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Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project

By Rhonda Douglas on October 27, 2017

From 2008-2014, WIEGO coordinated the Inclusive Cities Project – a multi-country 5-year project involving 9 primary partners with activities in 3 regions: Asia, Africa and Latin America. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project began as a collabo- ration of membership-based organizations (MBOs) of the working poor, regional/global alliances of MBOs, and technical support organizations who worked together to improve the situation of the working poor. The aim of the project was to strengthen MBOs in organizing, policy analysis, and advocacy so urban informal workers had the tools necessary to make themselves heard in urban planning processes. The cases shared here help show the way forward. They are only a few of the successes and highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project, where membership-based organizations of the urban working poor and their technical support partners worked together around a mutual vision of inclusive cities that value all people and their needs and contributions equally.

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