Urb-Al info : newsletter of Urb-Al programme. No 19, first half 2004.
Date: 2004-03-19
Institutions: EuropeAid Co-operation Office
Subjects: Latin America, action programme, cooperation policy, economic development, local authority, serial publication, town

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NEWSLETTER OF URB-AL
PROGRAMME, European
Commission horizontal
decentralised cooperation
programme for cities,
urban centres and regions 
of the European Union 
and Latin America

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
EuropeAid
Cooperation Office 
Latin America Directorate

ISSN 1725-0420

No19

FIRST HALF 
2004

IN THIS ISSUE 

In the second half of 2003, the new URB-AL networks began their public work.
NETWORK 13, “Towns and the Information Society”, coordinated by the Freie
Hansestadt Bremen, and NETWORK 14, “Citizens’ Safety in Towns”, coordinated
by the Municipalidad de Valparaiso, held their respective launch seminars in the autumn.
The Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, the coordinator of NETWORK 9, 
“Local Finance and Participative Budgets”, organised its launch seminar 
at the beginning of 2004.

The main focus of this issue is the Type-B projects. Descriptions are given of the initial
Type-B projects in progress. In addition to these four projects, there are the ones
organised by the Ayuntamiento de Málaga and the Ville d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, based 
on the results achieved by Networks 6 and 3 respectively. A further 6 new Type-B projects
were approved in the call for proposals in October 2003. Of these, 4 will apply 
the outcome of the type A joint projects on pooling experience. 

This will permit new and innovative ways of moving from pooling experience to practical
application, based on visible, tangible actions in a series of towns that will continue 
to work together for their collective benefit and for that of specific groups within 
their populations. 

On the occasion of the revision of the regional programmes on decentralised
cooperation, the External Relations Commissioner, Mr Chris Patten, said that he was very
satisfied with the efforts made. This success is shared by all the participants and, together
with Mr Patten, we would ask you to continue relying on the URB-AL Programme as 
an international reference by playing an active part in the second phase of the
programme, and in particular by generating proposals for joint projects that combine
technical excellence with creative innovation. 

RICCARDO GAMBINI
EuropeAid Cooperation Office – Head of Unit E2

Montevideo. The headquarters of the Ciudad Vieja Renueva project

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JOINT PROJECTS SELECTED

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2003 – 31 OCTOBER 2003 (REFERENCE EUROPEAID/113113/C/G)

Coordination of joint projects

Selected Coordinator

Country

Project Title

TYPE “A” JOINT PROJECTS

Comune di Roma – Italia

Comune di Arezzo– Italia

Prefeitura de São Paulo

Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà

Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Grande 
da Serra 
Prefeitura Municipal de Jacarei 
Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte 
Municipalidad Distrital de Independencia
Ayuntamiento de Irun 
Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano 
de Quito 

IT

IT

BRA

ES

BRA

BRA
BRA
PER
ES
EQU

Nuevos modelos de desarrollo urbano integrado 
por la valorización del patrimonio ambiental y cultural
Mejorar el impacto de la gestión de los desechos sólidos 
y urbanos en términos de reducción de los gastos 
socio-económicos y de respeto por el medioambiente
O acesso ao solo e habitação social em cidades grandes 
de regiões metropolitanas da América latina e Europa
La administración local como garante de atención de los adultos 
mayores y generadora de nuevos yacimientos de empleo
Manual de políticas públicas de saúde para o combate à pobreza 
e a melhoria da qualidade de vida
Instrumentalizar as localidades para o combate à pobreza
Inclusão Social através de Políticas Intersetoriais
Autodeterminación de las mujeres a través del empleo local
Observatorio - EALNET
Construyendo ciudades incluyentes. Promoción de la equidad 
de género en la gestión local

Selected Coordinator

Country

Project Title

TYPE “B” JOINT PROJECTS

Prefeitura Municipal de Caixas do Sul 

BRA

Ayuntamiento de Irun 

Odense Comune

City of Karlsruhe

Intendencia Municipal de Rosario 
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 

ES

DK

DE

ARG
DE

Projecto de valorização do turismo integrado à identidade 
cultural dos territórios – VICTUR
Alianzas público privadas para el desarrollo económico 
local OBSERVA.NET
Centro Regional Potenciador para Mujeres Emprendedoras 
y Trabajadoras
Sustainable waste management for oceanic islands – 
Extension & transfer
Rosario SUMA. Una solución Urbana desde una Mirada Alternativa
MOVI-MAN

Project No

R6-A6-03

R6-A7-03

R7-A3-03

R10-A7-03

R10-A8-03

R10-A10-03
R10-A11-03
R12-A3-03
R12-A4-03
R12-A6-03

Project No

R2-B2-03

R4-B4-03

R5-B5-03

R6-B3-03

R7-B1-03
R8-B2-03

TIMETABLE

Annual meetings 2004: provisional dates

NETWORK No - COORDINATOR
No 6 Ayuntamiento de Málaga
No 9 Prefeitura de Porto Alegre
No 10 Prefeitura de São Paolo
No 12 Diputación Provincial de Barcelona 
No 13 Freie Hansestadt Bremen
No 14 Municipalidad de Valparaíso

PLACE
Málaga – Spain 
Porto Alegre - Brazil
São Paulo – Brazil
Barcelona – Spain
To be decided
Valparaíso - Chile

DATE
18-19 June 2004
26-28 January 2004
17-19 February 2004
21-23 April 2004
November 2004
9-10 September 2004

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TYPE-B PROJECTS

Initial typology

Since the launching of calls in January

2002 for the submission of proposals
for Type B projects, the European Commis-
sion has received over 25 such proposals, of
which 12 were selected. Of these, 7 are
coordinated by Network Coordinators from
the  first  phase,  while  the  remaining 
5 emerged from the results of projects on
pooling of experience in the first phase or
Type A projects. These last Type B projects,
drawing on the results of joint projects, will
become increasingly frequent in future years. 

Based on the proposals received, a typol-
ogy of Type B joint projects can already be
sketched out in line with the procedure for
distributing activities between the members
and the cooperation arrangements being
established between them. 

Four types or “models” of Type B projects
can be identified according to the above-
mentioned criteria:

● A “reproduction” model, in which all
member towns perform similar work or
provide an identical public service. In this
case the coordinator assumes leadership
of the work, while the relations between
the members, which are close, are organ-
ised on a horizontal basis.

