Anaward ceromony & Gala dinner was held on Dec.7. [Photo/Foreign Affairs Office of Guangzhou Municipal Government] Five innovative urban initiatives won this year's Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (the Guangzhou Award). The winners were chosen from 15 finalists and were announced at an award ceremony and gala dinner December 7. 2018GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR URBAN INNOVATION SURABAYA, INDONESIA, 8-12 SEPTEMBER, 2018 I. Introduction The Technical Committee (TC) met in Surabaya from 8 to 12 September, 2018. Its members came from different geographical regions and represent different areas of expertise. It met to select deserving GUANGZHOU China, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On the night of Nov 12, organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, the closing ceremony of the 5 th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (the "Guangzhou Award"), the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum and the 13 th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis was held in Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center in Changwon: Sustainable Community Building Project Changwon established the '2020 Environmental Project' in 2006, setting the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. The 'Eutteum TheGuangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation is an award to good urban governance practices and innovation with public policies, projects, business models, etc. It is organized by the hosting city of Guangzhou (People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality) and sponsored by Metropolis and another partner of us, UCLG. CONTACTUS. Secretariat of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation. Tel: +86 20 8950 4852 Email: info@guangzhouaward.org. Address: Rm 5001, FuLiXinTianDi, No.307 Guangzhou Dadao Zhong, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 501600, PRC. Atotal of 313 initiatives have been submitted from 213 cities in 70 countries and regions. After reviewing the applications, members of the technical committee of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which met in Surabaya, Indonesia, in parallel to the 7th Congress of United Cities and Local Governments - Asia Pacific (UCLG-ASPAC Congress), announced the 15 short-listed cities. Atits meeting on Monday 19 November 2018, Council endorsed that Councillor Jess Scully attend and speak on behalf of the Lord Mayor at the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation from 5 to 8 December 2018. I left Sydney after the Committee Meeting on Monday 3 December 2018, arriving in Guangzhou on the morning of Tuesday 4 December hhWaY. The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the Guangzhou Award is co-sponsored by the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, the World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis and the City of Guangzhou. It aims to recognize innovation in improving social, economic and environmental sustainability in cities and regions and, in so doing, to advance the prosperity and quality of life of their Guangzhou Award, presented biennially, is open to all cities and local governments with successful initiatives in urban innovation. The initiative that is entered for the Guangzhou Award should be an ongoing or recently completed within the past two years project, measure or policy that produces practical effect or substantial influence, boasting originality, exemplariness and assessment of each cycle’s Guangzhou Award is conducted by international experts independently. The Technical Committee selects up to 15 shortlisted cities and no more than 30 deserving cities from approved applications. From the shortlist, the Jury makes a final selection of up to five award winning cities. Each winner is granted USD 20,000 cash prize, a trophy, and a commemorative certificate designed for the Award. Started from the 5th Guangzhou Award, besides the winners, the remaining short-listed initiatives will be recognized in the form of a Medal of Honor. Since 2012, five cycles of the Guangzhou Award have been held, each of which receives initiatives from more than 150 cities of over 50 countries and regions. These five cycles have made the Guangzhou Award a treasure trove of over 1,300 initiatives which cover a wide range of areas, including infrastructure and public services, participatory planning and good governance, partnerships, technology, resilience, social inclusion and gender previous winners of the Guangzhou Award are as followsWinners of the 1st Guangzhou Award 2012 Kocaeli Turkey, Lilongwe Malawi, Seoul South Korea, Vancouver Canada, Vienna Austria.Winners of the 2nd Guangzhou Award 2014 Antioquia Colombia, Bristol United Kingdom, Christchurch New Zealand, Dakar Senegal, Hangzhou China;Online Popular City Hangzhou China;Media Focused City Bristol United Kingdom; Public Recommended City Antioquia Colombia.Winners of the 3rd Guangzhou Award 2016 Boston United States,Copenhagen Denmark,Qalyubeya Egypt,La Paz Bolivia, Songpa South Korea;Online Popular City La Paz Bolivia;Special Mention City Yiwu China.Winners of the 4th Guangzhou Award 2018 Wuhan China, Milan Italy, Guadalajara Mexico, Mezitli Turkey, New York City United States;Online Popular City Surabaya Indonesia.Winners of the 5th Guangzhou Award 2021Chongqing China,Vienna Austria,Union of Dannieh Municipalities Lebanon,Quito Ecuador,Departmental Council of Saint Loius Senegal.Online Popular City Odisha India;Winners of Medal of Honor Los Angeles United States of America,City of Cape Town South Africa,Breda Netherlands,Municipality of Antananarivo Madagascar,Bandung City Government Indonesia,Berhampur India,Odisha India,Capital Region Denmark,São José Dos Pinhais Brazil. Picture source Metropolis The concept of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation abbreviated as Guangzhou Award is derived from the city's long-term cooperation with United Cities and Local Governments UCLG from its foundation in 2004 and with the World Association of Major Metropolises Metropolis since 1993. Co-hosted by UCLG, Metropolis, and Guangzhou Municipal Government, the Guangzhou Award aims to reward innovations to improve the socio-economic environments