Cities Alliance

🇪🇹 Behind the #SUIDAC numbers is Fatima from Jigjiga, Ethiopia.

After months looking for work, she found a stable job through the city’s new One Stop Center. Between Dec 2025 and May 2026, 1,452 people received job-matching support there.

🇪🇺 EU-funded | #CitiesAlliance #Jigjiga @EU_Partnerships @OWDA

🇯🇴 Khatmeh Saleh Al-Rawahneh, featured here, is one of 8 women business leaders who completed a business incubation programme with HERitage: Women, Culture and Development in #Madaba.

♀️In partnership with Jordan Heritage and the Greater Madaba Municipality, the project empowered 150 women to develop heritage-based entrepreneurial ideas and ventures, strengthening local economic resiliency and cultural identity.

The HERitage project is funded by @FranceJordanie

#InclusiveCities #CitiesForWomen #UrbanHeritage #HERitage
@WomenEmpowerment

💧TODAY (#urbanoctober): Closing the Urban WASH Gap

Cities Alliance joins members and partners @giz_gmbh, @gwopa and @UNITACHamburg to explore how community-led approaches can expand #WASH access for the urban poor, including lessons from a women-run solar water kiosk in Mauritania.

🕒 15:00 CEST
🔗 Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/375879655…

With support from SDC and Cities Alliance, Jigjiga University is building a sustainable mental health (#MHPSS) lifeline in Ethiopia’s Somali Region – expanding early care, breaking stigma, and creating safe spaces for refugees, migrants, and host communities.

👉citiesalliance.org/newsroom/news/…

#WorldMentalHealthDay

@SwissDevCoop
@jigjigauniveth

🌡️ Extreme heat is already hitting people living and working informally the hardest.

At the #GlobalHeatForum in Bangkok, Cities Alliance, @IIED, @sdi_net & @WIEGOGLOBAL are calling for 3 priorities: better data, integrated upgrading and finance that reaches frontline communities.

#HeatAction