Sekondi, Feb. 3, GNA – The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) and its sister city in Italy, Palermo Municipality, are collaborating to co-create an Integrated Urban Governance for Green, Sustainable and Inclusive Development of the Metropolis.
The collaboration, which is under the “Twin-Cities in Sustainable Partnership project”, is to strengthen the relationship that began with the city of Palermo (Italy).
The overall objective of the three-year project was to promote Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development in the two cities.
This was contained in a press statement issued and signed by Mr John Laste, Head of Communication, Twin-Cities in Sustainable Partnership and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA).
The project, according to the statement, would be implemented with funding from the European Union (EU).
The Project would contribute to enhancing urban management by addressing challenges such as urban sprawl, climate change, poverty and exclusion.
It would also cater for the new realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“STMA and its partners (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS), Ghana Sicily Business Forum and Kumasi Technical University) are benefitting from a Three Million Euros (€3,000,000.00) grant from the European Union, which was approved in October 2021.
It is to implement interventions meant to improve urban management, foster transnational cooperation, enhance socio-economic development through employment generation and to raise the value of the cultural heritage of both Cities (Sekondi-Takoradi & Palermo)”, the statement said.
GNA