in cities and regions, promote sustainability, and hence advance the livelihood of their citizens. Presented biennially, the award will encourage and recognize outstanding innovative projects and practices in the public sector. Against the background of a rapidly changing social, economic and environmental context in the 21st century, the Guangzhou Award contributes to the progress of city performances by promoting innovations in the public sector and presenting a platform for cities and regions around the world to share and disseminate their achievements. The award is open to all cities and local governments, including members of Metropolis and UCLG as well as other cities. Applicants can submit innovative achievements in such thematic fields as Public Services, Organization and Administration, Partnership and Citizen Involvement, Smart City, Sustainable City, and others. The Guangzhou Award will be granted to up to 5 winners. Each of the winners will be awarded with USD 20,000, apart from a trophy and a certificate. Winners will also be invited to attend side events including seminars and exhibitions on urban innovation. SOURCE Guangzhou Award By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya Updated 2019-05-30 2153Nicholas You, Executive Director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban InnovationThe Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation has become a vital platform for cities across the world to share best practices and learn from each other on localization of new urban agenda or NUA and sustainable development goals or its fourth edition, the competition has intensified over the years as cities embrace innovation to tackle both existing and new challenges. In 2018, a total of 313 initiatives1 were submitted by 213 cities and regions from over 70 technical committee identified a list of 45 commendable initiatives, followed by a shortlist of 15 initiatives and finally five award-winning the context of the Guangzhou award, urban innovation is defined as the deliberate act of introducing new policies, programs, strategies, business models and types of partnerships to tackle existing and new to Nicholas You, the executive director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation, cities are entering into a new era, where they are taking on roles that were traditionally not within their mandate, perhaps due to inability of the existing institutions to respond effectively to local cities are mandated to basically collect garbage, keep streets clean, and manage traffic, You said most of them are currently creating jobs and new institutional frameworks to deal with issues outside the local government mandate."This is an important take away. That implementation of the new urban agenda, and SDGs at the local level, is going to compel many cities to think beyond their traditional mandate," he gave the remarks at a side event in the first UN-Habitat Assembly, where four of the five cities that are the finalists for the 2018 Guangzhou award for Urban Innovation, shared their experiences on localizing NUA and Budworth, CEO of Compass Housing based in Australia, shared how Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, became an eco-friendly city where the 3Rs- recycle, reduce and reuse have become normative city promoted the 3R principles to a poorly educated community unfamiliar with the concepts. This was piloted in Kampung, one of the city's informal the 3R concept, the city-owned buses accept plastic bottles as a form of payment. Through this, Surabaya reduced waste by 10 percent per year even as the city population grew by 5 percent Birch, professor of Urban Research and director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, shared how Mezitli, a coastal Turkish city of nearly 250,000 with 60,000 registered Syrian, established a network of public markets for women women grow agricultural products or make homemade goods from in or around the metropolitan the first market having been opened in 2014, the network has grown to nine markets serving 612 women producers. Their wares range from citrus and tomatoes to jams and Vancutsem, secretary general of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, shared the Italy's Milan city food policy compels the municipal agencies to think about the regional food shed, the geographic radius from where Milan feeds its people, and discusses policy approaches that can encourage a more sustainable food policy considers how food gets from producers to market and whether it's possible to reduce emissions in Katz from Habitat for Humanity International shared the Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz traffic zebras, a citizen culture the program, young creative people show zebra crossing, wearing costumes that emulate a zebra. This is aimed at reducing road said the Mezitli case is being replicated in Southern Syria, while the La Paz case is being replicated in Latin the next 10 years, You said they will document the innovative case studies and bring them to the attention of the national governments."We want a situation where a mayor can go online to find a solution to the challenging his city is experiencing," You said the delegates he interacted with at the UN-Habitat Assembly expressed concerns on how to support local implementation of the new urban agenda and SDGs."Cities need to map out the SDGs against what they are already doing and then look at where the opportunities and gaps lie. That is the starting point," he Saiz, secretary general of the United Cities and Local Government or UCLG, said the new agenda is about cooperation between cities and making the link between the roles that cities need to play in the global agenda."Through localization of the SDGs, we are able to connect the thoughts in a different manner. We are able to identify the areas we have been developing policies on but have not given us the results that we thought and we can identify why. That's why we are bringing this agenda to our members to enable them reshape their priorities," she said innovation is not always about new, but rethinking the methodologies and putting new people around the The original text contains a factual error which has herein been corrected by the Guangzhou Award Secretariat.