The dialogue event brought together 21 representatives from Zimbabwean municipalities as well as a number of local practitioners from South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Kenya and local experts from Germany to exchange experiences on challenges and opportunities of public service provision. An excursion took the participants to the local recycling centre in Harare City.

Almost 30 local practitioners from 12 cities, 10 countries and four continents attended the dialogue event hosted by Connective Cities and the City of Dortmund. The participants developed project ideas for their environmental strategies and implementation plans to make their cities fit for climate change.

For its new phase, Connective Cities has identified thematic areas that are relevant to the respective region and are likely to meet the needs of the cities and their stakeholders.

Cities can be catalysts for sustainable development – if they are well planned and managed. This is especially true for the ever-growing Asian megacities. In supporting their ambition to become greener places, this dialogue event offers a platform to exchange on Good Practices and develop local solutions for the planning and implementation of green urban infrastructure.

The kick-off event of the new learning process in Latin America takes place in Niterói, Brazil. Connective Cities welcomes German and international municipal actors to exchange and develop solutions in the field of climate adaptation and resilient urban development.

Stakeholders’ objectives to promote urban gardening are multi-layered: For a greener city, for social inclusion and integration, for winning back public space, for supporting climate-proofing urban development. Connective Cities and the Berlin districts of Mitte, Pankow, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Lichtenberg invite German and international municipal practitioners to exchange best practices from municipalities worldwide.