APRU SCL, UNU-IAS and Partners Launch Asia-Pacific Mayors Academy

The APRU SCL is thrilled to announce our partnership with the Mayors Academy for Sustainable Urban Development in the Asia-Pacific spearheaded by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and UNESCAP, UN-HABITAT, and United Cities and Local Governments-Asia Pacific (UCLG-ASPAC). The program launched on October 15th, 2019 at the Asia-Pacific Forum in Penang, Malaysia and will run until December 2020. In February 2020 participating mayors will present proposed work plans at the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi.

Jennifer Amparo, Steering Committee Leader and Yizhao Yang, Working Group Leader of the Urban-Rural Linkages Working Group and Co-Editor of the forthcoming APRU SCL Handbook of the APRU SCL Hub went to Bangkok, Thailand earlier this month on behalf of the APRU SCL Hub to lead training workshops at the Asia-Pacific Mayors Academy in Bangkok, Thailand. They both served as Resource Speakers working directly with new mayors in the Asia-Pacific region. The training sessions offer new tools, strategies, and models to support leaders committed to sustainable urban development in achieving SDGS in 2030. Through cooperation and team-building generated between city leaders at the Academy, the Academy provides a robust framework for sustainable planning and on short-term and medium-term scales.

This uniquely positioned training program and network would not have materialized without the initiative of Christina Schoenleber, Director of Policy and Programs of APRU and Yekang Ko, Program Director of the APRU SCL Hub. Many thanks for their efforts in making this partnership happen.