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The Cities Programme operates in diverse socio-economic, cultural and environmental contexts across the globe. Currently, the Programme operates in all six continents, with membership encompassing an expanding list of geographically distinct cities.

City	Project Name
Jamshedpur, India	Basti Water Project
Berlin, Germany	Berlin as a Health Care Centre
San Francisco, USA	Business Council on Climate Change (BC3)
Jinan, China	Jinan Traffic Safety Project
Milwaukee, USA	Maintaining and Improving Water Quality
Asker, Norway	Preventing corruption and unethical behaviour by working together.
Melbourne, Australia	Residential Sustainability Pilot
Tshwane, South Africa	Rosslyn Strategic Development Forum
Porto Alegre, Brazil	Social Inclusion Project for Vila Chocolatao
Le Havre, France	Sustainable Tourism
As-Salt, Jordan	The Environmental Street Project
Plock, Poland	The Grant Fund for Plock
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	Urban Development
Melbourne, Australia	Utility Debt Spiral Project

News

July Newsletter - From the Secretariat

22 July 2010

State of Australian Cities Report

20 July 2010

The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government launches the State of Australian Cities 2010 report.

Cities Programme broadens reach to engage an additional 28 cities

10 June 2010

On 24 April, 2010, Mr Georg Kell, Executive Director of the Global Compact extended the Cities Programme to all cities engaged in the UN Global Compact in an effort to strengthen their role in advancing the Ten Principles. The Signaotry Cities will be administered by the International Secretariat based at the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, who provides unique expertise and guidance to participating cities.