UCLG Position Paper v_2 (eng)
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Coordinated by the UCLG Capacity and Institution Building (CIB) Working Group Prepared by:
© United Cities and Local Governments Photos: Page 8 Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Mayors Roundtable at the 3rd World Urban Forum. Page 14 Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Participants of the Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities' 2008 Annual Conference. Page 26 Grand Lyon, Inauguration of the well drilling in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Page 36 Sara Hoeflich, Construction project in Aceh, Indonesia. Page 44 City of Lahti, South Africans and Finns jointly developing waste management. Page 52 Renske Steenbergen, View of a suburb of Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), in collaboration with the UCLG World Secretariat and the CIB Working Group Secretariat
Technical Chair: Peter Knip, Director of VNG International Vice Chair:
Tim Kehoe, Director of FCM International
Secretariat:
Carrer Avinyó, 15 E-08002 Barcelona (Spain) +34 933 428 753 cib@cities-localgovernments.org
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This publication has been made possible with financial support from: VNG International, the International co-operation Agency of the Association of the Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) in the framework of its LOGO South Programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and
the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), under the auspices of its Municipal Partnership Program,(MPP) funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
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