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Our upcoming MASHAV sponsored course:
Municipal platforms for local strategic development
July 20 – July 31, 2014
Application is closed
The process of development has brought rapid urbanization and the creation of many new large cities across the developing world. Research shows that often urbanization has the power to promote processes of industrialization and economic growth, and is essential for development. However, at the same time, and especially in developing countries, urbanization put significant pressures on local governments to promote local economic development, fight poverty, create suitable infrastructure solutions in cities and slums, and solve social hardships as unemployment and crime. While investing in addressing these needs, local authorities often suffer from lack of institutional capacities which would allow them to provide real sustainable solutions to guarantee long-term support to sustainable socio-economic development.
July 20 – July 31, 2014
Application is closed
The process of development has brought rapid urbanization and the creation of many new large cities across the developing world. Research shows that often urbanization has the power to promote processes of industrialization and economic growth, and is essential for development. However, at the same time, and especially in developing countries, urbanization put significant pressures on local governments to promote local economic development, fight poverty, create suitable infrastructure solutions in cities and slums, and solve social hardships as unemployment and crime. While investing in addressing these needs, local authorities often suffer from lack of institutional capacities which would allow them to provide real sustainable solutions to guarantee long-term support to sustainable socio-economic development.
Green Growth: Policy measures and Implementation tools
9th June – 3rd July 2014
Application is closed
Green growth is the means by which the current economy can make the transition to a sustainable economy. In sustainability terms, economic and social sustainability on the one hand, and social and environmental sustainability on the other, have been found to be not only compatible, but also largely complementary. Not so with economic and environmental sustainability, as growth has come largely at the expense of the environment which is why Green Growth aims to ensure that economic and environmental sustainability are compatible.
Addressing the Urbanization challenge
11.3.2014 - 9.4.2014
Application is closed
Today, as more than half of the world's population lives in cities and urban areas, managing and developing urban areas is one of the main challenges of the developing world. According to UN-Habitat, there are 823 million living in slums. The share of slum residents in the developing world as percentage of the urban population has declined but despite this reduction, in absolute numbers, the number of slum dwellers continues to increase. The problem of slums remains as one of the greatest challenges for city managers in the 21st century. But more than slum upgrading, city managers and governors are faced with the need in migration absorption, social integration, job creation and specifically youth unemployment, and controlling crime and unsocial behavior.
11.3.2014 - 9.4.2014
Application is closed
Today, as more than half of the world's population lives in cities and urban areas, managing and developing urban areas is one of the main challenges of the developing world. According to UN-Habitat, there are 823 million living in slums. The share of slum residents in the developing world as percentage of the urban population has declined but despite this reduction, in absolute numbers, the number of slum dwellers continues to increase. The problem of slums remains as one of the greatest challenges for city managers in the 21st century. But more than slum upgrading, city managers and governors are faced with the need in migration absorption, social integration, job creation and specifically youth unemployment, and controlling crime and unsocial behavior.
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