Municipalities receive support to manage their wetlands

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The acronym no longer applies, but ICLEI originally referred to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. It was founded in 1990 by 200 local governments from 43 countries, who convened for the first World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Given that its activities addressed broader sustainability issues rather than only environmental aspects, its name was changed in 2003 to ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. Today, more than 1 500 cities, towns and regions make up this global network. The ICLEI-Africa secretariat, based in Cape Town, hosts the Cities Biodiversity Center, which for the past few years has been implementing a wetlands project under ICLEI’s Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) programme.

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