is conceived as an international network of experts and institutions dedicated to furthering urban innovation concepts, tools and methodologies. Its members include research and academic institutions, professional associations, community-based organizations, industry leaders and individual experts. Mission1. Promoting the evaluation and research compiled by the Guangzhou Exploring and constructing a complete theoretical framework for international urban Promoting the innovative development and common progress of cities around the Offering intellectual support for global urban sharing and knowledge managementThe urban innovation database serves as a knowledge bank of peer reviewed initiatives in urban innovation and analytical case studies and reports. It is regularly updated with each cycle of the Guangzhou Award for Urban Innovation and currently includes more than 400 initiatives from 60 countries. The database is interactive allowing users to carry out searches using several criteria. Users are also invited to submit their stories, articles, views and reviews of examples of urban addition to this knowledge base, the Guangzhou Institute disseminates recurrent and periodic publications and newsletters dedicated to furthering lessons learned and knowledge gained from innovative urban initiatives. Recurrent publications include write ups of 15 shortlisted initiatives from each Award cycle and reports on lessons learned from field visits and study tours to the same initiatives as well as others. Ad hoc publications are also produced by the partners of the Institute and by independent experts. Office of the Guangzhou Institute for Urban InnovationAddress Room 3511, International Financial Center, 5 Zhujiang Xilu, Guangzhou, ChinaTel +86-20-8735-0999Fax +86-20-8735-3488
Thefourth edition of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation will kick off in the Guangdong capital of Guangzhou on Dec 6. [Photo by WeChat Account GZWS411665430] Presented biennially, the award is open to all cities and local governments with successful initiatives in urban innovation. Sustainable development is an essential issue in today's human society. The global spread of COVID-19 highlights the importance and urgency of sustainable development. A total of 273 initiatives from 175 cities and local governments in 60 countries and regions applied for the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which fully demonstrated global cities' determination to adhere to exchanges and cooperation under the epidemic. This meeting released the Technical Committee Meeting results of the 5th Guangzhou Award and announced the 15 shortlisted include Mr. Guan Litong, Deputy Director General of Department of European and Asian Affairs, the Chinese Peopleā€™s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; Mr. Sun Xiuqing, Deputy Secretary General of Guangzhou Municipal Government; Ms. Emilia Saiz, Secretary-General of United Cities and Local Governments; Mr. Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General of Metropolis. Mr. Liu Baochun, Director General of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, Metropolis Regional Secretary of Asia-Pacific, hosted the speakers mentioned that the Covid-19 pandemic has challenged our urban planning and governance. Ms. Saiz said that, the Covid-19 that the world is going through has changed the perceptions of many things and has impacted our economy and our society. It has also highlighted some of the changes that we need to make at local government level. Mr. Octavi said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has placed cities and city leaders at the forefront of the fight and in adapting policies, rethinking our urban development, and looking for creative solutions. And I think this is at the heart of the Guangzhou Award." Multiple speakers expressed their recognition on Guangzhou Awardā€™s achievement on urban governance innovation. In Mr. Guan Litongā€™s speech, he remarked, despite the impact of the pandemic, the 5th Guangzhou Award has progressed against the adversities. It fully demonstrated the international influence of the Guangzhou Award and the determination of global cities to cooperate and to develop under the pandemic. Mr. Sun Xiuqing praised Guangzhou Award for sticking to its mission and promote global urban governance and sustainable development, while combating the global Sylvia Croese, Chair of the Technical Committee of the 5th Guangzhou Award, the Senior Researcher of the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning from University of the Witwatersrand, reported on the initial assessment and announced the list of shortlisted cities. Subsequently, two of the Technical Committee members, Mr. Serge Salat, President of Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute in Paris, and Mr. Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies CSET of the University of Nottingham in Ningbo China, commented on the shortlisted initiatives. The 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou Award are City of Unley, Australia; Wien, Austria; SĆ£o JosĆ© dos Pinhais, Brazil; Chongqing Municipality, China; Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Quito, Ecuador; All 114 Urban Local Bodies ULBs of Odisha, India; Berhampur Municipal Corporation BeMC, India; Bandung City Government, Indonesia; Union of Municipalities, Lebanon; Municipality Of Antananarivo Commune Urbaine d'Antananarivo, Madagascar; Breda, Netherlands; Departmental Council of Saint Louis, Senegal; City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Los Angeles, guests accepted interviews from several media and share different concepts and practices of urban innovation and sustainable development. They also give their opinion of the future trends of global urban governance and the renewing assessment of innovation. These ideas provided new insights for the exploration of future urban sustainable find the list of 45 deserving cities as followThe 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou AwardThe 30 deserving initiatives of the 5th Guangzhou Award Report of the Technical Committee of 5th Guangzhou Award
The4th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation(GIAUI) and World Mayor Forum will be held in Guangzhou during December 6 to 8, gathering more than 40 mayors and 400 guests across the world and discussing on the topic of global openness and inclusive innovation. The Award Dinner will be held on December 7, announcing five winning cities and one online-selectedmost popular city out of the 15 shortlisted.
