Our Vision

Cities with a high quality

of life for everyone

Don’t miss the World Urban Forum’s 12th (WUF12) edition

“It All Starts at Home: Local Actions for Sustainable Cities and Communities”
Cairo, Egypt; 4-8 November, 2024

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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.

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GOAL 1

Cities offer basic services, employment, and healthy living conditions.

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GOAL 2

Cities help to bring about a just transition and thus promote sustainable economic productivity.

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Goal 3

As places of production and consumption, cities integrate circular biological and technical processes.

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GOAL 4

Cities actively work to reduce poverty and inequality, and advance gender equality.

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GOAL 5

Cities posses green, polycentric, dense and socially mixed structures.

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GOAL 6

Cities enable everyone to participate in society and political life, and they foster diversity and inclusion.

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GOAL 7

Cities are climate-neutral resource-efficient, and they contribute to the conversation of biodiversity.

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GOAL 8

Cities leverage the opportunities afforded by the digital transformation for administrative and innovative ends consistent with the Principles for Digital Development.

Urban October 2024

 

October 1st – 31st, 2024
Check out our activities during the upcoming Urban October.

World Urban Forum 2024

The German Pavilion

November 4th – 8th, 2024
Stay tuned for the latest information about the World Urban Forum 12 in Cairo.

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:

URBANET

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Urbanet

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.

Connection Through Green SpacesNew

Connective CitiesThe Piçarrão River Linear Park @ Vitor Moraes Ribeiro | Campinas City Hall

In Campinas, a linear parks programme has been breathing new life into forgotten spaces ... 

Gabriel Dias Mangolini Neves

Road Savety & TechnolgoyConnective Cities

The images shows a traffic camera, the background is a grey, cloudy sky.

Pereira, Colombia, is pioneering a photodetection initiative with lifesaving ...

Marcela Neira Medina

Being Young in African CitiesYouth-Centred Cities

At night, a young African woman waring a white Khimar is standing in the left hand corner of the image and looks to something invisible towards the right hand corner of the image.

In African cities, young people struggle with limited opportunities and systemic failures ...

Elizabeth Dessie

Risk and Crisis ManagementRisk and Crisis

Protesters holding up a sign that reads “Housing is a human right, it's time for you to join the fight” © Joe Piette/Flickr

The Global Housing Crisis: A Crisis Unlike Any Other. Echoes of the same story ...

Kirsten McRae

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.

BMZ Positionspapier: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
BMZ Positionspapier: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
BMZ Position Paper: Sustainable urban development
BMZ Position Paper: Sustainable urban development
Factsheet Cities Challenge
Factsheet Cities Challenge
Factsheet Cities CHALLENGE South Africa
Factsheet Cities CHALLENGE South Africa

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.

Past Events – Worth Revisiting