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Mayor Marvin Rees of Bristol gives daily video updates
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Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia
Columbia City Council has declared an emergency order enacting a Stay Home Stay Safe order, which will become effective on Sunday, March 29 at 12:01 a.m. Ordinance 2020-034 was discussed [...]
Open letter GPM Chair Mayor Kurz on Corona Crisis
23 March 2020 - "For the first time we are facing a pandemic sparked by the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Together we must find a way to safeguard especially our vulnerable citizens and the health system that [...]
Working to ensure pandemic preparedness in our cities
Urban Pandemic Preparedness Working to ensure pandemic preparedness in our cities The total number of infectious disease outbreaks and diversity of pathogens have increased over the past few decades Urbanization directly contributes to the risk of [...]
How cities around the world are handling COVID-19 – and why we need to measure their preparedness
An empty Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona during a partial lockdown of the city as part of a 15-day state of emergency to combat coronavirus Image: REUTERS/Nacho Doce 17 Mar 2020 Robert MuggahPrincipal, SecDev Group [...]
Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami
Miami, Fla., Mayor Francis Suarez has tested positive for coronavirus. The mayor is keeping a video diary and posting it to social media to reduce anxiety and fears people are having over COVID-19. [...]
Africa is not Starting from Scratch on COVID-19
Success against coronavirus will require national leadership, engaged local responders, and strong cooperation with NGOs by Charles Holmes and Matthew Boyce and Rebecca Katz February 27, 2020 A looming epidemic of COVID-19 in Africa [...]
How reducing inequality will make our cities safer
02 Mar 2020 Authors: Robert Muggah Principal, SecDev Group Sameh Wahba Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank Overlapping forms of inequality contribute to violent victimization in cities, [...]
Local and regional governments speak to the World Urban Forum through the World Assembly
Local and regional governments speak to the World Urban Forum through the World Assembly in Abu Dhabi This is originally published by UCLG here, the GPM is member of the Global Taskforce [...]