Yokohama's best practice-partner cities - how to make the most of it
- 1. Yokohama as a City of Choice City of Yokohama 1
- 2. Outline Population:3.7million (Second largest in Japan) Area: 435.17 km2 GDP: 125 billion dollars Most Livable City in Japan (source: SBI Life Living) Yokohama Japan Tokyo Mayor: Fumiko Hayashi 2
- 3. History: Our Initiatives in the Global Community 1859 Opening of the Port 1957 Start of Sister-city Relation with San Diego, USA 1963 Deployment of Representative Office in Hamburg 1973 Friendship-city Relation with Shanghai 1986 Inviting ITTO to Set HQ in Yokohama 1987 Establishment of CITYNET 1987 Designation of Peace Messenger City by UN 1994 International AIDS Conference, World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction 2008 TICAD IV 2010 APEC Leaders’ Meeting 2012 Joint Statement with Tel Aviv-Yafo 3 2013 TICAD V
- 4. International Policies Inter-City Exchange Sister Cities Partner Cities Multicultural Coexistence Toward Growing Together and Promoting World Peace International Cooperation Support of International Organizations Technical Cooperation 4
- 5. Inter-city Exchange テルアビブ-ヤッフォ市 Tel Aviv-Yafo コトヌー市 Cotonou カヤオ市 5 ◆ ◆ ◆ Callao 声明都市 Proclamation Cities ◆
- 6. CITYNET The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements Network of 131 Cities/Organizations (24countries/regions) ➢ Full Members: 84 cities in Asia-Pacific region ➢ Associate Members: 2 non-Asian-Pacific cities and 43 organizations ➢ Other Members: Private companies and individuals CITYNET Member Distribution 6
- 7. CITYNET Projects -1 <AWAREE Project> AWAREE = Awareness of Environmental Education in Asian Cities Objective: Promote the awareness of environmental education in Asia- Pacific cities Term: FY2004 ~ FY2006 Participants (cities): Hanoi, Vietnam Phnom Penh, Cambodia <Post-AWAREE Project> Post-AWAREE = Post-Awareness of Environmental Education in Asian Cities Objective: Achieve a society with a high degree of awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation based on the result of AWAREE Project Term: FY2007 ~ FY2009 Participants (cities): Colombo, Sri Lanka Da Nang, Vietnam Dhaka, Bangladesh Makati, Philippines 7
- 8. CITYNET Project -2 Community Based Adaptation and Resilience Against Disasters (CBARA Project) with the City of Iloilo (Philippines) Objective: Devise effective community-level adaptation and resiliency schemes, and increase citizen awareness of self-sustaining the community in the event of a disaster in the City of Iloilo. Term： 2012 ~ 2014 Training Programme near the Tsurumi River Site Visit (Earthquake Simulation) 8
- 9. Cooperation with JICA Agreement for International Cooperation in 2011 Cooperation for Africa Technological cooperation for Africa in the field of water works, Port and Harbor, and Wildlife Conservation together with JICA. Water Works Port and Harbor Wildlife Conservation 9
- 10. Cooperation with JICA Cooperation by the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau since 1973 Contribution in Hue, Vietnam in the field of waterworks ➢ “Safe Water Declaration" in 2009 ➢ Spread to 17 other provinces in the central region of Vietnam ➢ 10th anniversary of exchange with Hue 10
- 11. Towards Solving Global Issues -1 Support when large-scale disasters strike After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Yokohama sent four officers to Banda Ache for recovery. After the Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, Yokohama sent an officer for recovery. 11
- 12. G30: Solving Urban Problems Target in the G30 Plan 1,130,000 tons (▴30%) FY2010 914,900 tons (▴43%) 12
- 13. Towards Solving Global Issues -2 Y-port Yokohama Partnership of Resources and Technologies International technical cooperation based on public-private partnership and drawing on the resources and technology of Yokohama Support from national government Y-PORT Project （hub of public-private Small and Medium Companies in Yokohama partnership） High potential toward foreign business Unique technologies for improvement of environment in urban life ※Sludge dehydration, hybrid/solar power generation, waste recycling, EV technologies, etc. Know-how and technologies of the City of Yokohama Technologies of private companies in Yokohama Agreements with Agreements with 13
- 14. Towards Solving Global Issues -3 Promotion of Women’s Participation in Society Discussion in APEC promotes Yokohama’s Policy APEC Yokohama in 2010 Women and Entrepreneur Summit APEC USA in 2011 Women and the Economy Summit APEC Russia in 2012 Women and the Economy Forum APEC Indonesia in 2013 Women and the Economy Forum Programme for female entrepreneurs Provision of shared office space; Financing services with preferential interest rates Follow up of APEC in Yokohama in 2012 “APEC Leadership Forum on Women” Yokohama Women Network Forum Extend the discussion to TICAD in 2013 TICAD5 official side event ”Women and Economic Growth” Feedback of Yokohama’s Best Practice to APEC 14
- 15. Towards Solving Global Issues -4 Child Care Support: Bringing the number of children on waiting lists of child care centers to “zero" Long Waiting Lists 1,552 Children in April 2010 ⇒ “Zero” in April 2013 • Increased the number of childcare centers via cooperation with private companies. • “Nursery Concierge” to listen to the needs of working mothers. (Line graph: Number of children on waiting lists) 15
- 16. Support of International Organizations 1986 Headquarters of ITTO, International Tropical Timber Organization 1987 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies 1990 Institut Français Yokohama 1992 CITYNET 1996 Japan Relations Office of WFP, United Nations World Food Programme 1997 Liaison Office in Japan of FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2004 UNU-IAS, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies 162013 CITYNET Yokohama Project Office
- 17. International Conferences TICAD V in June 2013 APEC Japan in November 2010 17
- 18. Promoting World Peace “Peace Messenger City” conferred by the UN in1987 Initiatives towards world peace: • Peace Symposium in 1986, United Nations’ Year of World Peace • UN Youth Peace Ambassador Dispatch Program • Yokohama Childrenʹs International Peace Program • Protest nuclear tests 18