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IOM’s 2021 International Dialogue focused on “Accelerating integrated action on sustainable development: migration, the environment and climate change,” and included key IOM partners like the MMC. This event comes at a time of increasing political urgency, and in view of the deep impacts of the Covid-19 health crisis linking climate and migration to current and future development issues.
Vittoria Zanuso, Executive Director of the MMC, and Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40 Cities, urge national governments and international bodies to give city leaders a seat at the table where policy and investment decisions around climate migration are made.
Read MoreThe MMC and local leaders from 15 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, New York City, and San Diego, ask President Joe Biden to consult them as the administration studies how to identify and resettle people displaced directly or indirectly by drought, rising seas and other effects of climate change.
Read MoreVittoria Zanuso discusses migration as an adaptation measure at a time when no amount of infrastructure can prevent climate impacts and the need for funding to support urban adaptation projects is growing.
Read MoreBarranquilla, Colombia is using the MMC's Global Cities Fund to help refugees, migrants, and internally displaced Colombians overcome barriers to accessing the formal labor market and increase their chances of earning an income.
Read MoreBarranquilla, Colombia is using the Global Cities Fund to help refugees, migrants, and internally displaced Colombians overcome barriers to accessing the formal labor market and increase their chances of earning an income. But cities need more support.
Read MoreThe MMC's Vittoria Zanuso warns against viewing migrant newcomers to cities as competing with existing residents. Instead, city planners should embrace migration as an opportunity to build resilience and shape national policies.
Beirut is one of five cities benefiting from the million-dollar Global Cities Fund for Inclusive Pandemic Response, inaugurated by the MMC to respond to the needs of cities regarding migrants, refugees and internally displaced people during the pandemic.
Read MoreUN-Habitat is supporting the MMC’s Global City Funds initiative through its extensive experience on working with local authorities for creating inclusive, safe and sustainable urban areas and transferring funds to local authorities in different countries.
Read MoreThrough the Mayor’s Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity, MMC Leadership Mayors Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Giuseppe Sala are finding practical ways to address the reality of people moving into and between their cities and helping states progress on global goals.
Read MoreMMC Leadership Board city Freetown, Sierra Leone has become one of five cities to receive the MMC's Global Cities Fund grant to help expand its waste-management scheme aimed at helping young people in informal settlements to make a living and improve public health amid the challenges of Covid-19.
Read MoreSmart Cities Dive's hosts aggregated news and headlines regarding the virus' impact on cities to stay on top of local-level Covid-19 mitigation including information on the MMC’s Global Cities Fund.
Read MoreCities such as Mongla in Bangladesh and Buffalo in New York are transforming themselves into attractive locations for those displaced by climate change. Organizations like the MMC are helping cities translate international refugee and migration policies into action at the local level.
Toby Kent joins Mark Spencer to talk to the Deputy Executive Director of the MMC, Kate Brick, to talk migration, urbanization, climate change, the collision of these factors, and how the MMC approaches these realities.
Read MoreMMC's Leadership Board Members, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Giuseppe Sala, met through the MMC and now co-lead the Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity, discuss human mobility and the future of cities with ECDPM’s Amanda Bisong.
Read MoreNumbers of both internal and cross-border migrants are rising and it is highly likely that cities be the favored destination. City networks and organizations like the MMC and C40 Cities are using their coalitions of leaders to influence international policies and improve urban planning and innovation to prepare for climate change.
Read MoreYvonne Aki-Sawyerr has been the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, and a member of the Mayors Migration Council since 2018. In this interview, she talks about loss as a major theme in debates on migration - and about a key experience that led her to work internationally to ensure that cities are heard on migration issues.
Read MoreCity networks and organizations are working across a range of policy areas and have catalyzed major progressive steps toward meeting global challenges, including through the MMC's Covid Action tracker.
Read MoreThe most useful maps and data visualizations of the Covid-19 pandemic have helped us understand, respond to and recover from the crisis. A new data-driven tool to assist city-level governments and health providers is in development and will be shared by MMC to help plan and manage future infectious disease outbreaks.
Read MoreThe pandemic has revealed that integrating voices from city leadership into international decision-making is crucial for effective crisis management. MMC mayors Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Bruno Covas, and Eric Garcetti are contributing to this effort.
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