Strong Cities Mission in Action: Member Journeys

Impact: Member Journeys

Amid rising hate and social polarisation globally, cites are facing unprecedented challenges to social cohesion. Strong Cities’ members are leveraging city-to-city learning – the foundation of the Network’s mission – to build and strengthen their capacity to confront, prevent and respond to these complex issues. During the Network’s 10th anniversary year, we will be sharing member journeys from across our growing, global network; how these Strong Cities leveraged their member journeys to unlock their potential for building safer, more cohesive cities.

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Athens | Hani i Elezit | Mardan | Masaka | Rabat

Athens (Ohio)

Athens is a major cultural focal point for southeast Ohio. Located along the Hocking River, Athens is home to Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. Athens’ member journey is particularly striking as it takes place in the context of significant local impacts of the Israel-Gaza conflict, demonstrating how pivotal city-city learning and exchange is in navigating such challenges, and the importance of mayoral leadership, with Mayor Steve Patterson not only a passionate advocate for his city but also for the Strong Cities mission.

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Mayor Patterson Reaches out to Strong Cities

Athens’ Mayor, Steve Patterson, was first introduced to the Strong Cities Network during the 2023 National League of Cities Summit. After learning how Strong Cities is supporting cities to prevent hate and foster social cohesion, Mayor Patterson reached out to Strong Cities to see how his city could benefit from the Network’s city-city learning.

Navigating Local Impacts of Israel-Gaza

Athens is home to Ohio University, a large public research university with a combined enrollment of more than 21,000 students from more than 110 countries. Mayor Patterson saw how the local impacts of the Israel-Gaza crises had shaken the community to its core. Eager to share Athens’ experience with other Strong Cities members, and to learn how other mayors, councils and local governments were navigating and addressing these local impacts, he was a featured speaker during the first in a series of webinars on Global Crises, Local Impacts: Threats to Social Cohesion & How Cities Can Respond. He shared how the city’s “protest square” was serving as a dedicated safe space for peaceful protests and demonstrations, and the importance of building strong relationships with the university so the campus and community can come together in safe common spaces. Read More

Regional Hub Support & Transatlantic Learning

Athens has also leveraged support from the Strong Cities North America Regional Hub Help Desk. A member of Athens City Council reached out to Strong Cities for resources to help the Council navigate local tensions over a proposed Israel-Hamas ceasefire resolution. The support received inspired the City Council to consider how it could better address rising hate and polarisation and learn from the experiences of other cities in the United States, across North America and Strong Cities’ global network. The Council member joined mayors and city leaders from across Europe and North America at a Strong Cities’ Transatlantic Dialogue Meeting in Strasbourg (France), identifying and sharing city-led good practices and innovations in prevention and navigating local impacts of global crises. Read More

Athens Joins Multi-Actor Prevention Pilot

Based on the learning opportunities and the impact from Athen’s early engagement with the Strong Cities Network, and seeking to leverage the city-city learning opportunities with other US cities and those across the global Network, Athens decided to invest further in developing its capacities to prevent hate and rising polarisation before they take root in the community. To support these efforts, Athens joined Albuquerque (New Mexico), Chattanooga (Tennessee), Overland Park (Kansas) and Stamford (Connecticut) in an multi-actor project aimed at filling a gap in existing support for local prevention efforts. The project, led by Strong Cities in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Illinois Chicago and the Prevention Practitioners Network, is piloting a model for the development of local multi-actor prevention frameworks in small and mid-sized US cities. Read More

Leadership in Prevention and Response

Eager to more fully leverage the unique platform that Strong Cities provides to city leaders to share and exchange challenges and approaches to complex challenges, Mayor Patterson then participated in a retreat for US city leaders on Mayoral & City Leadership Against Hate, Extremism and Polarisation: Putting Communities First, held in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). The retreat provided a unique opportunity to share experiences and innovations in both prevention and response with other US mayors, deputy mayors, city council members and city officials, as well as representatives from community-based organisations and other institutions in the Pittsburgh area. Read More

