The Cities 4 Global Health website is an initiative led by Cities for Global Health and co-led by Metropolis and the Euro-Latin-American Alliance of Cooperation among Cities, AL-LAs. This is part of the Live Learning Experience: beyond the immediate response to the outbreak, developed by UCLG and supported by UN-Habitat and Metropolis.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has assessed Covid-19 in profoundly different scope and scale than any other significant emergency situations.

The Covid-19 situation presents threats to the city which requires resources that go beyond what is available. That is why Izmir Metropolitan Municipality decided to change the regular modality of carrying out municipal operations and services. Municipality switched into the « crisis municipalism » modality to fight against the Covid-19. The circumstances in the pandemic are dynamic, it keeps evolving and changing.

The Covid-19 situation presents threats to the city which requires resources that go beyond what is available. You can read here the documents provided by the municipality.