Lessons from EuroAsian Cooperation Experiences and Expectation: Preliminary Survey

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Lessons from Euro-Asian Cooperation Experiences
and Expectation Preliminary Survey

• Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi
• Programme Manager
• CITYNET

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Respondent cities

• Asian Cities
• Colombo (Sri Lanka)
• Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
• Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
• Kathmandu (Nepal)
• Muntinlupa (Philippines)
• Mumbai (India)
• Makati (Philippines)
• Karachi (Pakistan)
• Vientiane (Laos)
• San Jose (Philippines)

• European Cities
• Rotterdam (Netherlands)

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Respondent Information (Asian Cities)

• Minimum value in orange Maximum value in blue

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Respondent Information
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A. Evaluation of the Asian- European
Cooperation Projects
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Main Priority Projects
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Asian-European Cooperation Programmes

• 67 of respondent cities have been involved in
  Cooperation Programmes
• 100 - European cities 60 - Asian cities
• Main reasons for non-cooperation Lack of
  opportunity
• Lack of information
• 100 stated the programmes/projects have been
  successful
• Reasons for success
• Commitment of cooperating cities (77)
• Good understanding and clear objectives/ goals of
  cooperation (77)
• Reciprocity and mutual interests (55)
• Concrete, adaptable practices from partner cities
  (55)
• Other reasons
• Political support from national or higher levels
  of government (30)
• Free information flows (30)
• Wide public awareness (22)

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B. Decentralised Cooperation Interacting
with Donors
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Main Projects, Partners and Donors (past 5 years)
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Expected Projects and Donors (next 5 years)
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City-to-City and Decentralised Cooperation

• City-to-City cooperation helps to better engage
  and develop projects funded by national and
  international donors (100 of respondents)
• City-to-City cooperation helps with
• Technical develop general knowledge about
  appropriate technologies, assistance to specific
  training, assistance to operation and maintenance
  (100)
• Procedural understanding of donor requirements,
  selection of external consultants (67)
• Environmental local agenda 21, environmental
  data collection, assistance to develop own
  environmental impact assessment methods, training
  to specific software and modelling (55)
• Others Economical and Institutional components
  (40 each)
• Not relevant Accounting and Social components
  (33 20 respectively)

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City-to-City and Decentralised Cooperation
(continued)

• City-to-city cooperation proved useful at the
  following stages of the project(s)
• Planning and general studies (67)
• Funding (67)
• Preparation of the project(s) (55)
• Others Management of infrastructure (40)
• Maintenance of constructed equipment (22)
• C2C was not so useful in Supervision

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City-to-City and Decentralised Cooperation
(continued)

• City-to-city cooperation proved useful at the
  following stages of the project(s)

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City-to-City and Decentralised Cooperation
(continued)

• Main obstacles and problems encountered
• Lack of coordination (55)
• Lack of communication (40)
• Others
• Mismatch between cities and donors interests/
  objectives (30)
• Limited knowledge of local social and political
  issues

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C. Expectations towards PRO-ACT for better
cooperation with European/Asian cities and
donors
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Cooperation between European Asian Cities

• Reasons of Asian cities for cooperating with
  European cities

• Main reason for European cities to cooperate with
  Asian cities
• For sustainable cooperation and to develop
  long-term relations with cities in Asia

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Priority Issues of Asian Cities for Cooperation
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Priority Issues for Cooperation
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Identified Cities for Cooperation (by Asian
Cities)
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Expectations from PRO-ACT

• To gain contacts with bilateral and multilateral
  aid agencies for funding and technical support
  (81)
• To help formulate general policies to improve
  cities compliance with donor strategies and
  programmes (54)
• To optimise support extended by donors through
  city-to-city cooperation between Asian and
  European cities (54)
• To assist Asian cities in developing project
  proposals for submission to donors (54)
• Others
• To complement international and local technical
  consultants appointed by bilateral and
  multilateral aid agencies (45)

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How can PRO-ACT help your cities

• PRO-ACT can assist in finding partners from
  Europe/Asia for operational project projects
  (82)
• PRO-ACT can provide relevant organisations and
  experts to contact to help you develop projects
  (54)
• PRO-ACT can provide best practices from
  Asian/European cities through its website and
  newsletters (54)
• Others
• PRO-ACT can answer your questions through its
  website discussion forum to be set up (27)

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How can cities contribute to PRO-ACT

• Cities can organise various capacity building
  programmes for recipient cities (64)
• Cities can provide relevant information and write
  article(s) for publication in the PRO-ACT website
  and newsletters (64)
• Cities can dispatch our experts to the recipient
  cities (46)
• Others
• Cities can provide resources to the recipient
  cities (27)

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Foreseen obstacles to successful cooperation

• Other obstacles mentioned (mainly European
  cities) include
• Political priority and lack of commitment with
  respect to follow-up in Asia
• Perspective/willingness to finance project
  implementation and follow-up

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