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New report introduces the Twin Transition Stencil for cities navigating green and digital transformations
UNDP’s City Experiment Fund has released the Twin Transition Stencil Report, presenting a structured framework that was designed to support cities in designing and managing integrated green and digital transformation portfolios. It responds to a common challenge faced by municipalities: translating high-level green and digital policy goals into coherent, actionable strategies, practical pathways and investable […]
Listening to Cities: Insights from the 2025 City Experiment Fund Cohort
How do cities understand the needs of their citizens – and turn those insights into meaningful action? As part of the 2025 cycle of the City […]
UNDP Europe and Central Asia Launches City Imaginarium to Reimagine Urban Futures
On World Cities Day 2025, UNDP in Europe and Central Asia launches the City Imaginarium — a regional creative campaign that invites artists and communities […]
Plastiks and UNDP Armenia Working on a Partnership to Launch Traceable Plastic Recovery Pilot on Cardano
UNDP Armenia is in the process of starting a partnership with Plastiks to address the country’s underdeveloped recycling infrastructure by piloting a blockchain-based model that […]
UNDP Launches Green Urban Tech Open Call to Boost Greener, Smarter and More Resilient Cities
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central Asia has launched the BOOST x CEF: Green Urban Tech open call, inviting innovators worldwide to […]
Reimagining Batumi through a startup portfolio of options
Tiko Tkeshelashvili, M4EG Project Manager, UNDP Georgia Irmak Ekin Karel, Strategic Innovation Designer, CHÔRAIgor Izotov, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Lab, North Macedonia [1]Rusudan Zhozhadze, Head […]
Community listening is not a luxury
Prototyping City Learning Circle amidst Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine This blog is based on the experience of Ukraine cities who were part of […]
UNDP Georgia: Learnings from Urban Imaginaries
Reposted from the Centre for Public Impact. The latest developments internationally demand responses that have not been tried before. It requires governments at the central […]
Applying systems thinking in a crisis context
The launch of the EU Response and Renewal Programme for local authorities in Ukraine and Moldova for M4EG To support the new realities of local […]
18 municipalities to receive support under the EU Response and Renewal Grant Programme
The Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) Facility is increasing its support to members in Ukraine and Moldova Brussels, Chișinău, Kyiv, 29 March 2023 – the European Commission […]
M4EG Partner Dialogue: What’s needed for city transformation?
The Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) initiative held a Partner Dialogue in Istanbul on 28 February 2023, bringing together representatives from the EU and UNDP and […]
Dynamically managing Urban Transformation portfolios: Our M4EG journey
Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG), a joint EU and UNDP initiative focused on reimagining urban and local spaces, is running a Portfolio Journey with 10 […]
Armenian communities test human-centered design for improved service delivery under the M4EG
Urban Imaginaries is a programme that supports towns and cities to reimagine local economic development and governance through new tools. Urban Imaginaries is one programme […]
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