● A “complementary” model, in which
various complementary actions are imple-
mented in the various members, linked to
a  common  base.  This  requires  strong
leadership by the coordinator in order to
maintain coherence between the actions,
while the relations between the members
must be close and horizontal.

● A “centralised” model, in which most of
the work is carried out by the coordinat-
ing city and where the relations between
the members involve the coordinator. This
model is more suitable for projects requir-
ing a certain amount of investment in
equipment.

● An “associative” model, in which most
of the work is concentrated in a few
members. In this case, the coordinator –
usually European – focuses on manag-
ing the project, while implementation is
left  to  the  members.  Relations  are
generally vertical.

It is worthwhile pointing out at this junc-
ture that all these models are valid, but
that there is also a strong link between the
actions and the type of project. Each one
of these models has its advantages, weak
points and even risks, of course, in terms

of coherence and efficiency, as well as
participation and distribution of benefits
among members. Other types or combi-
nations between different models could
also be devised. The Commission is relying
on the creativity of the participants to
enhance this basic typology. 

Be that as it may, it must be emphasised
that, in addition to the arrangements apply-
ing to Type B projects, the proposals must
be of a technical quality that matches the
amount of the grant. It is also essential to
move from the pooling of experience to the
practical application of the results through
innovative projects which are very visible for
citizens and which lead to tangible, practi-
cal results. Because of their subject matter,
several Type A joint projects cannot be devel-
oped further even when they have achieved
pertinent results. 

A new support document “Guidelines for
grant applicants” and a new form will be
available from the beginning of 2004 to
facilitate the preparation and presentation
of Type B projects. Use of these documents
will be compulsory as of the call for pro-
posals in April 2004. You can find them as
usual on the Programme web site.

REPRODUCTION MODEL

COMPLEMENTARY MODEL

COORDINATOR

COORDINATOR

MEMBER 1

MEMBER 2

MEMBER 3

MEMBER 4

MEMBER 1

MEMBER 2

MEMBER 3

MEMBER 4

ASSOCIATIVE MODEL

COORDINATOR

MEMBER 1

MEMBER 2

MEMBER 3

MEMBER 4

CENTRALISED MODEL

MEMBER 3

MEMBER 4

COORDINATOR

MEMBER 1

MEMBER 2

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NETWORK 13

COORDINATED BY THE FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN 

Towns and the Information Society

Network 13, “Towns and the Information Society”, was officially launched on 22 and 23 September 2003 
in the centre of the Freie Hansestadt Bremen, in the historical buildings of the Bremen Town Hall and Senate,
the State Parliament, which were made available especially for this event as a conference venue. The seminar was
inaugurated by the Bremen Senator for Education and Science, Mr Willi Lemke. This network’s theme coincides
with one of the Commission’s priorities for strengthening the strategic partnership between Europe and Latin
America. Expectations are particularly high that this network will turn into a veritable forum that will enable 
this objective to be achieved at the level of the local authorities.

On this occasion, Mr Willi Lemke, Sen-

ator for Education and Science of the
Freie  Hansestadt  Bremen  and  head  of
Network 13, opened the plenary session
which was attended by representatives of the
European Commission from the EuropeAid
Cooperation Office, Berith Andersson and
Marc  Rimez,  and  from  the  Directorate-
General for the Information Society, Henri
Pascal. The experts responsible for drafting
the basic document outlining the main lines
and strategies of Network 13 reported on
their main conclusions.

Using the general theme “Towns and the
Information Society” as a basis, the experts
identified four main topics with the help of

the members of Network 13, with each topic
corresponding to one of the central chapters
in the basic document. These subdivisions
–  “Government  and  Administration”,
”Persons”, “Undertakings” and “Urban
Environment” – also provided the theoret-
ical  framework  for  the  workshops  held
during  the  launch  seminar,  in  which 
63 participants from local authorities and 
14 external members played an active part.

Thus  some  eighty  people  from  sixteen
different  Latin  American  and  European
countries contributed to the success of this
launch seminar by proposing twelve ideas
for  joint  project  proposals  during  the
workshops. 

During this phase, the members of Network
13 were asked to review the various ideas
for proposals which are accessible online
on the Network’s web site, and to contact
directly  the  coordinators  of  the  joint
proposals  to  obtain  more  details.  The
Network coordination fixed 31 March 2004
as the deadline for submitting proposals.
The  proposals  will  be  forwarded  to 
the Commission by 30 April 2004 at the
latest,  in  accordance  with  the  usual
procedure. 

The next annual meeting of Network 13 will
be held at the beginning of November 2004
in one of the cities of Latin America belong-
ing to the Network. 

Bremen. Inauguration of the seminar by Senator Willi Lemke 

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NETWORK 13

Question for the authors of the basic document

From the local to the global: what are towns doing to develop their own Information Society and what are 
the main challenges facing them in relation to the global IS which is to be turned into a Society of Knowledge?

Towns are complex organisations based on collective rules needed to
cope with social, economic and political changes, involving citizens
and communities, public property and services, undertakings (includ-
ing non-profit-making and third system organisations) and businesses
loosely organised into types of economic groups.

Just as SMEs are not in the same situation as large corporate groups
when it comes to adopting ICT, so neither are small and medium-sized
municipal authorities when it comes to taking the risks that pioneering
towns have borne in the context of cutting-edge technology, in a highly
uncertain context. 

Just like other forms of human organisation, for instance corporate
groups, towns have had to deal with the opportunities and challenges
of new information and communication technologies which permit new
ways of managing information flows in organisational and productive
processes, and which could result in an improvement in the way pub-
lic services are provided, enhancing the administration’s productivity.

Pioneering towns have been extremely active in experimenting,
innovating and even implementing fully new ways of restructuring
their activities and processes in the light of new technological and
organisational developments. A number of examples were pinpointed
and commented on in Network 13’s basic document.

The path to innovation in most towns that are hoping to become active
players in the global society involves networking and the pooling of expe-
riences and resources with similar authorities, based on the principles
of solidarity. It is not simply a question of not having to “reinvent the
wheel” each time, but rather of benefiting from existing expertise and
experience and of looking for economies of scope and scale in the
development of products and processes, as well as of adapting human
resources to the new features and ways of learning and working in the
knowledge society.

