Urb-Al info newsletter of Urb-Al programme. No 22, second half 2005.
Date: 2006-01-05
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 European Union 
and Latin America

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
EuropeAid 
Cooperation office 
Latin America Directorate 

ISSN 1725-0420

No22

SECOND HALF 
2005

IN THIS ISSUE

As 2005 draws to a close, several networks from the second phase of the URB-AL
programme are finalising their activities under the contract they signed with the
European Commission. Some have already held their last annual meeting. Yet, for
their coordinators this does not mean that URB-AL activities are over. Two networks –
Network 6, coordinated by Málaga and Network 8, coordinated by Stuttgart – are
currently prolonging their activities thanks to other financial resources. They are a
source of inspiration to URB-AL networks in the second phase, which do not want to
call a halt to their activities after three years of international exchanges and enriching
learning experiences. These networks are keen to exploit the links that they have
established between European and Latin American cities over this period and to push
ahead with more ideas and more projects, after financing for the URB-AL programme
comes to an end. 

This issue includes a presentation of the Málaga and Stuttgart strategies, their
reasons for continuing to implement part of the networks’ activities and their
experiences in this new phase.

The continuation of the URB-AL programme is not, however, just a matter of going
on with the networks but also the lasting effects made by the projects carried out.
These results, which, in the case of Rosario, have received international recognition
from the UNDP, are encouraging other cities to participate in URB-AL Type “A” and
Type “B” projects. Several of the joint URB-AL projects are also presented by their
coordinators in this issue. 

RICCARDO GAMBINI
EuropeAid Cooperation Office – Head of Unit B2

Aerial view of the central area of the town of São Paulo

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JOINT PROJECTS SELECTED

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2005 – 30 APRIL (REFERENCE EUROPEAID/113113/C/G)

Coordination of joint projects 

Selected coordinator

Country

Project title

TYPE “A” JOINT PROJECTS

Provincia de Génova

Comune di Latina

Municipalidad de Miraflores

Ayuntamiento de Gijón

Consell Comarcal del Maresme

Regione Toscana

Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

IT

IT

PE

ES

ES

IT

ES

Project No

R10-A12-05

R12-A2-05

Creación de empleo y recuperación ambiental – 
cooperación entre diferentes agentes locales

Observatoire international pour les droits et les opportunités 
des femmes célibataires chefs de famille

Red Internacional de Bibliotecas municipales. Unión de Bibliotecas UB

R13-A3-05

Servicios e infraestructuras de apoyo empresarial:
Transferencia de metodologías y nuevos desarrollos sobre la base 
de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación

Aplicación innovadora de las TICS en el desarrollo 
de territorios turísticos emergentes

Consolidación de los gobiernos locales en seguridad ciudadana:
formación y prácticas

R13-A6-05

R13-A8-05

R14-A2-05

Inseguridad colectiva y autoprotección

R14-A5-05

Selected coordinator

Country

Project title

Project No

TYPE “B” JOINT PROJECTS

Municipalidad de Valparaíso

Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo

CL

UY

Modelo de gestión para barrios históricos en ciudades puerto

R2-B1-05

Ciudades y ciudadanos/as por la inclusión social

R10-B1-05

AGENDA

Annual Meetings 2006: Provisional Dates

NETWORK No – COORDINATOR

PLACE

N° 6 Ayuntamiento de Málaga

N° 9 Prefeitura de Porto Alegre

URB-AL 
Programme Document Centre

Observatory of EU-LA 
Local decentralised cooperation

Málaga – España

Porto Alegre – Brasil

Málaga – España

Montevideo – Uruguay

DATE

10-11 March 2006

7-9 March 2006

10-11 March 2006

March 2006

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NETWORK 10

COORDINATED BY THE PREFEITURA DE SÃO PAULO

Fight against urban poverty

The closing conference of Network 10,“Poverty as a violation of human rights: the role of cities in attaining
the Millennium Goals and equity”, was held in São Paulo from 23 to 25 February, attended
by some 200 representatives of 66 local governments from Latin America and 10 cities from Europe,
as well as 24 civil society bodies, representing a total of 14 countries.

The opening of Network 10’s last annual

meeting,  Fight  against  urban
poverty, was attended by the Prefect de
São Paulo, José Serra; the President of the
Municipal Commission for Human Rights,
José Gregori; the European Commission
official  in  charge  of  the  URB-AL  pro-
gramme, Vittorio Tonutti, and the Inter-
national Relations Secretary and General
Coordinator of Network 10, Helena Maria
Gasparian.

During the opening session, there were
presentations by Professor Ruth Cardoso,
who spoke on “The Millennium Goals –
investing in development”, the Municipal
Secretary for Social Assistance and Devel-
opment, Antonio Floriano P. Pesaro, and
by the Labour Secretary, Gilmar Viana Con-
ceição. Vittorio Tonutti, the EC official in
charge of the URB-AL Programme also
gave a speech in which he reiterated the
objective of this decentralised coopera-
tion programme, namely to foster direct
and lasting links between European and
Latin American local organisations by dis-
seminating and applying good practice in
the context of urban policies. Network
10’s coordinators then presented the eight
joint Type “A” projects adopted to date. 

During the Conference, the members met
in thematic groups and jointly drew up
19 proposals for Type “A” Joint Projects,
involving cities and organisations from
seven countries. At the same time, a Dec-
laration was drafted by the partner cities
and  approved  by  the  plenary  session,
showing the interest in continuing the
URB-AL Programme in order to take full
advantage of the excellent results achieved
during its ten years of existence. 

During the conference, debates on the
proposals covered five thematic areas:
human rights and vulnerable groups (e.g.

people living on the streets); the right to
the city (the use of public space in central
and outlying areas), local development,
economic solidarity and financing strat-
egy; rights of the child (how to tackle child
labour in cities); and cooperation as an
instrument for combating urban poverty.

An assessment survey of the Conference
(72 questionnaires completed) showed the
extent of participants’ satisfaction and
interest: 63% said that that they learnt a
lot  from  the  presentations  and  78%
endorsed the thematic area approach.

Since January 2005, Helena Maria Gas-
parian has been responsible for the Inter-
national Relations Secretariat and the gen-
eral coordination of Network 10. One of
her priorities was participation in the URB-
AL Programme, both the Coordination of
Network 10 and participation in Type “A”
and “B” projects under way, and meeting
previous commitments, such as the Net-
work’s closing conference.

