15 July 2020, 14h30 – 15h30 (CEST). The UfM-UNESCO webinar on 15 July 2020 seeks to reach out to public authorities in charge of policy-making and planning for sustainable urban development and affordable housing in UfM countries, universities and students, representatives of intergovernmental organizations and NGOs, international financial institutions and donors, and the public at large.Read more
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18 June 2020, online meeting. The Ministry of Finance and Economy of Albania is organizing an online meeting to discuss with Albanian stakeholders ways of and scenarios for financing affordable housing, including through public-private partnerships, and the role of housing agencies in the provision of affordable housing, with the support of the United Nations Economic CommissionRead more
Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI-ERI) Transport & Urban Development Completed Labelled projects Context and objectives The Urban Projects Finance Initiative – Economic Resilience Initiative (UPFI-ERI) seeks to identify and encourage innovative urban projects in the Western Balkans and Southern Mediterranean. It offers a grant to project promoters to help them run the project, with opportunities forRead more
29 April 2020. UfM took stock of Covid-19 challenges and best practices in housing at a virtual meeting hosted by the Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Nasser Kamel, on Wednesday, 29 April 2020. “Exchange of best practices and policy transfers in inclusive, adequate and sustainable housing during this pandemic will also help build resilience, in particular to climate change, in the Mediterranean.” Nasser Kamel, Secretary General of the UnionRead more
With the urgent need for effective urban policies, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) called for a virtual meeting to take the debate on housing forward with partners such as United Nations, European Commission, the OECD, universities, research institutes, international development cooperation agencies and NGOs as well as international finance institutions. 29 April 2020. WithRead more
22 April 2020. The Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI) Steering Committee Meeting will be held online attended by representatives of EIB, l’AFD and the European Commission. The UfM Secretariat is a member of the UPFI Steering Committee and chairs the Project Committee. In 2014, the UfM Secretariat labelled two projects under the framework of its UPFI flagship initiative in theRead more
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This event has been postponed. The UfM Regional Platform Meeting on Sustainable Urban Development will discuss the operational steps to be taken to implement the UfM Urban Agenda, fostering innovative and sustainable solutions, promoting better knowledge and best practices on common urban development priorities, and identifying new projects that would be replicated in the region.Read more
Brussels, 26 September 2019. The UfM Permanent Working Group on Evaluation, Monitoring, and Reporting on Sustainable Urban Development will be held in Brussels, on 26 September 2019. The objective of this group is to evaluation, monitoring and reporting systems on sustainable urban development at regional level. EC Directorate-General for the Joint Research Centre will leadRead more
