ICLEI-South Asia, C-3, Lower Ground Floor, Green Park Extension, Delhi (2026)

01/10/2026

ICLEI-South Asia is looking for an Assistant Manager – Energy & Climate to join our team in Vadodara, Gujarat and work closely with the Vadodara Municipal Corporation to advance practical, locally led climate solutions.

From strengthening climate resilience and urban planning to advancing air pollution mitigation, urban cooling and sustainable waste management, the role will contribute to building healthier, more resilient and sustainable cities.

We’re looking for professionals with 5–7 years of relevant experience in climate-resilient action planning, air pollution and environment, heat action planning, urban cooling, solid waste management or urban governance.

📍 Location: Vadodara, India
📅 Contract: 12 months, extendable
🗣️ Languages: English,Hindi and Gujarati (preferred)
🗓️ Applications: Open until filled; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

👉 APPLY HERE: https://southasia.iclei.org/careers/

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01/10/2026

🏝️ Kiribati takes a digital step towards tracking its GHG emissions!

The Government of Kiribati has launched its national digital Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory System, making the country among the first in the Pacific region to operate a nationally owned, dedicated digital tool for tracking, calculating, and reporting its GHG emissions.

Developed with technical support from ICLEI South Asia, as Secretariat of the Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP), under an NDC Partnership-supported project, the system is designed to enable Kiribati to build a reliable evidence base for climate action and reporting.

Besides the digital platform, the project has delivered training to build institutional capacity needed to operate, maintain, and update it.

The system was launched at a national workshop on 1 October 2026 in Tarawa. The ICLEI South Asia team demonstrated the tool and formally transferred the project outputs to national stakeholders.

This marks a milestone for Kiribati as it transitions towards independent and sustained national management of its GHG emissions inventory.

➡️ Read more about the launch here: https://southasia.iclei.org/news/kiribati-launches-national-ghg-inventory-system/

01/10/2026

| Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and Capacity Building Expert.

ICLEI-South Asia is looking for a SBCC Expert to join our Technical Support Unit in Meghalaya.

📍 Location: Shillong, Meghalaya
📅 Position: Open until filled (applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis)

In this role, you will support the Meghalaya Early Childhood Development Mission (MECDM), to strengthen Early Childhood Development ecosystem during the critical first 1,000 days of a child's life.

Apply here: https://southasia.iclei.org/careers/

Candidates are encouraged to apply early.

01/10/2026

ICLEI-South Asia is looking for a Senior Project Officer – Energy & Climate to join our team in Vadodara, Gujarat and work closely with the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) to advance practical, city-level climate solutions.

The role will support efforts to build more climate-resilient, healthy and sustainable urban systems. We’re looking for professionals with 3–5 years of relevant experience in climate resilience, air pollution, heat action planning, urban cooling, solid waste management or urban governance, along with strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills.

📍 Location: Vadodara, India
📅 Contract: 12 months, extendable
🗓️ Applications: Open until filled; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
🗣️ Languages: English, Hindi and Gujarati (preferred)

If you want to work at the intersection of climate action and local government, we’d like to hear from you.

👉 APPLY HERE: https://southasia.iclei.org/careers/

30/09/2026

To strengthen support for young children and their families, community-level activities are underway across East Khasi Hills and West Garo Hills in Meghalaya under the “Technical Support Unit in Meghalaya to Advance the First 1000 Days in MECDM” project.

ICLEI-South Asia's Technical Support Unit Team engaged with mothers, parents, caregivers and frontline workers through Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Days and Parents’ Meeting-cum-Poshan Maah programmes on 15 September 2026. These interactive sessions created spaces to discuss the importance of the first 1000 days of a child’s life, along with key messages on Parental Wellbeing, Positive Parenting, Responsive Caregiving and Early Stimulation, and the role families play in nurturing healthy growth and development.

The sessions also highlighted the importance of messages on healthy nutrition, including exclusive breastfeeding and balanced meals for mothers.

Through these community conversations, the East Khasi Hills and West Garo Hills District Teams are bringing knowledge, practical support, and key messages closer to families, while strengthening awareness and action around the critical first 1000 days of a child’s life.

Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Meghalaya | SCEP Meghalaya

30/09/2026

Tiruchirappalli City Corporation launches Bilingual WhatsApp Chatbot to strengthen citizen engagement

In order to make municipal services more accessible, responsive and citizen-centric, Tiruchirappalli City Corporation on 25 September 2026 launched a Bi-lingual WhatsApp Chatbot for citizen engagement. Hosted on Government of Tamil Nadu's Namma Arasu Platform, the chatbot enables citizens to access key municipal services, register and track grievances, provide feedback and access ward-level information through a simple digital interface.

The Chatbot was inaugurated by Thiru Pratik Tayal IAS, Tiruchirappalli District Collector, in the presence of the Tmt Ponmani IAS, Tiruchirappalli City Commissioner.

The Chatbot is a part of the Social Innovation Platform (SIP), a collaboration between the Government of Tamil Nadu, and UNDP in India, with ICLEI-South Asia as a technical partner. ICLEI South Asia is currently implementing the SIP pilot in Tiruchirappalli to enhance urban governance, enable localisation, and translate citizen insights into implementable, gender-responsive and inclusive urban solutions.

