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Spurring Sustainable Urban DevelopmentEffecting Lasting Change in the Millennium Cities
Millennium Cities Initiative Progress Report
March 2012
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Director’s Message: A Letter from Dr. Susan M. Blaustein.......................................................................3
Spurring Sustainable Urban Development: MCI’s First Six Years.........................................................4
Key Accomplishments
MCI Partners..................................................................................................................................................................16
Thank You!......................................................................................................................................................................18
Table of Contents
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Director’s MessageG -
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Dr. Susan M. Blaustein
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Spurring Sustainable Urban Development: MCI’s First Six YearsT
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Millennium Cities.
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MCI’s Research at a Glance
in 8 Millen-
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Partnership
specific investment opportunities in the Millennium Cities
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Technologies:
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sanitation capable of significantly improving the city’s public health.
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the urban poor of essential utilities.
Involving the Community in Solving its own Development Challenges
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economic opportunity.
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girls in school.
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bamboo bikes.
MCI ensures that its research reaches
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promote local investment opportunities.
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investment.
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in launching a bamboo bike training program to begin
to hire several more over the next year.
Bamboo bikes have proven themselves through this
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Millennium Cities.
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Afrikaverein
AmeriCares
DLA Piper
Physicians for Peace
The Municipal Governments of the Millennium Cities:
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CyberSmart AfricaMr. Douglas Durst
F. Bruce Cohen
Ms. Ann Kaplan
Stevens Institute of Technology
Kenya
Mali
Senegal
Multilateral Institutions:
Cities Alliance
Center for Sustainable Urban Development
Teachers CollegeUrban Design Programme
Investment
The American College of Surgeons
Kenya)
Community LabConnectToLearn
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