The City of Guangzhou has the honor to inform the urban community that submission is now open for the fourth 2018 Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Guangzhou Award. We would like to invite you to join us if your city or region is putting in place any initiatives under themes highlighted in Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG 11 and New Urban Agenda. For the New Urban Agenda, special focus is being placed on urban planning and design, financing urban development, access to affordable housing, infrastructure, and services. We want the world to learn from your experience in implementing the global agendas. Please share your wisdom with us and submit your initiatives online at by August 31, 2018. "The Guangzhou Award is not only the way to showcase excellence in cities around the world," commented Mr. Josep Roig, former Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, "but should also foster exchanges and learning." Initiated in 2012, the Guangzhou Award is sponsored by City of Guangzhou, UCLG and World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis, and aims at advancing the prosperity and quality of life of the citizens of those and other cities. The award, presented biennially, has received more than 700 initiatives from 70 plus countries and regions in the past three cycles. It recognizes innovation in improving social, economic, and environmental sustainability in cities and regions, and has provided a platform to share and exchange innovative practices. During the last cycle in 2016, five cities/local governments made their way out of 301 applications to the Guangzhou Award, Songpa-gu South Korea, Qalyubeya Egypt, Boston US, Copenhagen Denmark, and La Paz Bolivia, for their outstanding initiatives. Up to five winning urban innovative initiatives will be determined by an independent Jury and will be awarded at the Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Conference, to be held in Guangzhou in December, 2018. "The most important point of the set-up of the Guangzhou Award is that those awarded cases can inspire other cities and can be applied across various situations," said Mr. Nicholas You, Director of International Programs and Cooperation at Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation. The award is developing an ongoing system of learning for cities around the world and encourages new methods to deal with social, economic, and environmental challenges. For more information about the submission process, please visit
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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - On the night of Nov 12, organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, the closing ceremony of the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the "Guangzhou Award", the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum and the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis was held in Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center in an online + offline hybrid format. Chongqing, China; Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon; Quito, Ecuador; Vienna, Austria; and Saint Louis, Senegal won the 5th Guangzhou Award. Odisha, India claimed the honor of the "Online Popular City ". To advance global urban governance and innovative development, Guangzhou, the UCLG and Metropolis created the Guangzhou Award in 2012, which is held every two years. It has gone through a ten-year journey. Each cycle of the Guangzhou Award has attracted more than 150 cities from more than 50 countries to participate, and has so far collected more than 1,300 cases of urban governance innovation from all over the world, providing significant reference for cities around the world to enhance their urban governance capacity. Against the background of the global pandemic, this cycle of the Award still received 273 project submissions from 175 cities of 60 countries and regions, the numbers of participating cities and projects at par with those of previous years. It reflects the growing attention paid to urban governance innovation and sustainable development by the world in face of the pandemic, and highlights the increasing international appeal and influence of Guangzhou Award. From November 8 to 10, the representatives of shortlisted cities were divided into in four groups, namely "inclusive cities", "innovative cities", "resilient cities" and "green cities", to present their projects and take questions from the audience, including the experts of the jury. According to Yu Keping, chairman of the fifth Guangzhou Award jury, the selection criteria for the award-winning projects by the jury members are innovation, participation, influence, importance, replicability, learnability and inclusiveness. The five projects that win the final award is widely representative in terms of their diverse innovation themes, geographical locations, development levels and city sizes. "They meet the UN sustainable development goals SDGs, and indicate the important role of urban innovation in improving residents' lives, advancing civilization and progress, and containing the pandemic. In this sense, these cases have a significant guiding role in the future global urban innovation". It is worth mentioning that Chongqing, China is granted the Award with its initiative of "Innovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposal". It provides a model of collaboration, which involves