Inter-City collaboration

Through its CityShare methodology, LDP organizes best-practice sharing workshops on critical development issues with the aim of fostering knowledge sharing, networking and city-to-city cooperation.

By bringing together elected officials and professionals from various cities and regions, the seminars constitute excellent opportunities for cities to learn from each other and to identify opportunities  for collaboration that reach way beyond the capacity building inputs.

In this context, a three year project was developed as an outcome of a recent workshop organized by CIFAL Kuala Lumpur and the use of UNITAR CityShare methodology. The project was launched by UNITAR and CITYNET, with support from the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, focused on providing sanitation services to the poor. The project aims at transferring the innovative technology of Eco Tank- a small-scale sewerage treatment system- from Bangkok (Thailand) to Negombo (Sri Lanka) and Palembang (Indonesia). The project has been acknowledged by the mayors of each beneficiary city (Negombo and Palemberg) as a big step towards reaching their goals of reducing water pollution from domestic sources and raising public awareness on sanitation issues.