bestpractices

The Triangular Cooperation Air Quality Improvement Project is being led by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and supported by Ricardo Energy & Environment. The Triangular Cooperation includes India as the beneficiary country, Mexico as the south offer and Germany as the traditional offer. Ricardo Energy & Environment is supporting the project by sharing examples of best practice in air quality management with the cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar in India Download Best practices in managing emissions from road transport

I came across this document by Paula Silva at Oxfam that seems quite relevant to this CoP.

It is an overview of five common themes identified in an urban learning exchange project undertaken in Jordan, Pakistan, Nepal, Kenya, South Africa, and Bangladesh. The lessons learned are:

1. Applying systems thinking to project design: urban resilience programmes (including clean air zones, for example) must recognize how the systems that support urban life are inextricably linked in their project design.
2. Aiming for transformative urban resilience: paying attention to human rights and people’s well being can avoid the danger that interventions focus too narrowly on physical and technical solutions that do not deliver much for vulnerable sectors of society. Ask Whose lives will this project improve?
3. Designing and implementing holistic intervention: a project must consider how various sectoral interventions (eg. Strengthening municipal services, improving urban governance, creating alternative mobility routes) can be integrated into one programme.
4. Facilitating inclusive multi-stakeholder and multi-level governance: project management requires relationships with stakeholders from community to national or even international levels. There must be extensive coordination between the various stakeholders.
5. Supporting social resilient networks: pre-existing social networks can be an asset in supporting project implementation