Dialogues with India
November 2024, Berlin, Germany
UrbanCare Dialogues with India!
This Fall 2024 in Berlin, Germany
Welcome to Berlin!
UrbanCare Dialogues are a five-day urban incubator to create investment-ready projects for health and well-being as the spearhead for sustainable development.
12 Municipalities from India are invited to participate!
Local government representatives meet with urban health, climate, and financial access advisors for five days. Two days will build partnerships, and three workshop days will ensure proposals for streets and other public spaces are inclusive, green, and eligible for financing.
Registration is open!
Workshop 1 reviews what makes an urban plan bankable.
Workshop 2 discusses the benefits of inclusive urban planning.
Workshop 3 explores supportive green urban infrastructure.
Workshop 1 reviews what makes an urban plan bankable.
Workshop 2 discusses the benefits of inclusive urban planning.
Workshop 3 explores supportive green urban infrastructure.
How it works!
Step 1.
Municipalities register by filling in the Project Idea Form under 3 topics: healthy public spaces, smart mobility, or nature-based solutiuons.
All aim to support vulnerable groups and mitigate risks related to natural disasters.
Step 2.
Municipality delegates travel to Berlin and present their urban problems to advisors.
Step 3.
Climate, Health, and Financial advisors from diverse international institutions give input and open a discussion with all participants.
Step 4.
Municipalities participate in workshops with experts to develop project proposal drafts.
Step 5.
The municipalities are encouraged to start developing proposal submissions before financial agencies and impact investors.
Click here to visit our past edition in 2023, with brazilian municipalities:
the executive summary and project ideas.
How it works!
Step 1.
Municipalities register by filling in the Project Idea Form under 3 topics: healthy public spaces, smart mobility, or nature-based solutiuons.
All aim to support vulnerable groups and mitigate risks related to natural disasters.
Step 2.
Municipality delegates travel to Berlin and present their urban problems to advisors.
Step 3.
Climate, Health, and Financial advisors from diverse international institutions give input and open a discussion with all participants.
Step 4.
Municipalities participate in workshops with experts to develop project proposal drafts.
Step 5.
The municipalities are encouraged to start developing proposal submissions before financial agencies and impact investors.
Click here to visit our past edition in 2023, with brazilian municipalities:
the executive summary and project ideas.
Healthy, Green, and Bankable sessions.
Morning sessions
Local Gov representatives present their urban problems and current situation.
The short presentations include data and stats on pressing urban issues, ongoing or possible solutions, and details about technical or financial obstacles in developing their projects.
Q&A follows, where advisors take note of the issues for discussion in the afternoon sessions.
Lunch Talks and Afternoon Sessions
Advisors take the floor to address the problems identified in the morning setting out evidence-based guidelines, instruments, and strategies.
After each talk, a Q&A allow Gov representatives to resurface their local issues in search of solutions.
Three workshops allow Gov representatives and advisors to discuss the urban problems and possible solutions by themes: Healthy, Green, and Bankable.
Each day features field trips that provide firsthand experience in successfully showcasing healthy public spaces, smart mobility, or nature-based solutions.
Goals
The main goals from the three workshop days are the proposal drafts seeking financial approval. Several learning outcomes describe the collaboration across all participants.
The goals of municipality delegates include refreshing their knowledge to develop project proposals by gaining practical advice from evidence-based planning and design approaches. These approaches aim to enhance cost efficiency and effectiveness of projects from improving health and climate outcomes.
Advisors attain enhanced understanding of urban project challenges such as technical and financial hurdles, expand their professional network, contribute expertise to impactful projects, and increase visibility within their field.
Organizers and sponsors can leverage consensus to offer customized programs, frameworks, and resources for developing sound and realizable project proposals tailored to each municipality.
Additionally, they can harness shared expertise to establish a transdisciplinary exchange of tools, methods, and communication channels beneficial for municipal governments in India and across the region.
