The 16th PPI – SA City-Wide Tournament will be held at Chatsworth Sports Grounds on the 29th May

What Is the City-Wide Tournament?
A full day of basketball games and educational activities for over 2,000 youth from the Durban area. 

The world is turning increasingly urban with more than 5 billion people projected to live in cities in 2030. More than 300 cities have already a population of more than 1 million and 20 megacities exceed 10 million. Urban landscapes everywhere are changing faster than we can understand the diverse forces that are conditioning these changes.  Coinciding with the “Better city, better life” theme of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, Stockholm Resilience Centre launched the first version of the online platform Urban Planet.

The platform, which was presented at the Swedish pavilion virtual exhibition, provides an innovative and attractive learning environment with interactive statistics, maps, and best practices in the field of urban sustainability. It focuses on the the close connections between social and natural systems, and on the fundamental role ecosystem services play for human wellbeing.  Urban Planet makes it possible for citizens, policy-makers and scientists to get involved early in the processes of creating a sustainable urban environment, says project leader Danil Lundback.

With case studies and real live illustrations from all over the world, the Urban Planet provides ways to involve different stakeholders in sustainable urban planning.

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• Translating the eThekwini Municipality Community Participation Policy into a well known and understood living document
• Exploring strengths and weaknesses of eThekwini Municipality Community Participation Policy
• Providing a platform for community participation practitioners (including policy implementers and civil society organizations) to share best practices in community participation
• Establishing and evaluating what mechanisms are in place to facilitate community participation
• Marketing eThekwini Municipality services and ensure that citizens have access to these services and thereby demystifying Council processes and procedures
• Strengthening the capacity and engagement of civil society organizations in community participation processes
• Stimulating the growth of new partnerships and concretizing existing ones between the various stakeholders within the community participation sector
• Ensuring that community participation processes includes marginalized groups, such as, shack dwellers, people with disabilities, youth and women.

Next session: May 15: the Corner Cafe 197 Brand Rd, Bulwer (nr Davenport Cntr & KZNA Gallery) 12.30 to 15.00