Peace and Development Adviser - United Nations Mozambique (tweets reflect own views and preferences)
Maputo - Mozambique
Joined June 2009
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Laura Lima retweeted
🗨️Our vision is to strive for a future where #caring goes beyond mere responsibility and becomes a shared value that unites us. With this shared commitment, we aim to create resilient, inclusive, and #SustainableCities that benefit everyone: Martin Delgado @montevideoIM #HLPF23
🎯#HappeningNow at #HLPF2023
Building #SustainableCities: Harnessing the Potential of #LocalCommunities to Withstand Crises.
@UN NY Conf. Room 5
Webcast bit.ly/3XIgS0w Tune in!
Laura Lima retweeted
🗨️ Recognising #InformalWorkers is essential. In many cities, they are the majority of workers, the 🔑 to ensuring #FoodSecurity or #recycling waste. #Governments need to institutionalise honest spaces of #dialogue to harness their potential : @jaharvey711 @WIEGOGLOBAL #HLPF23
🎯#HappeningNow at #HLPF2023
Building #SustainableCities: Harnessing the Potential of #LocalCommunities to Withstand Crises.
@UN NY Conf. Room 5
Webcast bit.ly/3XIgS0w Tune in!
Laura Lima retweeted
🗨️ In many cities, #LocalCommunities are left on their own to provide their own #housing, own #services. How do we take these innovations & amplify them to inform the global discussions?
@MuturiKarimi @sdi_net on the importance of creating #partnerships w #localgov. #HLPF2023
✨Happening TODAY!
Join us for this special learning event. Slum Dwellers International - SDI. will be represented by the Chair of our Board, @MuturiKarimi.
⏰: 15H00 EDT
🔗: bit.ly/2023SDGsLearning
Laura Lima retweeted
🗨️How do we create more #InclusiveCities? We need a system of #care. 3 key steps:
1. Get the political buy-in
2. Get the policies
3. Get all groups of society involved. This is about inclusion in all its forms: @CitiesADirector @CitiesAlliance #HLPF2023
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Laura Lima retweeted
🗨️ The most vulnerable urban #communities face multiple crises, w multiplying effects: #climate, #poverty, #conflict... How do we harness their potential? Dialogue to build trust & #partnerships for innovation are the🔑: Laura Lima @CitiesAlliance closing our #HLPF2023 event 👏
Laura Lima retweeted
How can #cities address urban #displacement?
✔️Recognize that #Refugees & #IDPs are not a burden but part of the #solution
✔️Work at #local level w existing formal & informal structures
✔️Be realistic and adapt to the local context👉@lauramslima @CitiesAlliance @EU_Partnerships
#TODAY 3pm CEST❗️Do not miss our #InfoPoint with @EU_Partnerships: #UrbanDisplacement trends in Sub-Saharan Africa🌍
We'll discuss the role of #cities & #localgov in an era of increased #forcedmigration & rapid #urbanisation.
SIGN IN: citiesalliance.org/newsroom/…
#InclusiveCities
Laura Lima retweeted
#Tomorrow
If you are in #Brussels tomorrow, join us at the EU infopoint for a lunchtime conference on #GreenCity Policies and Urban Actions: to support the global fight against #climatechange
⏱ 12.30-14.00
🗺 EU DEVCO infopoint
Laura Lima retweeted
Thrilled to listen to women mayors from intermediary cities in Africa! their words on the challenges they faced being in office are an inspiration for all women and men!
#BeCounted #EDD18 teapawt.org/GlobalTaskforce/status…
.@CitiesAlliance's session "Talking to female mayors in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities in Secondary Cities" is starting right now in L1
Come and join an amazing panel of African mayors!
📌 #EDD18 #BeCounted #IntermediaryCities
Laura Lima retweeted
.@CitiesAlliance session on "Female Mayors in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities in Secondary Cities" just came to an end!
An insightful debate on what means to be a woman and mayor in some of the fastest growing cities in Africa. Thank you Mayors! 👏🏾
#BeCounted #EDD18
Laura Lima retweeted
Anna Lixi, DEVCO in conversation with mayors from #Africa- #Ghana #Liberia #Uganda at the #EDD18.
The panel will discuss various approaches to harness the potential of #secondarycities through #genderequality
#SheisWe #shEDDs @europeaid @UCLGAfrica @CitiesAlliance
Laura Lima retweeted
.@CitiesAlliance's session "Talking to female mayors in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities in Secondary Cities" is starting right now in L1
Come and join an amazing panel of African mayors!
📌 #EDD18 #BeCounted #IntermediaryCities
Laura Lima retweeted
It is a challenge for women to apply for office. It is my belief that women can do anything and do it better - Ms Justina Assan mayor of Agona Swedru, #Ghana.
at the #EDD18 session.
@europeaid @CitiesAlliance #SheisWe #shEDDs
Laura Lima retweeted
"The people's fear of the unknown because a woman was never a mayor before was one of the main challenges upon my appointment. We always have to prove ourselves as women and as leaders" says Justina Assan Mayor of Agona Swedru, Ghana
📌 #EDD18 #BeCounted #IntermediaryCities
Laura Lima retweeted
At #EDD18 Mayor of Paynesville, Liberia, Pam Belcher-Taylor explains her experience when she was first appointed mayor and the daily challenges she faces as an elected woman
📌 #BeCounted #IntermediaryCities
Laura Lima retweeted
I am the first female mayor of my city, Agona Swedru. I was doubtful to apply but I took that challenge and suddendly I was selected. Not all were pleased, but here I am and now, receiving great support! @CitiesAlliance #EDD18 @mlgrdghanagov
Laura Lima retweeted
#EDD18 #shEDDs
Here is an opportunity to know more about #localgov's role in some of the fastest growing cities in #Africa.
@CitiesAlliance invites 3 women #mayors from #Ghana #Uganda #Liberia to dicuss challenges & opportunities in #secondarycities
Watch this space for updates