Luis Lozano
Basic document coordinator

A FRAMEWORK FOR CO-OPERATION IN DEVELOPING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY  
(DIGITAL INCLUSION & CAPACITY BUILDING) AT THE CITY LEVEL 

Vertical Sectors: Main Axis addressed to Government, People, Enterprises and Urban Environment

GOVERNMENT

PEOPLE

ENTERPRISES

URBAN  
ENVIRONMENT

  e-Governance 

  Community  
  Development

  e-Governance 

  e-Inclusion  

for specific groups

  Public Services  

  On-line

  e-Participation

  Education  
  & Training

  Entertainment  

  & Culture

  e-Health

  e-Inclusion  
  & Networking  

for SMEs

  Local Environment  

  & Sustainable  
  Development

  Culture & Tourism

  Urban Management  
(i.e. GIS, Transport,  
Land management)

  Entrepreneurship  
  & the local economy

  Development  
  & Support Centres

  e-Business  
  & e-Commerce

  Lifelong Learning

Horizontal  
Layers:

Content

Applications

Generic  
Services

Networks

ACCESS 

KNOWLEDGE

SKILLS

SUSTAINABLE  
MANAGEMENT

Diagonal Areas:  Awareness Raising, Regulatory Framework, Public Private Partnership, Financial Engineering,  

Social Capital, Resource management

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NETWORK 14

COORDINATED BY THE MUNICIPALIDAD DE VALPARAISO 

Citizens’ safety in towns

The launch seminar of Network 14 on “Citizens’ safety in towns” was held 
in the port of Valparaíso from 8 to 10 October 2003.The inauguration
session was attended by the Minister of Home Affairs, José Miguel INSULZA,
and approximately 200 participants, including the regional and local
authorities from the participating towns of Latin America and Europe.
The seminar was strongly supported by the local authorities involved 
in citizens’ safety.The key role of citizens’ safety in the local development
and international impact strategy adopted by the Municipalidad 
de Valparaíso is another guarantee of the future success of Network 14.

The inaugural seminar was headed by

the Minister of Home Affairs of the
Government of Chile, José Miguel Insulza,
the Adviser at the European Commission
Delegation in Chile, Roberto Rensi, the
Mayor of Valparaíso, Hernán Pinto, the URB-
AL Programme Manager, Berith Andersson,
and the Network 14 Coordinator, Gustavo
Paulsen,  who  tackled  the  question  of
citizens’ safety and well-being in towns in
both regions.

Mr Insulza gave a talk on citizens’ safety in
Chile and Latin America. He emphasised in
particular  the  differences  between  the
perception and reality of citizens’ safety. He
also underlined the key role played by local
bodies to cope jointly with this phenomenon.
Gustavo Paulsen mentioned his expecta-
tions, adding that “we hope in this meeting
to share a maximum of experiences and
discussions and to pool solutions that will
result in practical proposals for towns”.

The inauguration was attended by the rep-
resentative of the European Urban Safety
Forum, Michel Marcus, who delivered a lec-
ture on “Safety and Social Conviviality in
Towns”, underlining the fact that the part-
nership between the towns and institutions
involved was paramount in generating a
debate that would help solve the main prob-
lems of citizens’ safety in Europe. 

The 120 participants were organised into
thematic workshops on topics such as:

– Citizens’ safety, public policies and the

urban configuration 

– Instruments and areas of action relating to

citizens’ safety, and 

– Citizens’ safety and civil society. 

During the two intense days of workshops,
the representatives of the member towns
presented their plans to be used subsequently
to draw up “joint project” profiles, generat-
ing fourteen ideas for project proposals.

The Mayor of Valparaíso spoke at the closing
ceremony, urging the participants to assume
responsibility for change for the well-being
of the inhabitants of their towns. The closing
speech was given by Berith Andersson, who
pointed  to  the  success  of  this  seminar,
reflected in the excellent organisation and
quality  of  the  work  carried  out  by  the
participants. She also proposed that work be
conducted in the context of joint projects in
order to introduce good practices that would
benefit all urban communities.

Network 14. Inauguration. At the table, Berith Andersson, official in charge of the URB-AL Programme, José Miguel Insulza, Minister 
of Home Affairs of Chile, Roberto Rensi, Member of European Union Delegation and Gustavo Paulsen, co-ordinator of Network 14.
On the podium, Hernán Pinto, Mayor of Valparaíso

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NETWORK 14

Workshops: forums for debate and team-building

The Network members who attended the launch seminar of Network 14 played an active part as a result 
of the joint work carried out in the thematic workshops.The workshop participants spent two long days discussing
citizens’ safety issues affecting their towns as well as seeking convergence and partnership mechanisms that would
enable them to create joint project profiles.The degree of motivation of the participants was such that many groups
continued working in their free time, defining and bringing their ideas to life in terms of objectives and actual
activities to be carried out.

Four workshops were organised on the

three thematic strategies. Twenty-five
people took part in each one of them, from
various towns in Latin America and Europe.
With the support of a team of organisers
and backed by experts and methodologists,
interest  focused  on  the  thematic  side,
enabling the discussion to range from very
general aspects to the most detailed ones. 

This  therefore  provided  the  hoped-for
platform for the first encounter between
people from a number of diverse back-
grounds, with differing views of citizens’
safety. It provided an opportunity for the
forging of relations and integration sought
by the participants. 

“Citizens’ Safety,
Public Policies 
and Urban Configuration”

The problems affecting the development of
towns, their population growth and increase
in  territorial  density,  with  reference  to
citizens’  safety,  were  defined  by  the
participants as follows:

● a lack of urban policies relating to safety
● urban segregation because of declining
centres and the creation of social ghettos
(abject poverty, unemployment, youth
unemployment, domestic violence, alco-
hol, drugs and dropping out of school)
insufficient police force in the town centre
● urbanisation problems, defined as the loca-
tion of the poorest in peripheral areas with
poor transport facilities and the threat of

potential natural disasters, without any
planning and prevention process to cope
with them.

According to the participants themselves,
the causes of these problems include the
lack of public and cultural entities, rejection
by society of groups with social problems,
social exclusion of young people, their lack
of opportunities within the social system,
violent behaviour, and the lack of clarity and
inadequacy of the roles, powers and strate-
gies of local governments.

