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Dear readers,

This issue covers a variety of topics, all tied together by one common thread: effective communication among all stakeholders as the key to success.

Over two years, our ‘Heat in the City’ deep dive has not only sparked innovative project ideas in participating municipalities, but also fostered stronger cooperation among local institutions, strengthening community ties and ownership.

Together with experts from various backgrounds, we have started working on solutions to promote sustainable and affordable housing in cities through the lens of principles of circular construction and housing finance.

We also reflect on experiences in Lebanon and Germany regarding how digitalisation can enhance waste management.

‘Making My School More Beautiful’ is an inspiring initiative from Yarmouk al-Jadida, Jordan. Since five women joined the local council, the project has improved the school environment through close collaboration with communities, schools, and mothers—while also fostering civic awareness and encouraging young women’s active participation.

For our workshop series on ‘Risk-informed urban development in West Africa and the ECOWAS region’, the cities are now focusing on how they can ensure project ideas developed are inclusive and take a whole-of-society approach where no one is left behind.

Finally, we would also like to invite you to our next exchange of experiences on 17 July 2025 at 13:30: ‘Urban Labs – Tried and Trusted’ – what can they contribute to sustainable urban development?

We wish you inspiring reading
Your Connective Cities Team

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International municipal cooperation to mitigate heat in cities

Insights of the summary and outlook event of Connective Cities Deep Dive “Heat in the City”

On 12 June 2025, the working group of the Deep Dive “Heat in the City” gathered online to wrap up their two years long collaboration on the topic of heat islands in the cities. Each city presented their pilot projects in depth to an audience of experts from Germany and the Global South.

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Towards Affordable and Sustainable Housing

Start of the Connective Cities Online Exchange on 28 May 2025 | Deep-Dive Tracks Launch: 17 July 2025

Municipalities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe are faced with the task of creating affordable and sustainable housing. In response to these overlapping challenges, Connective Cities launched a thematic dialog on 28 May 2025, bringing together experts and practitioners from Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. | Next session: July 17, 2025

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The state of digitalisation in waste management

Experiences from Germany and Lebanon

Topics discussed at the online ad hoc event ‘Waste Management and Digitalisation’ on 28 May 2025 included using playful elements to increase recycling rates, using artificial intelligence to identify and separate types of plastic, expanding producer responsibility, and setting up financing models for the circular economy.

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Empowering Communities: The Ripple Effect of Women’s Leadership

Al Yarmouk Al Jadida Municipality, Jordan

The women-led initiative ‘Making My School More Beautiful’ is a successful model for promoting democracy and empowering girls through school parliaments. By working closely with local communities, schools and mothers, the project has not only improved the school environment, but also promoted civic awareness and active participation among young women.

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Risk informed urban development in Western Africa and the ECOWAS region

Workshop 2 of the three-part event series from 2 to 4 July 2025 in Accra, Ghana

Building on the foundation laid in Lomé in February, the Accra workshop will continue the technical discussions to develop project ideas, focusing particularly on inclusion and participatory risk analysis. This will ensure a whole-of-society approach where no one is left behind.

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Call for participants: Urban Labs – Tried and Trusted

Discussion and exchange of experiences from different perspectives on 17 July 2025 from 13:30 to 15:30 CEST

Urban labs have established themselves worldwide as a valuable tool for developing innovative solutions to complex urban challenges in collaboration with various stakeholders. However, the implementation of urban labs and the experiences gained from them differ significantly from city to city. This event brings together practitioners from South East Europe and Germany to explore the transformative role of urban labs in creating sustainable, resilient cities.

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Dear readers,

In this issue, we are pleased to be able to showcase various paths for a robust, adaptive and sustainable city.

The exchange between German and African experts revealed the great potential of green hydrogen for local economic development. Various approaches from Africa and Europe, especially Germany, were shown, demonstrating that municipalities can benefit from hydrogen as an energy source in vastly different ways. The example of Arandis-Namibia showed how a municipality in Namibia was able to become one of the leading hydrogen producers in Southern Africa with targeted investments. The example from the Heilbronn region in Germany showed how a region can focus more on the utilisation of green hydrogen, rather than the production of it. Both regions have regional strategies and master plans to attract suppliers and technology providers, together with the pure hydrogen producers and create regional supply and value chains, leading to dynamic economic development with high employment effects.