a large number of people based on a clear division of responsibilities, thus enabling quick responses to an emergency. It provides a good model for emergency disposal of medical waste for improving urban safety resilience under pandemic and also alerts other cities in the world the importance of medical waste disposal in controlling the spread of disease. Moreover, Vienna, Austria becomes a second time winner in ten years' time. Recognized by the first Guangzhou Award with the initiative "New Immigrant Integration", it is selected as the winner again for "Werkstadt Junges Wien" initiative in this cycle. On the same night, Octavi de la Varga, Secretary-General of Metropolis announced the result of the painting contest "Metropolises through Children's Eyes". The award ceremony of the contest wrapped up the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum, the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis and the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation. In the past few days, under the theme "Moving Forward Together, Modernizing Global Urban Governance" and "Metropolises and Cities in Transformation Rethinking our Future Together", more than 800 urban manager, heads of international organizations, specialists and experts from 126 cities and 9 international organizations engaged actively in the discussion of the advanced experience of local government governance and the future path of urban international cooperation, so as to make suggestions for improving urban governance and accelerating global economic recovery in the post Covid-19 period. Zhang Shuofu, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee; Wen Guohu, Mayor of Guangzhou; Shi Qizhu, Director of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress; Li Yiwei, CPPCC Chairman; Cang Feng, Deputy Director General of Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office; other leading officials of Guangzhou, including Pan Jianguo, Wang Huanqing, Zhang Yajie, and the officials from foreign consulates general in Guangzhou attended the offline activities. List of winners and words from the JuryVIENNA, AUSTRIAWerkstadt Junges Wien Over the past 50 years, Vienna has shifted from a shrinking and ageing city into a young and growing one. How to stimulate children and youth to participate in city decision-making and management? Vienna rolls out an innovation plan - Werkstadt Junges Wien. The objective is to put social inclusion of all children and young people living and growing up in Vienna at the heart of policy-making and city administration. CHONGQING, CHINAInnovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposal Due to Covid-19, there has been a surge in urban medical waste. How to effectively dispose urban medical waste, thus preventing secondary infection and virus spread? The Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environmental Bureau used an innovative emergency solution of "3-Level Emergency Mechanism". This solution combines a novel technology to deal with urban medical waste disposal with strict supervision of hospitals. It was implemented in Chongqing to ensure effective regulation and disposal of medical waste. QUITO, ECUADOREco-efficiency tool for the Metropolitan District of Quito In 2016, guided by the Eco-Efficiency Ordinance for the Metropolitan District of Quito, Quito has relied on partnerships with community leaders and universities to not only determine the parameters of local area plans around transit stations, but also incentivize the construction of high density "green" buildings on key transport nodes and with provisions for affordable housing. In addition, the Ordinance also provides for land value capture to ensure that the city retains a financial share of increments generated by greater density and land use allowances in designated zones. UNION OF DANNIEH MUNICIPALITIES, LEBANONCOVID-19 Emergency Response Plan The COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan of the Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon can cope with the consequence of Covid-19, make up for the shortage in staff and funding, and encourage citizens especially young people to participate in co-governance. With the support of Civil Society OrganizationsCSOs, the union of Dannieh has established an Emergency Response Plan with 15 committees of highly educated youth volunteers. DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL OF SAINT LOUIS, SENEGALInter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystems The mangroves of Saint-Louis 1,000 ha are threatened with extinction due to climatic and anthropogenic pressures. To restore these mangroves, the Departmental Council of Saint Louis in Senegal developed an innovative approach to environmental governance - Inter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystems, which integrated the restoration of mangrove ecosystems across three municipalities with strategies for addressing urgent urban climate challenges and enhancing livelihoods. Winner of "Online Popular City"Odisha, INDIAUrban Wage Employment Initiative The national lockdown caused by COVID-19 in India has led to an exodus of the urban workforce. How to ensure their wages and livelihood? The provincial government of Odisha, India launched Urban Wage Employment Initiative UWEI whereby the urban workforce has been guaranteed a minimum number of workdays annually at specified daily wage. The workers are being engaged in public works and the resources are drawn from on-going welfare schemes of the national and provincial governments. SOURCE Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office