Network 10 took part in the call for pro-
posals in April 2005 with 12 proposals for
joint Type “A” projects and one Type “B”
proposal, about half of which were dis-
cussed or improved in the Network’s clos-
ing conference. 

The preliminary results of a second survey
on the overall assessment of Network 10’s
work indicated that all the people ques-
tioned felt that relations with the Network
were  good  or  excellent.  The  replies
expressed people’s satisfaction with the
services provided and the help received in
formulating projects and with the links
with the other members. 

The  coordination  has  already  begun
preparing the concluding documents on
Network 10’s work. The final document
will incorporate all the theoretical material
produced during the three years of the
Network’s  existence,  and  also  a  more 
in-depth examination of its subject matter,
the fight against urban poverty.
(www.urbal10.sp.gov.br).

Network 10. Closing Conference: Helena Maria Gasparian, Municipal secretary of International relations of São Paulo;Vittorio Tonutti,
Coordinator of the URB-AL Programme; José Serra, Mayor of São Paulo; Ruth Cardoso, Representative of the Programme Comunidade Solidaria;
José Gregori, President of the municipal Commission of São Paulo’s Human Rights

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NETWORK 12

COORDINATED BY THE DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE BARCELONA

Network 12 held its Third Annual Seminar

The Third Annual Seminar of Network 12 “Promoting the role of women in local decision-making” was held
in Montevideo (Uruguay) from 13 to 15 April.The event was attended by 155 people from local bodies
and corporations from 19 Latin American and European Union countries.

The main aim of this meeting, whose

slogan  was  “Cities  for  solidarity,
cities for living together: Scenarios for
cooperative  work  by  women  and
men”, was to generate ideas that help to
promote cities as spaces for living together,
places where people feel confident and
safe, for living in dignity, and where dif-
ferences are accepted and assimilated. 

The opening session was attended by the
Intendente de Montevideo, Adolfo Pérez
Piera,  Uruguay’s  Minister  of  Housing,
Mariano Arana, the Commissioner for
International Equality and Citizenship Pro-
grammes of the Diputación de Barcelona,
Dolors Renau, and the European Com-
mission representative for the URB-AL Pro-
gramme, Vittorio Tonutti.

During the opening session, the Director
of the International Relations Services of
the Diputación de Barcelona, Agustín Fer-
nández de Losada Passols, gave a general
overview of Network 12 and mapped out
its future prospects. At the end of his
address, he presented the Observatory for
EU-LA local decentralised cooperation,

coordinated  by  the  Diputación  de
Barcelona.

During the discussions on the presenta-
tions and the dialogue in the four work-
shops, a set of conclusions and priorities
were drawn up to define future fields of
action.
Cities are spaces for living together
and feeling at ease. Building cities means
building citizenship, where every individ-
ual is recognised by the community as a
person in his own right. Cities must pro-
tect their inhabitants from any type of
aggression and annoyance. For all these
reasons, municipal policies must help to
build protective societies in which respon-
sibility for the community is not shoul-
dered by women, at the same guarantee-
ing them physical integrity, participation in
political power and enjoyment of public
space. Political parity and social parity must
move forward at the same pace in cities.

Municipal  policies  must 
include
women  with  special  difficulties  in
access to social facilities (migrant and
displaced women), incorporating the

Network 12. Participants in the Third Annual Seminar

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gender dimension in all programmes, laws
and policies on immigration and recep-
tion, ensuring the protection of human
rights in any policy on migration and/or
care for displaced women, introducing
measures to protect these women in poli-
cies, helping to re-integrate women who
return to their country, promoting women’s
organisations and fostering representa-
tion  and  self-help  groups  within  the
migrant community, facilitating family
reunification and guaranteeing equality
without making cultural, ethnic or national
homogeneity a prerequisite. 

the  seminar  participants
Although 
acknowledged that incorporating women
in work is one of the most significant social
and economic advances in recent decades,
they noted at the same time that access to
employment and working conditions con-
tinued to be one of the main areas of dis-
crimination. To combat this discrimination,
policies must consider women as active
agents of local development, guaran-
teeing their presence in all decision-mak-
ing, consultation or economic planning
forums. Women and men must share
family responsibilities, work and eco-
nomic decisions, helping to reduce the
personal impact and consequences that
women’s incorporation in the working
world currently entails. A final point dis-
cussed was the pressing need to increase
women’s participation in social dialogue
structures: trade unions, employers and
the organisations representing them. 

The members’ active and participative work
and the exchange of experiences and dif-
ferent situations were very interesting and
fruitful. The discussions and general inter-
action led to 13 proposals for joint projects
being drawn up (available on the Network’s
web page http://www.diba.es/urbal12/)
for presentation in the forthcoming calls
for proposals. 

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NETWORK 9 

COORDINATED BY THE PREFEITURA MUNICIPAL DE PORTO ALEGRE

Local finance and participative budget

The Prefeitura de Porto Alegre organised the second annual seminar of Network 9 “Local Finance and Participative
Budget”from 8 to 10 June in the city of Cordoba (Spain).The meeting was attended by more than 150 participants
from 30 European cities representing five countries and from 23 Latin American cities from six countries, providing
a good balance between European and Latin American participation and a wide range of countries and municipalities.

Network 9’s new coordinators attended

the seminar: Clóvis Magalhães (General
Coordinator), Cezar Busatto (Technical Coor-
dinator) and João Portella (Executive and
Financial Coordinator), together with author-
ities from the host city, the Teniente de Alcalde,
Inés Fontiveros and the Alcaldesa de Cór-
doba, Rosa Aguilar. 

On the first day of the Seminar, the European
Commission representatives outlined Net-
work 9’s objectives, and the main aspects
and rules governing the URB-AL programme.
The Coordinators of Network 9 then spoke
about budget planning and the experience
of participative budget and local govern-
ment. They explained how the participative
budget worked in Porto Alegre, and described
the general balance of Network 9’s projec-
tions. They outlined aspects of the new man-
agement, the example of the concepts of
local solidarity government, in which the
Technical Coordinator, Cezar Busatto, high-
lighted the need to extend and deepen pop-
ular participation and also stressed the impor-
tance of cooperation programmes, such as
the URB-AL programme, for developing inter-
national cooperation between European and
Latin American cities.

