WUF9 Substantive Report-s

The Ninth Session of
the World Urban Forum (WUF9)
Substantive AND THEMATIC REPORT
K U A L A L U M P U R , M A L A Y S I A
The Ninth Session Of
The World Urban Forum
(WUF9)

URBANICE MALAYSIA
Set under the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and
Local Government, Malaysia is a Centre of Excellence
established since Jun 2016 to create beer cies in
Malaysia. It promotes sustainable and climate
responsive urban development through knowledge
sharing, partnership programs and mul-stakeholders.
engagement. URBANICE MALAYSIA is also the Local
Secretariat and Focal point for The Ninth World Urban
Forum (WUF9), 2018.

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FOREWORD by
YBhg Dato’Maimunah Mohd Sharif
Executive Director,
UN-Habitat
Our cities today host more than half the world’s population, generate more than 70 per cent
of the GDP worldwide and are responsible for as much as 70 per cent of global energy
consumption. Our cities are also the backdrop to many armed conflicts in the world and play
host to millions of refugees and migrants. Cities have emerged as the locus for change and
the venue where policies are realized. They can forge new linkages and pacts among actors,
offering innovative solutions that have the potential to influence development agendas at
national, regional and global levels. Cities have been catalysts of productivity, technology
and infrastructure development, including institutional arrangements that contribute to the
enhancement of equity, social inclusion and quality of life.
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) is a framework that guides efforts around urbanisation and
development such as local fiscal systems, urban planning and basic services and infrastructure
to ensure sustainable development. If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), we need to get our cities right. The World Urban Forum (WUF) provide an
opportunity for partners from all over the world, representing many priorities and points of
view. It is a platform for all people to exchange their views, ideas, expertise, and perhaps
even frustrations, to work together for a better future. WUF9 also provide a platform to
increase coordination and cooperation among stakeholders and constituencies for the
advancement and implementation of sustainable urbanisation. The challenges of sustainable
urban development are therefore intuitive to all of us: the language may be technical
sometimes, but the ideas behind them make sense to each and every one of us.
With the theme “Cities 2030, Cities for All”, we wish to recognize that everyone must be
within the core mindset on urbanization. Cities attract people from all walks of life; they
therefore need to embrace diversity and prioritize social inclusion. The city of the future must
be one that leaves no one behind, regardless of their status. An integrated and holistic development
plan from a national level to the local level is vital to implement NUA and the SDGs.
The implementation, monitoring and reporting of the SDG Goal 11 will enhance the coordination
mechanisms of national and local authorities and in some cases, it will represent a
drastic change of governance with higher participation of local authorities in this process.
As a focal point for sustainable urbanization in the UN System, we are committed to support
countries to deliver NUA, SDG 11 and the implementation of urban-related SDGs, in close
collaboration with other UN agencies and stakeholders.The ambition to achieve these global
agendas will require actions at the local level, the transformation of cities and the fostering
of innovation to manage growth and create high-quality, resilient and sustainable urban
development. We are also well placed to promote localizing the SDGs and to ensure their
implementation is contextually applied. In collaboration with the World Bank and other UN
agencies, we are committed to facilitating increased financing of urbanization for countries,
cities and human settlements.

FOREWORD by
YBhg Dato’ Sri Mohammad Mentek
Secretary General
Ministry of Housing and Local Government
The world is experiencing an unprecedented transition from predominantly rural to
mainly urban living; with more than 55 percent of the world’s population already living
in urban areas this figure is set to rise to 70 percent by mid 21st century. Rapid and
spontaneous urbanization has presented the world’s cities with major environmental,
economic and social challenges. Cities also provide a positive force underpinning social,
political and economic transformations. Habitat III consecrated the new paradigm shift
of urbanization as a positive force for growth. With the adoption of the New Urban
Agenda in Quito in October 2016 and previously the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development in September 2015, urbanization is considered worldwide as an
endogenous source of development, employment and prosperity.
The Habitat Agenda adopted at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
in Istanbul in 1996 was persuasive in establishing the need to create sustainable human
settlements, recognizing the fundamental right to adequate housing and reinforcing the
role of local authorities in achieving sustainable development. Habitat III provided a
critical milestone to shape the vision for the future of urbanization bringing together all
actors to achieve key priorities and objectives.
The New Urban Agenda is a set of strategies that provide concrete actions to achieve
sustainable urban development, setting out clear funding mechanisms and effective
means of implementation and monitoring. The New Urban Agenda is ambitious that
aims at paving the way towards making cities and human settlements more inclusive,
ensuring that everyone will benefit from urbanization. The strategies embodied in the
New Urban Agenda comprise national urban policies, rules and regulations, urban
planning and design, financing urbanization and of course, their local implementation.
These five strategies are the key principles of NUA for achieving sustainable
development and growth. Now is the time for transformational urbanization to become
the centrepiece of development policy at the international, national and local level. As
this World Urban Forum 9 Substantive Report emphasizes, the future of cities largely
depend on the way urbanization is managed and public-private collaboration is
leveraged to implement the New Urban Agenda and facilitate a sustainable urban
development. I would like to thank the UN-Habitat for recommending that key actions
must be taken to shape the positive outcomes from the National Urban Agenda and
achieve a sustainable urban development over the next twenty years.

FOREWORD by
Norliza Hashim
Chief Executive
Urbanice Malaysia
Our cities are facing an uncertain future. The challenges of urbanisation, resource
depletion and climate change means that the world’s great cities need to adapt to
survive and thrive over the coming decades. The United Nations’ New Urban Agenda
and global frameworks for sustainable development provide guidance to build
strategies for successful urban transformation. At the same time, new business models
and emerging technologies are disrupting the development of urban infrastructure and
the provision of urban services. These can be harnessed to address city challenges and
achieve positive transformation.
Inclusive and sustainable growth is vital for social harmony and equity among city
inhabitants. The New Urban Agenda, recently adopted at Habitat III in Quito, sets out
the key priorities and goals for holistic urban development. It provides guidance to cities
on how to develop and implement transformational strategies and initiatives that will
help them face the urban challenges and achieve social, environmental and economic
prosperity for all.
Collaboration of all stakeholders is fundamental as government entities alone cannot
address the growing urbanisation challenges. Government bodies at both the national
and local levels need to transition from a “business as usual” approach to innovative
approaches that promote the Co-Creation and Co-Development of urban services
together with the private sector and all other stakeholders. Cooperation with the private
sector enhances value for all aspects of the urban value chain – planning, design,
funding, implementation and delivery.
In this report we highlight how to engage the private sector in the implementation of the
New Urban Agenda and the achievement of its desired outcomes. Both the government
and private sector must play their part to deliver on the objectives of the New Urban
Agenda by prioritising their actions and to respect a city’s unique context; immediate
and long term priorities must have impact to achieve a sustainable development. The
recommendation of the report is further substantiated with a range of case studies and
examples from developed and developing cities. The examples depict the journey of
engaging private sector and achieving success in urban transformation.
We believe the report will provide urban managers with insights to support them in
making better policy decisions and strategic choices, also provide the private sector
leaders with ways to connect better with government and play their role more
effectively in implementing sustainable urban development initiatives.

SUBSTANTIVE
AND THEMATIC
REPORT
THE
WORLD
URBAN
FORUM
9
CITIES 2030 CITIES FOR ALL
IMPLEMENTING NEW URBAN AGENDA
LESSONS FROM
193 UN-HABITAT MEMBER STATES

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Foreward
Introduction
Overview of The World Urban Forum 9
The Agenda of The World Urban Forum 9
_____ Joint Assemblies
_____ Women Assemblies
_____ Business Assemblies
_____ Children and Youth Assemblies
_____ World Assemblies of Local and Regional Governments
_____ Grassroots Assembly
_____ Minister’s Roundtable
Opening Ceremony
_____ Official Opening
_____ High Level Roundtable
_____ Urban Dimension Of Climate Change Action
_____ Urbanization and Development: Investing In The Transformative Force Of Cities
_____ Intergrated Territorial Approach To Sustainable Development
_____ Innovative Governance For Open and Inclusive Cities
_____ Sustainable Urban Development For Peace and Security
Special Sessions
_____ Unlocking Positive Impacts Of Migration In Cities
_____ Security Of Tenure, Land Markets and Segregation
_____ Informal Settlements and Slum Upgrading
_____ Leveraging Diversity and Culture, Shaping The Cities For All
_____ Local Economic Development, Productivity and Youth Employment
_____ Urban Labs For Urban Extension and Urban Renewal
_____ Affordable Housing For All
_____ Access To Basic Services For All
_____ Smart Cities and The Growing Role Of Frontier Technologies In Sustainable Urbanisation
_____ Restoring Hope: Building Back Cities and Communities Together After Disaster
_____ Data For Sustainable Urban Development
_____ Urban Mobility and Safe and Accessible Transport For All
_____ Inclusive Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
_____ Risk Reduction: Innovative Approaches To Settlements For Displaced Persons
_____ Urban-Rural Linkages: Territorial Development and Food Security
_____ Urban Ecological Landscapes: Achieving Urban Health Addressing Climate Change
_____ Civic Engagement and Participation
_____ Housing At The Center, As a Vector For Socio-economic Inclusion
_____ Low-Carbon and Energy-Efficient Cities
_____ Urban Safety and Accessibility
_____ Urban Labs For Urban Extension and Urban Renewal

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Kuala Lumpur Declaration Cities 2030
Closing Ceremony
National Urban Policies
_____ Basic Information
_____ Objectives
_____ The Key Discussion Takeaways
_____ Policy Dialogues National Urban Policies
Urban Legislation, Rules and Regulations
_____ Basic Information
_____ Objectives
_____ The Key Discussion Takeaways
_____ Policy Dialogues Governance and Legislative Frameworks
Urban Planning and Design
_____ Basic Information
_____ Objectives
_____ The Key Discussion Takeaways
_____ Policy Dialogues Urban Planning and Design For Local Implementaiton
Urban Economy and Municipal Finance
_____ Basic Information
_____ Objectives
_____ The Key Discussion Takeaways
_____ Policy Dialogues Urban Economies, Productive Cities and Municipal Finance
Local Implementation
_____ Basic Information
_____ Objectives
_____ The Key Discussion Takeaways
_____ Special Session Urban Labs for Urban Extension and Urban Renewal
WUF9 Urban Village
_____ Micro-Housing The Communal Living: A Social Experiment
_____ Parklets and Kerblets
_____ Human Library Malaysia: The First at a World Urban Forum
_____ Make Bicycle A Future Mode Of Transport For Kuala Lumpur Urban Dwellers
Appendix: List Of Papers

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Acronyms
WUF
UN-Habitat
NGO
NUA
SDG
GAP
OECD
LGBTI
UCLG
SDI
PSD
NBOS
UTC
PPR
EU
USAID
IOM
UNESCO
ILO
NSC
ICLEI
NUP
AFINUA
LNOB
URA
ICT
PPP
DBKL
MaTIC
KLCC
World Urban Forum
United Nations Human Settlement Programme
Non-Governmental Organizations
New Urban Agenda
Sustainable Development Goals
General Assembly of Partners
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex
United Cities and Local Governments
Slum Dwellers International
Public Service Department
National Blue Ocean Shift
Urban Transformation Centre
Public Housing Programme
European Union
US Agency for International Development
International Organization for Migration
UN Education, Scientific & Cultural Organisation
International Labour Organisation
National Sample of Cities
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
National Urban Policy
Action Framework for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Leaving No One Behind
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Information and Communications Technology
Public Private Partnerships
Kuala Lumpur City Hall
Malaysian Tourism Centre
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
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INTRODUCTION
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The ninth World Urban Forum (WUF9), convened by the UN Human Selements Programme
(UN-Habitat), pulled together thousands of stakeholders to share pracces and knowledge on
how cies are built, planned and managed. WUF9 parcipants include representaves from
naonal, regional and local governments; non-governmental organizaons (NGOs);
community-based organizaons; research instuons and academies; the private sector;
development finance instuons; foundaons; the media; and UN organizaons and other
internaonal agencies.
Themed ‘Cies 2030, Cies for All: Implemenng the New Urban Agenda,’ WUF9 is the first
session of the World Urban Forums that showcases examples from parcipang stakeholders
on the implementaon of the NUA. It has become instrumental to substanvely feed into the
inputs for the first report of the implementaon of the New Urban Agenda. The Forum will also
contribute to global mobilizaon towards advocang for the common vision on sustainable
urban development in advancing on the achievement of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable
Development Goals. In the New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted at the UN Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III in 2016, parcipang States request
the report of the implementaon of the Agenda to incorporate, to the extent possible, the
inputs of mullateral organizaons, civil society, the private sector and academia, and to build
on exisng plaorms such as the WUF, convened by the UN Human Selements Programme
(UN-Habitat).
The Forum is expected to enhance the common vision on sustainable urban development and
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by contribung to implementaon of concrete
soluons for the commitments made in the NUA, which are fully aligned with the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
The NUA commitments include ensuring: sustainable urban development for social inclusion
and ending poverty; sustainable and inclusive urban prosperity and opportunies for all; and
environmentally sustainable and resilient urban development. WUF9 aims to raise awareness
towards the sustainable urbanizaon from stakeholders experiences; improve the collecve
knowledge of sustainable urban development through open debates, sharing of lessons
learned, and the exchange of urban soluons and good policies; increase coordinaon and
cooperaon between different stakeholders and constuencies for the implementaon of
sustainable urbanizaon; and incorporate the inputs of mullateral organizaons and
stakeholders into the reporng of the NUA implementaon.
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OVERVIEW OF
THE
WORLD
URBAN
FORUM
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Presently, over half of the world’s populaon reside in cies, and an addional 2.5 billion
people are predicted to live in cies by 2050. The NUA provides a 20-year roadmap to guide
naonal governments and local authories on city planning and management to create a
sustainable urban environment. In October 2016, the United Naons Conference on Housing
and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) took place in Quito, Ecuador centred solely
upon the implementaon of the NUA.