“Instruments and areas 
of action relating 
to citizens’ safety”

With regard to this theme, the participants
focused on the lack of help for victims of
attacks. They pointed out that there was no
care available for victims of crime or vio-
lence, no political will was in place to estab-
lish ad hoc rules, and there was no effective
system for helping victims. These phenom-
ena accentuate the subjective and individ-
ual perception of the lack of safety held by
urban populations on our continents. 

Turning to the existing instruments for meas-
uring, evaluating, diagnosing and predict-
ing abnormal behaviour within our soci-
eties, the participants said that there were
no homogenous instruments at interna-
tional level to permit comparative analyses,
and no homogenous legal systems either
that would enable these disasters to be
countered by blocks of nations. Nor were

Workshops in full swing

there  any  integrated  communications
systems to find out about the situation in
different countries.

“Citizens’ safety 
and civil society”

According to the participants, civil society is
experiencing serious sociability problems: a
deterioration in social links, accentuation of
social resentment between social groups,
generation by the media of a culture and
identity specific to criminality, increase in
contempt by society, greater social insecu-
rity, leading to frustration, aggression and
violence, and a lack of responsibility with
respect to collective needs. The participants
felt that all of these factors had led to a gen-
eral fragmentation of the community and a
greater tendency towards individualism. 

Gustavo Paulsen
Coordinator of Network 14

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TYPE-B PROJECTS

Issy-Les-Moulineaux: Consolidating local democracy 
with the use of new technologies

In the four years of coordination of URB-AL’s Network 3, “Democracy 
in towns”, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux has helped to bring to light 
and develop new local democracy practices. In July 2003, the European
Commission selected the Type B project “E-Agora: the Electronic
Democracy Academy” based on the outcome of the work of Network 3.

e-AGORA will be implemented in the context of “Fuerte Digital” in Issy-les-Moulineaux 

The key objective of the e-Agora project

is to establish an Electronic Democracy
Academy that will endeavour to experiment
and promote the use of new technologies
in order to strengthen participatory democ-
racy. The central theme of e-Agora is its
concentration on the development and
promotion of the use of new technologies
in public management and citizen partici-
pation practices, which is one of the most
important themes of Network 3. 

The  project  member  towns  –  Issy-les-
Moulineaux (FR), Frameries (B), Río Claro
(BRA), Juiz de Fora (BRA) Viña del Mar (CHI)
and Corporación Encuentro (CHI) – have
engaged  in  different  local  democracy
experiences and are seeking, through this
project, to develop alternatives using ICT,
in close cooperation with universities and

civil society institutions involved in the local
democracy dimension. The project will also
involve in its activities voluntary citizen groups
and groups of young students interested in
the themes tackled by e-Agora. It is hoped
that this partnership will ensure their active
participation in the performance of the proj-
ect and enable them to obtain real training
in e-Democracy practices. 

It is not simply a question of increasing ways
of participation, but also of strengthening
the interaction between the local authori-
ties and civil society with a view to enhanc-
ing transparency, improving public services
and modernising political relations. 

e-Agora will provide a forum for on-going
debates, thus acting as a reference point in
the theme of electronic democracy, like a

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kind of “reinvented agora”. e-Agora will
thus contribute to the birth of a new socio-
political culture: a culture of local democracy
which uses new technologies, a culture to
be shared by Europe and Latin America.

The Academy will develop two main activ-
ities: one on training and empowerment
and the other one on experimentation. 

e-Agora, accessible via the Internet, will act
as an information centre in real time (French,
Spanish, Portuguese and English), a forum
for pooling experiences and a technologi-
cal platform for online training and empow-
erment. The beneficiaries will be not only the
project protagonists, but also other local
authority officers and other players in civil
society in each project member town. Other
authorities in Europe and Latin America can
benefit from the courses via the Internet.

e-AGORA will also be a centre for experi-
mentation: throughout the project, differ-
ent technologies will be tried out (Internet,
cell-phone, interactive television, etc.) to
modernise participatory democracy prac-
tices. The most appropriate technologies
for increasing existing means of participa-
tion will be developed, in line with the special
features of each town. 

At the end of the project, a “White Paper”
will summarise the various results of e-Agora.
This Paper will underline the diverse aspects
of the experiences: benefits and potential,
problems and limits, and will attempt to
meet  the  challenges  of  using  new
technologies in order to strengthen local
democracy practices.

Coordination: 

Mairie de Issy-les-Moulineaux

Contact: Marie VIRAPATIRIN

Telephone: 33 1 4123 8272/73/58/61

Fax: 33 1 4123 8257

E-mail: urb-l@wanadoo.fr

marie.virapatirin@wanadoo.fr

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TYPE-B PROJECTS

Ayuntamiento de Málaga: the Urban Environment Observatory – 
an instrument for all members of Network 6 

The Ayuntamiento de Málaga has started an URB-AL project consisting 
of the establishment of an Urban Environment Observatory, in which
urban indicators will be analysed in order to monitor environmental
developments in Málaga and in all the towns in Network 6. Furthermore,
the Observatory will act as a training centre on environmental matters,
giving theory and practical courses to project members.All these plans 
will be carried out in a pioneering building designed in accordance 
with bioclimatic architectural requirements.

Coordinated by the Ayuntamiento de

Málaga, the project has nine members
from Network 6: Calvià (Spain), Provincia
de Treviso (Italy), Roma (Italy), Montevideo
(Uruguay), Viña del Mar (Chile), Rosario
(Argentina), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Corpo-
ración Regional del Atlántico-Barranquilla
(Colombia) and the Regional Office of Latin
American and the Caribbean (ROLAC) –
United Nations Habitat and Human Settle-
ments Foundation.

The aim in establishing the Observatory is
to gather together actions developed over
the past four years of work by Network 6
within the same physical and permanent
area. It is intended to conduct a project
which includes the building of an urban
facility equipped with ecological, smart
structures. The building itself will consti-
tute a visible reference point for the action,
and will provide space for the training of
local  authority  employees  in  the  areas
covered by the Network, and for the estab-
lishment of an observatory to monitor,
using indicators, the good practices in use
in Europe and Latin America.

A pioneering building
The  Urban  Environment  Observatory
(OMAU) will be located on a local author-
ity site in the vicinity of Parque Morlaco. It
will be housed in a new ‘smart’ building
designed in accordance with bioclimatic
architectural requirements, based on the
climate of the place, with a design that
makes use of energy generated by nature.

