Category: Good Urban Governance

Municipal experts wanted: Implementing vaccination and communication strategies on the local level

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Is your city administration currently carrying out or planning a Covid-19 vaccination campaign implementing national vaccination strategies? Has your city made first experiences in launching a communication and outreach campaign to your citizens about the vaccinations?

On the 22nd and 25th of March 2021, Connective Cities will hold a two-day response dialogue on “Covid-19: The local implementation of vaccination strategies and related communication in municipalities”.

The event brings together municipal experts from Germany with international municipal actors to discuss how municipalities can better deal with the challenges involved in implementing and communicating Covid-19 vaccination strategies at the local level. One thematic focus of the event will be communication strategies that municipal actors can adopt to inform citizens on the vaccination as well as to manage expectations and to create trust.

Municipal experts from public health departments, communications departments or Covid-19-related crisis units are warmly invited to apply for participation in the two-day online event (approx. 3 hours per session).

Please contact us if you would like to present a concrete case or project idea from your city. This could cover, for example:

  • How your municipality is carrying out Covid-19 vaccinations among existing challenges (e.g. vaccinating as many people as possible in the shortest period of time, lack of infrastructure for mass vaccination, decentralised vaccinations/the use of mobile vaccination teams, vaccine hesitancy or the spread of misinformation among citizens, difficulty of reaching vulnerable and at risk persons); and/or
  • How to organise a public information campaign on the vaccinations and the mentioned challenges.

If the topic falls into your area of expertise and you wish to participate in the discussion without presenting a specific case, we also invite you to contact us.

More information: Call for participants [pdf, 190 kb, 2 pp.]

Contact:

Alice Balbo, alice.balbo@staedtetag.de, +49 (0)221-3771-573

Nikola Krause, nikola.krause@engagement-global.de, +49 (0)228-20717-2672

Thiago Garcia, thiago.garcia@engagement-global.de, +49 (0)228-20717-2633

The deadline to apply for participating in the event is 12th March 2021.

Interview with Daniel Onyango on Crisis Communication

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Nairobi, Kenia, a troubled place that woke up Daniel Onyango and friends’ creativity to rose awareness for the safety measures. He lives in one of the biggest informal settlement of the capital where people did not understand the magnitude of COVID-19.

More: https://youtu.be/SVi5u3_5y-s

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Interview with Leila Ben Gacem: Social Innovation

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Beni Khalled, Tunisia, a city famous for its citrus farms, is home of Leila Ben Gacem, social entrepreneur and as elected city councillor head of the Finance Committee. The brave woman worked late hours throughout the first lockdown in order to coordinate volunteers, health companies and municipal activities through social entrepreneurship skills.

More: https://youtu.be/w4ihfI_Gg00

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Podcast with Nadia Odjo: “Smart Schooling”

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 “We learned to use what we have.”

Listen to Nadia Odjo, a SmartSchooling natural from Jacmel, Haiti, and founder of the B.R.I.T.E Initiative. She implemented distance learning at her school by her own besides a disconnected community that even had problems setting up e-mail accounts.

More: https://youtu.be/YKV8qFFVbEs

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Podcast with Magnolia Vega: Crisis Communication

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Learn through Magnolia Vega, communication officer in a district of Bogotá, how to keep informed 7 million citizens during the pandemics and how to orchestrate between 60 communication officers – in a very personal effort – to unify their message under one brand.

More: https://youtu.be/CPOgSxQkRYs

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Podcast with Armin Berger: Digital Innovation

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Welcome to Berlin, where thousands of artists lost their stages because of lockdown. Learn how Armin Berger got support from the senator of culture and how good ideas emerged during breakfast to fill Berlin with new life: Berlin(a)Live

More: https://youtu.be/UwqjbiMlIGE

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Podcasts with Salih Mahmod on Public Health Innovation

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Meet Salih Mahmod, a young Iraqi that rebuilt his maker space entirely after ISIS left Mosul and knew what to do after the hospitals in his city lost their medical supplies in the middle of the pandemic.

More: https://youtu.be/JkgV4-eN9Ww

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Kiel: Entrepreneurship and Digitalisation

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We traveled to Kiel, where we captured deep insights from a city that, as a digital champion, had to adapt quickly. How do you keep your StartUp community alive if people cannot meet personally?

More: https://youtu.be/-QxhW-Gx-3M

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Weimar: Economic response to COVID-19

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Weimar, a city that attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world every year. Watch how did the local city guides, hoteliers and small shop owners react to the lockdown? And what did the local authorities do?

Mehr: https://youtu.be/SxLgSY2aW6g

Join us and watch a special series of videos and podcasts that will show how to overcome a crisis from many different points of view. More videos, podcasts and interviews coming soon on our COVID-19 page.

Virtual Global Exchange

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The exchange was designed to bring together urban practitioners from all over the globe. The goal was to ignite creativity, innovation, solidarity and motivation, while creating and enhancing this global community of practice around the common purpose of combating the global COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences with smart local solutions and strategies.

During the first week, urban practitioners and experts from different municipalities, the civil society, business and academia, presented a total of 56 Good Practices in 18 sessions and gave insights into their experienced challenges and local solutions to deal with the pandemic. The exchange were centered around the nine topics were Public Health, Crisis Management, Economic Response, Housing, Education, Digitalisation, Crisis Communication, Innovation, and Green Urban Recovery.

The second week was about receiving practical “How To” workshops with practical exercises on topics that came up repeatedly during the exchange events such as: social media usage, digital tools, and how to plan for virtual meetings. Finally, the newly learned mindsets and tools could be applied in a 4-hour solution design workshop.

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