The agenda establishes a new internaonal standard for sustainable urban development.
Implemenng the NUA was not the only objecve of WUF9 however the forum also aimed to
raise awareness on issues of sustainable urbanisaon, improve knowledge on sustainable
urban pracces and knowledge transfer to effecvely realise policies, improve the relaonship
and cooperaon between different organisaons so that progress is achieved.
WUF is the biggest major internaonal event to address human selements, including rapid
urbanizaon and its impact on cies, communies, economies, climate change and policies. It
meets every two years, and parcipaon has increased to around 22,000 aendees from all
over the world. WUF was established by the UN in 2001 as “a non-legislave technical forum”.
It serves as an internaonal conference focusing on urban issues, convened by the UN Human
Selements Programme (UN-HABITAT), an agency of the UN that promotes “socially and
environmentally sustainable towns and cies”.
Since the very first WUF held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2002, this year on February 7-13th,
witnessed the ninth session of WUF held in KL themed “Cies 2030, Cies for All: Implemenng
the New Urban Agenda”. Beyond expectaons, WUF9 gathered a large number of parcipants
from naonal, regional and local governments, non-governmental and community-based
organisaons, research instuons and academia, private sectors, financial instuons, UN
organisaons and other internaonal organisaons. Around 22,000 parcipants from 165
countries assembled to work on systemac plans for the implementaon of the NUA during
WUF9. The forum focused on approaches and examples of good pracces for sustainability and
inclusivity. Many speakers called for aligning the NUA monitoring and reporng to be
followed-up and conduct a review process for the urban-related SDGs, in parcular SDG 11 on
sustainable cies.
Discussions took place in parallel streams throughout the week of the conference, including
high-level roundtables, special sessions, side events and networking events. At the close of
WUF9, the Kuala Lumpur Declaraon on Cies 2030 was launched, which calls for accelerang
NUA implementaon and maintaining UN-Habitat as the UN focal point for following-up and
reviewing of the NUA.
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WORLD URBAN FORUM
World
Urban
Forum 1
The first WUF was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on the theme of sustainable
urbanization. It focused on several issues like the effect of HIV/AIDS on
human settlements; violence against women; basic services and
infrastructure, including provision of water and sanitation; and the
need for secure tenure. WUF has since been held every two years with
themes ranging from “Sustainable Cities — Turning Ideas into Action”
to “The Urban Future” and convened in Barcelona, Spain; Vancouver,
Canada; Nanjing, China; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Naples, Italy; and
Medellín, Colombia.
World
Urban
Forum 3
World
Urban
Forum 7
WUF3 convened in Vancouver, Canada in 2006. The Forum examined
rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies
and policies. As a partnership between the UN Human Settlements
Programme (UN- HABITAT) and the Government of Canada, WUF3
discussed the theme of “Sustainable Cities – Turning Ideas into Action,”
and brought together 10,000 participants from over 100 countries,
representing governments, UN agencies, non-governmental
organizations, urban professionals, local authorities, the private sector
and academia. Participants met in plenary, dialogue and special
sessions, and attended 13 roundtables and over 160 networking
events. WUF3 marked the 30th anniversary of the first UN Conference
on Human Settlements, which was also held in Vancouver and led to
the creation of UN-HABITAT. The WUF3 Report was submitted to the
21st session of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council that took place in
Spring of 2007. The Forum concluded with a call for strengthening
partnerships for urban development, as well as with a growing
recognition of the need to address the underlying causes of
urbanization in order to achieve the vision of sustainable human
settlements for all.
WUF7 held in Medellín, Colombia, in 2014 ran with the theme “Urban
Equity in Development – Cities for Life,”. WUF7 would go onto further
advance the outcomes of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable
Development and contribute to the post-2015 development agenda. It
is also part of the preparatory process of UN-Habitat’s Third UN
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat
III. City events, side events, networking events, cultural events and
televised “urban talk” debates also took place during the Forum. As the
host city, Medellín showcased many of its innovative urban
transformations, including solutions for accessible mobility and for
public and green spaces in the city.
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THE AGENDA OF
THE
WORLD
URBAN
FORUM
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WUF9 AGENDA
The World Urban Forum takes place once in two years. As a technical forum it is open and
inclusive for a wide range of actors in urban development. The five UN-Habitat Assemblies
focused on: Women, Business, Children and Youth Assemblies convened on 7th February; Local
and Regional Governments, and Grassroots Organizaons convened on 8th February.
Throughout the event, Ministerial-level roundtables and many special sessions met to discuss
concerns and share examples of good policies and pracces towards a sustainable and inclusive
urban environment.
WUF9 is instrumental to contribute
substantive inputs for the first report
on the implementation of the New
Urban Agenda. The Forum landed
towards a forward global mobilization
platform advocating a common vision
on sustainable urban development in
advancing the achievement of the
Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable
Development Goals
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The Programme
Assemblies
World Urban Children and
Youth Assembly
Women’s Assembly
Business Assembly
Grassroots Assembly
High-Level
Roundtable
High-Level events with
ministers and heads of state
Dialogues
High-profile events to focus
and debate on policy
recommendaons on the
implementaon of the
New Urban Agenda
Special
Sessions
In-depth discussions on
specific issues on the
implementaon of the New
Urban Agenda and the
mechanisms for monitoring
the implementaon.
Stakeholders
Roundtable
Opportunity for various
Partner Constuent Groups to
present projects and research
on the implementaon of the
New Urban Agenda
Cultural &
City Events
Wide range of cultural events
will take place in Kuala Lumpur
to enjoy the culture and
tradions of the city, its music,
dance, food and architecture
Urban
Talks
Series of featured speeches
and discussions with some of
the world’s most renowned
urbanist, economist,
sociologist, and thinkers
Parallel
Events
Opportunity for various
Partner Constuent Groups to
present projects and research
on the implementaon of the
New Urban Agenda
Urban
Journalism Academy
Besides networking, side and
training events, a number of
other events also take place
within and outside the official
venue
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WUF9
Thematic Sessions
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CLIMATE CHANGE
HOUSING
HUMANITARIAN
LAND
LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
MIGRATION
MOBILITY
MUNICIPAL FINANCE
NATIONAL URBAN POLICY
PUBLIC SPACE
RISK REDUCTION & RESILIENCE
SLUM UPGRADING
URBAN BASIC SERVICES
URBAN DESIGN
URBAN LEGISLATION
URBAN SAFETY
WOMEN
YOUTH
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25
11 THEMES
24 THEMES
6 THEMES
6 THEMES
37 THEMES
10 THEMES
17 THEMES
36 THEMES
11 THEMES
17 THEMES
4 THEMES
13 THEMES
5 THEMES
13 THEMES
14 THEMES
10 THEMES
29 THEMES
26 THEMES
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50
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WUF JOINT ASSEMBLIES
Cities and territories should be designed innovatively with a sustained vision of a sound
green economy, protection of cultures and inclusive cities for all. The Urban Wellbeing,
Housing and Local Government Minister said urbanisation had been recognised as one of
the 21st century’s most transformative trends that would have great impact on the
social, economic, political and environmental aspects of society.
All implementing agencies must understand their roles in achieving a common goal and
coordinate their efforts through inter-ministerial, regional and local government
committees.
The assembly would be a legacy of WUF 9 as it offered space to grassroots leaders to
champion the delivery of NUA in their cities and communities around the world. The
Grassroots Assembly is the first in Kuala Lumpur. The Joint Assembly is a pivotal activity
intended to showcase and accelerate leadership in grassroots communities to improve
the quality of life in their settlements and cities.
The assemblies would come up with practical and strategic actions to improve living and
working conditions in informal settlements and economies, as well as ensure that urban
poor communities were well organised and taken care of.
WUF9 brings together thousands of stakeholders to share practices and knowledge on
how cities are built, planned and managed. The biennial forum is also a platform to
discuss and present commitments, strategies and innovations, identify institutional roles,
as well as pursue partnerships in the implementation of the NUA.
Design
Cities
with
The Long Term
in Mind……
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WUF WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY
The gender gap in decision-making between men and women is over 10 per cent in every
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country. Stressing
that women worldwide were often excluded from economic activities despite making up
more than half of the workforce, she said that women also shouldered responsibilities for
the unpaid work.
Despite the women’s huge contribution to the family and community, women have less
economic empowerment, less income and are less independent. The imbalance of the
gender role in the OECD country has led to the imbalance in policy making. Globally,
there were less than 25 per cent of women parliamentarians that had led to a weaker
voice in decision making.
A city cannot be inclusive or indeed sustainable without participation of women. As for
that, in UN Habitat, we have recognised the need for the cities to be planned in a gender
responsive manner by organising large programmes such as safer cities, public space and
slum upgrading.
The Women's Assembly is a platform to discuss how to implement the New Urban
Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals by addressing subjects towards gender
equality and empowering women.
Meanwhile, Huairou Commission president, Jan Peterson said women had always been
the eyes and ears of the community, but in order to build a good neighbourhood,
everyone, from the top to bottom had to be linked. Women have to monitor what are the
issues happening around us which is an essential component.
Balancing
Gender role
in Policy Making
is Crucial
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JOINT OPENING OF
WUF9 ASSEMBLIES
Wednesday - Thursday, 7th - 8th February 2018
The five UN-Habitat Assemblies were split into Women, Business, and Children and Youth Assemblies
that met on Wednesday 7th February, and Local and Regional Governments, and Grassroots
Organizaons next day on Thursday 8th February.
The Moderator Kimberley
Leonard, Sky News presenter,
welcomed parcipants on
Wednesday, 7 February 2018,
and called aenon to their
common goals of assisng all
to live with dignity and to save
the planet.
Maimunah Mohd Sharif,
Execuve
Director,
UN-Habitat, welcomed the
audience to Kuala Lumpur and
to WUF9, her first Forum as
Execuve Director. As she opened the
Assemblies, she underscored the NUA’s
emphasis on inclusivity and noted
UN-Habitat’s role as the focal point for its
implementaon.
Tan Sri Noh Omar, Minister of Urban
Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government,
Malaysia, observed that more than 50% of the
world’s populaon now lives in urban areas,
and stated that cies must be reformed to be
safe, inclusive, sustainable and prosperous. He
noted that WUF is hosng a Grassroots
Assembly for the first me, aiming to give a
plaorm to local leaders.
Magdalena Garcia Hernández, Women’s
Constuency, General Assembly of Partners
(GAP), emphasized the importance of good
governance and UN
frameworks such as the NUA
in advancing gender equality
and fighng social
discriminaon.
S.M. Shaikat, UN-Habitat
Youth Advisory Board,
underscored the challenges
facing urban youth, such as
finding employment,
affordable healthcare, and
educaon. He added that the
NUA is a “comprehensive
soluon” to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and becoming
accountable to future generaons.
Violet Shivutse, Chair, Governing Council of
Huairou Commission, called for stronger
partnerships and empowerment of grassroots
women in business.
Reem Al-Saud, Ministry of Municipal and Rural
Affairs, Saudi Arabia, highlighted her ministry’s
inclusive urban strategy that engages women
and youth and is aligned with the NUA.
Oleka Mandela, Ambassador for the Global
Iniave for Child Health and Mobility, called
for strong acon against drunk driving, and for
cies to provide adequate safe crossing places
for children, nong that her own child was
killed by a drunk driver.
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WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY
Wednesday, 7th February 2018
On Wednesday, Sri Husnaini Soan, Huairou Commission, introduced the sessions and welcomed
Execuve Director Maimunah. Maimunah highlighted Penang’s introducon of gender-responsive and
parcipatory budgeng during her term as mayor. She stressed the need for acquiring data on women’s
unique challenges, such as their safety on public transport.
Plenary Discussions
Two plenary discussions took place, on:
implemenng the NUA; and regional
perspecves on challenges in localizing the
SDGs. Julia Bentley, Canadian High
Commissioner to Malaysia, shared her
government’s vision of gender equality as an
essenal pillar of sustainable development.
Ana Falu, Advisory Group on Gender Issues,
called for the establishment of a major
program focusing on the nexus of women,
infrastructure and planning.
Kathy Klein, GAP Older Persons Group,
underscored that the biggest obstacle for
ageing communies is their lack of visibility,
including in data collecon. Suneeta Dhar,
Jagori, India, presented her organizaon’s
work in creang safer cies for women,
highlighng some gains in criminal law and
policing reforms, and on ending impunity for
sexual violence. Other speakers emphasized
the importance of collaborave acon at the
grassroots level and noted that SDG 11 will be
reviewed at the HLPF in July 2018.
TEDx-style Presentations
Clare Short, Chair, Cies Alliance, said women
should not only be engaged in policy making in
large numbers, but must become a
transformave force in society. Rose
Molokoane, SDI, highlighted the growing
influence of grassroots organizaons since
Habitat I, and their ability to parcipate in
decision making.
Maria Noel Vaeza, UN Women, called for
women’s representaon in all areas of
governance. Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan
Shahabudin, President, Naonal Council of
Women’s Organisaons, Malaysia, called for a
“morally strong urban society” that includes
parental oversight of children’s use of social
media.
Ivy Josiah, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law
and Development, described how market
women in Manila had successfully
campaigned to be included in renovaon
planning of the market facilies, aer which
the local council created a new seat
specifically for them. Ellen Woodsworth,
Women Transforming Cies, Canada,
described her organizaon’s work in
promong gender-sensive cies through
café-based events and collaboraons. Other
speakers highlighted efforts to empower
women, and parcularly grassroots women, at
all levels of governance.
Thematic Working Groups
In the aernoon, parcipants split into 11
groups to discuss: strengthening women’s role
in local governments; safe and accessible
public spaces; rural-urban links and food
security; slum upgrading and basic
gender-responsive service delivery; legislaon
in the framework of the Right to the City; land
and property ownership; economic inclusion
of women and girls; inclusion of women with
disabilies in an urban environment;
humanitarian crises and migraon; and
“engendering the Right to the City.” Groups
reiterated their key messages, which included
the importance of disaggregated data
collecon, building partnerships, and
challenging patriarchal norms in cies. Jan
Peterson, Honorary President, Huairou
Commission, encouraged parcipants to
monitor gender-related developments in their
own cies and to report back in upcoming
meengs on implementaon efforts taken
since Habitat III.