Our activities on Voluntary Local and Subnational Reviews, showcased how the implementation of the Agenda 2030 at a local level can be accelerated, through the cases presented by experts from South Africa and Germany.

Scientific methods and findings can provide significant support in climate adaptation, such as the avoidance of heat islands – Dr Jürgen Koop from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explained in three learning units what procedures are available and how enabling environments can be created by cities, to take up measures that combat heat islands.

And, of course, we would like to invite you to take part in further expert discussions:

To the presentation of the pilot projects of the Connective Cities Deep Dive learning process ‘Heat in the City’’; to the discussion of concrete project ideas for the use of renewable energies at municipal level in South-East Europe and the Caucasus; to an open exchange of experiences on increasing transparency and public participation using digital tools; and last but not least, on strategies on how Ukrainian municipalities can strengthen their resilience as part of their sustainable urban development.

We wish you inspiring reading

Your Connective Cites Team

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Green Hydrogen for Local Development

Green Hydrogen for Local Development Municipal Strategies and International Cooperation in Focus

Green hydrogen is gaining importance worldwide as a key energy source of the future. In order to promote the exchange of experiences and good practices between African and German cities, Connective Cities organised a workshop in Naivasha, Kenya, from 14 to 17 June, which was attended by over 30 municipal experts. It was clear from the discussion between the municipal practitioners that master plans and strategically coordinated planning are essential to benefit from the emerging hydrogen market.

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The Countrywide Localization of the SDGs from the Perspective of Local Municipalities

International expert exchange on the Voluntary Subnational Review

On 7 May 2025, experts from South Africa and Germany presented their examples of localising the SDGs in a virtual session. Presentations by Oliver Peters from the German Institute of Urban Affairs and Tebogo Matlou, International Project Manager at the South African Local Government Association, provided the participants with suggestions – including the presentation of working models – to accelerate the implementation of the Voluntary Local and Subnational Reviews in their municipality.

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Deep Dive: Heat in the city

Scientific methods and findings for improved climate adaptation

‘Monitoring the Urban Heat Island: Key Indicators and Data Tools’, ‘Heat Mitigation Strategies: Affordable and Adaptable Solutions’, ‘Artificial intelligence for Climate Action: Driving Research & Innovative Solutions’ were the topics of the three-part series of learning sessions on urban heat resilience organised in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). It offered an in-depth insight into the critical challenges that cities face and how scientific methods can help to overcome them.

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Outlook

Results of the Connective Cities Deep Dive process ‘Heat in the city’

Summary and Outlook event on 12 June 2025, 9:00 – 12:00 a.m. (CEST)

We would like to invite you to benefit from the intensive exchange of experiences between the cities of Aswan in Egypt, Heidelberg and Lüdenscheid in Germany, Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya and Lviv in Ukraine. Over a period of two years, experts jointly identified and analysed challenges and developed locally adapted solutions in the form of pilot projects that were implemented in their respective cities.

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Renewable energy options at the local level

Registration deadline extended until 26 May 2025!

Join us at the Connective Cities final event on the municipal energy transition in Southeast Europe from 16 to 18 June 2025 in Podgorica, Montenegro! Together we will take a practical look at concrete project ideas from the South-East Europe/Caucasus region, discuss success factors for their implementation and promote the international exchange of experience.

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From the Open Municipality to the Smart City

Localising good governance and leveraging GIS for liveability and infrastructure planning

What role does digital transformation play in increasing transparency and public participation and which digital tools are helpful in this regard? We cordially invite you to our upcoming exchange between municipal experts, to showcase how principles of open governance can be implemented at a municipal scale, to strengthen transparency, citizen partnership and promote good governance.

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Resilient Cities in Times of Multiple Crises – Strategies for Resilient Municipalities

Connective Cities expert forum at the seventh German-Ukrainian municipal partnership conference on 18 June 2025

Christian Rauch from the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) will present the concept of urban resilience and report on the ‘Urban Stress Test’ with German municipalities. How does urban resilience manifest itself in practice? Panellists from German and Ukrainian municipalities will present their strategies for sustainable urban development on various aspects of urban resilience.

