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Making A Seaside City Sustainable
posted (August 9, 2019)
The Inter-American Development Bank is working with the Belize City Council on a project called the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Action Plan for Belize City. They want to help the current local government administration implement a blueprint for the city so that it can develop sustainably for the next 15 to 20 years.

1,200 residents were asked to participate in a survey, to assess transit patterns and behavior of those who call it home. In that survey, some of the most critical areas identified were the vulnerability to natural disasters, climate change mitigation, sanitation, drainage, solid waste management, energy, land use planning, zoning and urban mobility, employment, education, and citizen security.

The Emerging and Sustainable Cities methodology was created by the IDB in 2010 as a technical assistance tool, to help local governments respond to rapid and mostly unregulated urbanization in the Latin American and Caribbean cities. So far, it has been implemented in over 75 cities. The Plan was prepared with 1.1 million US dollars in IDB grant funding.

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