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Closing
Several speakers, including Violet Shivutse,
thanked Peterson for her work helping and
mentoring women, and the Internaonal
Women Communicaon Centre presented
Peterson with an award.
Women’s representaves summarized themes
that had emerged during the day, including the
importance of: pung resources behind the
commitments made in Quito; partnerships
with stakeholders; designing “gender-friendly
cies;” and changing social norms.
They also stressed the role of an online
plaorm, created with UN-Habitat, in enabling
those unable to be at WUF9 in person to take
part in the Women’s Assembly. Concluding the
session, Maria Noel Vaeza, UN Women, called
for: the removal of discriminatory policies that
prevent women from engaging in local
governments; addional stascs on women
in order for governments to address their
needs; and financing for women, parcularly
in business.
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BUSINESS ASSEMBLY
Wednesday, 7th February 2018
On Wednesday, moderator Nicholas You, Co-President, Global Cies Business Alliance, reminded
parcipants of the NUA’s call for businesses to apply their creavity and innovaon toward solving
sustainable development challenges.
Advocating for the “Global Goals”
In the morning, parcipants heard a panel
discussion on how the NUA and SDGs provide
a clear framework for businesses to invest in
sustainable development while also serving
the interests of their employees and
shareholders. Eugenie Birch, Co-Chair, GAP,
stressed: the role of legislaon in creang an
enabling environment in which businesses can
thrive; the importance of building the capacity
of local governments; and considering
environmental impacts when planning urban
development. Danielle Grossenbacher,
Internaonal Real Estate Federaon, called for
creave soluons to increase the affordability
of land, and to improve building techniques
and materials. She requested that parcipants
share smart affordable housing examples from
around the globe through the Federaon’s
website. Other panelists discussed examples
of how business and cies can work together
to raise awareness of the socio-economic case
for sustainable urbanizaon, including
promong sustainable consumpon and
producon, and reducing inequalies. During
the lunch hour, Execuve Director Maimunah
noted that private companies offer the talents
necessary to address the global urban
challenges, and explained that the role of
business in the development of smart cies
cannot be overesmated.
Technology and Innovation for
Development
Moderator Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat,
emphasized that harnessing technological
innovaon is essenal to achieving sustainable
development, and can have a transformave
impact on how cies plan housing, transport,
basic services, healthcare, educaon, and jobs
for future ageneraons. Panelists agreed that
technology is necessary to fill the local-level
“data gap” and help business and
governments priorize decisions and
investments required to meet sustainable
development targets. Parcipants
provided inputs on technology’s role in
implemenng the NUA and what is needed to
ensure that cies capture the benefits of new
technologies and innovaons.
Financing the NUA
Transformave Acons by Development
Finance Instuons: Moderator Sameh
Wahba, World Bank, noted the adopon of the
2030 Agenda and the NUA has provided a
fresh impetus to strengthen partnerships with
business towards enhanced, transformave
investments in urban development. He added
that sound fiscal performance of local governments
is fundamental to achieving the NUA.
Panelists discussed developing strong governance
frameworks that allow financial instu-
ons to engage more effecvely with local
municipalies, and the financial bias towards
major urban centres with secondary cies
lagging behind.
Building Effective Public-Private
Cooperation
Moderator Roland White, World Bank, said
achieving the NUA and SDGs requires both a
catalyc vehicle for transformave
investments in urban development, and a
facilitaon mechanism for cooperave
partnership, drawing together commied
public and private sector organizaons and
stakeholders, and all levels of government.
Panelists considered: diversifying economies
to build cies’ resilience to adversity;
providing slum dwellers with access to
decision-making processes; and building
capacity at the local level to accelerate change
while becoming more efficient.
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CHILDREN AND YOUTH ASSEMBLY
Wednesday, 7th February 2018
On Wednesday, the Youth Assembly opened with a video message from Idris Haron, President, World
Assembly of Youth, Malaysia, who called for the inclusion of youth in urban development. Ediola
Pashollari, Secretary-General, World Assembly of Youth, called for: ensuring opportunies for young
people; youth empowerment; and ensuring the NUA supports the achievement of the SDGs. Donovan
Gueres, UN Major Group for Children and Youth, explained that the Youth Declaraon from the
Assembly will be presented to WUF9.
Thematic working groups
Groups convened on: youth, livelihoods and
Indigenous youth; peace, safety and security;
human rights and parcipaon; challenges
facing youth migrants and refugees; health
and livability; urban resilience and climate
change; culture and public spaces; LGBTI and
the city; and “place-making in cies for youth.”
Parcipants raised many different proposals to
benefit urban children and youth, including
strategies to ensure that youth have
opportunies in non-urban areas.
LGBTI rights campaigners highlighted
examples of posive acons to address
violence against LGBTI youth, such as free
“inclusive yoga” sessions that paired LGBTI
youth with drop-in parcipants; and a photo
exhibion, “This Is Also A Family,” which
presented non-stereotypical family
configuraons such as same-sex couples and
single people with pets. Sessions on “ideaon
and decision thinking” and a Children’s
Assembly took place concurrently with the
themac working groups.
Dragon’s Den for Youth Projects
In the early aernoon, teams presented their
Urban Youth Projects, which were designed to
tackle urban issues, to a panel of experts. The
teams focused on waste management, lack of
public spaces, access to quality educaon, air
polluon, lack of affordable housing, and
improving the image of nuclear energy.
Highlights from the breakout group outputs
were also presented, with a view to using
them as a basis for a Youth Declaraon to be
produced at a later date.
Closing
Douglas Reagan, UN-Habitat, moderated the
session, which reflected on crical moments in
progressing the youth agenda. Ahmad
Alhendawi, the former Youth Envoy to the UN
Secretary General, noted that responses to the
economic crisis, the Arab Spring, and the rise
of radical extremism could be opportunies
for integrang acons to fulfil the SDGs.
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Execuve Director,
UN-Habitat, highlighted the role of youth in
achieving sustainable development, nong
that the UN has appointed a Special Envoy on
Youth for the first me.
She urged youth to transform passion into
acon, stang that “hope is not sufficient
without a strategy.” She recommended
strategic planning and monitoring, and
cauoned that such efforts should not become
disconnected from the grassroots level.
She concluded by encouraging youth to take
leadership roles, and to hold other leaders
accountable. Children and youth
representaves called for the acve
engagement of youth at all stages of
decision-making in urban development, and
warned that engagement efforts should be
genuine and not tokenisc. They urged moving
away from a growth-centered paradigm to one
that is people and planet-centered, with
human rights and jusce at the core.
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WORLD ASSEMBLY OF
LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS
Thursday, 8th February 2018
On Thursday, moderators Emilia Sáiz, Secretary General, United Cies and Local Governments (UCLG),
and Bernadia Tjandradewi, Secretary-General, UCLG-Asia Pacific, welcomed parcipants, and
underscored that local governments need to be agents of change. Mayors and leaders of Surayaba,
Soria, Bangangté, Cordoba, and the Iskandar and Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Regions delivered introductory
remarks, many urging increased cizen engagement and recognion of local and regional governments
in establishing sustainable and inclusive cies. Carlos Marnez Mínguez, Mayor of Soria, called for
“ethics of acon and responsibility,” which, he said, could lead to transparent, effecve, and fair policies
and plans in urban areas.
Governance of proximity at the heart
of the NUA
Leaders from Jakarta, Barcelona, Melaka, Sala,
Ksar, Cape Town and partners took part in this
discussion. In his opening remarks, Greg
Munro, Secretary General, Commonwealth
Local Government Forum, called for global
leaders to place their trust in local and regional
governments, and allow local residents to be
engaged at the core of decision making.
Many speakers highlighted the unique posion
of mayors in relaon to social issues,
environmental challenges, and the economic
realies of their cies. Mercè Conesa,
President, Barcelona Provincial Council, called
for a governance system that is decentralized,
open, and collaborave, adding that such a
system would require cizen involvement.
Víctor Pineda, President, World ENABLED,
called for a global compact for accessible and
inclusive cies, and to give individuals with
disabilies a “seat at the table.”
Assessing the implementation of the
NUA
Leaders from Fukuoka, Sweden, Buenos Aires,
the Basque region, Catbalogan, Mannheim,
Nablus, Catalonia and partners shared
innovave experiences in implemenng the
NUA. Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim, called
for harmonizing NUA and SDG indicators. He
said monitoring would be key to ensuring that
Habitat III has more impact than the previous
two Habitat conferences. Clare Short, Cies
Alliance, called for: increased support to small
and medium-sized cies; consultaon with the
urban poor; and equality of leadership
between men and women in government.
Key priorities of local and regional
governments in the NUA:
Joan Clos, former Execuve Director of
UN-Habitat, opened discussions. He invited
parcipants to consider whether urbanizaon
is essenal to development. Panelists and local
leaders from various cies including Sante Fe,
Yakutsk, Chefchaouen, Malmö and Hebron, as
well as representaves of Morocco and other
partners, called for increased capacity at the
local level and discussed: cies with extreme
climates; the implementaon of the NUA in
cies facing crises; addressing the needs of
urban migrants; and the need to understand
the health, biodiversity and other concerns of
their cizens.
Closing
Frédéric Vallier, Secretary General, Council of
European Municipalies and Regions (CEMR),
presented the text of a declaraon from the
Assembly, which highlights: the inclusion of
the Right to the City in the NUA; a
commitment to strengthen a partnership
approach with all levels of government; and a
commitment to women’s parcipaon. Other
speakers emphasized renewing the
relaonship between the UN and regional and
local governments, and addressing rural-urban
migraon at its points of origin. UN-Habitat
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Execuve Director Maimunah concluded the
Assembly, inving local and regional
governments to work with the UN to advise on
implementaon and monitoring of the NUA
for safe, resilient and sustainable cies.
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WUF9 A PLATFORM FOR GRASSROOTS VOICES
Melaka Chief Minister and World Assembly of Youth president Datuk Seri Idris Haron
addressed the Children and Youth assembly through a video message and called for the
inclusion of youth in urban development. UN-Habitat deputy executive director Aisa Kirabo
Kacyira urged youth to transform passion into action. She recommended strategic planning
and monitoring, and cautioned that such efforts should not become disconnected from the
grassroots level. She concluded by encouraging youth to take leadership roles, and to hold
other leaders accountable.
At the World Assembly of local and regional governments, Commonwealth Local Government
Forum secretary general Greg Munro called for global leaders to place their trust in local and
regional governments, and allow local residents to be engaged at the core of decision making.
Meanwhile, at the Grassroots Assembly, Cities Alliance senior urban specialist Rene Hohmann
emphasised that grassroots organisations act as agents of change.
High-level roundtables were also held to discuss proposals for national and local governments
to reposition housing at the centre of planned urbanisation by operating a paradigm shift in
the way we approach housing issues: from a building-only perspective to a more
comprehensive view of housing as more than a roof and four walls. “Housing is a basic
necessity for individuals and an important component when discussing about human habitat.
Under UN-Habitat’s definition, housing is not limited to just shelter for individuals. A proper
house should provide shelter from the elements of nature, offer security, adequate privacy and
space with proper transportation facilities and access to adequate basic amenities.
“For me, it is very important that all governments meet the housing needs of the people
because by owning a house, they will have a sense of belonging and ownership. Quality
housing contributes to well-being and quality of life, said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local
Government deputy minister Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique. ‘Cities for all with housing at
the Centre’, was moderated by Greg Budworth from Compass Housing Services, Australia.
On addressing inequality in cities, Khazanah Nasional chief executive officer Azman Mokhtar
stressed that “prevention is better than cure,” and highlighted that basic infrastructure and
accessible markets are key. India and Mali shared their country experiences of providing ‘social
housing’, with India highlighting the role of civil society in ensuring a collaborative approach
towards providing all Indians with a home by 2022, and Mali mentioning its tax breaks to
developers, which has had the secondary benefit of establishing industrial areas José Carrera
from the Development Bank of Latin America, highlighted the potential to address social
exclusion through housing initiatives. He argued that questions of productivity are important
for cities, which, he said, do not only provide goods and services but also create
opportunities for investment, employment and growth. Delegates highlighted their respective
national initiatives, including: an energy-welfare partnership in Seoul that has created jobs in
retrofitting homes for energy efficiency; action by Ugandan slum dwellers to gather data on
slums for planning purposes; and Thailand’s “cities without slums” housing development
strategy that is working with civil society partners.
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‘Urban Dimension of Climate Change Action’ was moderated by William Cobbett from Cities
Alliance. He said cities will be key to implementing the global agendas of sustainable
development, climate action and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). In a keynote address, Energy,
Green Technology and Water Minister secretary general Zaini Ujang, presented Malaysia’s
Green Technology Master Plan that identifies 16 sectors as areas with high potential to
transition the economy towards sustainability. Public Service Department (PSD)
director-general Tan Sri Zainal Rahim Seman, during the dialogue on Transformative
Partnerships in Urban Management, said local governments must establish transformative
partnerships to face the emerging challenges in urban management and shared some of
Malaysia’s experience in this area.
He spoke on Medini City, a strategic alliance between Iskandar Puteri City Council and Medini
Incorporated Malaysia Sdn Bhd in planning, development, implementation and maintainance
of a new futuristic city in Johor. This partnership has increased the capacity of the local
government to manage and sustain the city as a distinctive, vibrant, connected, sustainable,
beautiful and a people’s city. Another example is the redevelopment of Kampung Kerinchi’s
housing by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, in collaboration with a private developer, UOA
Development Berhad, which has transformed an old low-cost housing into a modern high rise
prime housing with commercial buildings.
