2000 Winners

GLOBAL 100 BEST PRACTICES LIST - 2000
AFRICA

Angola
1. 2000 / 619 Luanda Sul Self-Financed Urban Infrastructure Program

Benin
2. 2000 / 499 Programme for the Protection and Clean-up of the Environment(Pr.A.P.E.)

Burkina Faso
3. 2000 / 909 Street’s Shops as solution to lawless occupation of the Public Property

Burundi
4. 2000 / 319 Karusi Reconstruction Partnership Project

Cameroon
5. 2000 / 429 Common Initiative Group of the Bogso Women Farmers (GICPAB)

Ethiopia
6. 1996 / 227 Community-based Urban Development Project

Kenya
7. 2000 / 006 Maweni Squatters Resettling Programme, Voi
8. 2000 / 097 Water Hyacinth Utilization Project (WHUP)
9. 2000 / 117 City Garbage Recyclers
10. 2000 / 430 The Mukuru Recycling Center Women's Group
11. 1998/315 Slum Information Development and Resources Centres (SIDAREC)

Lesotho
12. 2000 / 965 Hatooa Mose Mosali

Senegal
13. 2000 / 466 The Initiative for the Community Heritage Site of Teunguene
14. 1996 / 138 Community participation in Urban Environmental Management in Rufisque

South Africa
15. 2000 / 453 Development of housing and infrastructure through self-reliance, Klapmuts
16. 2000 / 912 7th All Africa Games Village: Alexandra Far East Bank, Johannesburg, SA
17. 1998 / 249 An Integrated Development Project in the Greater Mafikeng Area (Update)

Sudan
18. 2000 / 382 Shambob Brick Producers Co-operative Society (SBPCOOP), Kassala

Tanzania
19. 1996/694 Paramiho Home Makers League, Tanzania

ARAB STATES

Egypt
20. 2000 / 146 Dealing with Alexandria Environmental Problems

Jordan
21. 2000 / 123 Program for Credit to Small Production and Vocational Enterprises
22. 2000 / 266 Manara Housing - Site and Service Sub-projects

Palestine
23. 2000 / 955 Rehabilitation of Hebron Old City - Palestine

ASIA

China
24. 2000 / 104 Funan River Comprehensive Revitilization Project of Urban Settlements (U)
25. 2000 / 197 Action Plan to Improve the Living Environment in Mianyang, Sichuan Province
26. 2000 / 196 Kunming Modern Demonstration Busline & 2000 / 099 Kunming Urban Development and Public Transportation Initiative
27. 2000 / 218 Project for comprehensive management of the living environment, Weihai
28. 2000 / 217 Conservation of Ancient Town Zhouzhuang, Kunshan Municipality, Jiangsu.
29. 2000 / 534 Sustainable Shenyang Project
30. 2000 / 221 Municipal Solid Waste Disposal & Energy Recovery Initiative + 2000 / 171 Urban Environment Development of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

India
31. 2000 / 286 Cost-Effective and Appropriate Sanitation Systems
32. 2000 / 292 Eco Development, Management, Conservation and Policy Reform
33. 2000 / 290 Social and Financial Empowerment of Poor Women in India

Indonesia
34. 2000 / 665 An Integrated Hotel Solid Waste Management System in Bali

Nepal
35. 2000 / 514 Women’s Empowerment Program (WEP)

Philippines
36. 2000 / 112 Bantay Puerto Program (Puerto Princesa Watch)
37. 2000 / 378 Socialized and Incremental Housing Project
38. 2000 / 439 Women, Home And Community Campaign-The Bantay Banay Program

Singapore
39. 2000 / 142 Vision to Fruition: The Re-birth of the Singapore River

EUROPE

Austria
40. 1996/181 Sustainable Urban Renewal in Vienna, Austria (U)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
41. 2000 / 420 The Humanitarian Association "Prijateljice"

Bulgaria
42. 2000 / 307 Rhodope Project

Germany
43. 2000 / 186 Mothers’ Center Germany (U)

Macedonia
44. 2000 / 959 Street Children in Bitola

Poland
45. 2000 / 516 Action for Environment Protection, Elk

Slovakia
46. 2000 / 067 Strategy of the Town Development

Slovenia
47. 2000 / 044 VITRA Centre for Sustainable Development

Spain
48. 2000 / 323 Huelva in Action
49. 2000 / 331 "The Maci¨¤ Axis - Sabadell’s Catalonia Park"
50. 2000 / 342 Action in drug addition and social outcastion, Cartagena.
51. 2000 / 328 Proyecto URBAN San Luis-Alameda de H¨¦rcules, Sevilla
52. 2000 / 354 Spanish Greenways Programme: Ecological re-use of disused railway lines
53. 2000 / 355 The greenbelt around Vitoria-Gasteiz
54. 2000 / 352 Oliver Park. ?Live it!. A citizen participation experience
55. 2000 / 344 The perspective of gender within the Regional Transport Plan
56. 2000 / 338 Corvera de Asturias mix race council
57. 2000 / 333 Programmes of Rented Housing for Slummer Immigrants, Madrid
58. 2000 / 326 PERI of La Chanca. Almer¨ªa (Spain) -Special Plan for Interior Improvement)
59. 2000 / 322 Hercules Plan for La Corua

