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A resident affected by COVID-19 receives cash support from the People s Committee of Vinh Tuy Ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi. The capital city will start piloting the
urban governance administrative model from July 1. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A plan to pilot the urban governance model in Hanoi has been
issued by the municipal People’s Committee.
It aims to clarify and give instructions on implementing a Government’s decree
on piloting the model in the capital from July 1.
Under the decree, there will no longer be any
ward-level People’s Councils in Hanoi.
It means that instead of having both a People’s Committee and a People’s
By:Zhao Chunyuan |
From:english.eastday.com | 2021-04-16 16:47
Shanghai is the city with the largest number of cafes in the world. It is common for cafes to open in shopping malls and bookstores, but it is rare for them to open next door to wet markets.
Through the inconspicuous alley, the sound of shouting and bargaining comes from the back door of Beisheng wet market at No.171, Lao Hutai Road in Jing’an district, where the cafe Nana Coffee is located. The shop’s translucent curtain seems to isolate the noise of the world and the white signboard against the striking green painted wall is clear and fresh, echoing the wet market full of city atmosphere.
Senior Program Advisor
Ellen Boccuzzi was formerly associate director for Governance and Law, leading The Asia Foundation’s Urban Governance Initiative. She has more than fifteen years of professional experience in international development, good governance, and civil society issues with a focus on Asia.
Prior to joining the Asia Foundation, Dr. Boccuzzi served as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she managed USAID’s media development portfolio in Afghanistan and contributed to USAID strategies on human trafficking and Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG).
Dr. Boccuzzi has worked as a consultant to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNESCO on migration and education issues across Asia. She has also served as a researcher with the Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) and as lead Bangkok researcher for a multi-country project on squatter resettlement.
Should citizens be fixing their own municipality water and road problems?
1 March 2021 11:36 AM
Prof David Everatt of Urban Governance at Wits talks to Refilwe Moloto about this growing desperate trend.
There are numerous examples of ordinary South African citizens and non-profit organisations stepping in and fixing their own neighborhoods and towns.
Last October residents of Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape took matters into their own hands and began fixing their roads.
Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, is a case in point here Gift of the Givers and residents are doing the job of the municipality by drilling boreholes and providing water during a crisis where the entire town has been without any water for a long time.
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