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Cities and Citizens: Game Changers for Inclusive Development

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World Bank hosted a flagship seminar on Cities and Citizens: Game Changers for Inclusive Development at the annual meeting. Inviting distinguished guests, the session aims to discuss the following topics.

  • How can a city can become a place where people are empowered, opportunities exist for all, and policies promote the well-being of its citizens?
  • Can new technologies make governments more accountable to citizens?

Panelist
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Secretary General, World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Ford Foundation
Achref Aouadi, Founder and President, I Watch
Robin King, Director of Urban Development and Accessibility, World Resources Institute
Tri Rismaharini, Mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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