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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 [...]
GPM Virtual Parliament at the World Urban Forum
For the first time ever, the Global Parliament of Mayors was officially represented at a World Urban Forum. The World Urban Forum, organised by UN-Habitat, is the world’s premiere international conference on all aspects [...]
Challenges for Global Health Governance
January 30, 2020 In late December 2019, China reported to the World Health Organization cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, caused by a novel coronavirus. Alexandra Phelan, Rebecca Katz, and Larry Gostin published an [...]
Look to cities, not nation-states, to solve our biggest challenges
This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Written by Robert Muggah, Principal, SecDev Group, Co-Chair of the GPM Advisory Committee The world in 2020 is looking more turbulent [...]
Durban Summit Report
We are delighted to share with you the GPM Summit 2019 Report. The Annual Summit took place in Durban, South Africa from 9-11 November 2019. Sixty mayors from 27 countries joined with leaders from 15 [...]
GPM Networking Event at the World Urban Forum
The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) Virtual Parliament the solution to accelerate digital democracy GPM Chair, Peter Kurz, will represent the GPM at the 10th edition of the World Urban Forum (8-13 February) in Abu [...]
Cities using the SDGs to reduce urban violence
Rachel Locke, Anthony F. Pipa, and Max BouchetWednesday, December 18, 2019 This article was informed by discussions at the Fall 2019 meeting of the Brookings SDG Leadership Cities Network, hosted by Mexico City. Despite growing prosperity as [...]