Recycled, ecological materials that are envi-
ronmentally efficient will be used in the
building work. The building will be run on
alternative energy sources.

Continuing training 
for members
Local authority officers from the member
towns will be trained using a programme
comprising two parts, one theoretical and
the other one practical.

The  theory  part  will  consist  of  training
sessions focusing on the four main aspects
laid down by Network 6:

The configuration of the town 
Social cohesion 

● Waste management 
● Government of the town. 

The training sessions will take place online,
via  the  Internet,  and  there  will  also  be
training requiring the actual physical pres-
ence of the trainees, which will last for 
14 days per year.

The practical part of the training programme
is intended to update the Local Agendas 21
of all the participants in the project, and will
involve pooling experiences and receiving
support from hired experts.

Formulation of
environmental indicators
The main objective of the Observatory is
to formulate, in line with existing method-
ologies, some of which come from the
European  Commission,  a  system  of
common indicators for all the members
that can be used to measure over time the
development of urban systems and their
features within a sustainable time-frame.
This initial information must be extended
subsequently to other non-member towns
so that the data bank can be offered on
the Observatory’s web site as a source and
example of good practices.

The  way  in  which  the  building  of  the
Málaga Urban Environment Observatory
is  designed  makes  it  a  pioneering
experiment in Europe where there is no
observatory with such features, combining
a bioclimatic urban facility with a training
centre and service for monitoring urban
indicators  and  good  environmental
practices.

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TYPE B PROJECTS

First Course in the Escuela de Formación Transmunicipal
de Desarrollo local, Madrid-Irún-Rome 

The first module, “Business Promotion and Employment”, was launched 
on 6 October last. It forms part of the Type B project:“Escuela de Formación
Transmunicipal de Desarrollo Local” (Transmunicipal Local Development
Training School) coordinated by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the School, the Antiguo
Laboratorio Municipal, in Madrid.

Thirty-six representatives took part from the
six member entities in the project: Municipa-
lidad de San Salvador de Jujuy (Argentina),
Bidasoa Activa (Spain), Ayuntamiento de
Madrid (Spain), Comune di Roma (Italy),
Gobierno  del  Estado  de  Jalisco  (Mexico) 
and  Cabildo  Metropolitano  de  Caracas
(Venezuela).

The module was held from 6 to 19 October:
the first week in Madrid and the second one
involving visits to Comarca del Bidasoa and
Rome. It was divided into four blocks: 
● Local development as a galvanising agent

for the territory
Institutional structure of local development

● Technological innovation in local areas

● New tools for promoting and establishing

undertakings.

The Madrid programme was rounded off
with field visits and “in situ” explanations
at the IFEMA, IMEFE, Chamber of Com-
merce and Madrid Parque Tecnológico.

In the Comarca del Bidasoa, the participants
had the opportunity of finding out about
individual and cross-border experiences on
development conducted by three munici-
pal authorities in the Comarca: Irún and
Hondarribia in Spain, and Hendaya in France.
Similarly, they studied the functioning of
the regional development agency, Bidasoa
Activa, geared to promoting and under-

Official inauguration at the School headquarters in Madrid

pinning development, consolidating the
local economy and creating jobs. 

In Rome, tha participants were told about
the work done by the municipal authorities
to support SMEs, plus the development poli-
cies pursued, which are much influenced
by Local Agenda 21.

Two  other  modules  are  planned  on
Sustainable Development and Citizens and
Social Well-being. Information on the three
courses will be available on an e-learning
platform during the last six months of the
project.

Provincia de Vicenza: first courses by the Centro Internacional 
de Formación para la Valorización y Conservación 
de los Contextos Históricos Urbanos

The first two terms of the course aimed at young graduates of the “Centro
Internacional de Formación para la Valorización y Conservación 
de los Contextos Históricos” already took place at the headquarters 
of the Centre in Vicenza during the second half of 2003.

The first term of the course focused

on the theoretical aspects of urban
projects, in particular experiences involv-
ing the renovation of European historic
town  centres.  The  strategies  of  the
Escuela de Vicenza, shared by all the
teachers at the centre, are based on expe-
riences which perceive urban restoration
projects as a will “to preserve the his-
toric traces which time has left on the
town or on the monument, maintaining
them and possibly adding new architec-
tural elements to make the town or prod-
uct suitable for contemporary use”. 

During the second term, from 15 Septem-
ber 2003 to 21 November 2003, the urban
project laboratory was opened to apply the
theoretical aspects analysed during the first
term, together with specialised courses in
restoration sciences. The purpose of the
studies was an urban project for the district
of San Rocco in Vicenza, a part of the town
which has important monuments and an
urban fabric that is becoming increasingly
impoverished and turning into a museum.

The laboratory classes will analyse the ren-
ovation of the district in an attempt to

reverse the current trends, in which the
historic centre is affected by urban decline,
while  the  introduction  of  economic
activities such as services and the impossi-
bility of making the historic urban fabric
compatible with contemporary life are
seriously affecting the quality of life in this
part of the town. 

Coordination:

UFFICIO COORDINAZIONE 

Contrà Gazzolle, 1

36100 Vicenza

Tel. +39 (0)444 399376

Fax.+39 (0) 444 323574

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TYPE-B PROJECTS

Montevideo: Ciudad Vieja Renueva inaugurates its headquarters

The launching of the Ciudad Vieja Renueva project in the historic quarter of Montevideo 
involved the neighbours and other local actors.

The Ciudad Vieja Renueva project started

its  activities  in  May  2003.  The  Local
Workshop was a particularly important meet-
ing, in which social and cultural organisa-
tions,  traders  and  entrepreneurs,  public
bodies, graphics artists, local authorities and
representatives  of  the  local  government
worked on criteria to select zones for reha-
bilitation of facades in the Ciudad (historic
centre), on proposals for tourism and cultural
development and on potential actors and
missions by the local Cooperation Group.

Seminar – International
Workshop
On 30 July, an open event was held for local
organisations, public bodies and neighbours.
The Mayor of Montevideo, Dr Adolfo Pérez
Piera, inaugurated the event together with the

Head of the European Commission Delega-
tion in Uruguay, Ms Stella Zervoudaki. Also tak-
ing part were representatives of the local author-
ities which are members of the project – Rosario
(Argentina), Santo André (Brazil), Bilbao (Spain)
and Turin (Italy) – who presented a number of
experiences in progress in their towns. On 
31 July and 1 August, the representatives of the
local authority project members and the local
authority team in charge of the project engaged
in intense meetings to adjust the planning and
coordination of criteria and joint activities. 