At the national level, Malaysia adopted the National Blue Ocean Shift (NBOS), a unique and
dynamic national strategy platform which brings together ministries, agencies, all levels of
governments and the private sector to achieve high impact, low cost and rapid execution
initiatives. One such successful NBOS project is the Urban Transformation Centre (UTC), which
has been replicated in 14 urban areas and has resulted in the federal government and the local
governments working side by side under one roof.
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GRASSROOT ASSEMBLY
Opening this Assembly on Thursday, Joan Clos,
former Execuve Director of UN-Habitat, said
grassroots representaon is fundamental to
creang a legimate process in urbanizaon,
which has become policized due to
compeng interests. Rose Molokoane, Slum
Dwellers Internaonal (SDI), outlined SDI’s
study of 103 cies since Habitat III, and called
on the UN system to create a plaorm for the
parcipaon of grassroots organiaons, saying
they deserve their own as they prefer not to
be absorbed into Major Groups.
Relinda Sosa, President, Naonal
Confederaon of Women Organized for Life
and Integrated Development, Peru, speaking
on behalf of Lan American grassroots
organizaons, emphasized the importance of
alliances among grassroots organizaons and
strengthening these in order to be effecve in
decision making processes. Rene Hohmann,
Cies Alliance, emphasized that grassroots
organizaons act as agents of change and are
the only constuency already implemenng
the SDGs, while others are “sll stuck in their
comfort zones.” Two consecuve plenary
discussions took place, first on the impact of
grassroots partnerships and tools in NUA
implementaon, and second on facilitang
leadership and the groundwork necessary to
realize the commitments of inclusivity,
partnership and “leaving no one behind.”
Grassroots partnerships and tools
Grassroots representaves Violet Shivutse and
Sekai Chiremba reported on progress in NUA
implementaon in Kenya and Zimbabwe
respecvely, highlighng the key role of
women and local communies in urbanizaon,
and the importance of partnerships among
grassroots organizaons, parcularly in
informaon collecon. UN-Habitat Execuve
Director Maimunah stressed the importance
of having grassroots organizaons as partners,
and applauded WUF9 for providing the space
for crical reflecon among diverse
stakeholders.
Facilitating leadership and
groundwork
Grassroots representaves Janet Adu and
Fides Bagasao shared their perspecves from
Ghana and the Philippines, nong challenges
for: government changeover; polical
mobilizaon; and disaster response and
recovery, including from climate-induced
disasters.
Breakout discussions and report-backs
Parcipants then broke into regional groups
for discussion. African, Asian, Lan American
and ‘Other’ regional groups considered their
contribuons to the UN-Habitat agenda, the
role of partnerships and how they can become
more effecve, and strategies that would
ensure grassroots constuencies are
successful. Moderator Beth Chitekwe-Bi, SDI,
then invited the four regional groups to report
back.
Groups from “Other” regions noted the role of
partnerships in giving women a voice,
parcularly in the informal economy and in
farming. Asia reported on mapping and
community profiling, promong community
savings and basic services, and making
common spaces safe for women, among other
acvies. They urged giving greater
prominence to grassroots acvies and
sharing the pracces and work on the ground.
All groups urged that grassroots organizaons
are given a place at the policy table. Africa
outlined informal community data collecon
and mapping as important tools in reporng
and monitoring implementaon of the SDGs.
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WUF9 Ministers Roundtable is designed to provide an
opportunity for representatives of national governments
and their partners to share experiences and take stock of
ongoing programmes and initiatives underway to
implement the New Urban Agenda and support the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
MALAYSIA PARTICIPATED IN MINISTER’S ROUNDTABLE
A Minister’s Roundtable, which saw the participation of ministers from countries such as
China, Indonesia, Algeria, Paraguay and the United States. Noh was on hand to welcome the
61 ministers from various countries to the Minister’s Roundtable and briefed them on his
ministry’s efforts to encourage inclusive sustainable development.
He updated them on the Government’s efforts to provide affordable housing for Malaysians,
especially those in the urban areas and those from the bottom 40% household income group
(B40).
“The Malaysian Government has introduced the Public Housing Programme (PPR) to address
the housing needs of those in the B40 category,” he told the ministers.
He added that the PPR units, which are normally rented out at RM124 per month to families
with monthly incomes of less than RM3,000, has benefited 75,405 households as of January
2018.
He also spoke about the Rent to Own Scheme, where PPR units are sold at subsidised rates to
those who are unable to secure loans or financial assistance from private banking institutions.
Ministers from other countries shared their own experiences and challenges in implementing
the NUA and moving towards sustainable and inclusive urbanisation.
The US representative spoke about the importance of data mining in devising policies against
homelessness, while Indonesia shared its work to reduce informal settlements.
China highlighted its commitment to sustainable urbanisation in line with the theme of the
Shanghai 2010 World Expo: Better City, Better Life. Japan highlighted the importance of
knowledge sharing between different stakeholders in moving towards sustainable
urbanisation.
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MINISTER’S ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, 8th February 2018
On Thursday morning, moderator Julie
Gichuru, Kenyan TV anchor, opened the
Ministers’ Roundtable and invited speakers to
focus on the transformave potenal of the
NUA. Noh Omar, Minister of Urban Wellbeing,
Housing and Local Government, Malaysia,
welcomed the 61 vising ministers, and
described his ministry’s efforts to promote
inclusive sustainable urban development.
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Execuve Director,
UN-Habitat, pointed to the increasing
recognion of planned urbanizaon as a tool
for sustainable development, and stressed the
importance of partnerships in the efforts to
localize the NUA and the SDGs. Erik Solheim,
Execuve Director, UN Environment, noted
that city development is “a domesc affair,”
and offered the UN’s support to share
knowledge and good pracces from around
the world. Corina Cretu, European
Commission, stressed that mul-level
governance is a prerequisite to successful
implementaon of the NUA.
Panels
Two consecuve panels discussed crical
urban issues and countries’ concrete
iniaves to implement the NUA domescally.
In the first panel, India spoke about its goal to
provide every cizen with housing by 2022.
Paraguay highlighted its issues tackling
inequality in cies, and the US spoke of the
importance of data mining to devise policies
against homelessness.
In the second panel, Indonesia described its
work to reduce informal selements. Lesotho
highlighted that urbanizaon is a process that
cannot be halted or reversed. Mexico argued
in favour of a “transversal” and long-term
vision for sustainable urban development.
Palesne said it maintains a policy of
partnerships and boom-up approaches.
Algeria described its main urban challenges as
being the lack of housing, persistence of
informal selements, and the need to reform
legal frameworks.
Statements
China highlighted its commitment to
sustainable urbanizaon, underlining the
theme of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo,
“Beer City, Beer Life.” Germany pointed to
the pivotal role of digital transformaon in the
implementaon of the NUA. Japan spoke of
the importance of knowledge sharing with
stakeholders. Kenya described its municipal
and informal selement programmes and
commitment to integrated development.
Mongolia noted challenges specific to
post-socialist countries. Myanmar welcomed
its collaboraon with UN-Habitat. Bahrain
spoke of the need for consolidated plans and
sizeable budgets. Bangladesh underlined its
plans to upgrade slums. Yemen explained the
challenges of implemenng the NUA in a
war-torn country, with cies either suffering
destrucon, facing the pressures of receiving
war refugees, or being unable to obtain
financial support due to difficules in
transferring money.
Morocco highlighted that the Arab region’s
perspecve on the NUA was arculated in the
Rabat Declaraon of 2017. Vanuatu noted his
country’s focus on decentralizaon. South
Africa underlined the need for a
mul-stakeholder approach to the NUA.
Argenna said it was working on territorial
planning and local consensus building with
UN-Habitat. Uganda underlined the need for
good financing. Switzerland expressed
commitment to supporng municipalies
towards building strong urban-rural linkages.
The Philippines outlined its five - year
development plan. Senegal spoke of the
importance of growth, human capital and
security; and Sudan underlined the need for
strong partnerships towards building strong
urban-rural linkages. The Philippines outlined
its five-year development plan. Senegal spoke
of the importance of growth, human capital
and security; and Sudan underlined the need
for strong partnerships.
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WORLD URBAN FORUM 9, MALAYSIANS LEFT BEHIND IN
DEVELOPMENT
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the international community today that “no
Malaysian will be left behind” in Putrajaya’s quest for development. Najib told the ninth
edition of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) here that his administration’s development policies
have been ranked “the most inclusive” in South-east Asia, pointing to its cheap healthcare,
massive investment in public transport and zero-rated tax for basic goods. “What we want is
a just and inclusive development where no Malaysian is left behind,” Najib said in his
opening address. “For that our development has been ranked as the most inclusive in
South-east Asia,” he added. The WUF9 is a United Nations initiative set up in 2002 to discuss,
conceptualise and plan sustainable urban developments.
The first WUF conference led to the development of the New Urban Agenda, a guideline for
sustainable urban policies. It was formally adopted at Quito in 2016 and Malaysia is among
the signatories. The world’s urban population is expected to almost double by 2050, with
cities hosting close to 70 per cent of the globe’s population. This growth is concentrated
mainly in Asia and Africa, with Asia projected to have more than half of the world’s mega
cities. Currently, Malaysia has an urbanisation rate of almost 75 per cent and is expected to
reach more than two-thirds by 2050. Najib said today the government has put all the right
policies in place to ensure the country manages the rural-urban transition well. “We are
helped by the fact that our economic fundamentals are strong, and the Economic
Transformation Programme my government put in place in 2010 has delivered 2.26 million
jobs, over one million of which were high-income jobs,” he said. “Inflation and
unemployment have been kept low. We have brought the deficit down from 6.7 per cent in
2009 to 3 per cent last year. Thanks to strong, pro-active measures, we recovered quickly
from the global crisis of 2008 to 2009, and we have had years of healthy growth,” he added.
Najib also cited a World Bank report that said “the Malaysian economy is progressing from
a position of strength”
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OPENING
CEREMONY
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OFFICIAL OPENING
On Thursday aernoon, the opening ceremony began with a cultural presentaon including Malaysian
dances of various ethnic tradions, and a video of WUF9 highlights.
Rosario Robles, Secretary of Agricultural, Territorial and Urban Development, Mexico, emphasized the
importance of urban development as a tool for reaching the SDG targets. She called for rethinking
urban governance, and comming to “paradigm changes” that provide cizens with higher standards
of living. Corina Cretu, European Commission, drew parallels between the NUA and the EU’s own vision
for sustainable urban development, and noted the EU’s commitment to developing partnerships to that
effect.
Najib Razak, Prime Minister, Malaysia, then welcomed parcipants from 193 countries to WUF9. He
noted that Asia faces challenges to successfully managing the urban transformaon, and that his
country established an economic transformaon plan in 2010 that has kept economic development
strong and unemployment rates at a minimum.
He explained that this, along with other innovave strategies, help to ensure that Malaysians enjoy a
high quality of life. He concluded by wishing all a producve and memorable stay in Kuala Lumpur.
WUF9 was officially launched when Prime Minister Najib and Execuve Director Maimunah,
accompanied by Minister Noh Omar, placed the WUF9 leers and number on the Forum’s backdrop.
The event closed with a song on leadership performed by the students of Limkokwing University.
We will support the provision of
well-designed networks of safe,
inclusive for all inhabitants, accessible,
green, and quality public spaces and
streets, free from crime and violence,
including sexual harassment and
gender-based violence, considering the
human-scale and measures that allow
for the best possible commercial use of
street-level oors, fostering local markets
and commerce, both formal and
informal, as well as not-for-profit
community initiatives, bringing people
into the public spaces, promoting
walkability and cycling towards
improving health and well-being. …..
NUA, Principle 100
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WUF9 OPENING SPEECH BY MAIMUNAH MOHD SHARIF,
UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
UN-HABITAT
It is a great honour for me to welcome you to my first
event as Executive Director of UN-Habitat, the lead
United Nations Programme for human settlements
and sustainable urbanization. I would like to convey
my sincere gratitude to the Government of Malaysia
and the City of Kuala Lumpur for hosting WUF9, and
to my country women and men, the Malaysian
people, for the warm welcome you have extended to
us, the United Nations family and the participants of
WUF from 173 countries. I understand that over
25,000 people have registered for WUF, and this
week, some 470 organizations and representatives of
Member States have come together to take part in
nearly 560 official events. This is a very special World Urban Forum, because it is the first since
the adoption of the New Urban Agenda, in Quito, in 2016. It is also the first since Member
States committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015. Additionally, this
is the first WUF to be held in Asia in a decade, since WUF4 took place in Nanjing in 2008. Our
cities today host more than half the world’s population, generate more than 70 per cent of the
GDP worldwide and are responsible for as much as 70 per cent of global energy consumption.
Our cities are also the backdrop to many armed conflicts in the world and play host to millions
of refugees and migrants.
The challenge facing our cities – in both developed and developing countries – are many, and
we are only now beginning to identify and overcome those challenges. At the same time,
cities have the potential to lead a country’s growth, as drivers of sustainability and as tools for
social integration and equality. Cities often symbolize hope, and possibility.
Well-planned, well-managed urbanization is a tool for development. Used properly, its effects
are felt far beyond the boundaries of a city: through villages and townships, in rural as well as
urban areas and across regional and country borders. If we want to have a chance of
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to get our cities right. The theme of
WUF9 is “Cities 2030, Cities for All: Implementing the New Urban Agenda.” With its open and
inclusive nature, the World Urban Forum is an opportunity for partners from all over the
world, representing many priorities and points of view, to contribute to the global
conversation on our cities and human settlements. The World Urban Forum is a platform for
all people to exchange their views, ideas, expertise, and perhaps even frustrations, to work
together for a better future. All humans live in human settlements by definition, whether they
are rural or urban. The challenges of sustainable urban development are therefore intuitive to
all of us: the language may be technical sometimes, but the ideas behind them make sense to
each and every one of us.