In  his  presentation,  Clóvis  Magalhães
addressed the need to go beyond systems
for popular participation in preparing the
national budget and the need for a new link-
age with the social sectors intended to fos-
ter territoriality and transversality in public
management. He also put forward man-
agement proposals for the new administra-
tion of the city of Porto Alegre.

The representative of Unifem/UN in Brazil,
Ana Falú, then gave a presentation on the
gender perspective in participative budgets,
showing different aspects of the gender issue
in popular participation, indicating the wide
disparity and the difficulties experienced by
women in participating actively in decision-
making processes. The representative of the
NGO “Ciudad”, Sérgio Baierle, also gave a

speech on “civil society in participative budg-
ets”. This showed the importance of popu-
lar participation in the debate on the redis-
tribution of municipal resources for the devel-
opment of democracy. The coordinators
briefly described the projects approved in
Network 9 and they outlined their objectives
and the activities carried out or due to be
carried out.

The last speech was given by Network 9’s
Adviser, Yves Cabannes, on “The challenge
of participative budgets at the present time”,
focusing on four dimensions: (i) participative
and financial; (ii) budgetary and tax; (iii) reg-
ulatory and legal-juridical; (iv) territorial. He
highlighted the importance of considering
the political dimension as a fifth crosscutting
issue and also included the debate on Gov-
ernment and participative democracy, by ask-
ing questions such as: What are the links
between participative budgets and legisla-
tive power and town councillors? Do partic-
ipative budgets strengthen the role of the
Prefect vis-à-vis the town councillors or not?
Do participative budgets legitimise the Gov-
ernment, from the point of view of people or

a pre-established programme? Are partici-
pative budgets the product of social capital?
Does it strengthen them? How can political
take-over and bureaucratisation of the process
be avoided? These were just some of the
points raised that helped members of Net-
work 9 to gain a better understanding of
participative budgets, by clarifying or settling
certain topics of discussion, and also con-
tributing to formulating joint projects.

On the other two days, the representatives
of the cities divided into four workshops: (i)
Participative Dimension, (ii) Territorial Dimen-
sion, (iii) Regulatory Dimension and (iv) Finan-
cial Dimension, which corresponded to the
thematic areas defined during the Network’s
launch seminar and incorporated in Network
9’s basic document. Following the workshops,
the cities drew up 14 proposals for joint
projects.

In the closing session, the coordinators con-
firmed the willingness to go further in Net-
work 9’s work, calling on all the members to
take part in the last seminar, scheduled for
2006, in the city of Porto Alegre.

Network 9. Inés Fontiveros, Assistant of the Mayor of Córdoba; Cezar Busatto, municipal Secretary of Porto Alegre; Andrés Ocaña,
First assistant of the Mayor of Córdoba; Miguel Romero, Manager of the URB-AL Programme in the European Commission; Clóvis Magalhães,
municipal Secretary of Porto Alegre; João Portella, municipal Secretary of Porto Alegre

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NETWORK 6 – NETWORK 8

COORDINATED BY THE AYUNTAMIENTO DE MÁLAGA AND THE LANDESHAUPTSTADT STUTTGART 

Continuity of the URB-AL networks:
The strategies of Málaga and Stuttgart

At the end of 2003, Community funding for the coordination of URB-AL thematic Networks 6 “Urban Environment”
and 8 “Control of Urban Mobility came to an end.Two years later, Málaga and Stuttgart City Councils are carrying
on part of the activities of the networks and are developing strategies to create lasting prospects for transnational
cooperation between municipalities.

Two years after the end of the official

coordination period of the two the-
matic networks, the members continue
implementing a range of joint projects and
are taking advantage of the last two calls
for proposals to apply for Type “B” proj-
ects. As the project coordinators and the
member cities have mentioned several
times, coordination of the thematic net-
work provides a vital framework for main-
taining an exchange between different
projects and for disseminating the results
beyond specific small sub-networks. The
City Councils of Malaga and Stuttgart 
see their thematic networks with over 
180 cities from Latin America and Europe
as a very important investment in terms
of their international relations. The influ-
ence of the transnational networks of cities
is growing in all areas and these networks
can gradually become platforms to convey
the specific interests of local Governments
towards other political bodies at national,
supranational or even global level.

Malaga’s Network 6 (Urban Environ-
ment)  held  three  official  meetings
between 2001 and 2003, focusing its work
on four areas covering: 1) land-use plan-
ning and the configuration of the city, 
2) natural resources, 3) social cohesion and
4) city governance, which have enabled
12 Type “A” and “B” joint projects to be
implemented to date. A fourth meeting
of the Network was held in 2004, exclu-
sively financed by the Ayuntamiento de
Málaga, devoted to following up the joint
projects under way and various types of
cooperation programmes between Europe
and America, which complement URB-AL.

The fifth and last meeting of Network 6 is
planned for the beginning of 2006. It will

link up the URB-AL projects implemented
by Málaga, the Urban Environment Obser-
vatory (OMAU, www.omau-malaga.es )
and the URB-AL programme’s Documen-
tation  Centre  (CDPU,  www.centrour-
bal.com). The OMAU is a Type “B” project
combining the two-year training of munic-
ipal technical staff from the member cities
with the construction of a bioclimatic build-
ing that will house the Observatory and
that is designed to give continuity to coop-
eration initiatives on the various aspects of
Urban Environment. To this end, a system
of periodic indicators will be set up for the
member cities wishing to participate. The
OMAU building will also be the head-
quarters of the CDPU, where all the paper
and on-line versions of documents that
have been formalised in all the URB-AL
networks will be kept.

Despite  a  very  strict  austerity  policy
imposed by the Municipal Council on the
local authorities of Stuttgart (Control of
Urban Mobility), the Landeshauptstadt
has found a way of subcontracting a mem-
ber of the former coordination team in
order to maintain the basic functions of
the network: updating Network 8’s web
page (www.stuttgart.de/europa/urb-al),
moderating  a  discussion  forum  for  all
members of the network, regular publi-
cation of the Newsletter and R8-NEWS
which serve to disseminate practical exam-
ples and the results of projects, as well as
maintain ongoing communication with
the network members in general.