Inauguration of the 
headquarters of Ciudad
Vieja Renueva

Montevideo, Arq. Mariano Arana, and by
representatives of the members. The inau-
guration opened and closed with an artistic
show. 

Ciudad Vieja Renueva today
The progress in the activities in the coming
months can be followed in the Project’s
various publications and on its web site:
www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudadvieja.

Coordination:

Address: 25 de Mayo 691, Montevideo

Tel: (+ 598 2) 916 7445 - 6

Fax: (+598 2) 916 7137

The seminar closed with the inauguration of
the headquarters of Ciudad Vieja Renueva
on 1 August, attended by a Councillor of

e-mail: ciudadvieja@correo.imm.gub.uy

urbalmontevideo@prodo.imm.gub.uy

Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà:
the design phase of the local policies on tackling drug addiction

The process of drafting and publishing specific guides planned in the Project was launched by the Consell
Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà.

Efforts are currently focusing on various

documents, based on questionnaires,
reports and consultations, and include: a

guide on the development of local drug
addiction  observatories,  designing  of  a
community programme for tackling drug
addiction,  design  of  a  prevention
programme for use in families and drafting
of a guide on reducing dangers and risks.

The initial achievements to date include
the IT system, for internal communications
and exchanges, which is geared to three
strategies:

The virtual  training  school  will  start
operating during the first quarter of 2004.
The aim is to contribute to the continuing
training  of  professionals  and  technical
experts in the participating members to
improve their capacity for response, agree
on criteria relating to efforts to tackle this
phenomenon  and  adapt  efforts  to  the
agreed needs and priorities.

● A monthly report to monitor the active

Coordination: 

participation of the members. 

● A virtual network for the use of the various
organisations and professional participants
in the project, linked to the virtual training
school.

● A bi-monthly bulletin, printed, which lists
the activities of the participating mem-
bers and contains articles, etc.

Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà

Contact: Mr ROSA GUIXÉ VALLS

C/ Nou 48

E -17600 - FIGUERES

Telephone: 34- 972- 50. 30. 88

ccaemp@ddgi.es

The headquarters of the Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà

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TYPE-A PROJECT NEWS

“Participative budgets applied to young people” coordinated 
by the Mairie de Lamentin: encouraging the participation 
of young people at local level

The participation of the Mairie 
du Lamentin in the URB-AL
Programme faces a veritable
challenge: to try out new events 
to get young people involved 
in local politics, based on the 
experiences of the various towns.
The objective of the project is 
to create a methodology based 
on educational instruments 
and ensure the participation 
of young people by means 
of participative budgets

The first meeting of the members took

place at Le Lamentin in December 2002,
when the common methodology for car-
rying out the planned actions was vali-

dated, in particular the establishment in
each town of a competent deliberating
assembly consisting of young people. Dur-
ing the second meeting in Santo André
(Brazil) at the end of October 2003, each
town sent young people already trained
for the work to the various deliberating
assemblies to pool experiences and discuss
future projects.

Significant progress in the participation of
young  people  in  local  decision-making
processes, based on participative budgets,
has been noted in each town, despite the
fact that starting points were very different.
The young people present at the meeting
created a common language, overcoming
the language barriers, and were able to

Le Lamentin. Participants at the seminar

compare their everyday lives. They expressed
their hope of establishing “youth-friendly”
towns.

The  project  has  its  own  web  site:
www.mairie-lelamentin.com/urbal 

R3-P9-01 “Participative budgets applied to young people: a tool for local authority policies in favour of young people”

Coordinator:
Members:

Mairie du Lamentin (FR) 
Prefeituras de Bara Mansa, Rio Claro, Santo André (BRA), Municipalidad de Guanta (VEN), Ayuntamiento de Rubi (ES).

“Internet: a tool for perfecting local democracy”,
coordinated by the Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte:
new technologies at the service of local democracy

Together with the members 
of the URB-AL project, the Prefeitura
de Belo Horizonte is developing 
a social inclusion project based 
on the mounting of an itinerant
educational unit.

such  access  by  incorporating  computer
practice into their everyday lives and by
developing interactive educational work. 

The objectives of the project are to:

Once the main item of equipment (a lorry)

was purchased, it was converted into
two rooms with capacity for 28 pupils. The
aim is to facilitate access to computer tech-
nology for communities which do not have

– provide young people and communities
with access to computers as a way of
acquiring new skills;

– stimulate individual and collective initiati-
ves in educational processes by means of
computer technology;

– use computer resources to encourage the
formation of community associations;
– consolidate the habit of reading, studying
and discussing citizens’ rights and duties
through computers; 

– develop cultural and information activi-
ties which complement the social projects
established by social organisations.

The objective of the project members is to
train 1 260 pupils thanks to the assistance
of 30 monitors specially trained for this
purpose.

R3-P2-00 “Internet: a tool to perfect local democracy”

Coordinator:
Members:

Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte (BRA) 
Prefeitura de Juiz de Fora (BRA), Municipalidad de Viña del Mar (CHI), Alcaldía de Lima (PER). 
Mairie d’Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR), Câmara de Abrantes (PT)

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TYPE-A PROJECT NEWS

“Instruments for the redistribution of urban income”, coordinated 
by the Ayuntamiento de Lleida: in quest of efficient instruments 

The international URB-AL project
team, consisting of representatives 
of the members, met in Torre Queralt
(Lleida) on 24 and 25 September
2003.The aim was to help local
urbanisation processes overcome
urban shortcomings and inequalities.

The project is based on the idea that

urbanisation processes, the main local
economic activity, must allow the proper
redistribution of urban income or the capital
gains generated by it. Therefore legislative
and tax instruments, urban policies, and
urbanisation planning and management are

examined. Based on the experience of the
local authorities taking part and of others in
Europe and Latin America, the study will pro-
vide an analytical register of the instruments
that allow the public sector to collect increases
in urban income and to make use of these
amounts to overcome urban shortcomings
and inequalities. The final product will be a
paper outlining the best practices and activ-
ities, which will be published and will also be
available on the CEPAL and URB-AL web
sites.