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Dear readers,

“Municipal partnership and cooperation”, ‘innovation’, ‘scientific monitoring’ and ‘civil society engagement’ are the ingredients for the recipes for success of recent and planned Connective Cites events and learning processes.

We look back at a workshop on heritage-based tourism strategies in the MENA region, where the transformative power of decentralized cooperation plays an important role.

We provide insights into the beginning of a learning process in which cities in West Africa jointly develop and implement project ideas to better protect themselves from climate-related severe weather events.

We will also show how, based on a civil society initiative, the building and large grounds of the “Haus der Statistik” in Berlin are now being transformed into a new multi-modal form of use.

We would also like to cordially invite you to our new events: Together with experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, we will be discussing cost-efficient mitigation strategies for heat in the city and how AI can be used for climate protection and innovation in two virtual events. Digitalization also plays a central role in another event on waste management. Good practices from Germany and the MENA region will be presented.

Voluntary Subnational Reviews (VSR) can be an important lever for achieving the sustainability goals. We are discussing with German and South African city associations and cities how these VSRs can also act as a link between the municipal and national levels.

We would also like to invite you to our final event of our learning process on the municipal energy transition in Southeast Europe in Montenegro. In a three-day workshop, project ideas will be further developed until they are ready for implementation.

We wish you inspiring reading!
Your Connective Cities Team

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Celebrating Decentralized Cooperation and Heritage-Driven Tourism

Insight Session on building trust and forging partnerships for sustainable urban development

On 20 March, to mark the International Day of Happiness, Connective Cities hosted an insightful session highlighting the transformative power of decentralised collaboration in promoting sustainable development. Participants gained valuable insights into successful tourism strategies implemented in different communities and were inspired by how partnerships can be used to achieve local and global impact.

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Driving urban resilience forward

Cities across West Africa unite for peer learning and financing solutions

It is predicted that climate-related disasters in West Africa will cost up to three per cent of regional GDP annually by 2030. Coupled with rapid urban growth and the increasing pressure on infrastructure that comes with it, cities in the region are at the forefront of the climate crisis. In response, the workshop focussed on one fundamental principle: cities learn best from other cities.

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The Haus der Statistik in Berlin, Germany

Renovation is more sustainable than demolition

A new district for administration, housing, social affairs and culture is being built on the large site of the former administrative building for the Federal Statistical Office – Haus der Statistik – in the center of Berlin. A civil society initiative had prevented the demolition of the existing building from the 1960s and, together with the administration and other stakeholders, developed the concept for the conversion – a beacon for alternative approaches to urban development.

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Deep Dive: Heat in the city

Two of the three-part series of learning capsules on 24 April and 6 Mai 2025, 10:30-11:30 (CEST)

How can cities adapt to increasing urban heat? Explore practical strategies to monitor, mitigate and adapt to heat in urban areas together with experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK):

• Cost-effective mitigation strategies (24 April)
• AI for climate protection and innovation (6 May)

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Expert exchange on the Voluntary Subnational Review

Online meeting – 7 May 2025 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm (CEST)

The aggregation of regional data on municipal development provides a country with a detailed overview of the implementation of the SDGs. During the expert exchange, representatives from South Africa and Germany will present the preparation of their Voluntary Subnational Reviews. Following the presentations, we will open the floor for a broader discussion on the VLR and VSR.

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Waste management and digitalisation

Virtual event on the use of digital tools in waste management on 27 May 2025 from 09:30 to 11:30 (CEST)

The amount of waste is growing worldwide due to increasing urbanisation, consumer patterns and industrial production. The digitalisation of the waste sector offers many ways to optimise the processes of waste collection, recycling and reuse. Municipal and regional stakeholders profit from technologic advantages, ranging from automatized waste disposal facilities over intelligent bins to AI supported data analysis – or trainings of the (globally often informal) workforce. The cooperation of public and private stakeholders, such as IT start-ups, can create mutual benefits.

