Our Newest Champion Mayors

Welcome to our newest Champion Mayors

The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities is pleased to welcome our newest Champion Mayors to the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative: Jenny Laing (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Satoshi Endo (Hirono, Japan), Jorge Muñoz (Lima, Peru) and Leoluca Orlando (Palermo, Italy).

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Champion Mayors Private Space Login to your account! By now, you will have received login information for the Champion Mayors Private Space. An account was created for each city and we encourage you to make use of this great online tool. What you’ll find when you login: • An opportunity to contribute to discussion forums • An events calendar to keep up to date • Champion Mayors photo albums

Your first stop? We direct your attention to the Champion Mayors satisfaction survey. We are always looking to improve the initiative and make the coalition as dynamic as possible. This survey is a great opportunity to let us know what you think and how to better serve you. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Meet our latest Mayor of the Moment Ashok Sridharan, Bonn, Germany We are pleased to announce our latest Mayor of the Moment Ashok Sridharan of Bonn, Germany. Mayor Sridharan has put climate change and sustainable development at the centre of his administration’s priorities. Find out how he is building citizen participation into the city’s climate strategies and how the city is measuring progress toward sustainability goals by participating as a pilot in the OECD programme A Territorial Approach to the SDGs.

Ashok Sridharan, Mayor of Bonn, Germany Read his interview.

New OECD Champion Mayors video

We are pleased to share with you the new Champion Mayors Initiative video. Filmed around the Fourth Meeting of the Champion Mayors in Athens last March, the video provides an overview of the initiative and highlights a selection of inclusive growth projects taking place in Champion Mayors’ cities. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Chair of the Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth Initiative, Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France

RECENT REPORTS & EVENTS

Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Government 27-29 October 2019, Washington DC, USA

Discover the new OECD/ Bloomberg Philanthropies Report Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Government and learn how to maximise your city’s capacity to innovate in the local public sector and deliver better outcomes for citizens. At CityLab, DC, the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities Director shared the reports key findings in a conversation with James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mayor Victoria Woodards of Tacoma (US) and Champion Mayor Dagur

Eggertsson of Reykjavik (Iceland). Discussions delved into how these Director of OECD CFE, Lamia Kamal-Chaoui with Mayors are innovating to tackle their cities’ challenges. Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies

Is your city on the map? New website! Check out our new Innovation in Cities Platform

We are proud to launch our new website with Bloomberg Philanthropies highlighting city innovation efforts. From Oakland to Stockholm, nearly 90 cities are on the map, displaying how they are investing in innovation to improve the lives of residents. Explore the map and add your city. Survey on Innovation Capacity in Cities 2020 Be the first to participate! The Champion Mayors Initiative is expanding its work on innovation in cities with a new project: Boosting cities capacity to innovate and use data for better policies and resident outcomes. This is why we are launching a new survey to track resident well-being and data-use assessments in over 150 cities across the world. Click here to fill in the Survey on Innovation Capacity in Cities 2020 and do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

2nd OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs 9 December 2019, World Conference Centre, Bonn, Germany Now counting nine pilot studies, including Kitakyushu (Japan), Bonn (Germany), Cordoba (Argentina), Southern Denmark, Moscow (Russia), Parana (Brazil), Viken (Norway), Kópavagur (Iceland) and Flanders (Belgium), A Territorial Approach to the SDGs examines how to use the SDGs to rethink policies and strategies from the ground up. Our 2nd Roundtable hosted by Champion Mayors city Bonn, examined these topics with pilot issue notes and launched a policy paper on decentralised development co-operation - unlocking the potential of cities and regions, accompanied by a blog, Helping Cities and Regions achieve the SDGs: Partnering for DDC.

Local authorities are moving from commitment to action with migrant integration 13 November, UCLG World Congress, Durban, South Africa Launched at the UCLG World Congress with Champion Mayors from Utrecht, Freetown, Lisbon and Bristol, the Local Inclusion Action Tool, developed by the OECD, Migration Policy Group (MPG) and Welcoming International and Intercultural Cities/Council of Europe, contains local practices from 400 cities to improve inclusion of migrants at the local level. It offers a number of actions that can help with communication, access to services, multi-level governance and make city efforts more visible in international fora by assessing them against a comparable set of standards.

COMING UP International Women’s Day at the OECD March on Gender, 2020 International Women’s Day on 8 March is only a few weeks away. Last year’s OECD programme was a great success and 2020 will be even better. As part of our March on Gender 2020 campaign, the Secretariat is proposing a Champion Mayors presence. We know that many of your mayors have made the fight for gender equality a central tenet of your policy program, and we want to highlight your initiatives. Please let us know if and how your mayor would like to be involved. World Urban Forum 8-13 February 2020, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The World Urban Forum has become the foremost international conferences on sustainable urbanisation and all its ramifications. The OECD will be releasing ground-breaking data through two new web tools and launching the Territorial Approach to SDGs synthesis report – for more information on our participation, check out our event page. Let us know if you will be there!