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4-year social entrepreneurship programme now focused on impact entrepreneurship. Amsterdam Impact strengthens the ecosystem for all companies that simultaneously create financial and …
Preston City Council and local anchor institutions redirected billions in procurement spend toward local suppliers and cooperatives from 2013, lifting council local …
Reykjavík City and Iceland's government cut over 2,500 public workers to a 35–36 hour week at full pay; productivity held or rose, …
Freetown City Council replaced ad hoc property valuation with GIS mapping, a points-based formula and the Moptax digital platform, doubling the tax …
A property-owner-funded Special Rates Area has run Cape Town's CBD safety and cleaning services since 2000, cutting festive-season crime 34% year-on-year and …
Curitiba's 1974 Rede Integrada de Transporte, the world's first true Bus Rapid Transit system, now carries roughly 2 million passenger trips a …
Founded in Bonn in 1990, ICLEI now links over 2,500 local and regional governments across 125+ countries in a peer-learning network for …
Bangladesh's largest market-systems programme, Katalyst, worked with private firms to reach 4.75 million SMEs and farmers by 2018, generating a documented USD …
Ghana's 2019 Year of Return drew 1.13m international arrivals (+27% YoY) and US$3.3bn in tourism revenue per the Tourism Ministry, then extended …
A 2022 tri-partite deal between Carnegie Mellon, the Mastercard Foundation and Rwanda's government committed $275.7m -- including a $175m perpetual endowment -- …
Since the mid-1970s, Vienna's district renewal offices have guided tenant-led rehabilitation of ageing housing without displacement, upgrading over 142,000 apartments in 2,160 …
Quito's planning authority and an Austrian/Ecuadorian/CIAT research team used the GeoCitizen participatory-GIS platform to run a 2013 land-zoning process on Ilaló Mountain …
Barcelona City Council built the open-source platform Decidim to run participatory budgeting and planning; its 2016 strategic-plan process drew 40,000+ citizens and …
Jordan's ISSF mobilised $108.97m in private capital alongside $98m in World Bank and Central Bank financing, backing ~160 startups and 22 investment …
Porto Alegre's 1989 invention of neighbourhood budget assemblies raised sewer/water coverage from 75% to 98% of households by 1997 and became the …
A decade-long World Bank-financed programme upgraded drainage, roads and utilities in low-income alleys across Ho Chi Minh City and three other Vietnamese …
Innovate UK's KTP scheme embeds graduate associates in businesses to apply university research. An independent evaluation of 2,000 projects (2010–2020) found £1.7–2.3bn …
Launched in 1995, Ahmedabad's Parivartan programme used a four-way cost-share between the city, NGOs, private donors and residents to connect 41 slum …
Since the early 1990s, Namibia's shack-dweller savings groups have secured land tenure for 3,200 households and self-built 1,350 homes at about a …
A 'second-generation' crime-prevention-through-design programme in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township pairs infrastructure upgrading with community safety work; a peer-reviewed 2020 study of 3,625 …
Since 1994, Nicaragua's PRODEL fund has combined small grants for neighbourhood infrastructure with housing and micro-enterprise credit across founding municipalities, reaching 38,000 …
Since 1980, residents of Karachi's Orangi settlement have self-financed and self-built underground sewers guided by the Orangi Pilot Project, cutting sanitation costs …
Ireland's Connected Hubs network grew from a 2019 pilot to over 400 co-working hubs in every county by 2025; the wider community-hub …
Since 2010, Lima Cómo Vamos has surveyed ~2,000 residents of Metropolitan Lima annually on urban quality of life. A 2022 peer-reviewed study …
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