Transatlantic Dialogue in Columbus

With cities on both sides of the Atlantic facing shared challenges, and eager to further leverage the city-city learning facilitated by Strong Cities’ Transatlantic Dialogue Initiative, Athens city officials joined colleagues from across Europe, Canada and the US for a dialogue co-hosted by the City of Columbus (Ohio). The dialogue helped Athens identify good practices for enhancing its efforts to maintain social cohesion in the face of the ongoing Israel-Gaza crisis, and other global, regional and national crises – from climate change to migration to rising antisemitism, anti-Muslim and other forms of hate and rising social polarisation – which are having significant, cascading impacts at the local level. Read More

“Learn and Steal From Each Other”

Mayor Patterson, now President of the National League of Cities, a Strong Cities strategic partner, spoke at a Strong Cities-hosted panel during the League’s Annual Cities Summit. He shared city-led initiatives Athens is using to strengthen social cohesion, including welcoming dinners where residents from diverse communities can connect over shared meals and build relationships, and the city’s work with schools to promote civility and respectful engagement. He encouraged his fellow city leaders and officials to “learn and steal from each other”, underscoring the benefits of Strong Cities’ city-city learning.

Leveraging the Global Network

Mayor Patterson continued to champion the benefits of city-city learning at the Strong Cities Fifth Global Summit in Cape Town, joining mayors, governors, city officials, practitioners and partners from across our growing, global network. The Summit was an innovations and solutions exchange; an opportunity to learn from other mayors and local leaders, to engage in interactive parallel sessions and tabletop exercises, and to leverage the collective experiences, lessons learned and insights from more than 90 cities and 40 countries around the world. Read More

Hani i Elezit

The small town of Hani i Elezit, located in Kosovo’s southeast, was a key transit point for thousands of people displaced during the war in the late 1980s. The town also faced significant security challenges due to its history of high numbers of foreign terrorist fighters linked to the Islamic State. These issues have strained social cohesion, creating divisions within the community and fostering mistrust among residents. Hani i Elezit leveraged city-city learning through the Strong Cities Network to rebuild trust and promote inclusive dialogue, including through meaningful engagement with youth, and strengthen social resilience.

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Hani i Elezit joins Strong Cities

One of the smallest municipalities in Kosovo, the municipality of Hani i Elezit had been grappling for several years with the local impact of the Islamic State (IS), recording high numbers of foreign terrorist fighters. This, among other challenges, had strained social cohesion, creating divisions and fostering mistrust within and between communities. In 2017, to help prepare for the return of FTFs, and to better understand and address the underlying causes of radicalisation in its communities, Hani i Elezit joined the Strong Cities Network.

Strengthening National-Local Cooperation

Hani i Elezit participated in a Strong Cities’ national roundtable in Kosovo, hosted by the newly launched Western Balkans Regional Hub in partnership with the Municipality of Prishtina. The roundtable brought together municipal leaders, practitioners, civil society and the international donor community in Kosovo to discuss the role of mayors and local governments in safeguarding communities from extremist and hate-motivated violence. Participation helped the municipality build the knowledge and skills needed to develop tailored, contextualised prevention frameworks and initiatives, and see the importance of structured national-local cooperation to clarify municipal mandates, define roles and empower cities.

Engaging Youth in Prevention

Continuing its Strong Cities journey, Hani i Elezit then participated in a workshop hosted by the Western Balkans Regional Hub in partnership with the Municipality of Elbasan (Albania). The workshop focused on City-led Approaches to Empower Youth to Address Extremism, Hate and Polarisation, bringing together more than 30 mayors, council members, local government officials, youth activists, national government officials and multilateral organisations across the Western Balkans. Determined to adopt a more inclusive approach to prevention, and inspired by the workshop’s exchanges on models for engaging youth in local decision-making, Hani i Elezit moved to include youth as members of the city’s Local Security Council.

Reintegrating FTFs

The Western Balkans Regional Hub then convened more than 50 mayors and other local government officials, as well as national government, civil society and multilateral stakeholders for a workshop focused on further strengthening the role of cities in addressing hate, extremism and polarisation through enhanced national-local cooperation. Working through a series of real-world scenarios helped Hani i Elezit explore ways to strengthen the city’s coordination and communication with national counterparts – including with the Ministry of the Interior – on rehabilitating and reintegrating foreign terrorist fighters; a pressing issue for the city since 2014. The workshop also helped support the city in engaging with its residents on issues related to returnees and addressing community fears surrounding their reintegration.

