Urban Ocean – GAP Assessment

Project’s title	Urban Ocean – GAP Assessment
Project’s partner/ collaboration	Research Institute for Climate Change, Can Tho University
Sponsor/Donor	Global Resilience Cities Network ( GRCN)
Total budged Project’s period/duration	5831 USD
Total budged Project’s period/duration	12th April to 30th December 2021
Principal Investigator (PI) Co-PI Project’s member	Assoc.Prof.Dr Nguyen Hieu Trung

	Dr Dinh diep Anh Tuan Dr Nguyen Xuan Hoang BSc Le Hoang Hai Anh MSc Nguyen Thanh Loc BSc Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong
Overall objective Specific objectives	The goal of the Urban Ocean program is to work with city leaders to bring new ideas, partners and resources together to solve interrelated problems around waste management. It provides the opportunity for ocean advocates and city leaders to join forces with other allies to develop comprehensive solutions that meet the needs and priorities of communities and other actors, to create real and lasting impact. The Program will demonstrate how actions to improve waste management and recycling can provide resilient and sustainable solutions that not only reduce ocean plastic pollution but also address key city priorities such as improving public health, supporting economic development, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, Urban Ocean will provide a platform for cities to showcase leadership and share knowledge and experiences across the Global Resilient Cities Network community and beyond.
Overall objective Specific objectives	The program aims to demonstrate how actions to improve waste management and recycling can provide holistic, resilient, and sustainable solutions that not only reduce ocean plastic pollution but also address key city priorities such as improving public health, promoting innovation, supporting economic development and job growth, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Contents	Urban Ocean is a capacity-building and accelerator program for cities that will champion circular economy principles, build awareness of ocean plastic pollution, and assess waste management systems. It supports cities to develop strategies and projects designed to address the interrelated challenges of ocean plastics and community resilience and has four areas of action: 1. Build a coalition of cities that works on solving interrelated problems around waste management and promotes circular economy solutions and approaches in municipal waste management; 2. Establish a peer network and exchange through a Community of Practice that enables collaboration, sharing of best-practices and capacity development; 3. Assess critical gaps, risks and vulnerabilities and map waste management challenges; 4. Jointly develop financeable resilience project proposals for presentation to potential partners and funders. Urban Ocean works closely with cities in Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Europe to demonstrate tangible solutions and progress. The first cohort of cities comprises 5 cities that are leading the way in the fight against river and ocean plastic pollution and/or in implementing circular economy approaches (mentor cities), and 5 cities located in geographies with high waste leakage rates that are committed to improving waste management as part of resilience-building efforts (learning cities)
Expected outcome	Session Notes Final Can Tho Waste Management Profile Final Can Tho Opportunity Statement Session Photos / recordings Support in the finalization of opportunity statement based on comments provided by GRCN, funders, and selected mentor cities
Contact address	SAURABH GAIDHANI (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or NGUYEN HIEU TRUNG (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)