🛥️ Day 1 recap from #VeniceWinterSchool2026!
♻️ Waste management with Salvador de Bahia + 5 cities
💡 City innovation with @LSECities
🤝 Inclusion with New York City + 7 cities
Tomorrow: water and mobility 🌊
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🤝 Seven local governments on reaching those who need it the most, live from #VeniceWinterSchool2026 🧵
@buenosaires 🇦🇷 @AlcaldiaDeCali 🇨🇴 @GobCDMX 🇲🇽 @montevideoIM 🇺🇾 @Stadgent 🇧🇪 Sarıçam 🇹🇷 @gouvbenin 🇳🇬
🇲🇽 @GobCDMX: a Care System Law with 1,116 planned care facilities and food vouchers for 635,000 families.
🇺🇾 @montevideoIM: a public land bank and co-governance to upgrade ~100 informal settlements, reaching 49,948 people.
🇧🇪 @Stadgent : social rights granted automatically, quadrupling families with childcare discounts.
🇹🇷 Sarıçam: a village Digital Center reaching 4,608 people.
🇳🇬 @gouvbenin: market health kiosks + digital referrals, 3,051 clients served.
🏠 Live from #VeniceWinterSchool2026: in New York City, 70% of residents are tenants and over half are rent burdened 🇺🇸
Jenna Gogan & Chloe Ivanson share how the City is listening to tenants and helping them organize.
@nycgov
📢 2,419 tenants joined the Rental Ripoff Hearings, leading to enforcement days, inspections of all heat complaints and legal recognition of tenant unions.
🚪 7,000+ doors knocked by 150+ volunteers.
@nycgov
SDG Local Action retweeted
🌐 Universal services. Equal rights. Caring communities.
The ambition is clear. #LRGs need the powers, resources and capacities to make it happen.
At the #VeniceWinterSchool2026, we champion a new generation of universal local public services.
#Listen2Cities
At #VeniceWinterSchool2026, @LSECities' research found out that across 70 European cities:
📊 73% delayed or altered innovations due to legal uncertainty
🚨 80%+ report crises unlock faster innovation
🌟 Motivated public servants remain #1 asset for public value creation.
At #VeniceWinterSchool2026, Philipp Rode (@LSECities) defined city innovation simply:
“Doing things differently to achieve better outcomes for residents.”
Register to hear how #LocalGov innovate #PublicService:
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At #VeniceWinterSchool2026, Philipp Rode (@LSECities) defined city innovation simply:
“Doing things differently to achieve better outcomes for residents.”
Register to hear how #LocalGov innovate #PublicService:
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💡 Key Takeaway: community co-design and closing the financial loop are key.
Register on Zoom to hear more city leaders:
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#VeniceWinterSchool2026 #WasteManagement #PublicService
🇸🇻 #UsulutánNorte, El Salvador at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
The city shared how 200 rural women convert 1,600 tons of bio-waste & coffee pulp into compost, earning $500/month while funding dedicated support for domestic violence survivors! ♻️
🇸🇻 #UsulutánNorte, El Salvador at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
The city shared how 200 rural women convert 1,600 tons of bio-waste & coffee pulp into compost, earning $500/month while funding dedicated support for domestic violence survivors! ♻️
🇵🇦 #SanMiguelito, Panama at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
Facing a sanitation crisis, @smalcaldia mobilised 90% of schools & mapped 240+ hotspots:
"We reinvented ourselves and worked with the community, focusing on behavioural change" — diverting 132 tons! ♻️
🇵🇦 #SanMiguelito, Panama at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
Facing a sanitation crisis, @smalcaldia mobilised 90% of schools & mapped 240+ hotspots:
"We reinvented ourselves and worked with the community, focusing on behavioural change" — diverting 132 tons! ♻️
🇿🇦 #CapeTown, South Africa at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
@CityofCT highlighted bottom-up co-design in informal settlements: engaging 1,135 residents diverted 842 kg of waste in 5 days, advancing their goal to cut illegal dumping by 80% through community ownership. ♻️
🇿🇦 #CapeTown, South Africa at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
@CityofCT highlighted bottom-up co-design in informal settlements: engaging 1,135 residents diverted 842 kg of waste in 5 days, advancing their goal to cut illegal dumping by 80% through community ownership. ♻️
🇷🇸 #Čajetina, Serbia at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
Facing tourism surges across 26.2k properties, the city deployed chipped bins & 500 home composters (with a 10% fee discount), driving recycling up to 15–20% with nearly 1,009 tons collected! ♻️
🇷🇸 #Čajetina, Serbia at #VeniceWinterSchool2026:
Facing tourism surges across 26.2k properties, the city deployed chipped bins & 500 home composters (with a 10% fee discount), driving recycling up to 15–20% with nearly 1,009 tons collected! ♻️
🇳🇬 #Abuja, Nigeria at #VeniceWinterSchool2026: the city shared how their Jabi hub integrated 78 informal waste collectors with 3 electric tricycles, diverting 13 tons of plastic waste so far.
Public infrastructure + informal inclusion = real impact! ♻️
#WasteManagement #LocalGov
🇳🇬 #Abuja, Nigeria at #VeniceWinterSchool2026: the city shared how their Jabi hub integrated 78 informal waste collectors with 3 electric tricycles, diverting 13 tons of plastic waste so far.
Public infrastructure + informal inclusion = real impact! ♻️
#WasteManagement #LocalGov
♻️ 5 cases of innovative #WasteManamgnet by #LocalGov
At #VeniceWinterSchool2026, city representatives shared how they are turning waste emergencies into community-driven public services.
Here is how Abuja, Čajetina, @CityofCT, @smalcaldia & Usulután Norte are doing it!
♻️ 5 cases of innovative #WasteManamgnet by #LocalGov
At #VeniceWinterSchool2026, city representatives shared how they are turning waste emergencies into community-driven public services.
Here is how Abuja, Čajetina, @CityofCT, @smalcaldia & Usulután Norte are doing it!
🎙️ Moderator Michele Candotti: "The real test is graduating pilots into institutionalised decisions."
How does your city make #PublicService pilots permanent?
Join the #VeniceWinterSchool2026 live sessions on Zoom: sdglocalaction.org/venice-wi…
♻️ In #VeniceWinterSchool, #LocalGov representatives around the world have shared their experiences and insight in #WasteManagment.
♻️ In #VeniceWinterSchool, #LocalGov representatives around the world have shared their experiences and insight in #WasteManagment.
🌍 At #VeniceWinterSchool2026 #WasteManagement session, @agecomsalvador took the stage with #ReciclaCapital!
While informal pickers do 2/3 of #WasteCollection, Salvador redesigned the model:
📍20 community pickup spots
📱30k registered users
🎯Target: 1.5% recycling by 2049 ♻️