A Whole of Society Approach

Hani i Elezit’s member journey also included endorsing the New York Mayoral Declaration, an initiative launched at the Strong Cities’ Fourth Global Summit with concrete steps for cities to address rising hate and polarisation. Hani i Elezit has taken significant steps to fulfill its commitments, with its Local Security Council driving a whole-of-society approach in tackling these complex challenges. Hani i Elezit has also partnered with civil society and grassroots organisations to counter extremist narratives and promote tolerance by emphasising inclusivity and celebrating diversity. The city has also leveraged the expertise and capacity of non-governmental organisations to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of returning FTFs through community awareness campaigns, psycho-social and other support. Read More

Sharing Hani i Elezit’s Journey

Strong Cities published a City Spotlight to shared with its global membership how Hani i Elezit is developing, maintaining and managing partnerships with civil society and grassroots organisations. The Spotlight shares the city’s success in leveraging its capacities, experience and networks for effective and sustainable local prevention efforts, including partnerships with faith leaders to counter extremist narratives and promote tolerance, and the success of its Local Security Council, which is chaired by the Mayor and meets monthly to discuss strategies to address current security and safety issues. Read More

Mardan

The second-largest city in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mardan sits near the Afghan border and has long been a key hub for trade and a gateway to the Taliban-affected Swat region. Since joining the Strong Cities Network in 2023, Mayor Himayat Mayar has actively shared his city’s deep-rooted commitment to peace, including its role in supporting refugees and internally displaced people, and proactively strengthening local government engagement with youth, women and marginalised communities.

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First Strong Cities Engagement

Mayor Himayat Ullah Mayar joined mayors and local officials for the inaugural Strong Cities’ South Asia Regional Workshop; the first time many had engaged on the role of local governments in social cohesion. Mayor Mayar shared his insights on pressures faced by local governments in supporting more than one million internally displaced persons during the Afghan war. He also underscored the need for local leaders to address rising violence, calling for enhanced national-local collaboration, a holistic approach to community safety, and training and resources to empower local leaders in building resilience. His powerful interventions enriched the dialogue and started Mardan’s Strong Cities journey. Read More

Mardan Joins Strong Cities

Inspired by the impact of the South Asia Regional Workshop, and recognising the potential of a collaborative, regional approach to community safety and resilience, particularly opportunities for city-city learning around support for marginalised groups, fostering women’s leadership and models for meaningful youth engagement in local governance, the Mardan Municipal Corporation joined the Strong Cities Network. Mardan was then able to access resources, training opportunities and global good practices from across the Network, facilitating the development of local capacities to prevent violence and promote social cohesion.

Regional Leadership

Determined to support regional cooperation and city-city learning across the region, Mayor Mayar co-hosted with the South Asia Regional Hub a Mayoral Roundtable on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Preventing Hate Speech and Polarisation. The roundtable gathered mayors, local officials, civil society, journalists and academics to discuss how mayors and local governments could address hate speech, conflict resolution, soft target protection, community integration, security coordination and supporting IDPs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Newly Merged Districts. Read More

Sharing Mardan’s Approach

To share Mardan’s experiences and approaches with the global network, Strong Cities published a City Spotlight focused on the city’s support to internally displaced persons and strategies to foster resilience, social cohesion and effective governance in response to complex challenges. The displacement of large populations often leads to tensions within host communities; a challenge that Mardan’s leadership has successfully navigated by implementing inclusive policies, engaging communities in dialogue and ensuring integration of displaced persons. Read More

Community Engagement

Continuing Mardan’s member journey, Mayor Mayer and officials from the Mardan Municipal Corporation joined mayors and officials from Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Strong Cities South Asia Regional Workshop in Colombo, exploring inclusive, city-led approaches for preventing hate, extremism and polarisation. Mardan shared how it had leveraged its multi-disciplinary peace committees to promote inter-cultural dialogue and foster community cohesion, and learned how national-local cooperation and multi-stakeholder coordination were crucial for effectively addressing local challenges related to extremism and social divides. The workshop concluded with a commitment from Mayor Mayar to enhance the city’s role in addressing local grievances through community engagement, including through sustained dialogue with youth, women and marginalised groups to design effective prevention strategies. Read More

