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EVENTS and ACTIVITIES

Seminar on Public/Private Sector Partnership (PPP) for Urban Infrastructure and Service Delivery

Dates: 2-4 April 2002

Venue: Korea Research Institute for Local Administration, 1552-13 Seocho-Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 137-070

CityNet, UNESCAP, LOGOTRI (Network of Local Government Training and Research Institutes in Asia and the Pacific) and KRILA (Korea Research Institute for Local Administration are organising a seminar on PPP for Urban Infrastructure and Service Delivery from 2 to 4 April 2002 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The seminar aims to help participants understand and appreciate better the pressures on local government organisations to explore the use of PPP arrangements, learn key lessons and understand basic principles for mutually beneficial partnerships between local governments and the private sector through analysing selected case studies from the Asia and Pacific region; and examine what further work could be done to improve the success of future private-public partnerships. More details: http://www.citynet-ap.org/en/new.html/

Executive Summary on Good Urban Governance and Responses to HIV/AIDS

CityNet, in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organisations (APCASO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Regional HIV and Development Project, The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) jointly undertook a regional study on "Good Governance and Responses to HIV/AIDS" that comprised two activities. These were the Regional Consultation on Good Urban Governance and Responses to HIV/AIDS held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 27 to 29 August 2001, and The Power of Potential Partnerships: Municipalities and Civil Society, a Symposium held during the Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), which took place in Melbourne, Australia, from 5 to 10 October 2001. Please see the Executive Summary at http://www.citynet-ap.org/en/HIV-Executive%20Summary.doc

This publication will soon be available that detail important data of how local authorities and respective NGOs/CBOs have so far been responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. An extremely notable part of the publication is the City Action Plans for eights cities in Asia and the Pacific region that put together by local authorities and their respective NGOs/CBOs during the Regional Consultation, and these plans are concrete, precise and scheduled follow-up work plans that mark powerful partnership between two important groups of urban stakeholders.

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