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Renewable energy options at the local level

Connective Cities final event on the municipal energy transition in Southeast Europe from 16 to 18 June 2025 in Podgorica, Montenegro

Together, we will take a practical look at specific project ideas from the South East Europe/Caucasus region, discuss success factors for their implementation and promote the international exchange of experience. The aim of the event is to strengthen the dialogue between municipalities, financial institutions and experts, to make good practices visible and to further develop concrete, implementable project ideas.

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Dear readers,

‘Many ideas grow better when they are transplanted into a different mind than the one in which they originated.’ This quote from the American doctor and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes aptly describes the secret to the success of the events in this newsletter issue:

Experts from Germany, Kenya, Palestine and Montenegro inspire each other with their concepts and experiences on how the potential of vacant public buildings can be better utilised through temporary use.

Amman’s city administration, the Greater Amman Municipality, has drawn up the first Voluntary Local Review in the Arab world in an extensive participatory process lasting almost two years. It is now accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and transforming the metropolis of four million people into a city worth living in.

The SDG localisation process in South Africa was even more extensive, involving all relevant ministries, 14 municipalities, including all major cities and metropolitan regions, UCLG, UN-Habitat and other stakeholders. Under the coordination of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), 10 VLRs were created within eight months and an exchange platform was established.

The partnership between Dabola, Guinea and Dortmund is also bearing fruit in the reorganisation of waste management in Dabola.

Finally, we would like to invite you to our next Insight Session on 20 March at 10:30 am CET during which decentralised cooperation and heritage-based tourism will be explicitly acknowledged.

We wish you exciting reading
Your Connective Cities Team

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Avoiding vacancy by opening buildings to interim use

Review of the online expert meeting on 12 March 2025

Vacant buildings have untapped potential in many respects, both for the community and for urban development. In addition, there is a loss of building fabric, littering and vandalism with security risks. How can vacancies be avoided? Experts from Germany, Kenya, Palestine and Montenegro discussed opening up public buildings for interim use in a virtual meeting.

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The Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of Amman

Accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

With four million inhabitants, the Jordanian capital is home to around 40 percent of the country’s total population. In 2021, Amman’s city administration, the Greater Amman Municipality, decided to create a VLR – the first in the Arab region. In the summer of 2022, the VLR was completed and presented together with the Voluntary National Review at the UN High-Level Political Forum in New York. The VLR has proven to be a complete success – both as an analytical tool and as a process…

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Ten at a stroke

How South Africa is driving the process of SDG localisation

At the suggestion of the UN and as part of a comprehensive multi-stakeholder approach, the government of South Africa, together with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and 14 municipalities, including all major cities and metropolitan regions, initiated a remarkable process to localize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, from which ten Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) with many other very positive downstream impacts were created in just eight months. Unique!

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Transforming waste management in Dabola, Guinea

A successful partnership for a healthier future

Dabola is struggling with the challenges of rapid population growth and inadequate waste management, which pose a serious threat to residents and the local ecosystem. In 2019, a strategic partnership between Dabola and Dortmund (Germany) was established to address these issues. A comprehensive waste management plan, developed with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, has since brought about very positive change in the city.

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Celebrating Decentralized Cooperation and Heritage-Driven Tourism

How cultural exchange promotes community engagement – Insight Session on 20 March at 10:30 CET

On 20 March, the International Day of Happiness, Connective Cities will host an Insight Session celebrating the transformative role of decentralised cooperation in promoting sustainable development. Participants will gain insights into successful tourism strategies from different municipalities – inspiring how partnerships can be used to achieve local and global goals.

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Dear readers,

The writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once wrote “You can’t look into the future, but you can lay the foundations for the future – because the future can be built”, which very well describes the innovations and transformation processes at local level, covered in this issue of the Newsletter.

In this edition, we report on how the six participating municipalities in the “Deep Dive: Heat in the City” are now moving on to optimizing and scaling after successfully testing their project ideas.

We provide insights into the Connective Cities dialog event on Voluntary Local Reviews and show how action planning for sustainability reporting can accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.