By selecting Cities 2030, Cities for All as the theme, we wished to recognize that all people
must be at the core of the thinking on urbanization. Cities attract people from all walks of life;
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they therefore need to embrace diversity, and make social inclusion a priority. The city of the
future must be one that leaves no one behind, regardless of his or her gender, age, physical
ability, and nationality or migration status. The needs of integrated and holistic development
plan at national / central level, at regional / state level and at local level is very important to
consciously implement the New Urban Agenda and 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
With the good governance and geared towards outcome based. This makes WUF the ideal
platform to debate the contribution that positive urban development makes to delivery of the
17 Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 11, and the New Urban Agenda. The
New Urban Agenda is the result of a long process of negotiations. It sits alongside other key
pieces of documentation, such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The New Urban Agenda provides a clear framework
for activities and reinforces existing aspirations laid out in Goal11 – to make cities and human
settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable – and all other urban aspects of the SDGs.
Until three weeks ago, I was a Mayor, who, at the Habitat III PrepCom in New York, was
appealing to the United Nations and others to localize the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs.
Now, I need to “walk the talk”. Now, as Executive Director, I am appealing to you, our partners,
to support one another, and the United Nations, to help countries achieve the SGDs, through
the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. UN-Habitat wants to work with you to make
that happen. Having been on “the other side” I know that the expectations of people, in large
and small cities, and large and small towns and villages, are high. UN-Habitat has more than
40 years of experience in urbanization and our expertise is highly valued by member states
and local governments. Our expertise combines normative, coordination and operational
elements, which make it one of our greatest assets. As a focal point for sustainable
urbanization in the UN System, we arecommitted to supporting countries to deliver on the
New Urban Agenda, SDG 11 and the implementation of the urban-related SDGs in close
collaboration with other UN agencies and stakeholders.
A strengthened UN-Habitat is one that can effectively coordinate the United Nations’ work on
sustainable urbanization, and monitoring and reporting on the New Urban Agenda. An
empowered UN-Habitat can mobilize actors and partners to support implementation of the
urban-related SDGs but also assists governments to apply the normative standards of the
New Urban Agenda with the operational knowledge drawn from UN-Habitat’s forty years in
the field. We are also well placed to promote localizing the SDGs and to ensure their
implementation is contextually applied. In collaboration with the World Bank and other UN
agencies, we are committed to facilitating increased financing of urbanization for countries,
cities and human settlements. I count on your support to strengthen UN-Habitat as we
continue on this important path towards a better urban future. I would like to conclude my
remarks by thanking you for your serious and committed discussions during this journey,
which has placed urbanization on the top of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. I
would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, including my new colleagues at
UN-Habitat, and my predecessor in the post, Dr. Joan Clos, who so skilfully led the Habitat III
process. Our destination is clear: inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable human settlements
for all. The New Urban Agenda is the path by which we will reach it. I wish you all a fruitful
week here at the World Urban Forum.
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MESSAGE BY THE PRINCE OF WALES AT WORLD URBAN FORUM
2018
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me
great pleasure to send this message to you in Kuala
Lumpur for the 9th session of the World Urban Forum.
Now, I’m only sorry I cannot be with you in person, as
the vitally important matters you will discuss require
decisive action if we are to have any hope of achieving
the critical Sustainable Development Goals — which,
as you will know, are so dependent upon practical
implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Failure to
grasp these issues within the limited — and ever
decreasing — time available will have catastrophic
consequences for our planet. What continues to be so
very difficult to comprehend beyond this audience,
ladies and gentlemen, is that the world’s urban population is expected almost to double in the
next 40 years. This alarmingly rapid urbanization presents urgent and complex challenges for
both people and the planet. However, if the world’s urban footprint is to grow, we do have an
unprecedented opportunity to redefine urban development. If, and only if, planned and
managed sensitively, cities can add social, environmental and commercial value, in a way that
helps to tackle climate change and foster inclusive prosperity.
It seems important to me that we also put equal emphasis on ensuring a holistic approach to
urbanization; one which considers settlements of all sizes and enhances the real and effective
integration between urban and rural areas, so that vital eco-systems, bio-diversity and food
production are maintained into the future. Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, whilst we need to
identify solutions for urban growth, we must not forget that there could also be opportunities
to provide smaller, rural settlements with digital technology to deliver information to villages,
so that access to micro finance, social networks and online education can enable a
sustainable, distributed economy in which most people could walk or bicycle for their
everyday needs. Interestingly, my old University, Cambridge, is researching the whole issue of
"Smart Villages" as part of the Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust. Now
it would seem obvious that as the urbanization we face is so rapid, then our response to
planning and managing that growth must be equally swift. Essential tools in this respect are
urban codes and architectural pattern books.
When used properly, urban codes can enhance creative freedom and diversity and establish
overall coherence within each town and city – vital, ladies and gentlemen, if we are to ensure
that any such vast urban growth brings some sense of character and human scale, let alone
genuine sustainability. Equally vital are rapid response plans, which can, at the most basic
level, help to protect primary public spaces, transport infrastructure and green corridors that
provide a framework for sustainable growth — a kind of ‘bare bones’ approach to planning,
in which local communities of course have such a vital and invaluable role to play.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have my very best wishes for your deliberations over the coming
days in Malaysia, a country I was thrilled to have the opportunity to visit last November.
During that Tour I was also delighted to meet Datuk Maimunah Mohamad Sharif, and now to
learn subsequently that she has been appointed as the new Executive Director for UN Habitat.
I can only wish her every success in what is surely one of the most important agendas of our
time.
So, I would therefore urge you all to seize the opportunity of this unique gathering to share
and develope practical initiatives and working partnerships that will make the New Urban
Agenda a transformative reality. Business as usual is not an option if we are to deliver
meaningful and positive change for the growing number of people living in towns and cities,
and for the generations yet to come whose future is, literally, in our hands.
.... Business as usual is not an
option if we are to deliver
meaningful and positive
change for the growing
number of people living in
towns and cities, and for the
generations yet to come whose
future is, literally, in our
hands.”
Message from the Prince of Wales
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HIGH-LEVEL ROUNTABLES
Friday - Sunday, 9th - 11th February 2018
High-level roundtables took place in consecuve morning and aernoon sessions over three days from
Friday, 9 February, to Sunday, 11 February.
Cities For All With Housing At The
Center
On Friday morning, Greg Budworth, Compass
Housing Services, Australia, moderated the
panel discussion with co-chairs Soledad
Núñez, Minister of Housing and Habitat,
Paraguay, and Hardeep Singh Puri, Union
Minister, Ministry of Housing and Urban Afairs,
India.
On addressing inequality in cies, Azman
Mokhtar, CEO, Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia,
stressed, “prevenon is beer than cure,” and
highlighted that basic infrastructure and
accessible markets are key. Maimunah Mohd
Sharif, Execuve Director, UN-Habitat, stated
that well-designed urbanizaon plans contribute
to inclusiveness and generate economic
value.
India and Mali shared country experiences of
providing ‘social housing’, with India highlighting
the role of civil society in ensuring a collaborave
approach towards providing all Indians
with a home by 2022, and Mali menoning its
tax breaks to developers, which has had the
secondary benefit of establishing industrial
areas.
José Carrera, Development Bank of Lan
America, highlighted the potenal to address
social exclusion through housing iniaves. He
argued that quesons of producvity are
important for cies, which, he said, do not
only provide goods and services but also
create opportunies for investment, employment
and growth. Lamia Kamal-Chaoui,
Organisaon for Economic Co-operaon and
Development, preferred “inclusive growth” to
“inclusive cies” and, with several other
speakers, encouraged broadening the focus
from building houses to managing the land, so
as to ensure that new housing is integrated
with transport routes and access to services
and jobs.
Countries highlighted naonal iniaves,
including: an energy-welfare partnership in
Seoul that has created jobs in retrofing
homes for energy efficiency; acon by Ugandan
slum dwellers to gather data on slums for
planning purposes; and Thailand’s “cies
without slums” housing development strategy
that is working with civil society partners.
India and SDI proposed in-situ slum development
as a way forward. India argued that trust
needs to be built between governments and
slum dwellers to enable cooperaon and for
slum dwellers to feel confident they can return
aer upgrades are completed.
On the crical factors for affordable housing,
the Netherlands and Morocco specified green
growth, spaal design and cooperaon across
sectors, including with cizens. Panelists
underscored the importance of strong leadership.
Singapore highlighted its ethnic integra-
on policy through housing, which prevents
straficaon by race.
The co-chairs concluded that locaon, public
spaces and access to services need to be
considered when providing housing to all.
They warned that inequality leads to anger
and violence, and makes cies uninhabitable.
India stated that housing is fundamental to
human existence, and that “we must act to
provide it.”
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URBAN DIMENSION OF
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION
Friday, 9th February 2018
Moderator William Cobbe, Cies Alliance,
introduced the session on Friday aernoon,
saying cies will be key to implemenng the
global agendas of sustainable development,
climate acon and the New Urban Agenda
(NUA). Ministers from Botswana and Kiriba
co-chaired the session.
In a keynote address, Zaini Ujang, Secretary
General, Ministry of Energy, Green Technology
and Water, Malaysia, presented his country’s
Green Technology Master Plan that idenfies
16 sectors as areas with high potenal to
transion the economy towards sustainability.
He stated that to move from reform to delivery
capability requires boldness and quality of
execuon.
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Execuve Director,
UN-Habitat, idenfied strategies to scale up
city climate acon plans, including:
strengthening mid-level governance; building
networks of local officials such as the Global
Covenant of Mayors; and providing the
scienfic basis for climate acon through
giving local officials understandable tools.
“
Nonofo Molei, Minister of Infrastructure and
Housing Development, Botswana, reiterated
the call for decisive leadership and noted that
the brief “shelf life” of policians leads to
expedient rather than bold decisions on issues
that really maer.
Kobebe Taitai, Minister for Internal Affairs,
Kiriba, said addressing climate change will
involve changes in people’s social values,
ethics and morals. He urged achieving “the
bold scenario” envisioned by the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development and the Paris
Agreement on climate change.
Panels: In the first panel, urban and civil
society leaders from Germany, Morocco,
France and Norway discussed the threat of
climate change to cies, and highlighted that
carbon emissions will exponenally increase if
construcon keeps pace with the current rate
of urbanizaon. Germany noted that
two-thirds of current urban coastal zones will
be submerged by sea-level rise by 2050.
Panelists highlighted approaches including:
sharing innovave ideas through the Global
Compact of Mayors; reviewing legislaon in
most countries to allow greater parcipaon
of women in decision-making processes and
development of adapon plans; and the Cies
IPCC conference, which is the first event where
mayors and sciensts will convene to generate
a research agenda on the role of cies in
reducing the impacts of climate change.
In ensuing discussions, C40 Cies noted the
importance of implemenng new building
codes, retrofing for energy efficiency, and
ensuring at least a 30% shi away from car
transport to walking and cycling. Parcipants
called for improving the flow of climate
finance to cies and for making a strong case
for local stakeholder involvement in urban
transions. One parcipant noted that no city
in Malaysia holds local council elecons, and
quesoned how climate-induced temperature
rise should be addressed in this context.
In the second panel, city planners and donors
outlined challenges for migaon and
adaptaon in rapidly growing cies, and ways
to access the necessary finance. Liberia
proposed that foreign corporaons engaged in
the extracon of mber, fish and minerals in
developing countries should address climate
change impacts through their corporate social
responsibility acons. Other speakers
highlighted challenges for: developing
praccal standards for sustainable
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infrastructure construcon; convincing
investors that sustainable infrastructure poses
fewer risks; dealing with uncertainty in
planning “smart cies”; and promong urban
resilience, for example, by planng trees not
only as decorave elements but as part of an
urban ecosystem.
URBANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT:
INVESTING IN THE TRANSFORMATIVE
FORCE OF CITIES
Saturday, 10th February 2018
On Saturday morning, Isidoro Santana,
Minister of Economy, Planning and
Development, Dominican Republic, and Hajia
Alima Mahama, Minister for Local
Government and Rural Development, Ghana,
co-chaired the session, and Julie Gichuru,
news anchor, Kenya, acted as moderator.
Naison Muzwa-Mangiza, UN-Habitat,
presented the organizaon’s acon
framework, through which it assists member
states in implemenng the NUA in areas of
policy, legislaon, planning, economic
development and local acon.
Santana described his country’s challenges,
which, he noted, are typical of small island
developing states, such as vulnerability to
climate change, and the prevalence of
informal selements. He explained that,
though only two levels of government exist in
his country – naonal and local – several
policies now focus on empowering
governments at the intermediate subnaonal
or provincial level, and on increasing resilience
to environmental factors.
Mahama welcomed urbanizaon as “a posive
force” and highlighted Ghana’s policies for
leveraging the potenal of industry as well as
for developing synergies with the Sahel region.
Referring to the Roundtable theme, Corina
Cretu, European Commission, noted that
invesng in the transformave force of cies
means empowering them. She outlined the
EU’s Urban Agenda, which takes an integrated
approach based on “equal partnerships” with
diverse stakeholders, tangible acon plans,
and a limited set of priories. Minata Samate
Cessouma, African Union, said that cies are a
cornerstone of the African connent’s
structural transformaon, and referred to the
African Union’s Agenda 2063. She argued that
the large scale of the informal economy is one
of the greatest governance challenges faced by
African cies, and described various pathways,
such as micro-financing, that can help with
formalizing various sectors.
The World Bank highlighted the challenge to
provide coordinated infrastructure
development while countries are sll at an
early stage of urbanizaon, and the need for
two billion more jobs by 2050 for rapidly rising
urban populaons. China highlighted its rural
vitalizaon strategy in smaller cies and towns
around major urban centres for “livable,
workable and eco-friendly” development.
Magdalena García Hernández, Director, MIRA,
Mexico, stressed that producvity also
depends on the unpaid reproducve and care
work of women.
Parcipants made suggesons, including:
producing a “state of the world’s cies” report,
urban leadership training, knowledge
exchange among cies, promong gender
equity in public leadership, and ensuring
accountability at all levels of government,
including the fight against corrupon. The
moderator concluded by emphasizing the
need to include the young in the sustainable
urbanizaon process.