However, in the long term, new horizons
must be sought for the work of a thematic
network in order to ensure access to other
sources of funding and to extend cooper-

ation among municipal bodies. Steps have
therefore been taken to establish cooper-
ation  with  similar  initiatives  and  pro-
grammes, for example, with the Sustain-
able Urban Transport Programme (SUTP
of the GTZ), with the Clean Air Initiative
in Latin American Cities (IAL-CAL of the
World Bank), or with Local Governments
for Sustainability (ICLEI).

As  urban  transport  systems  not  only
depend on the municipalities but also on
private transport firms whose investments
influence transport technologies and the
sector’s long-term sustainability, Network
8 is considering involving the private trans-
port sector as the second pillar in the con-
tinuity strategy. The hope is to gain access
to new funding sources for meetings and
future projects since most local govern-
ments, especially of small and medium-
sized Latin American cities, do not have
the  necessary  resources  to  maintain
transnational cooperation activities on
their own.

The third important aspect of Stuttgart’s
strategy is to appoint sub-coordinating
cities for the Latin American region. The
support of the Porto Alegre Prefeitura in
coordinating the Brazil subregion, where
recently in the context of a meeting of
the  Type  “B”  project  “MOVIMAN”,  a
regional meeting of Network 8 and the
Muncipio  de  Querétaro  (Mexico)  was
recently held for the Spanish-speaking
members of Latin America, contributes to
the long-term decentralisation, consoli-
dation and stabilisation of the coordina-
tion of URB-AL Network 8 “Control of
Urban Mobility”.”

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PROGRAMME @LIS

@LIS,
Alliance for the Information Society

@LIS is a strategic cooperation programme between Europe and Latin America
designed to promote economic development and citizen participation 
in the globalised Information Society.

With a total budget of EUR 77.5 million,

82% of which is cofinanced by the
European Commission, the aim of @LIS is to
extend the benefits of the Information Soci-
ety to all citizens of Latin America and to
reduce the digital divide by support for dia-
logue and cooperation between all users of
the IS in both regions.

@LIS supports the construction of dialogues
and networks between stakeholders in Latin
America and Europe, such as the imple-
mentation of 19 pilot projects on local e-
governance, e-education and cultural diver-
sity, e-public health and e-inclusion.

The programme is already beginning to
deliver its first results by helping to reduce
the difference between those who do and
those who do not have access to Informa-
tion and Communication Technologies.

It is important to underline that all the
actions provided for under the @LIS Pro-
gramme 2002-2006 have already been
awarded and are in the process of imple-
mentation. No further calls for propos-
als are planned.

For more information 
on the @LIS Programme: 
http://europa.eu.int/alis
http://www.alis-online.org
e-mail: EuropeAid-ALIS@cec.eu.int

Some of the local e-governance projects
include:

SILAE – Local Initiative
Services in Ecuadorian
Amazonia 
This is a project designed to improve gov-
ernance in Ecuadorian Amazonia where
there are 6 provincial Governments, 41
municipal Governments and 187 Parochial
Councils.

SILAE sets out to provide basic services where
there are none, starting with electricity serv-
ices. Once the project had been publicised,
assemblies were held in the various com-
munities, which appointed their Commu-
nity Electrification Committees (CEC). These
Committees were responsible for drafting a
description of their communities and send-
ing it to the SILAE, thereby expressing their
interest in participating.

On the basis of these expressions of inter-
est, Community Rural Electrification Enter-
prises (ECER) were set up. Complementary
activities were also organised in the form
of a painting and story-telling competition
entitled “What will our community be like
when we get electricity” targeted at pri-
mary and secondary school children with
the aim of encouraging their creativity and
obtaining proposals for using electricity in
a social and productive way.
More information is available on the web
site: www.silae.org

eGOIA – Electronic
Government Innovation
and Access
The main aim of eGOIA is the demonstra-
tion of future-oriented public administra-
tion  services  to  a  broad  public  in  Latin 
America. The vision of the eGOIA project is
therefore the provision of a single virtual
space supporting the interaction of citizens
and the public administration in a simple,
future-oriented  and  cost-effective  way. 
Software is being developed to facilitate
Internet access to integrated public services
of local Government (municipalities), regional
Government and federal Government (in
the case of Brazil).

The pilot projects are already up and running
in the State of São Paulo in Brazil (one of the
participating members), while Peru will take

on the demonstration of phase II: Electronic
Government services on information about
municipal taxes and payment service. 
More information on the web site:
www.egoia.info

EMPLENET – Bringing
the local administration
closer to the citizen
with the aim of reducing
unemployment through
the new information
and communication
technologies
The aim of the EMPLENET project is to reduce
unemployment in Latin America, one of the
most worrying problems in the region. The
local authorities, as the representative bodies
closest to the people, are fully aware of soci-
ety’s needs and demands. Accordingly, these
local authorities implement employment sup-
port strategies based on the new informa-
tion and communication technologies in order
to reach a large number of citizens. 

The employment support strategy will be
based on launching an advanced service for
the unemployed consisting of: vocational
e-training service, access to an employment
service (vocational guidance, employment
exchange, updated information...) and a
service to help set up businesses.

The  participating  members  include  the
Municipalidad de Trelew (Argentina), the
Prefeitura de São Luis (Brazil), the Instituto
Brasileiro  de  Administração  Municipal
(IBAM), the Alcadía de León (Nicaragua),
and 
Intendencia  Municipal  de 
Montevideo (Uruguay).
More information on the web site:
www.emplenet.org

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TYPE “B” PROJECTS

Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo:
“Cities and Citizens for Social Inclusion”

This project, approved in July, is coordinated by the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo and the partners
are the Mairie de Saint-Denis (France), the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (Spain), the Prefeitura de Porto Alegre
(Brazil), the Prefeitura de São Paulo (Brazil), the Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
and the Fondo Andaluz de Municipios para la Solidaridad International (FAMSI).

to this information will be improved so as
to strengthen processes and models of cit-
izen participation and decentralisation in
its various forms. 