Inclusive Policies

During the most recent South Asia Regional Workshop in Colombo, Mayor Mayar shared the impacts on social cohesion of challenges such as unemployment, low crop rates and increasing water scarcity, and the permanent settlement of displaced people from Malakand. While the city did not experience ethnic tensions due to cultural and linguistic similarities, Mayor Mayar underscored the importance of fostering social cohesion through inclusive policies that engage all communities and stakeholders in problem-solving. Despite operating with limited mandates, Mardan’s local government continues to work proactively on initiatives to strengthen social cohesion and address pressing challenges. Read More

Masaka City

Located in the Uganda’s Buganda Region, west of Lake Victoria, Masaka City, has a diverse and young population. The city was impacted significantly by the Uganda-Tanzania war in the 1980s, and again subjected to heavy combat during the Ugandan Bush War. Masaka’s journey with the Strong Cities Network began in 2022, at a national-local cooperation workshop for Ugandan cities. Masaka Mayor Florence Namayanja has become a proud ambassador and leading advocate in Uganda and the broader region for the crucial roles mayors and local governments must play in building inclusive, resilient, strong cities.

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Masaka Starts Its Strong Cities Journey

Masaka City’s first engagement with Strong Cities was at a national-local cooperation dialogue in Kampala, which convened local and national officials and civil society stakeholders from across Uganda for a dialogue on ensuring that mayors and local governments are empowered to play an active role in countering hate, extremism and polarisation. The dialogue was informed by the findings of a Strong Cities-led mapping on the status of national-local cooperation in Uganda, using the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s NLC Good Practices (developed by Strong Cities) as a point of reference. The dialogue not only marked the start of Masaka’s Strong Cities journey, but also the first time that many local government officials had had the chance to meet counterparts across the country and discuss capacities, challenges, policies, programmes and activities to prevent and counter violent extremism. Read More

Embrace the City’s Role in Prevention

Building on the outcomes of the October Roundtable, the Strong Cities East and Southern Africa Regional Hub hosted an in-depth national-local roundtable in April 2023, providing Masaka City and other local governments across Uganda to share their perspectives on the hate and extremism threat landscape and how they can be supported (particularly by national stakeholders) to address this threat. The roundtable helped cities unpack and better understand their roles in preventing extremism; potential that Masaka and other Ugandan cities were eager to embrace. The roundtable also ended with a commitment from Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs to include local government in their P/CVE committee; a significant step forward.

Masaka City Joins Strong Cities

Inspired by their participation in the Strong Cities national-local cooperation dialogues, and inspired by what they had shared and learned with cities across Uganda, Masaka City joined the Strong Cities Network in May 2023; one of many Ugandan cities eager to unlock the power of city-led prevention and response.

Regional Collaboration

Mayor Florence Namayanja joined mayors and other local officials and stakeholders from 26 local governments and 11 countries across East and Southern Africa, along with national government officials and local government associations and international organisations, in Johannesburg for an ESA Regional Workshop, co-hosted by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). The workshop was a much needed platform for city-city learning around the most pressing hate- and extremist-related threats in their cities, the role that mayors and local authorities can play in addressing these challenges and what local governments need in order to strengthen their capacity to do so. Mayor Namayanja was a featured speaker, sharing city practices, including the reintegration of youth offenders through community hubs, and emphasising how crucial it is for local leaders to “understand what brings about unrest and address these challenges proactively”. Read More

Border Municipalities Working Group

One of the significant outcomes of the ESA Regional Workshop in Johannesburg was the establishment of a Border Municipalities Working Group. With many border towns represented at the workshop, the city-city learning and exchange that the workshop facilitated helped them realise that they face similar threats and could benefit from further opportunities to learn from one another. The Strong Cities Border Municipalities Working Group was established by city leaders from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, and operates under the auspices of and with support from the Strong Cities ESA Regional Hub. Masaka Mayor Namayanja is one of the Working Group’s co-founders and key advocates. Read More

City Learning at the Fourth Global Summit

Mayor Namayanja was one of 20 delegates from East and Southern Africa who attended the Strong Cities’ Fourth Global Summit in New York City (New York, USA) in September 2023. A featured speaker during a mayoral conversation on the Summit’s opening day, Mayor Namayanja also made a powerful intervention on global-local cooperation, where she shared how she is prioritising prevention and how meaningful youth engagement is an area where mayors have significant potential for impact. Read More

