Thanks to the flexibility and quick response of the donor institution, the Municipality of Barcelona, MedCities was able to channel some of the available funding in supporting the valuable efforts of the Municipality in improving its crisis management unit, in promoting physical distancing for municipal services open to citizens and in supporting vulnerable groups by assuring food security.
The Covid 19 pandemic brought the Municipalities in the frontline of the sanitary crisis management and of the short and medium term response to its social and economic effects. On the other hand, some of the technical assistance projects that MedCities was implementing in collaboration with its members were severely affected by the impossibility to implement some of their activities as foreseen.
This was the case of TerBrand project and its implementation in Zgharta Ehden Municipality. Thanks to the flexibility and quick response of the donor institution, the Municipality of Barcelona, MedCities was able to channel some of the available funding in supporting the valuable efforts of the Municipality in improving its crisis management unit, in promoting physical distancing for municipal services open to citizens and in supporting vulnerable groups by assuring food security.
In concrete, two small scale interventions took place as part of two larger municipal projects:
Although such interventions are limited in scale, they contribute to reinforcing the municipal response in dealing with the Covid 19 effects, they support social inclusion in a country devastated by consequent crises and they strengthen the municipal actions towards digitalisation of the public function.
A public consultation was therefore organized on Saturday 16 November to introduce the project, and assess the social acceptability of the project, including the potential impacts and positive outcomes, to the main stakeholder.
MedCities, IRIDRA and SVI.MED had the opportunity to participate in a study visit in Barcelona. Organised within the framework of the URWAN project, the objective of this study visit was to explore the Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and other sustainable water management solutions carried out by the Municipality of Barcelona to tackle the typical challenges faced by many Mediterranean cities: drought and the resulting flash floods.
MedCities aims to promote city-to-city learning and the thematic working groups are an enriching and trust-based opportunity for it. In this regard, the 2024 work plan focuses in a peer–to-peer programme that consists in inviting two cities of the group to share a concrete challenge related to their local mobility policies or project. The takers (Takers of advice) are the municipalities of Rethymno and Agadir.
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