During a workshop focusing on active citizenships, urban exploration and transformation, the children of Montale a small ancient village near Pistoia in Italy, manufactured a 1:10,000 scale Participatory 3D Model (P3DM). Thereafter they visualized data shared by adults (mainly elderly people) through a process of intergenerational knowledge exchange. Thereafter the children were than accompanied in reflecting about the past, present and possible future of their bio-cultural region.

Mayors and local authorities from across Central and South America will gather in Mexico City, Mexico August 27-29 for the 4th Congress of Latin-American Cities and Local Governments. The congress is organized by FLACMA (Latin-American Federation of Associations, Cities and Municipalities), an international non-profit aimed at promoting local democracy and development and strengthening the role of local governments.  During the event mayors, other members of local and regional governments, more...

There is a widespread, but hard to quantify, view in Latin America that the poor are over-represented among the losers of liberalised trade. This opinion by Alina Rocha Menocal of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) responds to the pressing question: how can interested stakeholders influence trade policy-making to make trade work better for the poor?

Over 7,000 Tanzanians Give Their Opinions on livelihood, education, health, governance, infrastructure, well-being, citizen participation, and more. This report is the largest perception survey conducted in Mainland Tanzania to date. 7,879 Tanzanians, aged from 7 to 90 years, from ten mainland regions, were asked for their opinion on aspects of economic progress, their standard of living, quality of and access to economic and social services, and trends in governance.

Included in this report more...