The meeting concentrated on designating
one town for each one of the existing instru-

ments.  Throughout  the  sessions,  each
representative from the towns in the project
discussed experiences, work, projects, rules
and objectives relating to the instruments. 

This  enabled  direct  responsibility  to  be
assigned to each member town for the
devising of the corresponding records, the
aim being to analyse the content in depth
and bring it into line, ensuring a high degree
of application and relevance. During the
meeting, the workshop decided on the
content of the records for the instruments
and the towns responsible for the initial
drafting work.

R7-P7-02 “Instruments to redistribute urban income”

Coordinator:
Members:

Ayuntamiento de Lleida (ES) 
Comune di Ferrara (IT), Municipalidad de Rosario (ARG), Municipalidad de Malvinas Argentinas (AR) 
Prefeitura de Río Claro (BRA), CEPAL.

“Integration of bicycles into traffic planning in medium-sized towns”,
coordinated by the Gemeente Utrecht: opening up new roads

The URB-AL project completed its
activities at the end of November
2003. Quite apart from the potential
future application of the activities,
all the members found that 
the experiences of the others helped
to provide answers to their own
problems of improving traffic 
in their towns.

Most of the participating towns had

drawn up their own papers on impro-
ving the use of bicycles in their local situa-
tions. Some of the papers have already been

approved as a legal basis by their respective
authorities and used as a basis for local traf-
fic policies. External members cooperated
on the production of a Guide.

A brief video compares the conditions for
cyclists in two towns in the project: Río de
Janeiro and Utrecht. It is interesting to see
how many of the problems affecting cycling
are similar in both towns, despite their dif-
ferences in every other respect. This factor
is further proof of the importance of pooling
experiences by towns in different situations.
It also demonstrates the prejudice regarding
the  culture  of  cycling  prevalent  in  the

The bicycle: one means of urban transport among others

Netherlands because of the special condi-
tions there, and the mutual benefits that
emerge from these exchanges. 

R7-P7-02 “Integration of bicycles into traffic planning in medium-sized towns”

Coordinator:
Members:

Gemeente Utrecht (NL) 
Florianópolis, Río Claro, Río de Janeiro (BR), Instituto de Vivienda y de Urbanismo (CHI), Baranquilla, 
Belén de Umbría, Departamento del Atlántico, Valledupar, Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano (COL), Loja (Ecuador),
León (NIC), Universidad de Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE), Graz (OS), Instituto de Estudios de Bizkaia (ES).

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PROJECTS

Over fifty joint projects concluded their work in the context of
the eight networks involved in the first phase of the Programme 

Now over fifty projects for pooling experiences have completed their work in the first-phase networks.
Eighteen joint projects completed their work during the second half of the year.

Coordinator

Country

Project No

Title of the Project

Ayuntamiento de Coria, Spain.
Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara 
Comune di Ragusa
Comunidad de Madrid
Municipalidad de Posadas, Misiones
Municipalidad de Cuenca.
Alcaldía de Manizales,
Ville de Marseille 

Spain 
Mexico
Italy
Spain
Argentina
Ecuador
Colombia
France

R2-P4-98
R2-P6-99
R2-P7-99
R2-P1-00
R3-P1-99
R3-P2-99
R3-P3-00
R3-P9-00

Municipalidad de San Salvador de Jujuy   Argentina

R4-P2-00

Ayuntamiento de Cádiz
Diputación Provincial de Huelva

Spain
Spain

UK

London Borough of Lewisham 
Municipalidad de General Pueyrredon   Argentina
- Mar del Plata -
Consell Comarcal del Gironès 
Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo
Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Victoria
Municipalidad de Arequipa

Spain
Brazil
Mexico
Peru

R4-P6-00
R4-P8-00

R4-P14-00
R5-P1-99

R5-P9-99
R5-P2-01
R7-P6-01
R8-P3-01

Gemeente Utrecht

Netherlands

R8-P10-01

ARCHADIAE 
Los Centros Históricos, un patrimonio habitable.
Accessibilità e Mobilità dei contesti storici.
Modelos de gestión de rehabilitación en cascos históricos.
Escuela de vecinos. Participación ciudadana.
Formulación participativa del Plan Estratégico de Desarrollo Municipal 
Juventud y participación ciudadana: prácticas, formación y acciones
A.M.I.S.T.A.D. Amélioration et Modernisation des Interventions des
Services Techniques de l'Administration locale, outil de Démocratie.
Fortalecimiento institucional entre ciudades de América Latina y 
de la Unión Europea”.
Acciones para incentivar la economía de los barrios deprimidos.
Las ciudades como promotoras de intercambios entre PYMEs 
de América Latina y la Unión Europea.
Integrated Community Action for Europe and Latin America.
Formación de operadores socio comunitarios para la atención 
de personas en situación de calle.
Ayuda a domicilio: conceptualizacion y modelos de gestión.
Empleo y ciudadanía activa de las mujeres
Poder local y Marco Jurídico para la Planificación y la Gestión Urbana.
Integration of transport planning and urban planning within 
the scope of sustainability and Local Agenda 21.
Integración de la bicicleta en la planeación del transito en ciudades
medianas en América Latina y Europa. Un programa interactivo 
de entrenamiento y diseminación.

Conference on local partnership

In the context of the preparation of the

Summit of Heads of State and Government
of the European Union and of Latin America
and the Caribbean, to be held in Mexico in
May 2004, the European Commission has
decided to organise a Conference on local
partnerships between the EU and Latin
America: “State of play and Ways For-
ward for the Decentralised EU -Latin
American Urban Policy co-operation”.

The  objectives  of  the  Conference  are
twofold.  First,  to  encourage  debate  on
current international decentralised cooper-
ation practices involving local authorities in
the European Union and Latin America. Sec-
ond, to propose guidelines to consolidate the
future development of the cooperation
based on the adjustment of its strategic
design and methods of action to the prior-

ities and expectations of Latin American
cities in the area of urban policies and on the
optimal use of resources and management
of decentralised cooperation.

To this end, the Commission published a
call for proposals on 27 September 2003
for the coordination and organisation of
this Conference. Based on the outcome of
the proposals received, the Commission
decided to award the corresponding grant
for the organisation of the Conference to the
Municipalidad de Valparaiso, in consortium
with the Diputación de Barcelona.

