The Green City Accord is a movement of European mayors committed to safeguarding the natural environment. The Accord focuses on mobilising cities to step up their ambitions to achieve cleaner and healthier environments, thereby improving the quality of life of citizens.
The Green City Accord is a E...
The Urban Water Agenda 2030 process is an initiative to encourage, support and enable local governments and their water utilities to take voluntary action for complementing Member States' efforts to meet EU water policy.
Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater
The INCOVER project is an Innovation Action contributing to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a supplier for recycled water.
Water PiPP explored new public innovation procurement methodologies and tested them in the water sector where European innovation potential is blocked by a number of bottlenecks. The project contributed to facilitating real innovation, mobilising public authorities, public and private purchasers, wa...
Adopting Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) in Indian cities
The AdoptIUWM supported two cities each in Maharashtra and Rajasthan in familiarising themselves with the concept of Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) and in plan and implementing integrated water pilot actions at local level. Key output of the project has been a step-by-step Toolkit on IUWM ...
Realising Development of Resources and access to Municipal Services
Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global challenges that are too often treated separately. With pressing development needs in Least Developed Countries, and with a growing population, approaches to such global challenges require rethinking. But when new approaches are...
Accelerating City-to-City Exchange for Sustainable Sanitation
ACCESSanitation promoted and initiated local sustainable sanitation solutions in ten cities in the Philippines and India, thus improving health conditions, fostering the local economy and increasing food security. The project also increased the awareness of local stakeholders in Asia and Sub-Saharan...
Sustainable Water Management Improves Tomorrow's Cities' Health
Led by UNESCO-IHE the SWITCH project was implemented by a consortium of 33 partner organizations from 15 countries that contributed to developing sustainable urban water systems through a combination of research, technological development, demonstration activities and training within a Learning Alli...