In Inside Philanthropy, MMC Executive Director Vittoria Zanuso and President of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Peter Laugharn call on the philanthropic community to directly fund to cities to support migrant and refugee children.
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More than 200 diverse organizations are signaling their support for the Welcome Corps, a new U.S. government community service program that allows everyday Americans to privately sponsor refugees from around the world.
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In Bloomberg, MMC Leadership Board Mayor Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown and MMC Head of Practice Samer Saliba discuss barriers to city access to climate finance.
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In NewCities, Samer Saliba and Helen Yu from the MMC Practice team share how Medellín is adapting existing housing programs to support Venezuelan migrants and refugees.
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International and national actors focused on inclusive climate action must include mayors and governments in political decisions and increase financial investment to improve the capacities and services of cities.
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Honourable Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey is mayor of the Ghanaian capital Accra. In this interview, she talks about how the city creates better living conditions for migrants and what she expects from the UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt.
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The city-to-city partnership between Zurich, Switzerland, and Tyre, Lebanon, has resulted in bike-sharing stations for the use of refugees and city residents.
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Cities worldwide continue to be at the forefront of the decision-making which impacts refugees, migrants and internally displaced people. Partners in the Call to Local Action work together to support cities in implementing inclusive policies that benefit their communities.
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In OECD, MMC Head of Practice Samer Saliba unpacks how a lack of municipal financing strains cities’ capacity to provide for migrants and refugees.
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A Task Force of mayors, an Action Agenda, and a USD 1 million-dollar Fund to tackle the climate crisis across the world: these are the actions announced by C40 Cities and the Mayors Migration Council at COP26.
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Mayors from over 60 cities around the world – including MMC Leadership Board Mayors from Los Angeles, Milan and Bristol – have called on their national governments to open new pathways for Afghan refugees following recent developments in the country.
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Mayor Bill Peduto says Pittsburgh is one of nearly 60 cities across the world ready to “immediately” welcome Afghan refugees through the statement organized by the MMC.
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Cities are demanding humanitarian corridors for Afghan refugees, offering reception locations to their national governments, and are preparing local coalitions to host and support vulnerable people fleeing Afghanistan, including cities who supported MMC’s “Welcome Afghan Refugees Now” statement.
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A group of more than 50 mayors from cities around the world, led by the MMC, on Thursday called on their national governments to expand pathways for Afghan refugees to seek safety, amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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Executive Director, Vittoria Zanuso, reflects on her work with the MMC and what drives her in her pursuit for more peaceful, just, and inclusive societies.
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MMC Leadership Board Mayor Marvin Rees pledged that Bristol would resettle ten Afghan families saying the participation of private landlords in the resettlement scheme would be “essential” and vowed to work on the international level for solutions.
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The C40-MMC Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration, launched on June 22, 2021, is a mayor-led initiative to address the impact of the climate crisis on migration in cities. The Task Force will drive forward an Action Agenda to be presented at COP26.
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If the current system of global cooperation fails to help the world recover, grievances and mistrust toward the United Nations and member states will intensify. If the world is to build back better—and develop the capability to address the looming crises of the future—then impact hubs are needed.
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Impact hubs, international initiatives that assemble multiple actors from various sectors to make demonstrable progress toward solving global challenges, are a viable approach to vaccine rollout, but, with the help partners like the MMC, could be a useful approach to challenges like global refugee resettlement.
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As part of the ICLEI Rise Africa Action Festival Session, UN-Habitat and the MMC hosted a session addressing the importance of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus for advancing solutions to rapid urbanization and displacement with a focus on Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Nigeria.