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ā€œThe Spirit of Citiesā€ - Launch of the VR Exhibition of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation hereinafter referred to as "A Review of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation" was successfully held at the Guangzhou Urban Planning Exhibition Center on May 14. The launch was convened by the Guangzhou Municipality, UCLG and Metropolis in cooperation with the Guangzhou Education Bureau, Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Southern Finance Omnimedia Corp.,etc.. Zhan Decun, Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office, Guangzhou Municipal Peopleā€™s Government and Carlos Giralt, Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou both attended the launch and delivered a speech; Emilia Saiz, Secretary General of UCLG addressed by been severely challenged by the COVID-19 on global urban governance, exploring the relationship between urban innovation and sustainable development has become more realistic and urgent. Mr. Zhan hoped that the exhibition can provide new ideas for international urban innovation and more residents will pay attention to urban innovation, bringing more inspirations to urban governance. From Saizā€™s perspective, the exhibition demonstrated that Guangzhou has always remained true to opening as it regards the world as a place of inspirations, drawing inspirations from the world and bringing inspirations back to the Giralt viewed Guangzhou as a metropolis solves many major challenges innovatively which others cities in the world can learn shortlisted cities initiatives of the fifth Guangzhou Award were included in the exhibition, special sections concerned combating the pandemic and pursuing SDGs were also displayed. Meanwhile, theā€œDrawing the Future of Citiesā€ Art Exhibition was held with drawings from Guangzhou High School of Fine Arts students, allowing them to depict future citiesā€™ blueprint in their mind through brushes, motivating them to serve as the major players of sustainable development pursuit.ļ¼ˆscan the code to visit the VR Exhibition
Search Faculty At Queens College. Faculty Email from Queens College and a B It is part of the City University of New York system Department Office: D346 New Science Bldg Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm The Weissman Center for International Business, an academic center of the Zicklin School of Business, offers a winter intersession study abroad program, "International On the night of Nov 12, organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, the closing ceremony of the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the "Guangzhou Award", the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum and the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis was held in Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center in an online + offline hybrid China; Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon; Quito, Ecuador; Vienna, Austria; and Saint Louis, Senegal won the 5th Guangzhou Award. Odisha, India claimed the honor of the "Online Popular City ".To advance global urban governance and innovative development, Guangzhou, the UCLG and Metropolis created the Guangzhou Award in 2012, which is held every two years. It has gone through a ten-year journey. Each cycle of the Guangzhou Award has attracted more than 150 cities from more than 50 countries to participate, and has so far collected more than 1,300 cases of urban governance innovation from all over the world, providing significant reference for cities around the world to enhance their urban governance the background of the global pandemic, this cycle of the Award still received 273 project submissions from 175 cities of 60 countries and regions, the numbers of participating cities and projects at par with those of previous years. It reflects the growing attention paid to urban governance innovation and sustainable development by the world in the face of the pandemic, and highlights the increasing international appeal and influence of Guangzhou November 8 to 10, the representatives of shortlisted cities were divided into four groups, namely "inclusive cities", "innovative cities", "resilient cities" and "green cities", to present their projects and take questions from the audience, including the experts of the jury. According to Yu Keping, chairman of the fifth Guangzhou Award jury, the selection criteria for the award-winning projects by the jury members are innovation, participation, influence, importance, replicability, learnability and inclusiveness. The five projects that win the final award are widely representative in terms of their diverse innovation themes, geographical locations, development levels and city sizes. "They meet the UN sustainable development goals SDGs, and indicate the important role of urban innovation in improving residents' lives, advancing civilization and progress, and containing the pandemic. In this sense, these cases have a significant guiding role in the future global urban innovation".It is worth mentioning that Chongqing, China is granted the Award with its initiative of "Innovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposal". It provides a model of collaboration, which