Integrative, multi-level collaboration has been shown to lead to better outcomes for climate-resilient urban development – but it’s easier said than done. Photo by ICLEI Africa
In cities around the world, local officials face multi-dimensional sustainability and resilience challenges and are often responsible for achieving many overlapping mandates. More effective solutions require cross-cutting responses and collaboration across multiple levels of government and sectors.
New research reveals practical ways to collaborate – online and in-person – across levels of government and between the public and private sector to make planning decisions that are responsive to the new urban normal.
Such integrative collaboration, or “multi-level governance,” leads to better outcomes for climate-resilient urban development. Yet it’s easier said than done, as authorities generally work within well-established sectors and departments, each with their own unending list of deliverable
Coupa Software Reports Fourth Quarter & Full Year Fiscal 2021 Financial Results Record Quarterly Revenues of $164 Million, 47% Year-Over-Year Growth Record Quarterly Calculated Billings of $270 Million, 49% Year-Over-Year Growth Quarterly Operating Cash Flows and Adjusted Free Cash Flows of $20 Million and $38 Million, Respectively
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Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2021. This year, we delivered record financial results across all key measures amid a difficult macroeconomic environment, said Rob Bernshteyn, chairman and chief executive officer at Coupa. As part of our strategy to develop and own the Business Spend Management market, we continued to invest meaningfully into all areas of our business. We also made strategic acquisitions in supply chain design and planning, treasury, and the enhan
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When Burger King made a major misfire on International Women’s Day this week, tweeting the phrase “women belong in the kitchen,” social media lit up with furious women.
The actual tweet, by Burger King U.K., was part of a campaign meant to promote scholarships for culinary education for women, and it was only in subsequent tweets that the intended meaning was explained. But the incandescent reaction serves only to highlight that the issue of women s household roles is a tinder box.
Warning signs were already there. In January, a coronavirus-themed digital campaign by the U.K. government also provoked fury. The social media ad, with the tagline Stay home, save lives, shown here by The Guardian, featured an illustration of four small houses. In three of them, female stick figures were depicted homeschooling, cleaning and ironing. In the other house, a man was pictured sitting on a sofa with a woman and child. The image went viral and was later pulled amid co
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From 10 to 11 March 2021 a virtual Steering Committee meeting of the Research Project “Adapting and Scaling Teacher Professional Development Approaches in Uzbekistan” will be held in Tashkent. The event is organized by the UNESCO Tashkent Office jointly with the Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training of Public Education Personnel named after A. Avloniy and the National University of Uzbekistan with the assistance of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The aim of the event is to review the progress and state of the implementation process of the project with national stakeholders and realign project outcomes with the latest developments of the country in ensuring the quality of teachers.