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Meanwhile, Utrecht was also expanding via the Utrecht Leidsche Rijn development project. As both municipalities set out to build neighbourhoods for low- and middle-income families, they helped each other by sharing experiences and expertise. Recognized by UN-HABITAT as demonstrating best practices for local government cooperation, the
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Utrecht municipality and Utrecht4GlobalGoals continuously adapt the strategy to localise the SDGs. The underlying policy document ‘Utrecht Global Goals City’ deliberately allows experiments. This proves vital to translate a global framework to a particular local context.
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Apr 26, 2018 · By highlighting Utrecht’s successes and best practices, the VNG hopes to inspire other cities and municipalities to take further steps towards integrating the SDGs into their own processes and ...
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- Method and Organisation of The Discussion Days
- The Discussion Days
- Future Prospects
Selection of the participants
The representativeness of the panel was a key point in organising the event. The municipality first randomly selected 10,000 people and sent them invitations to participate in drawing up the new energy and climate plan in return for financial compensation (participants could choose between a €300 voucher to be used freely and a €600 voucher redeemable for energy measures or electric transport). 900 people answered favourably. The municipality selected 165, equally distributed in terms of gend...
The team
Eight municipal staff members prepared the event. In total, ten people were involved before and over the three days: a researcher from the municipality, who selected the participants, a communication officer, a project manager responsible for creating the process (transition manager), an energy expert (information to participants and support for consultants), a project manager from Utrecht energy department, a planning manager, a logistics manager (bike parking places, café, catering, etc.) a...
Using the services of a consultancy
In order to provide participating citizens with the best possible information, the municipality hired energy consultants. Their missions were essential: production of information sheets to be distributed to the participants before the first day, preparation of an energy scenario, presence of experts for special themes, reporting on the atmosphere during the discussions and recording of the participants’ contributions into a draft energy plan.
After a long preparation process, the 165 selected participants met three times on Saturdays in March and April 2015.
After the energy plan drawn up by the citizens was presented to Utrecht City Council, the Utrecht Energy Agendas 2016-2019 were published in autumn 2015. These translate the energy plan into practical measures embedded into other local energy and climate policies. The idea is to get back to the participants once the action plan is defined, to see i...
Nov 29, 2016 · To this end, the municipalities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht were chosen as case studies for the following reasons. First, these three Dutch cities – together with The Hague – form part of the highly urbanized Randstad area and are undergoing the most visible urbanization in the Netherlands (CBS, Citation 2014 ).
- Liping Dai, Rebecca Wörner, Helena F. M. W. van Rijswick
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Feb 27, 2023 · The Covenant of Mayors, being also a platform for the dissemination of best practices, has the potential to tap into the potential of local authorities to trigger energy renovation of private buildings and possibly increase the uptake of Cohesion Policy funds for energy efficiency. 5.2 Identification of good practices
Jan 16, 2019 · In Utrecht and Santander open data platforms enable citizens to help municipalities locate and fix life issues that affect public wellbeing, such as full garbage bins, public lightening failures, road safety, dead animals, abandoned cars and many others. Both cities are part of a group of data-savvy municipalities committed to improve everyday ...