Three linked and complementary network-
based areas of activity will be developed:

1. Increase knowledge and understand-
ing of the current phenomena of social
inclusion and exclusion with the aim of
a more efficient and adequate definition
and implementation of local public poli-
cies to help to overcome problems asso-
ciated with exclusion.

2. Start up of Social Inclusion Observato-
ries as appropriate instruments for col-
lating, processing and disseminating
relevant and up-to-date information
available to the various actors directly
involved in this area of intervention.

3. Support for civil society in its efforts 
to  improve  the  living  conditions  of
excluded sectors of the population. This
involves providing opportunities to con-
solidate and develop initiatives already
under way that are felt to be sustainable
and innovative in the area of social inclu-
sion.

This raises high expectations among the
partner  local  Governments  and  other
actors involved, committing human and
material resources in return, in order to
ensure a successful outcome of the proj-
ect during the two years when the planned
activities are carried out. In particular, the
Municipio de Montevideo has reaffirmed
its commitment to work in the framework
of the URB-AL programme and this has
generated very positive results, at local
and international level, thanks to active
participation in the programme right from
the very beginning.

This project stems from the Type “A”

project, Methodologies and tools for
creating Social Inclusion Observatories in
cities, coordinated by the Mairie de Saint-
Denis in 2003 and 2004 under Network 10,
and with the same partners. The design
of this “B” project therefore draws on the
lessons learnt in the “A” phase. These
pointed to the need for a close link with
academic circles, the importance of study-
ing and promoting initiatives with direct
impact on a situation, in addition to the
component of generating knowledge and
the need for ongoing training for stake-
holders in the cities.

The cities involved in the Type “A” project
identified the following needs:

• technical support for installing observa-
tories capable of managing geo-refer-
enced social information systems,

• access to areas of joint discussion on
establishing indicators that express the
multicausality of local exclusion,

• comparative studies of aspects emerging
from processes of social exclusion, such
as phenomena of violence and urban
gangs and residential segregation, 
• foster horizontal links between academic
circles and generating knowledge in each
city, 

• encourage the recognition of civil soci-
ety organisations that implement suc-
cessful actions connected with social
exclusion.

In this new phase, the project therefore
aims to help local governments and soci-
ety as a whole to address more effectively
phenomena related to problems of exclu-
sion/inclusion in both the European Union
and Latin America. Fuller and more up-to-
date information will also be generated
on this phenomenon and citizens’ access

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TYPE “B” PROJECTS

Municipalidad de Valparaíso:
“Management model for historic quarters in port cities” 

The project “Management model for historic quarters in port cities” was selected in July. It was jointly presented
by the cities of Valparaíso (Chile), the Intendencia de Montevideo (Uruguay), the Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma
de Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Comuna de Génova (Italy), and the Ayuntamiento de Bilbao (Spain).

The aim of this project is to generate

management models for the historic
quarters of port cities and to help to imple-
ment this model by means of a pilot plan
in the port area of the historic centre of the
city of Valparaíso. The project involves
analysing the urban infrastructure and the
communities living in the historic quarters
of the project’s partner cities (one neigh-
bourhood per partner), training and pool-
ing of experience among partners and the
publication and dissemination of the results
attained. 

Part of the public spaces and infrastructure
of the historic quarter of Valparaíso, and
especially the “Mercado Puerto”, will be
rehabilitated under the project. The Mer-
cado Puerto building was built in the 1920s
and has a reinforced concrete structure. It
is now in an advanced state of disrepair.
It is the most important building in the
area, consisting of three storeys, balcony,
underground area and a large central inte-
rior space, therefore making a considerable
urban impact in the neighbourhood and
seen as something of a landmark by its
inhabitants. 

The rehabilitation work consists of repairs
and improvements, converting parts of
the building to different uses, making use
of hitherto unused parts of the building,
all from a contemporary perspective. It is
therefore an architectural intervention

that represents and physically embodies
the Barrio Puerto Genera management
model. 

In this context, the approach proposed is
participative urban regeneration in the
historic centre of Port City of Valparaíso,
recently classified as a UNESCO World Her-
itage Site, following the Neighbourhood
Management methodology. This consists
of adopting a multidisciplinary and scien-
tific approach to analyse the community
identified as showing signs of exclusion
and marginality, exploiting the capacities
and opportunities offered by its urban role
at this particular juncture for the city, in
order to reverse the trend of stigmatisation.
As the premise is sustainable economic
and social development at neighbourhood
level, the idea is to generate a manage-
ment model that brings together the social
actors to work on the integrated devel-
opment  of  their  population  and  on
strengthening their local identity and their
urban role. This is done by means of a
Neighbourhood Management aimed at
developing strategic lines that foster the
consolidation of strong communities, make
sustainable citizen participation feasible
and consolidate an efficient management
model for historic quarters. This good prac-
tice could then be replicated in the his-
toric quarters of the project’s partner Port
Cities. 

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TYPE “B” PROJECTS

Regione Toscana:
“Planning and urban regeneration measures:
the multidisciplinary and integrated approach”

The project, the fruit of the successful experience with the Type “A” project carried out under Network 7, involves
the same partners: the Regione Toscana (Italy), the Communauté du Pays d’Aix (France), Asociación Co.Opera
(Italy), and the cities of León (Nicaragua), La Habana (Cuba), Capilla del Monte (Argentina) and Viña del Mar
(Chile).They will implement four pilot projects in the four Latin American partner cities.

All the urban instruments that are devised
must be discussed, approved and adopted
by the Local Authorities, hence there will
also be participative workshops with local
citizens to disseminate project ideas and
involve the population in the drafting of
the plans. 

Cover of the book: Estatuto de la planificación municipal

The methodology is based on the active
and immediate participation of the actors,

therefore reinforcing the participants’
sense of “ownership”, involving staff at
all levels: strategic, management and exec-
utive, and including an exchange of tech-
nical methodologies between partners to
ensure smooth implementation. In order
to disseminate good practice through the
pilot  projects  and  make  use  of  every 
partner’s skills, a working method and a
communication system will have to be
identified and implemented to ensure a
constant two-way flow of information
between technical experts, and the dis-
cussion and the collective monitoring of
each activity.

To this end, besides meeting in three sem-
inars  in  the  course  of  the  project  and
exchanging technical consultation mis-
sions according to planning requirements,
the partner organisations will share infor-
mation via the web page set up during
the Type “A” project.