The Conference will be attended by some
thirty participants (local authority managers
and experts with recognised experience in
decentralised cooperation) who will work
behind closed doors for two days. The Con-

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Valparaiso. La Alcaldía, the official venue for the Conference

ference will be held in Valparaiso at the end
of March 2004. The conclusions will be com-
municated to the authorities attending the
Mexico Summit. In addition, the outcome
will be disseminated to, among others, all
the participants in the URB-AL Programme,
by  means  of  a  basic  document  on
decentralised cooperation between local
authorities in the European Union and Latin
America, published as a special edition of
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CONTACTS

Your Commission contacts

Riccardo GAMBINI
Head of Unit: 
Coordinator:
Berith ANDERSSON
Projects Managers: Marc RIMEZ Juan José ALCALDE MONTES, 

Secretariat:

Miguel ROMERO
Jimena BASTIDAS DE JANON

Address: 
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
EuropeAid Cooperation Office 
Latin America Directorate
Unit E2 “Centralised Operations Latin America“ 
URB-AL Programme
J54 4/13
B -1049 Brussels (Belgium)

Telephone:
Fax:

(32 2) 298.46. 38
(32 2) 299.10.80

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/urbal/index_es.htm

@

DELEGATION

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia and Ecuador 

Mexico

Nicaragua – Costa Rica – El Salvador – 
Guatemala – Honduras

Peru

Uruguay – Paraguay

Venezuela

CONTACT

Constanza AJA ESPIL
Tel.: 54-11- 4805.3759
constanza.aja-espil@cec.eu.int 
http://www.delarg.cec.eu.int/

Angel GUTIERREZ HIDALGO
Tel: 591-2-278.22.44
angel.gutierrez-hidalgo@cec.eu.int
http://www.delbol.cec.eu.int/

María Cristina ARAUJO
Tel.: 55- 61- 248.3122 – Fax: 55-61-248.0700
cristina.araujo@cec.eu.int
http://www.delbra.cec.eu.int/

Joséphine ARPAILLANGE
Tel: 56-2 -335.24.50
josephine.arpaillange@cec.eu.int
http://www.delchl.cec.eu.int/

Silvia FALLA
Tel: 57-1- 621.60.43 
silvia-maria.falla-robles@delcol.cec.eu.int
http://www.delco.cec.eu.int

Carolina BENEDICTSSON
Tel: 52-55- 55 40 33 45
carolina.benedictsson@cec.eu.int
http://www.delmex.cec.eu.int/

Pablo ISLA 
Tel: 505 -270.44.99 – Fax: 505 270.44.84
pablo.isla@cec.eu.int
http://www.delnic.cec.eu.int

José Luis ARTEAGA CESPEDES
Tel: 51-1-212-11-35
jose-luis.arteaga-cespedes@cec.eu.int
http://www.delper.cec.eu.int

Mylène TESTUT
Tel: 598-2- 1944.0126
mylene.testut@cec.eu.int
http://www.delury.cec.eu.int

Jean-Charles FIEHRER
Tel: 58-212-991.51.33 
Jean-charles.fiehrer@cec.eu.int
http://www.delven.cec.eu.int

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ADDRESS BOOK 

Information sources

NETWORK NO 6
Urban Environnement 
Co-ordination: Ayuntamiento de Málaga
Contacts:
Address:

Pedro Marín Cots
Programa URB-AL – Red n° 6
Plaza de la Alcazaba s/n
Edif. Aparcamientos
E-29012 Málaga – España
34-952-60.27.77
34-952-22.30.92
red6@urbalmalaga.com – 
pmarin@ayto-malaga.es
www.urbalmalaga.com

Tel: 
Fax: 
E-mail: 

Internet:

NETWORK NO 12
Promoting the role of women 
in local decision-making bodies 
Co-ordination: Diputación Provincial de Barcelona
Contacts:

Eva Mª Gispert
Gabinet de Relacions Internacionals
Còrcega 300, ppal. 1ª
E-08008 BARCELONA 
34-93-402.20.55
34-93-402.24.73
grii.red12urbal@diba.es
www.diba.es/urbal12

Address: 

Tel:
Fax: 
E-mail:
Internet:

NETWORK NO 9
Local finance and participative budget 
Co-ordination: Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre
Contacts: 
Address: 

Eduardo Mancuso
Programa URB-AL Rede 9
Rua Uruguai 155/14° andar 
CEP 90010-140 – Porto Alegre – RS – Brasil
55-51-3289.3628/3651
55- 51-3211.1265
emancuso@gp.prefpoa.com.br
urbalop@gp.prefpoa.com.br
www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br

Tel.
Fax
E-mail

Internet:

NETWORK NO 10
The fight against urban poverty 
Co-ordination: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paolo
Contacts:
Address:

Sinoel Batista
Programa URB-AL Rede 10
Palácio Anhangabaú – Viaduto do Chá
15 – 7º andar
CEP 01002-020 – São Paulo – SP – Brasil
55-11-3113.8551 / 8554 / 8547
55-11-3113.8548
urbal10@prefeitura.sp.gov.br
www.urbal10.sp.gov.br

Tel: 
Fax: 
E-mail: 
Internet: 

NETWORK NO 13
Towns and the information society
Co-ordination: Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Claire Klindt
Contacts: 
Office Network 13
Address: 
Kreuzstrasse 72
D-28203 Bremen 
49-421-3695.40
49-421-3695.425
claire@whitebalance.de
www.bremen.de/urb-al/

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NETWORK NO 14
Citizens’ safety in towns
Co-ordination: Municipalidad de Valparaiso
Contacts: 
Address:

Gustavo Paulsen
Programa URB-AL Red 14
Blanco 1663 – Oficina 1002
Valparaiso – Chile
56-32-939.571
56-32-939.572
red14@urbalvalparaiso.cl
www.urbalvalparaiso.cl

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Conference on local partnership UE-AL 
Co-ordination: Municipalidad de Valparaíso
Contacts:

Gustavo Paulsen
María del Huerto Romero
Conferencia URB-AL
Blanco 1663- Oficina 1002
Valparaíso – Chile
56-32-939.805
56-32-939.572
conferencia@conferenciaurbal.cl
mromero@conferenciaurbal.cl
www.conferenciaurbal.cl

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