With this pilot initiative, Tiruchirappalli City Corporation aims to redefine how citizens engage with urban governance, that is more inclusive, transparent, accountable, and responsive. Available in both Tamil and English languages, the Chatbot is designed to strengthen the interface between citizens and the municipal administration.

The initiative marks a step towards more inclusive and participatory urban governance, highlighting how digital tools can strengthen citizen–government engagement and improve access to municipal services.

30/09/2026

To support Sri Lanka’s Third Voluntary National Review (VNR) process, ICLEI South Asia delivered a technical training on Voluntary Subnational Reviews (VSRs) and urban resilience at a national workshop in Colombo on 8–9 September 2026.

Convened by the The Sustainable Development Council of Sri Lanka and United Nations ESCAP, the workshop brought together representatives from all nine provinces of the country.

The training aimed to strengthen integration of regional priorities and subnational perspectives into national Sustainable Development Goals (hashtag ) reporting. As part of this process, Sustainable Development Council of Sri Lanka is building VSR capacity across all nine provinces and piloting the full VSR process in Uva Province, with technical assistance from ICLEI South Asia.

Drawing on ICLEI-South Asia's experience supporting VLRs across South Asia, including Malé (Maldives) and Dhulikhel (Nepal), Bedoshruti Sadhukhan, Associate Director (Sustainability), discussed how provinces can translate the SDGs into evidence-based, locally relevant priorities and use VSRs as tools for planning and decision-making.

Participants assessed climate hazards, vulnerability and resilience, and identified locally specific risks and adaptation priorities. ICLEI South Asia brought its expertise in resilience assessment methodologies, indicator frameworks and practical regional experience to guide this process. Satarupa Roy, Senior Project Officer, ICLEI South Asia, facilitated co-creation exercises guiding participants to identify priority SDGs, assess data gaps and implementation challenges, and map climate hazards, impacts, vulnerable groups and potential adaptation solutions to build the evidence base for their VSRs.

The training marked an important step towards piloting Sri Lanka’s first VSR in Uva Province, evidence and lessons which are expected to inform future VSRs across the country. Selected findings will be included in Sri Lanka’s Third VNR, thus integrating subnational evidence into the national review.

Through such engagements, ICLEI South Asia continues to support Sri Lanka in localising the SDGs, directly informing the country’s Third VNR for presentation at the High-level Political Forum in 2027, and strengthening climate-resilient, evidence-based planning across South Asia.

28/09/2026

From Knowledge to Action: Reimagining Regional Learning for cities

How can regional knowledge platforms help cities not only access information but also learn from one another, apply solutions and bring those lessons back into the wider network?

This was a key focus of the Asia-Pacific Local Government Coordinating Body (APLG) Meeting, held in Jakarta on 17 September 2026. Chaired by Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi, Secretary General, UCLG Asia-Pacific, the meeting brought together several stakeholders from across the Asia-Pacific to discuss the development of the APLG Learning Platform.

Sayli Mankikar, Associate Director – Knowledge Management and Advocacy, ICLEI-South Asia, participated in the discussions and shared lessons from ICLEI’s experience of managing and curating institutional knowledge.

Drawing on the ICLEI e-Library, she highlighted that bringing knowledge together is only the first step. To be useful, knowledge must also be accessible, searchable and organised around the needs of its users.

The discussions highlighted the opportunity for the APLG Learning Platform to go beyond a repository and evolve into a learning ecosystem—one that connects explainers, city experiences, practical tools, expert sessions and peer exchange.

An equally important element is creating a strong feedback loop, where lessons from what cities implement, adapt and learn are brought back into the platform as new knowledge.

Strengthening peer learning and enabling local governments to share practical experiences will be critical to accelerating collaborative and locally grounded climate action across Asia and the Pacific.

United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific

27/09/2026

30 days to go!

From financing resilient urban futures to scaling nature-based solutions, from local climate action to Global South leadership, ARISE Cities Forum 2026 will amplify voices from South Asia and the Global South, to shape a bold urban resilience agenda.

The countdown begins!

🗓 27–28 October 2026 | 📍New Delhi

Follow this space to stay updated on our speaker, partner, and programme details.

ICLEI-South Asia | National Institute of Urban Affairs

23/09/2026

🏙️Can South Asian megacities break the fossil fuel lock-in?

Join us for an expert-led panel discussion to explore how South Asian cities can rethink the way they are powered, designed, connected, and governed to avoid locking themselves into high-carbon pathways.

Bringing together perspectives from climate action, civil society, communications, and youth-led policy engagement, the discussion will connect urban energy systems, sustainable mobility, renewable energy, climate adaptation, social equity, and youth participation, while exploring pathways towards low-carbon, climate-resilient, inclusive and people-centred cities.

Date: 24 September 2026
Time: 3:00 PM BST / 2:30 PM IST

Facilitators: Fatema Nur Jarin | Divyanshi Agarwal

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s3XSkZyQRcOSDywfJy7P1A #/registration

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