The cities of Bonn, Hamburg, Mannheim and Stuttgart, among others, have initiated the Voluntary Local Government Review process. The German Institute of Urban Affairs took this as an opportunity to publish a special publication to give German municipalities a strong voice in the national sustainability debate.

The study “Municipalities and Digital Transformation in Arab Cities” by the Arab Urban Development Institute, in which Connective Cities also participated, shows digital transformation processes of 21 cities across the Arab region.

We would also like to invite you to join us and urban practitioners across the world to discuss further innovative solutions, including three virtual insight sessions on “Success Factors for Fundable Project Proposals”, “Waste to Profit” and on the International Day of Happiness the “Appreciation of Decentralized Cooperation and Heritage-Based Tourism”.

We are also organizing two workshops on following topics: “Risk-informed urban development in the ECOWAS region” in Lomè, Togo, and “Opportunities of green transformation for local economic development in Africa.” in Nairobi, Kenya.

We wish you inspiring reading!

Your Connective Cities Team

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Deep Dive: Heat in the City

From Piloting to optimization and upscaling – workshop in Aswan on 21-23 January 2025

The Deep Dive celebrated another milestone in the two year long process, with the latest workshop being held in Aswan – Egypt from 21st to 23rd January 2025. The workshop marked the transition from piloting solutions to optimising and up-scaling. Participants representing the cities of Nairobi, Aswan, Mombasa, Lüdenscheid, Heidelberg and Lviv discussed the results of the implementation of their pilots.

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Action planning for sustainability reporting

Documentation of the Connective Cities dialogue event from 2 to 4 December 2024 in Berlin

For the first time, representatives of municipal associations met with their colleagues from municipal administrations at a Connective Cites dialogue event. The regional diversity with perspectives and practical examples from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Germany, South-East Europe and Asia enlivened the discussion and contributed to the success of the event. Five project ideas were developed as part of the action planning for Voluntary Local Reviews and are expected to be implemented in 2025.

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German municipalities initiate Voluntary Local Government Review (VLGR)

Special publication of the German Institute of Urban Affairs (difu)

On the occasion of the Connective Cities dialogue event on Voluntary Local Reviews in Berlin, the cities of Bonn, Hamburg, Mannheim and Stuttgart initiated the preparation of a Voluntary Local Government Review. The report by difu in cooperation with the municipal umbrella organisations summarises the sustainability efforts of 15 German cities. The aim of the report is to give local authorities a strong, coordinated voice in the national sustainability discourse.
The publication is currently only available in German. As soon as an English translation is available, we will link to it in the newsletter.

Municipalities and Digital Transformation in Arab Cities

An Institutional Development Perspective – Arab Urban Development Institute

This report examines the digital transformation in Arab cities, focusing on how cities can enhance resource management, improve services, and engage communities through diverse digital technologies that impact how cities and local authorities operate. The report showcases 21 examples from cities across the Arab region and features insights from over 20 urban experts actively working on municipal digital transformation.

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Insight Session – Lessons Learned in Developing Bankable Project Proposals

With guest speaker Dr Christo Marais, specialist in natural resource management, on 27 February 2025 at 9:00 a.m. CET

How can cities develop successful and affordable project proposals? In this Insight Session, Dr Christo Marais will share his experiences from the Learning & Exchange initiative to develop viable projects and show practical strategies for Risk Informed Urban Development.

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Insight Session – Waste to Profit

With guest speaker Dr Farshid Pahlevani, international expert for sustainable solutions in waste management, on 13 March 2025 at 9:00 a.m. CET

How can waste be utilised economically and converted into valuable resources? In this Insight Session, Dr Farshid Pahlevani presents innovative approaches to recycling challenging waste materials and shows how they can be used as raw materials for high-performance products, thus combining ecological and economic benefits.

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Risk-Informed Urban Development in the ECOWAS Region

Workshop series starts on 18 March 2025 in Lomé, Togo

Following a successful call for expressions of interest, cities from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo were selected to take part in the workshop series. The thematic focus of the project ideas includes adapting to climate risks, strengthening early warning systems, infrastructure measures and involving civil society.