In the final months, the results of the four
pilot projects will be disseminated via a
travelling exhibition, which will go to all
the project’s partner cities in order to
share the work carried out during the
two years of the project with the local
population. 

Aset of successful methodologies, prin-

ciples and tools were identified under
the Type “A” project. The partners con-
sidered these indispensable for devising
and implementing urban projects at munic-
ipal level. These results were formalised
and published in the “Municipal Planning
Statute”,  which  will  be  the  reference
instrument available to the partners for
devising urban planning and regeneration
measures in the four partner cities of the
Type “B” project. 

The aim of the project is to improve the
partner organisations’ urban planning
capacities  and  urban  interventions  at
municipal level by means of urban plans
implemented  under  the  planning  pro-
gramme of the Latin American partner
cities. In Viña del Mar, a Plan to modify an
area of urban growth will be implemented.
In León, there will be a Plan to regenerate
a run-down area close to the historic cen-
tre of the city; in Capilla del Monte, a Plan
to regenerate a system of green public
areas in the city centre will be carried out;
and in Havana, as part of the Urban Regen-
eration Plan for the Municipio de Centro
Habana, Instruments to foster participative
management in order to enhance local
resources and economic development will
be established.

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TYPE “B” PROJECTS

Ayuntamiento de Rubí:
“Renewable energies and local development networks” 

The project “Renewable energies and local development networks” is the logical continuation of the Type “A” project
“RENEWABLE ENERGIES AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENERGY+D”, carried out during the period 2002 –
2004 under Network 4:“The town as a promoter of economic development”.

In  this  new  stage,  besides  the  Ayun-

tamiento de Rubí as lead partner of the
project, the following local authorities will
also take part: the Ayuntamiento de Val-
ladolid (Spain), la Diputación de Huelva
(Spain), the Alcaldía Municipal de León
(Nicaragua), the Alcaldía Municipal de
Estelí (Nicaragua), the Municipalidad de
Venado Tuerto (Argentina), the Munici-
palidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), the Alcaldía
del Municipio de Sucre (Venezuela), the
Diputación de Málaga (Spain), the Gob-
ierno Municipal de San Javier (Bolivia), the
Fundación  Celestina  Pérez  de  Almada
(Paraguay), the Municipality of Egaleo
(Greece) and the Universidad Politécnica
de Cataluña (Spain). 

The main purpose of the project is to move
towards an energy sustainable economic
development by using renewable energies
(especially solar energy), reducing local
energy dependence and taking advantage
of employment-generating possibilities
derived from the use of these new tech-
nologies.

To this end, six programmes have been
devised: 

1. Local energy planning: this is one of the
priority areas of intervention. The pro-
gramme includes two types of activi-
ties, municipal energy planning and the
drafting of solar energy regulations. 

2. Capacity building: this will involve set-
ting up various training activities directed
at the vocational and education sectors
(university  and  advanced  secondary
level).

Solar kitchen

3. Public information: this will involve devis-
ing a set of material for dissemination
that will be made available to the munic-
ipalities. A programme of talks and train-
ing and information activities will also
be organised based on this material. 

4. Promoting employment – Support for
entrepreneurs: the idea is to provide an
advisory service for initiatives carried
out in the energy context.

5. Solar energy in urban areas: this pro-
gramme includes two types of activi-
ties, the plan to include teaching about
photovoltaic solar energy in municipal

schools and buildings and the plan to
include teaching about solar cookers in
school canteens.

6. Assistance for rural communities: this
involves the trial introduction of solar
cookers in rural and urban areas that
use large amounts of firewood and a
pilot project on rural electrification using
photovoltaic energy. 

In addition to these six areas of activity,
there is a seventh – the actual setting up
of the Network of E+D Centres (Energy
and Development) and their continued
implementation. 

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TYPE “A” PROJECTS

Villa María del Triunfo:“Extreme Poverty and Hunger:
Participative responses from Local Governments”

From 1 to 4 June 2005,
in the context of Network 10
“The fight against urban poverty”,
the Municipalidad de Villa María
del Triunfo de Lima (Peru), held
the launch seminar of the project
that it coordinates and which
demonstrates the importance
of networking and disseminating
experiences of combating extreme
poverty and hunger in Latin
American and European cities,
raising the awareness of local,
national and international players.

In this workshop seminar, in addition to

the Municipalidad de Villa María del Tri-
unfo, there were representatives of the local
governments of Maranguape (Brazil), Neiva
(Colombia), Las Margaritas (Mexico), Saint-
Gilles (Belgium), and also the Centro Inter-
national de Gestión Urbana (CIGU) as an
external partner.

The project seeks to build the capacities of
local governments in formulating and imple-
menting participative strategies to develop
and/or improve local strategies to combat

extreme poverty and hunger, in conjunction
with social movements and grassroots com-
munity organisations, with the following
specific aims: 
• Strengthen the capacities of local gov-
ernments to identify and characterise pop-
ulation groups in situations of extreme
poverty and hunger.

• Document and analyse the responses to
tackling extreme poverty and hunger.
• Strengthen the capacities of local gov-
ernments to make far-reaching changes to
the current responses to extreme poverty
and hunger.

• Promote associations and solidarity coop-
eration between local government and
social movements and organisations.

During the seminar, it emerged that a con-
sequence of the situation of extreme poverty
experienced by a large proportion of the
Latin American population is migration. This
migration is often illegal and, once over a
series of obstacles, generates benefits and
problems for the reception cities. 

Saint-Gilles pointed out that some places in
Europe also contain pockets of poverty, in

Villa María del Triunfo: Cielo Gonzalez Villa, Mayor of Neiva;
Carlos Bruce Montes de Oca, Minister for Housing, Construction and
Cleansing of Peru;Washington Armando Ipenza Pacheco, Mayor of 
Villa María del Triunfo; Mendel Goldstein, Head of the Delegation 
of the EC in Peru; Mario Rios Espinoza,Vice Minister 
of social Development

many cases made up of Latin American
migrants and explained its community’s inter-
est in addressing this problem in terms of the
Latin American situation and seeking effec-
tive solutions for achieving a better stan-
dard of living. 