involves a large number of people based on a clear division of responsibilities, thus enabling quick responses to an emergency. It provides a good model for emergency disposal of medical waste for improving urban safety resilience under pandemic and also alerts other cities in the world the importance of medical waste disposal in controlling the spread of disease. Moreover, Vienna, Austria becomes a second-time winner in ten years' time. Recognized by the first Guangzhou Award with the initiative "New Immigrant Integration", it is selected as the winner again for "Werkstadt Junges Wien" initiative in this the same night, Octavi de la Varga, Secretary-General of Metropolis announced the result of the painting contest "Metropolises through Children's Eyes". The award ceremony of the contest wrapped up the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum, the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis and the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban the past few days, under the theme "Moving Forward Together, Modernizing Global Urban Governance" and "Metropolises and Cities in Transformation Rethinking our Future Together", more than 800 urban manager, heads of international organizations, specialists and experts from 126 cities and 9 international organizations engaged actively in the discussion of the advanced experience of local government governance and the future path of urban international cooperation, so as to make suggestions for improving urban governance and accelerating global economic recovery in the post Covid-19 Shuofu, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee; Wen Guohu, Mayor of Guangzhou; Shi Qizhu, Director of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress; Li Yiwei, CPPCC Chairman; Cang Feng, Deputy Director General of Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office; other leading officials of Guangzhou, including Pan Jianguo, Wang Huanqing, Zhang Yajie, and the officials from foreign consulates general in Guangzhou attended the offline of winners and words from the Jury VIENNA, AUSTRIA Werkstadt Junges WienOver the past 50 years, Vienna has shifted from a shrinking and ageing city into a young and growing one. How to stimulate children and youth to participate in city decision-making and management? Vienna rolls out an innovation plan - Werkstadt Junges Wien. The objective is to put social inclusion of all children and young people living and growing up in Vienna at the heart of policy-making and city CHINA Innovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposalDue to Covid-19, there has been a surge in urban medical waste. How to effectively dispose urban medical waste, thus preventing secondary infection and virus spread? The Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environmental Bureau used an innovative emergency solution of "3-Level Emergency Mechanism". This solution combines a novel technology to deal with urban medical waste disposal with strict supervision of hospitals. It was implemented in Chongqing to ensure effective regulation and disposal of medical ECUADOR Eco-efficiency tool for the Metropolitan District of QuitoIn 2016, guided by the Eco-Efficiency Ordinance for the Metropolitan District of Quito, Quito has relied on partnerships with community leaders and universities to not only determine the parameters of local area plans around transit stations, but also incentivize the construction of high density "green" buildings on key transport nodes and with provisions for affordable housing. In addition, the Ordinance also provides for land value capture to ensure that the city retains a financial share of increments generated by greater density and land use allowances in designated OF DANNIEH MUNICIPALITIES, LEBANON COVID-19 Emergency Response PlanThe COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan of the Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon can cope with the consequence of Covid-19, make up for the shortage in staff and funding, and encourage citizens especially young people to participate in co-governance. With the support of Civil Society OrganizationsCSOs, the union of Dannieh has established an Emergency Response Plan with 15 committees of highly educated youth COUNCIL OF SAINT LOUIS, SENEGAL Inter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystemsThe mangroves of Saint-Louis 1,000 ha are threatened with extinction due to climatic and anthropogenic pressures. To restore these mangroves, the Departmental Council of Saint Louis in Senegal developed an innovative approach to environmental governance - Inter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystems, which integrated the restoration of mangrove ecosystems across three municipalities with strategies for addressing urgent urban climate challenges and enhancing of "Online Popular City" Odisha, INDIA Urban Wage Employment InitiativeThe national lockdown caused by COVID-19 in India has led to an exodus of the urban workforce. How to ensure their wages and livelihood? The provincial government of Odisha, India launched Urban Wage Employment Initiative UWEI whereby the urban workforce has been guaranteed a minimum number of workdays annually at specified daily wage. The workers are being engaged in public works and the resources are drawn from on-going welfare schemes of the national and provincial governments. m8DlG30.
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