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Celebrating Decentralized Cooperation and Heritage-Driven Tourism

How cultural exchange promotes community engagement – Insight Session on 20 March at 10:30 CET

On 20 March, the International Day of Happiness, Connective Cities will host an Insight Session celebrating the transformative role of decentralised cooperation in promoting sustainable development. Participants will gain insights into successful tourism strategies from different municipalities – inspiring how partnerships can be used to achieve local and global goals.

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Exploring the opportunities of green transition for local economic development

Potential of renewable energies, especially green hydrogen – Workshop from 15 to 17 April in Naivasha, Kenya

The switch to renewable energies offers enormous economic opportunities, especially through green hydrogen. With abundant solar and wind energy, Africa has ideal conditions for sustainable hydrogen production. The workshop in Naivasha is part of the Connective Cities peer-learning process and is dedicated to innovative approaches for local economic development that thrives on green energy.

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Dear readers,

‘Don’t focus all your energy on fighting the old, but on creating the new,’ Socrates once said.

This edition is dedicated to buildings in cities, since they harbour great potential for climate protection. The building sector is responsible for around 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss with practitioners in various formats and using many examples how these can be significantly reduced – and show how new forms of use can arise from old structures and how traditional building methods can enrich a modern construction sector.

Due to the effects of the war, Ukraine is confronted with large quantities of construction waste. Connective Cities therefore organised an expert forum on the disposal and recycling of construction waste as part of the Ukraine conference between the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

We look back on a year-long learning process on Climate Positive Built Environment Using Bio-based and Re-used Materials with a variety of ideas and activities.

We present the city hall of Hebron in the Palestinian Territories, how it has been repeatedly remodelled and repurposed to meet the increasing demands of a growing city and its administration.

The reuse of public buildings from the 1960s and 1970s was also a key topic at a dialogue event in Berlin – because reuse is significantly more sustainable than demolition.

Last but not least, we show how the partnership between Beit Jala (Palestinian Territories) and Jena is jointly promoting digitalisation in their administrations.

We wish you inspiring reading

Your Connective Cities Team

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Ukraine Conference of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) with Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

Connective Cities organized an expert forum on the topic of disposal and recycling of construction waste

On 18 November 2024, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in cooperation with the city of Cologne, hosted a conference on cooperation with the partner district of Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Connective Cities organised an expert forum on the disposal and recycling of construction waste. The central topics of the workshop were the (interim) storage of construction waste, the handling of hazardous substances and the modalities of reusing construction waste.

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Towards a more sustainable building sector

Review of the learning process on “Climate Positive Built Environment Using Bio-based and Re-used Materials”

The construction sector is responsible for up to 40 per cent of all CO2 emissions worldwide. To combat climate change and protect the environment, the building sector urgently needs to be decarbonised. As part of a year-long learning process organised by Connective Cities, representatives from local authorities and research institutions as well as planners and architects shared their experiences and knowledge of climate-friendly construction and inspired each other in their work.

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Einblick

Hebron City Hall – reinvented time and again

Resource efficiency, technical modernisation and new demands on work organisation

Built in 1965, the current Hebron City Hall in the Palestinian territories has been repeatedly remodelled and repurposed to meet the increasing demands of a growing city and its administration. The focus was on resource efficiency, technical modernisation and the requirements of work organisation. The conversions show that with flexibility and commitment, even old buildings can be sensibly remodelled for modern use.

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2nd Hands on Public Buildings

Repurposing modernist public buildings from the 1960s and 70s

Almost 25 municipal experts from Germany, Kenya, Montenegro, the Palestinian Territories, Zambia and Ukraine exchanged views on the sustainable reuse of public buildings from the 1960s and 1970s and jointly developed project ideas at the dialogue event in Berlin from 24 to 26 September 2024. New concepts often include multifunctional use for housing, social services, education, culture, retail and office space.

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Developing a municipal Geoinformation System

The Partnership between Beit Jala (Palestinian Territories) and Jena (Germany)

Beit Jala, located on the western outskirts of Bethlehem, is a municipality with a population of around 17,500. As a tool for urban planning and development and as a trigger for digital transformation, the municipality decided to develop a municipal geographic information system (GIS). To implement this project, Beit Jala is working with the German partner city of Jena to jointly improve GIS capabilities.

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