Sweden
60. 2000 / 667 Växjö kommun (the Municipality of Växjö): Fossil Fuel Free Växjö

Turkey
61. 2000 / 490 Tourism and Coastal Zone Management in Turkey; The Çirali Practice
62. 2000 / 486 Eymir Cultural Foundation and METU Istanbul Alumni Association

Uzbekistan
63. 2000 / 054 Business Women’s Association of Uzbekistan
64. 2000 / 678 Reduction of seismic risk in megacities

Yugoslavia
65. 2000 / 298 "Ravangrad"

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Argentina
66. 2000 / 704 Municipal Environmental Urban Management "A commitment for everyone"
67. 2000 / 703 Technologies for social habitat, Ceve’s practice

Brazil
68. 2000 / 369 Reuse of solid waste in production of low-cost Construction material Bahia
69. 2000 / 083 Revival Project - PROJETO RENASCER
70. 2000 / 491 Forum Mineiro de Saude Mental (FMSM)
71. 2000 / 370 Housing, Infrastructure and Poverty eradication in villages and slum areas, Brazil
72. 2000 / 551 APAEB - Association of the Small Farmers of the Municipal district of Brave.
73. 2000 / 460 Formation Program in Public Security, Human Rights and Citizenship
74. 2000 / 309 Porto Alegre Participatory Budgeting
75. 2000 / 657 Child Watch Project
76. 2000 / 374 Bioremediation of Sanitary Landfill in Aura,
77. 2000 / 741 Low income population areas environmental preservation
78. 2000 / 585 Administrative Modernization Program of Municipality of Santo Andre
79. 2000 / 630 Association for Paper, Cardboard, and Reusable Material Collectors of BH
80. 2000 / 741 Low income population areas environmental preservation , urban
81. 2000./.734 Autonomous Net of Indigenous Health Project
82. 1998 / 655 Doctors of Happiness (U)
83. 1998 / 564 Income Generation, Dignity and Citizenship (U)

Chile
84. 2000 / 641 Organisational Support/improvement Living Conditions irregular settlements
85. 2000 / 902 Program for the Urban Recovery of the North Bank of the Biobio River
86. 2000 / 605 Santiago Repopulation Programme, Municipality of Santiago

Colombia
87. 2000 / 121 Integral Attention to Inhabitants of the street (children and adolescents)
88. 2000 / 918 Institutional support program for young people in Medellin
89. 2000 / 669 Iberoterra’s Village
90. 2000 / 308 Bogota, How are we doing?

Costa Rica
91. 2000 / 550 Popular Habitat Programme
92. 2000 / 789 Local Development Program in Barrio Cristo Rey, San Jose
93. 2000 / 573 Plásticos Ecológicos S.A. (PLASTECO S.A.)

Cuba
94. 2000 / 860 Management model for the development of the historical center of old Havana
95. 2000 / 850 National program for low energy and material consumption for housing
96. 2000 / 613 Socio-Cultural and urban transformation project in Novoa Community.

Ecuador
97. 2000 / 763 Democratization municipal management for equitable / sustainable development

El Salvador
98. 2000 / 786 Citizen Participation and Consensus Building for Local Development
99. 2000 / 787 Solid Waste Management/Environmental Sanitation Public Private Management

Honduras

100. 2000 / 583 Basic Integral Education for peasant families.

Mexico
101. 2000 / 452 To water that which is from water, to soil that which is from soi

Peru
102. 2000 / 784 Participatory Urban Action of Villa El Salvador-Peru: Villa Can More
103. 2000 / 406 Relocation of Street Trading, Sucessful Experiencies of Recovery of Public

Trinidad & Tobago
104. 2000 / 465 The Matura Turtle Tourism and Conservation Programme

Uruguay
105. 2000 / 096 Descentralization in Montevideo 2Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo

NORTH AMERICA

Canada
106. 2000 / 934 Sustainable Okotoks - Leaving a Legacy
107. 2000 / 260 Culturally Appropriate Economic Development- The Metis Settlements of Alberta
108. 2000 / 656 The Hamilton-Wentworth Air Quality Initiative & Vision 2020 (U)
109. 2000 / 423 Integrating a gender perspective into public transit

USA
110. 2000 / 492 "Enviro Board Corporation—The Colusa Project"
111. 2000 / 447 Union de Vecinos
112. 1996 / 743 Minneapolis Neighbourhood Revitalisation Programme (U)