Inspired by a Strong Cities Mayoral Declaration

Mayor Namayanja is one of more than 100 mayors and other city leaders that endorsed the Strong Cities New York Mayoral Declaration, an initiative launched at the Fourth Global Summit in New York in September 2023. A year on, Mayor Namyanja shared with Strong Cities how Masaka has implemented the Declaration’s commitments, including establishing a disability council, a youth council and a women’s council to ensure that Masaka’s policies and programmes are informed by diverse perspectives and better able to meet the needs of residents. The Mayor also initiated community engagement meetings to “close the gap between leaders and residents” and has spoken out more frequently about hate and extremism to encourage dialogue between the local government and residents, using town hall and other public meetings to advocate for unity and tolerance. She has also launched street management committees to support with strengthening community engagement and with early-warning; leadership in action.

City-City Learning: Mombasa and Masaka

The East and Southern Africa Regional Hub facilitated a learning visit for Masaka City to gain practical insights on how to adapt Mombasa County’s robust approach to youth engagement, including integrating youth proposals for improving County governance, to the Masaka context. The learning visit resulted in a commitment, that has since been implemented successfully with Strong Cities support, to bring together youth leaders (50 at the ward level, six at the division level, and two at the city level) for for a first-of-its-kind citywide convening focused on gathering youth perspectives on community needs and how the city should respond. Read More

Working with Youth

As a result of Masaka’s learning visit to Mombasa, Strong Cities and Joseph Nazareth Mgwata, a youth leader from Mombasa, facilitated a dialogue between the Mayor and more than 70 youth leaders from all the city’s wards. Among the dialogue’s outcomes were the creation of a city youth hub where youth could convene for innovation, civic education, leadership training and skills development to become entrepreneurs and a volunteer programme for youth to learn skills, so that unemployment as a driver of hate and extremism. The Mayor also committed to meeting regularly with the city’s youth leaders to address concerns and build mutual trust, and to engage youth in the city’s prevention efforts, including through sports.

Meaningful Youth Engagement

Strong Cities continues to provide technical support to Masaka, including through a webinar series featuring facilitators from local and national governments and faith and youth leaders to equip them with the knowledge, skills and support to combat hate and extremism in their communities. A key focus for the Mayor and city is youth engagement, supported by a series of virtual youth peer-to-peer exchanges between youth leaders from Mombasa and Uganda, the success of which underscores the importance of empowering young people to take an active role in promoting tolerance, inclusivity and peace. Masaka’s member journey also underscores the important role that mayoral leadership plays in building trusted relationships with youth.

Rabat

Rabat, Morocco’s vibrant and dynamic capital, is a city leading by action, prioritising and investing in youth, women, inclusivity and social cohesion. From co-hosting the Strong Cities’ inaugural MENA Regional Workshop before even joining the Network, to raising its hand to serve as Co-Chair of the Network’s International Steering Committee, Rabat and Mayor El Moudni embody leadership in action, driving forward city-led initiatives that foster unity and resilience.

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MENA Inaugural Regional Workshop

Rabat started its Strong Cities member journey by co-hosting the inaugural Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Workshop, which launched the Regional Hub. The workshop was a unique opportunity for city leaders to exchange experiences and approaches for addressing regional threats and local priorities, including strengthening youth engagement and national-local cooperation in preventing and responding to rising hate, extremism and polarisation. The workshop’s impact was immediate, with Rabat, Marrakech and Oujda applying for membership and Rabat eager to play a leadership role, both in supporting regional collaboration and as Co-Chair of the International Steering Committee. Read More

Rabat Joins the Strong Cities Network

Inspired by its experience co-hosting the inaugural MENA Regional Workshop in March, and having experienced first hand the transformative city-city learning at the foundation of the Strong Cities mission and how peer learning and exchange can support cities with concrete, practical steps to prevent and respond to hate, extremism and polarisation at the local level, Rabat joined the Strong Cities Network.

