7th MobiliseYourCity Steering Committee

The German Ministry of Environment hosted the 7th MobiliseYourCity Steering Committee in Berlin in March 2020. It brought together our partners for exciting discussions to accelerate the transition towards sustainable urban mobility.

It was a great opportunity to reflect on what has happened since the last Steering Committee. We are proud to announce that we have recruited 3 new partners : Colombia, Peru and Peshawar City. We have also completed many key documents such as the SUMP Model Terms of Reference, the Annotated SUMP Table of Contents, the MobiliseYourCity Emissions Calculator and the Action Plan 2020 for Africa Community of Practice. Finally, we have also improved reporting against results by updating the logical framework with targets and mapping against SDG.

Another great news, MobiliseYourCity‘s community of practice went online as a mean to facilitate the sharing and co-creation of knowledge. It will allow our network and partners to showcase their work and to share news, events and lessons learned from projects and experience. It will also allow you to learn how other cities and country are doing on sustainable mobility, get access to tools and methodologies and learn about the actors in your field. This platform is also a great opportunity to generate new content with the MobiliseYourCity online community of practice and to join discussions and debates on many topics. A few days after the launch of the platform, we are proud to announce that 350 knowledge documents are already online in English, French and Spanish and that we have received more than a thousand visitors. To be continued!

So what's next for MobiliseYourCity? We have an exciting plan for 2021 to 2025, aiming to realize the Partnership's Potential. MobiliseYourCity has the ambition to go beyond SUMPs. This means enabling a just transition by accompanying cities post-SUMP in implementing particularly socially complex projects, avoiding locking-in high carbon development by supporting policy coherence and institutional coordination, linking transport with land-use planning and implementing complex projects and realizing quick wins. To go beyond NUMPs, MobiliseYourCity will develop data & digital capacities to monitor and report against SUMP And NUMP Progress, strengthen institutional infrastructures for long-term data collection for monitoring and reporting, strengthen the link between NUMPs and NDCs and enable countries realize their climate commitments. By doing so, MobiliseYourCity will continue contributing to many of the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations, and we will soon release another article to tell you more about MobiliseYourCity's contribution to the SDGs

With this five-year plan, MobiliseYourCity is paving the way to improve mobility and to decarbonize transport to fight the global climate crisis. The next Steering Committee is due to take place in six months.