Our Vision
Cities with a high quality
of life for everyone
Our Goal
… is to bring about a just urban transition that creates a future worth living for all people. By developing strategies, sharing technical expertise and improving financing options, we are helping national governments, municipal administrations, and other urban stakeholders to make their cities liveable and socially equitable.
Goal 1
Cities offer basic services, employment, and healthy living conditions.
Goal 2
Cities help to bring about a just transition and thus promote sustainable economic productivity.
Goal 3
As places of production and consumption, cities integrate circular biological and technical processes.
Goal 4
Cities actively work to reduce poverty and inequality, and advance gender equality.
Goal 5
Cities posses green, polycentric, dense and socially mixed structures.
Goal 6
Cities enable everyone to participate in society and political life, and they foster diversity and inclusion.
Goal 7
Cities are climate-neutral resource-efficient, and they contribute to the conversation of biodiversity.
Goal 8
Cities leverage the opportunities afforded by the digital transformation for administrative and innovative ends consistent with the Principles for Digital Development.
GOAL 1
Cities offer basic services, employment, and healthy living conditions.
GOAL 2
Cities help to bring about a just transition and thus promote sustainable economic productivity.
Goal 3
As places of production and consumption, cities integrate circular biological and technical processes.
GOAL 4
Cities actively work to reduce poverty and inequality, and advance gender equality.
GOAL 5
Cities posses green, polycentric, dense and socially mixed structures.
GOAL 6
Cities enable everyone to participate in society and political life, and they foster diversity and inclusion.
GOAL 7
Cities are climate-neutral resource-efficient, and they contribute to the conversation of biodiversity.
GOAL 8
Cities leverage the opportunities afforded by the digital transformation for administrative and innovative ends consistent with the Principles for Digital Development.
TRANSITIONS in Action
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With our vision of cities with a high quality of life for everyone in mind, we continue to work together with partner countries on the sustainable development of our key urban sectors: construction, mobility, water, as well as waste and circular economy. In doing so, we follow the principle of “leave no one behind” and “leave no place behind”: no person, no neighbourhood in a city and no place worldwide should be left behind.
Everyone should participate in a Just Transition. We are building on previous successes – check out our initiatives and those of our partners:
City WORKS
A web-based toolkit designed to support the implementation of global agendas at the local level.
Cities CHALLENGE
The ideas competition – Implementation of Urban Living Labs to identify integrated and local urban solutions.
Tumi
Climate-friendly, inclusive, safe and affordable mobility in cities.
PREVENT
Together for a circular economy. The think and do tank’ for circular economy.
C40 Cities Finance Facility
The C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) works with partners to help cities in the Global South develop financing solutions.
URBANET
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URBANET is a weblog that promotes international dialogue on sustainable urban development. The weblog offers a platform for experts around the globe to exchange knowledge and experiences and provides insight into topics such as decentralisation, just transition and reducing inequalities.
Municipalities and Waste ReductionNew
Shifting to a circular economy has become a priority around the globe. Genci Kojdheli and ...
Genci Kojdheli and Angelina Schreiner
The Circular Revolution: WasteNew
In 2012, Bengaluru, a city in the South of India home to 13 million inhabitants, faced a significant challenge ...
Marwan Abubaker
Designing Cities for All: WomenNew
Women with disabilities are especially limited by gender biases. The Kota Kita Initiative​ describes how...
The Kota Kita Initiative
AI and Hidden Gender Bias in Urban LifeNew
AI could have groundbreaking effects on urban safety – if it had all of our cities’ inhabitants ...
Lizzette Soria Sotelo
Resource Hub
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The Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and its partners create knowledge products on a wide range of topics within sustainable urban development, including case studies, factsheets, technical manuals, and videos.
Local Solutions for Green Buildings and Constructions
Learning from informality: Urban innovations for just and sustainable cities
Report: Data-Driven Cities – Conference for the Urban Common Good
Insights from deployment of National Urban Data Platforms in India
Events
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To raise awareness of the relevance of sustainable urban development among a broader public audience, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is represented at key national and international events.