Sustainable Cities Implementers Workshop and Midterm Review
On Sunday, June 2, 2013, the Department of Sustainable Development of the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the Organization of American States held a one day workshop under the OAS “Sustainable Communities in Central American and the Caribbean” initiative. During the event, hosted by the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Antigua, the 14 implementers under the project presented the objectives, accomplishments and challenges encountered in the first implementation phase in each of their projects. Technical experts were invited to provide feedback and exchange ideas regarding opportunities for replicating or moving project to scale.
The event forms part of the “Sustainable Communities in Central America and the Caribbean" initiative, which was launched in 2012 under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas in 2012 with support from the Permanent Mission of the U.S. to the OAS. The objective of the initiative is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations and community associations to contribute to sustainable community development in four priority areas: 1) Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency; 2) Sustainable Waste Management; 3) Resilience to Natural Disasters; and 4) Sustainable Transport Solutions. In this context, the DSD selected fourteen non-governmental organizations from ten countries to receive $50,000 to execute innovative demonstration projects at the community level.
Fundación Solar | Presentation | ||
Marlon Toruño Coordinador del Proyecto |
Universidad Tecnológica La Salle (ULSA) | Presentation | |
Yader Barrera Coordinador del Proyecto |
Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA-Managua) | Presentation |
Oscar René Obando Coordinador del Proyecto |
Fundación ProPetén | Presentation | |
Adda Amarilis Gómez Asesora Técnica |
Centro Para la Investigación y Planificación del Desarrollo Maya Sotzíl | Presentation | |
Vincia Leanda Herbert |
HOPE Nevis Incorporated | Presentation |
Huberth Mendez Coordinador de Proyecto |
Centro de Derecho Ambiental y de los Recursos Naturales (CEDARENA)-Fundación para el Desarrollo Urbano(FUDEU) | Presentation | |
Asad Mohammed Director, Caribbean Network for Urban and Land Management |
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus-Caribbean Network for Urban Land Management (CNULM) | Presentation | |
Leighton Naraine Director, Employee & Program Development |
Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College | Presentation |
Regina Foster |
Plenty International Belize Ltd | Presentation | |
Miguel Araujo Director |
Centro Regional del Convenio de Basilea para Centroamérica y México (CRCB-CAM) | Presentation | |
Manuel Mejia
Project Coordinator |
Hermandad de Honduras OPD | Presentation | |
Jim Aronson Director |
The Grenada Project | Presentation |
Yuri Giustina Director Accessibility and Urban Planning Policies |
Ministry of Cities, Brazil | Presentation | |
José I. Larios Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative |
Inter-American Development Bank | Presentation | |
Dr. Kirstin Miller Executive Director |
EcoCity Builders | Presentation | |
Dr. Fernando Echavarria |
US Department of State | Presentation | |
Luis Fernandez |
Geosistec – Local Partner of Esri | Presentation | |
Maria-Paz Gutierrez Senior ECPA Fellow |
University of California Berkeley | Presentation | |
Emma Zinsmeister State & Local Climate & Energy Program |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Presentation | |
Dr. Ricardo José Arango Representative of the Municipal Government of Medellin and Manager, Local Organizing Committee |
World Urban Forum Medellin 2014 | Presentation |