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INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL APPROACH
TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Saturday, 10th February 2018
On Saturday aernoon, Partha
Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Policy Research,
India, moderated the session, and Ana Paula
Chantre Luna de Carvalho, Minister of Spaal
Planning and Housing, Angola, delivered the
keynote address. Eugenie Birch, University of
Pennsylvania, described the integrated
territorial approach as a porolio of
approaches to reduce urban disparies, saying
such approaches have existed for over 100
years.
Panelists from Ecuador, Rwanda, China,
France, Turkey, Germany, Indonesia, Algeria,
Mauritania, the Huairou Commission, World
Bank, Commonwealth Associaon of
Planners, and UN-Habitat presented
approaches in their respecve countries and
organizaons to promote integrated territorial
development. Shi Nan, Urban Planning
Society, China, noted policies that have
capped in-migraon to Beijing and are
direcng investment toward surrounding
areas so as to reduce polluon and resource
pressures on the capitol.
Nicolas Buchoud, Grand Paris Alliance for
Metropolitan Development, idenfied spaal
inequalies – “drinking margaritas upstairs
while refugees are sleeping on the street” – as
a challenge to be met by city-based
community consultaons, trust building, and
redevelopments such as Les Grands Voisins,
which promotes social, economic and
culturally diverse acvies at the site of an old
hospital. The World Bank warned that spaal
disparies affect naonal unity and create
conflicts, and recommended moving from
sector - specific soluons to area - specific
investments that benefit local people.
The panelists, highlighng the social exclusion
found within cies, called for cizen
parcipaon, to reflect and integrate
on-the-ground realies in planning. Many
speakers underscored the need for
cooperaon among all levels of government,
as well as sectoral integraon.
Marcelo Cabrera, Mayor of Cuenca, Ecuador,
drew aenon to his city’s encouragement of
parcipatory planning through assemblies
where all cizens can vote. Kundhavi
Kadiresan, Food and Agriculture of the UN
(FAO), called for beer urban-rural linkages
and highlighted the importance of
understanding food and nutrion security in
both urban and rural areas, nong that the
nature of the issue varies in different
locaons.
Ani Dasgupta, World Resources Instute,
presented three tools his organizaon uses to
assist policymakers. The tools enable
integraon: of climate, sustainable
development and NUA goals; among sectors;
and between local governments. Some
panelists added that coherence between the
SDGs and NUA can only be achieved when
policies are co-produced with cizens, which
requires polical will.
Parcipants raised the need to bridge the
difference between long-term objecves and
short-term polical goals, and highlighted
disparies between day and night urban
populaons.
In closing, parcipants heard a video message
from Ilona Raugze of the EU ESPON
programme for EU cohesion. Raugze
recommended promong the territorial
dimension in development starng with small,
boom-up iniaves that can engage
different actors.
Panelists summarized their contribuons,
highlighng the importance of: people’s
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parcipaon; data collecon and analysis; and
the horizontal and vercal integraon of
governance structures and planning
processes. Buchoud noted that the
soon-to-be-completed Casablanca-Tangier
high-speed rail project may serve to
demonstrate how to overcome some of the
constraints to territorial development as it is
“at the juncon of worlds.”
INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE FOR OPEN
AND INCLUSIVE CITIES
Sunday, 11th February 2018
Diana López, UN-Habitat, introduced the
session on Sunday morning, and Philipp Rode,
London School of Economics, moderated, with
session co-chairs Mosharraf Hossain, Minister
of Housing and Public Works, Bangladesh, and
Neal Rackleff, Housing and Urban
Development Department, US.
In opening remarks, Mohammad Mentek,
Secretary General, Ministry of Urban
Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government,
Malaysia, highlighted his government’s
establishment of 14 Urban Transformaon
Centres that are providing low-cost, rapid and
high-impact public services close to where
cizens live and work. Raf Tuts, UN-Habitat,
said the NUA is a governance-oriented
framework that requires urban leadership
based on subsidiarity, mullevel governance
and connued learning.
Rode described open cies as places where
inclusivity and trust, built at the local level,
implies “the Right to the City” and its services.
Rackleff described urban reforms in US cies,
where decision making has been transformed
through providing beer data and informaon
to leaders. Hossain shared experiences from
13 slum upgrading programmes in
Bangladesh, highlighng waste management
as one of the biggest challenges.
Carlos Marnez Mínguez, Mayor of Soria,
Spain, reminded parcipants that the best
way to have a responsible government is to
hold them accountable. Briany Lane, Open
Government Partnership, cited examples from
the US, Tanzania and Spain, nong that local
polics present an opportunity to rebuild trust
while simultaneously improving quality of life
for local cizens. Dieter Zinnbauer,
Transparency Internaonal, offered three
avenues to address the trust deficit and to
tackle corrupon, including: visibility of
budget, tender and contract processes;
transparency of real estate ownership to avoid
money laundering; and simple feedback
mechanisms, such as service-rang staons at
airports and hospitals.
Joseph Kokonyangi Witanene, Minister of
Urban Development and Habitat, Democrac
Republic of Congo, lamented the corrupon
and loss of trust in his country even among
ministers, as well as the lack of urban
regulaons and town plans in new provinces
aer decentralizaon.
Pascal Smet, Minister of Mobility and Public
Works, Belgium, suggested that, while a
strong and crical media is a necessary
element of a democrac system, constantly
treang policians as suspects is destrucve
to the funconing of democrac processes.
Sandeep Chachra, Execuve Director,
AconAid India, warned that overcrowding,
with 70-80% of people currently living on
10-20% of urban land, will lead to large-scale
illegal occupaon of land and empty buildings,
unless policies to address urban migraon are
priorized.
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In comments from the floor, Denitsa Nikolova,
Deputy Minister of Regional Development and
Public Works, Bulgaria, highlighted crical
factors in improving urban governance,
including digitalizaon, decentralizaon and
enabling local leadership to become more
efficient. Cécile Riallant, Internaonal
Organizaon for Migraon (IOM),
underscored trust and parcipatory decision
making as key to taking vulnerable groups
“from policy objects to subjects.”
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
Sunday, 11th February 2018
On Sunday aernoon, Jeanee Elsworth,
UN-Habitat, moderated, and Dorji Choden,
Minister of Works and Human Selement,
Bhutan, and Hassan Abdelgadir Hilal, Minister
of Environment, Natural Resources and
Physical Development, Sudan, co-chaired the
session.
In opening remarks, Choden quesoned what
is required to create a safe city, stressing the
need to look at both physical planning as well
as “soer issues” such as job creaon and
inclusivity. Hilal underlined the need for
inclusive naonal urban policies, stang that
“sustainable peace and development are two
sides of the same coin.”
Wael Al-Ashhab, UN-Habitat, stressed that his
agency’s mandate includes both long-term
development as well as crisis management. He
described efforts to profile cies and to devise
an urban planning strategy in Darfur, South
Sudan. Kevin Nelson, US Agency for
Internaonal Development (USAID), described
a programme that seeks to tackle crime by
redesigning public spaces in Lan America.
Emilia Sáiz, Secretary-General, UCLG, drew
aenon to “Madrid’s commitment to
peaceful cies” and its emphasis on violence
prevenon. Abdul Baqi Popal, Deputy Minister
of Municipalies, Afghanistan, underlined
three ways in which governments can promote
peace in cies: priorizing inclusive policies;
devising naonal programs; and engaging local
communies. Lana Louise Finikin, Sistren
Theatre Collecve, Jamaica, said that
grassroots women groups have been working
in urban violence prevenon for decades with
proven results, and they should be included in
the policy-making process.
Achim Wennmann, Execuve Director, Geneva
Peacebuilding Plaorm, shared insights on
legal and judicial architectures that have been
shown to promote peace, adding that
peacebuilding is about “managing the space of
the unforgivable.” Taysir Mahmoud Mousa
Taha Abu Sneineh, Mayor of Hebron, Palesne,
emphasized the need for comprehensive
approaches and investment in educaon in
conflict zones.
Speaking from the floor, government and UN
representaves in conflict and post-conflict
situaons discussed examples of community
projects and their value, menoning, inter alia:
training in carpet weaving and other skills for
internally displaced women who have
reseled in parts of Afghanistan; and a joint
water project that resolved conflict between
farmers and nomadic pastoralists in Darfur.
Others noted the value of community policing
and promong food security.
Some innovave urban ecological landscapes
are even bridging the two in ways that force us
to reinterpret what ‘urban’ and ‘natural’
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constute in the context of the landscape.
New context of the landscape. New
transdisciplinary work has begun to arculate
and quanfy some of those pathways,
sciensts have quanfied many of the benefits
of ecosystems to urban infrastructure and
praconers are demonstrang how
parcular urban intervenons can support the
healthy funconing of ecosystems.
The focus of this year’s WUF9 is grounded in
the NUA’s call-to-acon to apply creavity and
innovaon toward solving sustainable
development challenges in urban areas,
acknowledging that private business acvity,
investment, and innovaon are major drivers
of producvity, inclusive growth and job
creaon.
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SPECIAL
SESSIONS
Special sessions took place in parallel
in the morning and afternoon, from
Friday, 9 February, to Monday, 12
February. A further two parallel
sessions took place on Tuesday, 13
February.
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UNLOCKING POSITIVE IMPACTS OF
MIGRATION IN CITIES
On Friday morning, Christophe Lalande and Jesús Salcedo Villanueva, UN-Habitat, introduced
moderator Clare Short, Cies Alliance, who underlined the variety of processes that migraon can refer
to, including internaonal or internal movements of people, as well as asylum seekers, refugees, or
economic immigrants. She also noted that, in an age of austerity, the diversity, creavity and dynamism
that migraon can bring to cies is too oen overlooked.
Short then introduced the panel, which included representaves of local authories, the UN,
governments and civil society. Panelists noted recent advances at the mullateral level, underscoring
the many references to migraon in major UN documents such as the SDGs and NUA, as well as in the
recently released zero dra of the Global Compact for Migraon. They then discussed good pracces in
managing immigraon flows, underlining the importance of data-driven policies, as well as policies that
promote quick and comprehensive integraon, including the “out of camps” policies that seek to phase
out or avoid establishing refugee camps, in favor of recognizing cies as legimate places for refugees
to reside and exercise their rights.
Several speakers spoke of the difficulty for cies to absorb a large influx of migrants. One panelist
acknowledged the somemes-problemac relaonship between local and naonal authories on
immigraon policies, referring to examples in Greece. Another highlighted that, while migraon is
always a maer of naonal policy, it manifests itself at the local or municipal level. Other themes
included transforming the narrave around migraon governance, including equipping the media to
reflect the nuances of migratory flows, rather than sensaonalizing the issue. Short concluded the
session by reminding the audience that “we were all immigrants once” and, with UN-Habitat, thanked
the panel for their contribuons.
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SECURITY OF TENURE, LAND MARKETS
AND SEGREGATION
Friday - Sunday, 9th - 11th February 2018
Also on Friday morning, moderator David
Mitchell, RMIT University, moderated the
session, which focused on the “prosperity
dividends” to be gained from implemenng
the NUA and the SDGs. Panelists sought to:
provide clear guidance from mul-sector
perspecves on how tenure security can help
harness land value in order to develop and
sustain inclusive urbanizaon, parcularly in
relaon to the provision of housing, livelihood
generaon and financing of crical infrastructure;
clarify the roles of various sectors and
partners; and highlight successes from cies
around the world.
Mexico, South Africa, the EU and Zimbabwe
noted challenges to implemenng land tenure
and security policies, including: lack of
standardized data, outdated cadaster and
informaon systems, a pace of urbanizaon
that far exceeds the technical capability of city
administraons to plan for expansion, historical
inequity, and corrupon driven by slow
bureaucracies. Technical presentaons pointed
to polical will and capacity to implement
plans as necessary ingredients for overcoming
urban challenges. They recommended underpinning
essenal development infrastructure
with sound and inclusive approaches to land
and security of tenure. William Cobbe, Cies
Alliance, said dysfunconal property markets
are the most significant challenge, and
suggested that this is a polical and not a
technical problem.
INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND
SLUM UPGRADING
Friday, 9th February 2018
On Friday aernoon, Monika Glinzler, South
Africa, moderated the session. Panelists from
Brazil, the European Commission, Papua New
Guinea, South Africa, TECHO Internaonal and
UN-Habitat discussed the importance of slum
upgrading in order to ensure access for all to
adequate, safe and affordable housing,
underscoring that people must be at the core,
working together to transform cies. An
audience member from Kenya concurred,
nong that communies “know exactly what
they want and where they need to go.”
TECHO Internaonal explained that the main
challenge in Lan America is to deliver
high-impact soluons with long-term
development potenal. Brazil showcased her
country’s experience, including financing
urban integraon, housing, land adjustment,
environmental recovery and social inclusion,
in a holisc and parcipatory way. Papua New
Guinea stressed that land tenure is necessary
for people in his country to invest in their land.
On good pracces in capacity building,
panelists highlighted that civil society
organizaons serve to link community and
local governments.
Parcipants from Nigeria, Kenya, and
Mauritania called for more access to financing,
and one parcipant proposed empowering
slum dwellers through self-organized savings
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groups. The European Commission
acknowledged that grants for slum upgrading
are limited, and drew aenon to its support
for innovave investment opons aimed at
transforming informal selements into
liveable housing. Brazil added that slum
upgrading is much cheaper than the
alternaves. UN-Habitat explained that in
addion to financing at other scales, the
agency provides capacity building for
community-level financing, to encourage
upgrading of informal housing.
LEVERAGING DIVERSITY AND CULTURE,
SHAPING THE CITIES FOR ALL
Friday, 9th February 2018
Also on Friday aernoon, moderator Jyo
Hosagrahar, UN Educaonal, Scienfic and
Cultural Organizaon (UNESCO), introduced
the session co-organized by UNESCO and
UN-Habitat. She highlighted UNESCO’s focus
on “the operaonal aspects of culture,” which,
she said, are those on which concrete
intervenons and policies can be devised. She
then stressed that culture is a crosscung
issue for the SDGs and the NUA.
