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About Us
The Sister Cities Network for Sustainable Development is a network of sister city partnerships dedicated to responding to the challenges of achieving sustainable urban development. Through innovative, cross-cultural projects, sister city partners will demonstrate that locally-based actions can:
- Serve as a catalyst for advancing sustainable development concepts worldwide.
- Improve the quality of life for citizens in the United States and abroad.
- Act as a vehicle for long-term sustainable relationships that will continue to advance the knowledge and practice of sustainable development.
- Reinforce the goals of good governance, sustainable economic development, social development, and environmental stewardship.
- Achieve concrete results through partnerships with the public and private sector.
- To increase the capacity of member communities to design and deliver effective institutional and community programs that incorporate innovative solutions around the issues of sustainable development.
- To educate the members of the Network about the importance of sustainable development and the types of projects and programs that support a more sustainable world.
- To create and sustain long-term and mutually beneficial partnerships focused around specific issues of sustainable development.
Using the Sister Cities International "model," sister city partnerships will promote the participation of local citizens in all levels of program development, including identifying project areas, suggesting and designing solutions, overseeing implementation and evaluating results.
"Promoting local action for global issues"