Best Practices Newsletter - July

Source	Guenther Gross
Release date	27/07/2001
Contributor	bulanmir

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Dear readers,
Please find below the latest English version of the Best Practices
Newsletter (July Edition). We hope you will enjoy reading this
edition of the Newsletter and encourage you to further disseminate it.
We also encourage you to visit our website at
www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/awards for information on the
2002 Dubai International Awards in Improving the Living Environment.
Best Practices and Lessons Learned
UNCHS (Habitat)

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B E S T P R A C T I C E S N E W S L E T T E R
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July 2001 Edition
The Best Practices Newsletter
Apologies for cross-postings
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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- Harmonisation of Sustainable Development Award Systems
- Expert Group Meeting on Good Policies and Enabling
Legislation
- Gender Report Card on UNGASS Thematic Committee
- Arab Local Authorities Consultative Meeting for RIO+10,
16-17 September 2001, Cairo, Egypt
- Gender Mainstreaming Report Card, by Huairou commission
- What's New and Partners' Events
- INTA's 25th Annual World Congress, 20 - 23 October 2001,
Dubai, U.A.E.
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Harmonisation of Sustainable Development Award Systems
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Representatives of the Royal (ex Prince's) Award, ICLEI's
Local Initiatives Award, the "bremen initiative" and the BLP
met in Copenhagen on 30 June in an first attempt towards
harmonising award systems in the area of sustainable
development. The meeting resulted in the establishment of
a working group on harmonising reporting formats and
criteria and also concluded on the desirability of having
a Sustainable Development Awards Portal providing
submitters and users with a single interface for
awards, databases and applications such as transfers.
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Expert Group Meeting on Good Policies and Enabling
Legislation
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The Expert Group Meeting on "Good Policies and Enabling
Legislation" will be hosted jointly by the Caixa Economica
Federal do Brasil and the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica
Aplicada in Brasilia, 12-14 November 2001. The purpose of
the meeting will be to establish criteria for identifying and
validating good policies and enabling legislation in response
to Resolution 17/8 of the Commission on Human Settlements.
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Gender Mainstreaming Report Card, by Huairou commission
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The Huairou Commission, representing more than 1,000 women's
groups from poor communities, undertook a "Gender Report
card" of the presentations made at the Thematic Committee of
Istanbul+5. The purpose of the report card is to grade the
presentations in terms of their level of gender mainstreaming.
The report is available on:
http://sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/partners/gender.html
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Local Authorities Consultative Meeting in the Arab States
Region (ASR), 16-17 September 2001, Cairo, Egypt
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The consultative meeting, sponsored by CEDARE, ICLEI and
UNEP/ROWA, will gather together a select group of Mayors
and local government leaders from the Arab States region for
a two-day workshop. Participants will also include leading
business figures and other experts with experience in local
sustainable development. The conference will focus on
assessment of progress in the implementation of Agenda 21
and other Rio Conventions during the 1992-2000 period in
preparation for the United Nations' World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held in
Johannesburg in 2002.
For more information: http://www.cedare.org.eg
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What's New and Partners' Events
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INTA's 25th Annual World Congress, 20 - 23 October 2001,
Dubai, U.A.E. The Dubai Municipality in conjunction with
INTA (The International Network for Urban Development)
will host the INTA's 25th Annual World Congress in Dubai.
The Congress whose theme is "New Dimensions of Urban
Development: New Technologies of Information and
Communication (NTIC) for Local Management" will focus
on role, access and flow of information as well as the importance
of communication infrastructure in urban economic development.
Other sponsors include the Arab Urban Development Institute
(AUDI), a BLP partner. For more information:
http://www.inta-aivn.org/20-activities/inta25rev.htm
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Other Conferences and Events
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- I Virtual World Congress of Young Entrepreneurs and SMEs,
September 2001-March 2002.
http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/news/newsindex.html
- ICLEI Think Tank for Rio+10, Stavenger, Norway 9-11 June 2001
http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/news/newsindex.html
- Telecollaboration Project to demonstrate Information and
Communication Technologies.
http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/news/newsindex.html
For more information on other conferences and events follow
this link:
http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp/news/newsindex.html
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Dubai International Awards for Best Practices (DIABP)
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The Dubai International Awards for Best Practices (DIABP),
jointly sponsored by the Dubai Municipality and UNCHS (Habitat)
and supported by a global network of partners and affiliates,
recognises initiatives focused on improving living conditions
on a sustainable basis. The submission process for the 2002
Dubai International Awards for Best Practices is now open.
The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2002. Submitters
presenting their initiatives before January 2002 will benefit
from a substantive feed back from UNCHS (Habitat) and
Dubai Municipality. Complete information on the award is
available on:
http://dubai-award.dm.gov.ae or http://bestpractices.org/bp2002
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B E S T P R A C T I C E S N E W S L E T T E R
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This newsletter is published by the Best Practices and Lessons
Learnt Unit of the Urban Secretariat of UNCHS (Habitat). It is
designed to inform and to stimulate exchange between local
authorities, civil society organisations, policy makers,
researchers and urban practitioners for making our cities and
communities more livable. For more information on the
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