Some parcipants drew aenon to the NUA’s
acknowledgement that culture is essenal to
“humanizing” cies and empowering cizens
to play an acve role in the development
agenda. Others stressed the need for
developing stascal and non-stascal
indicators to demonstrate how culture
contributes to the SDGs. Panelists highlighted
good pracces in leveraging cultural diversity
in cies, for example, through creang “urban
laboratories,” which are parcipatory
experiments in including cizens in the urban
planning process.
Panelists and parcipants discussed the
importance of, inter alia: defining culture as
dynamic and hybrid, rather than fixed, in order
to avoid considering an influx of new and
diverse cultures in cies as a threat; and
valuing both high and low-brow culture,
considering that both have an important role
to play in a city’s dynamism and creavity.
Several speakers concurred that more
research on cultural diversity in cies is
needed, with some quesoning the cultural
impact of building affordable housing away
from city centers. Hosagrahar concluded the
session by stressing that cultural diversity in
cies is first and foremost about inclusivity.
LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
PRODUCTIVITY AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
Saturday, 10th February 2018
On Saturday morning, Gulelat Kebede, The
New School, New York, moderated the
session, and Ananda Weliwita, UN-Habitat,
made opening remarks. Panelists from the
Internaonal Labour Organizaon (ILO),
Interloc Development, The New School, the
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Municipal Council of Nicaragua and Cardiff
University called for a broader understanding
of producvity that takes into account social
and environmental implicaons, and for
harnessing urban cizens’ capacies to
achieve a variety of broadly-defined
producvity objecves. All acknowledged the
important role of local actors in development
and decent job creaon, with many
underscoring the importance of organizing
workers, and of creave partnerships between
workers and all levels of governments. Alison
Brown, Cardiff University, emphasized that
economic inclusion is crucial to job promoon
and local economic development.
Edmundo Werna, ILO, stated that
labor-intensive employment must be available
at the local, not just naonal level, and noted
the risks to urban areas from youth
unemployment. Michael Cohen, The New
School, suggested that local governments
generate indicators for the NUA on issues of
special interest to them, rather than wait for
the UN to provide common indicators. Yoel
Siegel, Interloc Development, underscored the
need to leverage resources and assets found
within cies, and Helen Arlines Toruno,
Cooperavas Nicaragua, highlighted that
women entrepreneurs in her country have
gained a voice in local government by
organizing themselves.
Audience members highlighted the lack of jobs
for youth and employment challenges caused
by “the machine economy” and called for a
paradigm shi to address these issues.
URBAN LABS FOR URBAN EXTENSION
AND URBAN RENEWAL
Saturday, 10th February 2018
Also on Saturday morning, Fernando de Mello
Franco, Secretary of Urban Development, São
Paulo, Brazil, moderated this session, which
focused on strengthening partnerships and
scaling up the results achieved by urban labs in
implemenng the NUA, and ensuring cies
become more inclusive.
Rogier van den Berg, UN-Habitat, in a keynote
address, described the work done in
UN-Habitat’s Urban Labs iniave, including
planned urban extension, city center
transformaon, and urban regeneraon. He
emphasized the importance of
evidence-based planning and understanding
the real challenges, including the regional
context. He highlighted examples of this from
refugee selement work in Kenya and the
planning of the Future Saudi Cies
Programme.
A panel of city planners, academics,
policians, financiers and urban praconers
shared their experiences, reflecng on the
complex challenges facing urban leaders,
including: ensuring parcipaon at all levels
and “leaving no one behind”; accommodang
rapid urbanizaon in low-resource
environments; dealing with a global migraon
crisis driven by environmental factors and
conflict; flooding in urban areas; and
educang a new generaon of city planners
faced with unprecedented layers of
complexity and uncertainty.
To address these complexies, they
highlighted needs for: projects that end
poverty and address both wealth and gender
inequalies; projects that are bankable and
implementable; stakeholder involvement at all
levels; priority seng, starng with
low-hanging fruit; private-sector and financier
involvement from the start; and a governance
structure that outlines exact resource
responsibilies.
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ALL
Saturday, 10th February 2018
On Saturday aernoon, Christophe Lalande, UN-Habitat, introduced moderator Horacio Terraza, World
Bank. Joan Clos, former UN-Habitat Execuve Director, delivered introductory remarks, during which he
said that lack of access to affordable housing is a symptom of global inequality.
Clos argued that urbanizaon implies compact
cies, and that affordable housing must be
near the city and close to jobs, rather than in
city outskirts. Panelists described their
countries’ main challenges, gave examples of
good pracces, and proposed frameworks to
conceptualize affordable housing.
One speaker suggested affordable housing can
be addressed through innovave thinking,
governmental policies and public-private
partnerships, while another suggested that
affordable housing ought to add value by
promong economic growth, in addion to
being socially inclusive and environmentally
sound. Several intervenons underlined that
governments need to implement a public
regulatory framework in order to finance
affordable housing at a large scale rather than
through a few scarce projects.
One panelist, speaking about Mexico, stated
that corrupon should be eradicated as a
precondion for affordable housing, saying
that housing is largely managed by a corrupt
private sector in his country. In concluding
remarks, panelists pondered how affordable
housing can contribute to the SDGs, and Clos
stressed that housing affordability should be
embedded in the process of urbanizaon, as
opposed to being an aerthought.
ACCESS TO BASIC SERVICES FOR ALL
Saturday, 10th February 2018
Also on Saturday aernoon, Arjun Thapan,
WaterLinks, India, moderated the session. In
two consecuve panel discussions,
representaves from companies and
organizaons in the basic services sector in
India, Algeria, Argenna, the Netherlands,
Malaysia, Japan and China discussed
approaches to measuring and delivering
access to basic services.
In opening remarks, Zamri Fazillah Salleh,
Malaysia, stressed the importance of planning
to ensure adequate service delivery, and
outlined his government’s new urban
development iniave to create a quality
living environment for people at all levels and
ages, including through providing
environmental services, educaon and
recreaon facilies in public spaces, and
access to fresh water.
During the first panel, speakers discussed: how
basic services can reach the “furthest first,”
thus focusing on the most vulnerable urban
households; mobility challenges and “smart
transport” technologies, including electric
vehicles, bicycle sharing and smart vehicle
innovaons in China; and the applicaon of
technologies such as remote sensing and
water point mapping to monitor services.
In the second panel, a speaker from Argenna
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described urban expansion paerns that lead
to socio-spaal fragmentaon within and
between cies, and highlighted consensus
building as a key strategy for tackling the
phenomenon of structural poverty. Panelists
highlighted: partnerships between service
providers in the transport sector; instuonal
strengthening at local and naonal levels;
partnerships among different departments,
and between city authories and public
operators; the challenges water ulies face,
including intermient supply, water loss and
low coverage; and zero-based and integrated
approaches to resource use. Parcipants
lamented the dearth of financial resources to
overcome the challenges.
SMART CITIES AND THE GROWING
ROLE OF FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES IN
SUSTAINABLE URBANISATION
Sunday, 11th February 2018
On Sunday morning, Bert Diphoorn, Akvo
Foundaon, moderated the session. In
introductory remarks, Andre Dzikus,
UN-Habitat, noted the UN Secretary-General’s
establishment of a working group on this topic
at the Chief Execuves Board for Coordinaon.
He underlined that leveraging data and new
technology offers opportunies to improve
parcipaon in governance, as well as
accountability in service delivery. He urged
parcipants to focus on bridging the digital
divide.
Panelists presented experiences in creang
smart cies, including: the development of
Malaysia’s Cyberjaya, a purpose-built
technology hub; Singapore’s Smart Naon
iniave, which invests in technology
infrastructure and capabilies in the city-state;
Catalonia’s “urban assembly,” a representave
group that will involve local authories and
civil society in equal measure; and China’s
“smart planning” in transportaon. They
discussed outcomes from partnerships with
the private sector and pilot projects, as well as
what condions need to be in place before
smart cies can emerge in developing
countries.
Audience members raised quesons and
concerns around the impact of technology,
and parcularly arficial intelligence, on
human lives. A representave of the Workers
and Trade Unions Major Group highlighted
that, for workers, efficiency and automaon
oen result in unemployment. The panel
ended by reiterang their definion of a smart
city, with some saying it is an ecosystem that
goes beyond technology to create a city that
aracts and retains people by improving their
lives, and others stressing that the term must
also include resilience and inclusivity.
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RESTORING HOPE:
BUILDING BACK CITIES AND
COMMUNITIES TOGETHER AFTER DISASTER
Sunday, 11th February 2018
David Evans, UN-Habitat, opened the session
on Sunday morning. Explaining that, “our
acons should build on the resilience of
people,” he warned that excluding those
affected by disasters during rebuilding will
cause unintended harm. In his keynote
address, Robert Glasser, Special
Representave of the UN Secretary General
for Disaster Risk Reducon, noted that lack of
knowledge and financial capacity leads to
disaster vulnerability – gaps that can be filled
through implemenng the Sendai Framework
on Disaster Risk Reducon.
Moderator Sri Husnaini Soan, Huairou
Commission, invited panelists from Hai, Iran,
Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal and the
Philippines to share their experiences of how
they responded to disasters in their country.
Panelists highlighted the importance of
conducng training schemes for masons and
engineers, and enabling affected populaons
to acvely parcipate in rebuilding their
communies following a disaster. Many
underscored the importance of disaster
preparedness.
Hans Guman, Execuve Director, Asian
Disaster Preparedness Centre, moderated a
second panel in the session. Panelists from the
European Commission, the Internaonal
Federaon of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Sociees, the UN Development Programme,
and the World Bank called for increased
engagement with those affected by disasters
and recognion of their agency, emphasizing
the need for accountability, coordinaon and
communicaon across all sectors and levels.
Several added that me-sensive
preparedness plans are crucial, and the
European Commission quesoned how to
build back not just from natural disasters but
from man-made disasters caused by civil war.
Audience members called for the inclusion of
grassroots leaders, and parcularly women, in
disaster recovery, emphasizing their roles as
agents of change.
DATA FOR SUSTAINABLE
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Sunday, 11th February 2018
On Sunday, Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat,
moderated this aernoon session, which
focused on the role of stascs and data
collecon in monitoring and reporng on SDG
11 on sustainable cies.
In the first panel discussion, Robert Ndugwa,
UN-Habitat, noted that moving from the
Millennium Development Goals to the SDGs
has required developing new definions and
indicators of achievement. Panelists presented
different tools and approaches for capturing
urban data, including: Malaysia’s naonal
spaal I-Plan database and its requirement for
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consistent data collecon, horizontal data
integraon, and connued training; Mistra
Urban Futures’ collecon of data from seven
cies as an exercise to determine how cies
fare in engaging with the SDG 11; and the
European Commission’s Global Cies
Database, which has a territorial dashboard
that reports city demographics and indicators
of economic development and resource
efficiency.
In the second panel discussion, panelists
described their acvies, including: New York
University’s monitoring of a global sample of
200 cies from countries that have 78% of the
world’s populaon; and UN-Habitat’s six-step
Naonal Sample of Cies (NSC) process for
monitoring SDGs that relate to urban
development. Panelists from Botswana and
Tunisia presented their experiences with the
NSC programme, highlighng challenges such
as differing definions and understandings of a
city and its boundaries.
URBAN MOBILITY AND SAFE AND
ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT FOR ALL
Sunday, 11th February 2018
Also on Sunday aernoon, Oliver Lah,
Wuppertal Instute for Climate, Environment
and Energy, Germany, moderated the session.
Andre Dzikus, UN-Habitat, introduced the
topic, explaining that city transport comes
with direct and indirect externalies such as
polluon, accidents and me spent in traffic.
The panel included country representaves
from Brazil, Germany, Luxembourg, and
Malaysia, various transport advocacy groups,
and UNESCAP.
François Bausch, Minister of Sustainable
Development and Infrastructure, Luxembourg,
described the holisc transit system under
construcon in his country, nong that its
mul-modal hubs will provide connecvity
with different types of transport.
Speakers presented the benefits of alternave
forms of transport, including cycling and cable
cars. The European Cyclists’ Federaon noted
that cycling alleviates two of the four major
causes of non-communicable diseases: air
polluon and sedentary lifestyles.
Several panelists underscored the need for
data collecon on both formal and informal
transit systems, which, they explained, will be
necessary for policy development. UNESCAP
highlighted its Sustainable Urban Transport
Index, which measures transit in Asian cies,
and the technology company
WhereIsMyTransport described their data
collecon efforts in African cies.
In a closing discussion facilitated by Mark
Major, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon
Transport, panelists from Kathmandu, the
Instute for Transportaon and Development
Policy, and the Dar Rapid Transit Agency
outlined policy recommendaons, highlighng
capacity building and financing needs to scale
up sustainable transport opons. Parcipants
underscored the importance of adopng
slower lifestyles and the simplicity of
combining personal bicycle use with public
transit opons.
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INCLUSIVE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
PARTNERSHIPS
Monday, 12th February 2018
On Monday morning, Julie Gichuru, news
anchor, Kenya, moderated a panel comprising
the governments of Cameroon and South
Africa, and UN and civil society
representaves. Panelists shared their
experiences of building inclusive
mul-stakeholder partnerships and good
pracces, and idenfied which pracces can
be widely applied. They noted gaps in exisng
mul-stakeholder approaches, and
highlighted possible acons to increase
collaboraon and accelerate implementaon
of the NUA.
On partnerships at the global level, Chrisne
Musisi, UN-Habitat, highlighted, among
others: the World Urban Campaign,
UN-Habitat’s General Assembly of Partners,
and the Global Land Tool Network as themac
networks that produce tools and approaches
to solve crical sustainable development
problems.