In this sense, the URB-AL programme plays
a central role in supporting the efforts of
the  Municipalities  and  Communities  in
empowering their citizens, promoting gen-
der equality, including sectors of poverty
and extreme poverty and influencing the
quality of local public policies to fight urban
poverty.

Prefeitura de Jacareí:
“Equipping local authorities to fight poverty”

The idea of the project is to improve
understanding of the phenomenon of
poverty;to optimise existing efforts to
produce poverty indicators;to develop
tools so that cities combat poverty.

The partners of this project, Campo Grande,

Jacareí, Diadema, Santa Maria y Goiania
(Brazil); Girona (Spain); Vila Real de Santo
Antônio (Portugal); Ate y Río Negro (Peru) y
Buenos Aires (Argentina) recognise that pover-
ty is not just hunger or lack of work and
income but also an absence or denial of the
rights to citizenship and equality. They agree
that the concepts of poverty and social exclu-
sion, defined by Network 10, cover all the sit-
uations that are experienced in their com-
munities and that these in essence are the
phenomena  that  the  project  sets  out  to
address. 

The aim is therefore to create information
management systems capable of identifying
municipalities (neighbourhoods and districts)
that suffer from poverty and exclusion; to
keep the local situation constantly under obser-
vation; to indicate the population’s needs; to
select priorities, resources and measures and
to monitor the results of action taken by the
Government and society.

The idea of creating a “Practical Guide” to
equip the local authorities (local administra-
tors, civil servants …) in their fight against
poverty with socio-economic indicators, aris-
es out of the specific need for local adminis-
trators to manage resources in the face of
demands by the public services in social areas,
involving different levels of the Government
and civil society. 

The information that feeds national socio-
economic data systems is collated at local
level and is used for indicators of the popu-
lation’s living standards. The aim of the Guide
is to make use of this information in the local
administration  process.  This  instrument
accordingly allows the local authorities to
exploit basic information on the population’s
living standards, throughout the locality. This
instrument will help to formulate proposals
in favour of local development, using an
approach that optimises resources and makes
the most of existing know-how and experi-
ence. It will also foster the exploitation, cre-
ation, comparison and analysis of indicators
and other instruments for evaluating pro-
grammes and services from the viewpoint of
local conditions.

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TYPE “A” PROJECTS

Municipalidad de Puerto Montt:“Entrepreneurship network:
cities promoting an entrepreneurial culture”

The local governments of Puerto
Montt (Chile), Curuzú Cuatiá
(Argentina), Aserrí (Costa Rica),
Lima (Peru), San Javier (Bolivia),
Concepción (Paraguay), Terrassa
y Getafe (Spain) and Vila Real de
Santo Antonio (Portugal) decided to
promote entrepreneurial dynamism
more effectively, to foster and
involve local SMEs in the use of ICT
and on that basis create more new
and prosperous businesses that
are keen to take advantage
of the opening-up of the market
and embark on creative and
innovative initiatives of larger-scale
commercial exploitation.

The project “Entrepreneurship network:

cities promoting an entrepreneurial
culture” basically seeks to create an organi-
sation of Latin American and European local
governments to promote and develop the
entrepreneurial culture by applying local poli-

cies for greater economic dynamism and entre-
preneurial spirit and capacity. These would
allow equal opportunities for young and
women entrepreneurs from local sectors when
facing up to the information society. It is hoped
to achieve this objective by means of coordi-
nated work with local SMEs and the use of
NICT, developing activities such as diagnoses,
international seminar-workshops to exchange
experiences, designing a catalogue of man-
agement good practice and pitfalls, a virtual
classroom for exchanging information and
experiences, and implementation of pilot
schemes and so on.
The situation of the partner local authorities
will improve as a result of the process, which
implies implementation of the project itself,
attainment of its objectives and results and
the post-project relations that are generated
and maintained over time.
Promoting an entrepreneurial culture via local
governments and in close conjunction with
SMEs that see NICT as their source of com-
petitiveness will be of benefit to every local
authority, with the development and appli-
cation of creativity and innovation as funda-

mental personal attitudes for confronting the
new local and global economy. This attitude
and entrepreneurial culture contributes to job
creation and growth, to market competitive-
ness, and it takes advantage of the personal
potential of each player and collaborates with
the general interests of society as a whole.
Basically, the objectives and priorities of URB-
AL and Network 13 will help the local author-
ities to strengthen their capacities to boost
local economies and spread the entrepre-
neurial spirit, a need that is felt in all the coun-
tries of Latin America and Europe, especially
in small and medium–sized cities that face
more barriers to encouraging business initia-
tive.
Lastly, this project will help the authorities and
their direct and indirect beneficiaries to iden-
tify the key factors for establishing a climate
conducive to the creation of more and better
local entrepreneurial initiatives with an NICT
component and from a shared perspective:
individuals (entrepreneurs) – businesses (SME)
– society (local governments/civil society), with
particular emphasis on women and young
entrepreneurs. 

Quito:“Constructing inclusive cities”

The project is based on the finding
that gender inequalities are
produced and reproduced in cities
and affect women more seriously
and that the growing interaction
between women’s organisations
and local governments is creating
opportunities to address such
situations and strengthen women’s
exercise of citizenship.

The project “Constructing inclusive cities –

Promoting gender equality in local admin-
istration” has been implemented since June
2004 under the auspices of URB-AL’s Net-
work 12 and coordinated by the Municipio del
Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (Ecuador) and
with the active participation of five other cities:
Gijón (Spain), Saint Denis (France), Montev-
ideo (Uruguay), Santa Tecla (El Salvador) and
Escazú (Costa Rica).
The methodology developed by the project
involves elected municipal authorities, prefer-

ably female mayors and town councillors,
technical municipal staff with decision-mak-
ing powers in local public administration and
women’s organisations that have established
a two-way relationship of collaboration and
commitment with their respective munici-
palities. In other words, the project approach
is inclusive and involves a wide range of actors
with the aim of strengthening interaction
between players committed to building gen-
der equality at local level. 

Besides recognising and analysing gender
inequalities in our cities and systematising
municipal actions to promote equality, various
face-to-face and remote exchange activities
have taken place. These have enabled the
project to structure and organise a network
of partners that work with the common aim
of obtaining greater opportunities for women
and the full exercise of their rights. 

