France  

I am writing on behalf of the CMA to invite you to an upcoming conference organized by partners of UIL, the CMA (Comité mondial pour les apprentissages tout au long de la vie (CMAtlv), partenaire officiel de l’UNESCO -- World Committee for Lifelong Learning (WCLLL), official partner of the UNESCO) on 10 February 2022 titled “TERRITOIRES APPRENANTS : DE LA NAISSANCE A LA RECONNAISSANCE”, or in English: “LEARNING TERRITORIES: FROM BIRTH TO RECOGNITION”.

Kenya  

UN-Habitat and UCLGA are undertaking a series of dialogue on the issue of URL towards Africities summit, that will bring together more than 5000 representatives of local governments in Kisumu in May 2022. The overall purpose of the dialogue is to review policies and institutional frameworks supporting the integration of rural and urban continuum and its impact to establishing the foundation for local economic development and its’ ability to connect markets and systems of cities.

India  

Impact means different things to different people. Donors, governments, non-profits, and communities often have different views on how to define the impact of a development intervention. A development intervention has different impacts on collaborating stakeholders, even if those are not tracked or measured. Most efforts at measuring impacts tend to ‘blur’ it with project evaluation. There is an emerging concurrence that the impact measurement is different from the evaluation.

Germany  

The International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) will be hosting the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management 2022 “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” on March 10-11, 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany.

Potsdam is a science city, a UNESCO Creative City as well as a recently nominated Smart City under the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. How can we bring these concepts together for the transformation towards a liveable future?