International Steering Committee Co-Chair

Rabat immediately took on a key leadership role within the Network’s International Steering Committee, with former Rabat Mayor Asmaa Rhlalou, and now sitting Mayor Fatiha El Moudni, serving as Co-Chair alongside The Hague. As Co-Chair, Rabat’s leadership has been crucial for driving forward the Network’s mission, regionally and globally, ensuring that cities are leading efforts to prevent hate, extremism and polarisation. Rabat’s leadership also reflects the growing role of women in city governance, with both its current and former mayors committing to and actively investing in inclusive, city-led approaches. As Co-Chair, and ambassador for the Strong Cities mission, Rabat has helped drive discussions on strengthening local resilience, fostering national-local cooperation and promoting policies that prioritise community engagement and social cohesion, reinforcing the importance of city-city learning and collaboration.

A Voice for City-Led Action and Women

At the Strong Cities Fourth Global Summit in New York City, then-Mayor of Rabat, Asmaa Rhlalou, led the endorsement of the Network’s three-year strategy and several new initiatives during the inaugural committee meeting. As one of few women mayors in the MENA region, her leadership helped elevate the voices of MENA cities in global discussions on prevention, demonstrating Morocco’s commitment to city-led action and inspiring so many across the network as to the important roles women must play in local governance and in strengthening social cohesion. Mayor Rhlalou also endorsed, and signed on behalf of all members, the New York City Mayoral Declaration; practical steps for local leaders to address threats of hate, extremism and polarisation while promoting human rights.

Mayoral and City Leadership in Prevention & Response

Rabat joined mayors and local government officials from nine Moroccan cities, alongside representatives of national ministries and international organisations, for a roundtable in Tangier, hosted by the Strong Cities MENA Regional Hub in partnership with the city and the Moroccan Association of Presidents of Communal Councils (AMPCC). An opportunity to dig deeper into Moroccan cities’ efforts in prevention and response, key takeaways included approaches for strengthening the role of cities and national-local cooperation in addressing these challenges, the importance of inclusive governance approaches that engage youth and women, and a forward plan how the MENA Regional Hub could support peer learning in Morocco and the broader MENA region. Rabat also collaborated with Strong Cities to develop a City Spotlight, sharing its innovative efforts to build a safer, more resilient community with other Strong Cities members.

Fifth Global Summit in Cape Town

At the Strong Cities Fifth Global Summit, Rabat Mayor, Fatiha El Moudni played a key role in shaping discussions on city-led efforts to prevent hate, extremism and polarisation. She also led the inaugural session of Strong Cities Women’s Caucus, calling on all members to empower women in local government and leverage the unique and crucial roles women play in building social cohesion and addressing hate and polarisation. Rabat’s active engagement in the Summit underscores its commitment to international collaboration and city-driven solutions, and Mayor El Moudni’s powerful advocacy in support of the Strong Cities mission is leadership in action. Read More

Impact: Member Journeys

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Athens (Ohio)

Mayor Patterson Reaches out to Strong Cities

Navigating Local Impacts of Israel-Gaza

Regional Hub Support & Transatlantic Learning

Athens Joins Multi-Actor Prevention Pilot

Leadership in Prevention and Response

Transatlantic Dialogue in Columbus

“Learn and Steal From Each Other”

Leveraging the Global Network

Hani i Elezit

Hani i Elezit joins Strong Cities

Strengthening National-Local Cooperation

Engaging Youth in Prevention

Reintegrating FTFs

A Whole of Society Approach

Sharing Hani i Elezit’s Journey

Mardan

First Strong Cities Engagement

Mardan Joins Strong Cities

Regional Leadership

Sharing Mardan’s Approach

Community Engagement

Inclusive Policies

Masaka City

Masaka Starts Its Strong Cities Journey

Embrace the City’s Role in Prevention

Masaka City Joins Strong Cities

Regional Collaboration

Border Municipalities Working Group

City Learning at the Fourth Global Summit

Inspired by a Strong Cities Mayoral Declaration

City-City Learning: Mombasa and Masaka

Working with Youth

Meaningful Youth Engagement

Rabat

MENA Inaugural Regional Workshop

Rabat Joins the Strong Cities Network

International Steering Committee Co-Chair

A Voice for City-Led Action and Women

Mayoral and City Leadership in Prevention & Response

Fifth Global Summit in Cape Town

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