Many lessons have been learnt from the expe-
rience of each partner city and other European

Quito. Participants in the conference within the framework 
of the project

and Latin American cities, which are essentially
being used to produce a document on “Guide-
lines for incorporating the gender equality issue
in local administration”. It is hoped that this
will provide a useful tool for the many – and
more and more new – local actors interested
in constructing inclusive cities. The project’s
partner cities have also expressed interest in
continuing with the process under way and
extending its impact. They are therefore work-
ing on a proposal for a Type “B” project.

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PROJECTS

Over 85 joint projects have concluded their activities under 
the 13 networks of the first and second phases of the Programme

Over 85 projects for exchanging experiences have concluded their activities under the networks 
of the two phases, including three Type “B” projects.
In the first half of 2005, five joint projects concluded their activities.

Coordinator

Country

Project number

Project Title

Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordá

España

B1-P1-02

Diputación Provincial de Granada

España

R4-P1-02

Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

España

R4-P3-02

Ayuntamiento de Lleida

Verband Region Stuttgart

España

Deutschland

R7-P7-02

R8-P3-02

Incorporación de buenas prácticas en las políticas de
drogodependencias: guía para la elaboración de
planes municipales, escuela de formación e imple-
mentación de proyectos

ALDEAL: Aula Local de Desarrollo Europa – América
Latina

Plan de Formación y Reciclaje de Técnicos de
Desarrollo Local al Servicio del Mundo Empresarial

Instrumentos de redistribución de la renta Urbana

Training for bus drivers using new technology for safe,
economic and environmentally friendly driving

PNUD

Municipalidad de Rosario:
UN Award for Governance and Development 

The Head of the European Commission Delegation in Argentina, Angelos Pangratis,
said that Rosario was a model that should be followed in public policies.

During the Feria de la Gobernabilidad,

organised  by  the  Municipalidad  de
Rosario and the UNDP at the end of March
2005,  Miguel  Lifschitz,  Intendente  de
Rosario, received the UNDP governance
award from Juan Manuel Salazar, Regional
Director of the UNDP Governance project.
He  emphasised  that  Rosario  stood  out
among 257 experiences of 16 countries in
the region. It had combined results of human
development in health and education with
conditions of governance that allowed the

city to make progress based on deeper local
democracy. 

The Municipalidad de Rosario is one of the
lead players in the URB-AL programme. It
was the coordinator of Network 7 “Man-
agement and control of urbanisation” and
it is currently coordinating the Type “B” proj-
ect “Rosario SUMA” and the Type “A” proj-
ect “Participative strategy with a gender
perspective of social and professional inte-
gration for women”. 

The URB-AL programme’s coordination and
management team adds its congratulations
on this international award, which is recog-
nition of the successes achieved by the
Municipalidad de Rosario’s consistent imple-
mentation  of  active  policies  of  internal
decentralisation and regional and interna-
tional cooperation. 

Web:
http://www.experienciarosario.org.ar 

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CONTACTS

Your Commission contacts

Riccardo GAMBINI
Head of Unit: 
Coordinator:
Vittorio TONUTTI
Projects Managers: Miguel ROMERO, Fernando MUÑOZ, 
Marie TILBURCK
Carmen DURAN

Secretary:

Address: 
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EuropeAid Cooperation office
Latin America Directorate
Unit B2 “Centralised operations: Latin America”
URB-AL Programme
J-54 4/13
B -1049 Brussels (Belgium)
Phone:
Fax:

(32 2) 295 20 24
(32 2) 299 10 80

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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

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NETWORK 9
Local finance and participative budget
Co-ordination: Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre
Contact:
Address:

João Portella
Programa URB-AL Rede 9
Siqueira Campos 1300 – Sala 609
CEP 90010-907 – Porto Alegre – RS
Brasil
55 51 3289 1313
55 51 3228 1359
Urbal9@gpo.prefpoa.com.br – 
portella@gpo.prefpoa.com.br 
www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/URBAL/

NETWORK 10
The fight against urban poverty 
Co-ordination: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo
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Pedro Aguerre
Secretaria Municipal de Relações Internacionais
Programa URB-AL Rede 10
Palácio Anhangabaú – Viaduto do Chá, 15 –
7o.andar
CEP 01002-020 – São Paulo-SP 
Brasil
55 11 3107 0318 / 3113 8554
55 11 3113 8526 
pedroaguerre@prefeitura.sp.gov.br 
www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/secretarias/relacoes_
internacionais
www.portal.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/urbal 

NETWORK 12
Promoting the role of women in local decision-making
Co-ordination: Diputación Provincial de Barcelona
Contact:

Neus Gómez (coordinadora ejecutiva)
Gemma García (coordinadora adjunta)
Gabinet de Relacions Internacionals
Còrcega 300, ppal. 1ª
E-08008 Barcelona
España 
34 93 4022055
34 93 4022473
gomezmn@diba.es
www.diba.es/urbal12

NETWORK 13
Towns and the information society
Co-ordination: Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Contact:
Address:

Claire Klindt
Office Network 13
Kreuzstrasse 72
D-28203 Bremen
Alemania 
49 421 369 540
49 421 3695 425
claire@whitebalance.de
www.bremen.de/urb-al/

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NETWORK 14
Citizens’ safety in towns
Co-ordination: Municipalidad de Valparaiso
Contact:
Address:

Gustavo Paulsen
Programa URB-AL Red 14
Blanco 1663 – Oficina 1002
Valparaíso 
Chile
56 32 939 571
56 32 939 572
red14@urbalvalparaiso.cl
www.urbalvalparaiso.cl

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Observatory of EU-LA local decentralised cooperation
Co-ordination: Diputación de Barcelona
Contact:
Address:

Agustí Fernández de Losada Passols
Córcega 300, ppal. 1ª
E-08008 Barcelona
España
34 93 402 20 55 
34 93 402 24 73 
fernandezlosadapa@diba.es 
www.observ-ocd.org

URB-AL Programme Document Centre
Co-ordination: Ayuntamiento de Málaga
Contact:

Pedro Marín Cots
Luis Guillermo Tapia
Plaza de la Alcazaba s/n
Ed. Aparcamientos
E-29012 MÁLAGA
España
34 952602777
34 952223092
info@omau-malaga.com
www.centrourbal.com

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