On key acons that ensure inclusive
partnerships, panelists idenfied the
importance of: informing those advocang for
change how they can influence policy; seeing
who is missing from the conversaon;
providing access to data to all different levels
of stakeholders; translang “policy speak” for
people on the ground; and co-creang a
common vision with all relevant stakeholders
and comming jointly to its implementaon.
Panelists highlighted gaps in current pracces,
including: understanding how to transion
from advocacy to implementaon; jointly
idenfying priories in order to co-produce
the agenda for change; laying a foundaon of
horizontal decision-making plaorms;
managing people’s natural inclinaon towards
linear and hierarchical approaches; priorizing
open communicaon between decision
makers and their communies, which
engenders trust; and using knowledge and
data to provide an evidence base for decision
makers to act.
During the ensuing discussion, parcipants
debated the possibilies for: tackling
ideological asymmetries among stakeholders;
strengthening self-organized groups and
finding the resources to scale up their acons;
and ensuring partnerships deliver on their
original mandates.
RISK REDUCTION: INNOVATIVE
APPROACHES TO SETTLEMENTS FOR
DISPLACED PERSONS
Monday, 12th February 2018
David Evans, UN-Habitat, opened this special
session on Monday morning, underlining that
he sensed a real desire for change at the WUF
regarding how displaced populaons are
hosted, considering that the world is
experiencing the largest populaon
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movements since the Second World War. He
stressed that poorer countries are unfairly
bearing the brunt of hosng, and that the
panel would not only look at how to integrate
displaced populaons into urban
environments, but also at how selements can
be managed and improved. Moderator Bre
Moore, UN Refugee Agency, introduced the
panel.
Josphat Nanok, Turkana County, Kenya, said
the Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei selement
should turn into self-sufficient urban sengs,
adding this would require moving from a
humanitarian mindset to a long-term
development vision. Wilson Sanya, Mayor,
Koboko Municipal Council, Uganda, spoke of
the challenges he faces in implemenng the
NUA, considering his community’s proximity
to Congo and South Sudan, with resulng
influxes of conflict-affected people. He said
that water scarcity was one of the biggest
issues ping host communies against
refugees, calling for more support for urban
refugees and for soluons that work for all
pares. Fuat Ozharat, Gaziantep Metropolitan
Municipality, emphasized that, since 2014,
Turkey has been hosng the largest number of
refugees in the world. He described some of
the innovave soluons his municipality has
devised in response, including seng up the
Directorate of Migraon in Turkey, which
delivers social services, ensures coordinaon
among ‘municipal units’ working with Syrian
refugees, and cooperates with partner
organizaons.
Ahmad Jawid Tahiri, Afghanistan Independent
Land Authority, said returnees and internally
displaced persons should be seen as
opportunies for host communies rather
than liabilies. Heather Fehr, Brish Red Cross,
highlighted what can be done before disaster
strikes, including working with meteorological
centers to ancipate climate events and
disbursing aid in advance.
URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES:
TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND FOOD SECURITY
Monday, 12th February 2018
Thomas Forster, UN-Habitat, and Maruxa
Cardama, Cies Alliance, moderated this
Monday morning session. Shipra Narang Suri,
UN-Habitat, introduced the topic and Ismail
Bakar, Secretary-General, Ministry of
Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry,
Malaysia, delivered the keynote address.
Ismail highlighted relevant factors affecng
food supply to urban areas, including climate
change, food waste and compeng demands
for land, water, and agricultural labor. He
called for policies to balance supply with
demand more effecvely.
Representaves of France, Germany, Malaysia
and Palesne, as well as from the Network of
Rural Women Producers, the Urban
Authories Associaon of Uganda, the
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
and several UN agencies made up the panel.
Panelists underscored challenges to ensuring
food security in both urban and rural areas,
and suggested strategies, including:
establishing public-private - producer
partnerships, where:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Farmers work directly with investors;
Enhancing cooperaves to integrate
farmers into formal value chains;
Changing consumer behavior to reduce
excess consumpon; and
Introducing parcipatory processes to
include farmers, especially women
farmers, in urban planning, as they are
oen displaced by urban expansion.
Yves-Laurent Sapoval, Directorate for Housing,
Urban Development and Landscapes, France,
lamented the lack of aenon paid to the
process of suburbanizaon, calling the
suburbs and the environment the “silent
losers” to urbanizaon. David Sue,
Internaonal Fund for Agricultural
Development, highlighted the rapid growth of
small cies and the current opportunity to
introduce sound urban planning at an early
stage.
Parcipants drew aenon to issues including:
balancing land-use demand for agriculture and
urbanizaon purposes; the importance of
transport in connecng urban and rural areas;
and finding ways to ensure that food
consumed in urban areas comes from
sustainable sources.
Session organizer Stephanie Loose,
UN-Habitat, concluded the event by
underscoring that effecve planning should
result in “urbanizaon for, not against, food
security.”
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URBAN ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES:
ACHIEVING URBAN HEALTH
ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE
Monday, 12th February 2018
This Monday aernoon session, moderated by
Ming Zhang, World Bank, highlighted
connecons between the built environment,
ecosystems and “the urban metabolism,” and
discussed how landscapes can serve as a
praccal and effecve interface between
them.
Raf Tuts, UN-Habitat, called for developing the
symbiosis between nature and the city,
including through bringing blue and green
corridors into the city, working across
tradional praconer silos. Esa Ahmad,
Director-General, Naonal Landscapes
Department, Malaysia, described his
government’s aim to develop livable cies
through ecological landscape approaches,
including a policy seng the minimum
standard of two hectares of green area within
easy access of every 1,000 people.
Mauricio Rodas, Mayor of Quito, Ecuador
described his city’s rich biodiversity and wide
range of ecosystems protected by a robust
regulatory framework. He highlighted
ambious iniaves to plant over one million
trees a year and to invest in innovave modes
of low-carbon public transport.
Marna Oo, UN Environment, reminded
parcipants of the burden placed on natural
resources by increased urbanizaon. She
urged compact, connected and mixed-use
cies that ulize nature to improve human
resilience, with links to nature through natural
corridors.
Anu Ramaswami, University of Minnesota,
shared research findings on linking natural and
built urban systems to achieve the SDGs. On
assessing the trade-offs between various
sectors, she stated that a base of scienfic
evidence is needed to comprehensively inform
urban developers.
Lu Yaoru, Tongji University, explained the role
that urban ecosystems can play in reducing the
impacts of natural disasters and building urban
resilience.
Parcipants posed quesons about what
innovave soluons can resolve the tensions
between rapid urbanizaon and conserving
natural ecosystems, and on whether baseline
informaon on natural ecosystems within
cies is available. A youth representave
called for involving young people in
discussions and trusng the next generaon to
develop innovave soluons that will consider
nature as part of the urban landscape.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION
Monday, 12th February 2018
Moderator Joan Erakit, writer, US, introduced
the panel in this parallel session on Monday
aernoon. Dorji Choden, Minister of Works
and Human Selement, Bhutan, described her
country’s development policies, which
combine a people-centered approach with an
emphasis on decentralizaon. She highlighted
Bhutan’s Gross Naonal Happiness screening
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tool, which is applied to test the impact of
each proposed policy on cizens’ wellbeing.
Iye Moakofi, City of Francistown Council,
Botswana, emphasized her country’s polical
will to implement the SDGs and NUA, and the
Government’s creaon of a naonal
mul-stakeholder urban habitat commiee
and naonal steering commiee on the SDGs.
Mariam Iddrisu, Mayor of Sagnarigu District
Assembly, Ghana, described successes in
involving local communies in the
development process, for example, in cleaning
and sanitaon projects that are led and
safeguarded by local communies. Dahlia
Rosly, President, Malaysian Associaon of
Social Impact Assessment, described a Social
Impact Assessment tool that is being used in
Malaysia to understand the impact that
projects such as the construcon of the Kuala
Linggi Port and East Coast Rail will have on
communies. Joshua Mavi, UN-Habitat,
explained the challenges of encouraging
communies in Kenyan informal selements
to feel included in the development process,
and spoke of the possibilies offered by social
media.
Marcus Nyberg, Ericsson Strategic Design, said
digital technologies, such as applicaons and
games, can help create open environments in
which urban communies can develop
soluons and parcipate in decision making.
Mariana Alegre Escorza, Director, Ocupa Tu
Calle, Peru, described a boom-up iniave
that created a public space in Lima. She said
small-scale iniaves and organizaons that
link communies with other actors are
important for implemenng the NUA.
Kareem Ibrahim, Takween Integrated
Community Development, Egypt, highlighted
that private sector start-ups also engage on
urban issues, such as mapping Cairo public
transport, thereby supporng “the right to
mobility.” Finally, Danilo Manzano, Dialogando
Ando, Ecuador, described projects to mobilize
Quito cizens in LGBTI advocacy efforts.
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HOUSING AT THE CENTER,
AS A VECTOR FOR
SOCIOECONOMIC INCLUSION
Monday, 12th February 2018
Also on Monday aernoon, Steve Weir,
Habitat for Humanity Internaonal,
moderated the session, and Halimah
Mohamed Sadique, Deputy Minister of Urban
Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government,
Malaysia, delivered the opening remarks,
underscoring the role that government must
play in providing low-cost and public housing
for the poor.
In a video message, Leilani Farha, UN Special
Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, referred to
homelessness as a human rights violaon,
underscoring that housing is a means to
ensure security and inclusion and that policies
must enable structural change. Weir
acknowledged that cies are growing at an
unprecedented rate, leading to a deficit in
decent housing. Panelists from the city of
Buenos Aires, the Government of South Africa,
Cies Alliance, Housing Europe, and the
University of Guadalajara shared good
pracces and experiences on the topic.
David Ireland, Director, the Building and Social
Housing Foundaon, explained that the most
successful social housing developments are
ones that have community involvement. He
referred to homelessness as the canary in the
coal mine that indicates the stock of housing is
insufficient. William Cobbe, Cies Alliance,
called for governments to step back and
enable “people-centred housing” in order to
produce the necessary housing units. He
added that security of tenure, parcularly
when given to women, followed by
government provision of services and the
introducon of alternave credit, would help
solve urban housing deficits.
Ahmed Vawda, Department of Human
Selements, South Africa, noted that many
impoverished urban residents in his country
have no choice but to live far from their place
of work, thus shouldering an unfair burden of
transport costs and commung me.
Eduardo Santana, University of Guadalajara,
detailed an innovave community and cultural
project being built at his school, and
disnguished between the construcon of
free-standing houses, which, he said, compare
unfavourably with the consolidaon of homes
around educaon, community centres, public
spaces.
Diego Fernández, Secretary of Social Housing
and Urban Integraon, Buenos Aires,
explained his city addresses its systemic
housing problem by redesigning the
government structure tackling the issue,
listening to the public, and financing
development.
Weir concluded by urging reframing of the
housing queson, explaining that a
commitment to ensuring an affordable and
increased stock of housing would improve the
quality of peoples’ lives in cies.
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LOW-CARBON AND
ENERGY-EFFICIENT CITIES
Tuesday, 13th February 2018
On Tuesday morning, Alioune Badiane, on
behalf of UN-Habitat, moderated the session,
which featured panelists represenng
Malaysia, Republic of Korea, India and South
Africa, UN agencies, donors and research
instuons.
Peter Chin Fah Kui, GreenTech Malaysia,
presented on his country’s low-carbon cies
framework, which, he said, acts as a guide to
the basic instruments and approaches to
transforming cies. He highlighted the target
is to reduce Malaysia’s carbon emission
intensity of GDP by 45% by 2030.
Sikhumbuzo Hlongwane, KwaDukuza Local
Government, South Africa, presented
experiences in the secondary city of
KwaDukuza, which connued its low-emission
and green-building trajectory aer conclusion
of an Internaonal Council for Local
Environmental Iniaves (ICLEI – Local
Governments for Sustainability) pilot project
in 2015, due to the increased community
capacity and buy-in that was achieved during
the course of the project.
Drazen Kucan, Green Climate Fund, noted
that, while they produce a large amount of
carbon emissions, cies also produce 80% of
the world’s GDP. He urged financial support for
capable mayors to address the tendency of
naonal governments to only plan for “the
next four years,” whereas reducing carbon
emissions, he said, should be a lifeme goal.
Frédéric Vallier, Secretary-General, Council of
European Municipalies and Regions, stressed
that mayors oen have longer-term vision
than naonal policians, and are closer to
their constuents. He encouraged local
leaders to join networks such as the Global
Covenant of Mayors, where mayors share
experiences and learn from each other.
Amie Figueiredo, UN Economic Commission
for Europe, discussed some of the constraints
to transforming ageing cies. She highlighted
limited knowledge and awareness about
low-carbon and renewable energy
technologies, and lack of access to adequate
funding, saying that energy users in cies need
to drive the demand for sustainable energy.
Seung-Eon Lee, Korean Instute of
Construcon Technology, explained the
difficules his country faces in transioning
away from the previous policy trajectory of
nuclear power, and towards renewable energy
systems, nong that constraints to renewable
energy include the lack of space and high
installaon costs.
On advancing green futures in India, Kulwant
Singh, CEO, 3R WASTE Foundaon, described
challenges at the local level to develop waste
energy systems, highlighng that cies were
not equipped to separate waste adequately.
He noted improvements in this and solar
technologies in recent years.
Marna Oo, UN Environment, stressed
building and improving on what is already
embedded in city systems, and Kathleen
Dematera, Clean Air Asia urged improving
resilience for current and future generaons.
Oliver Lah, Wuppertal Instute for Climate,
Environment and Energy, recommended
starng at the local level with small
scaprojects, to empower cies through
focused intervenons that can succeed.
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URBAN SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY
Tuesday, 13th February 2018
Also on Tuesday morning, Achim Wennmann,
Geneva Peacebuilding Plaorm, moderated
the first half of the session, and underscored
the importance of co-creang safety with
many sectors. Khairul Dzaimee Daud, Deputy
Secretary-General, Ministry of Urban
Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government,
Malaysia, gave the keynote address with
examples from his own country. He
emphasized that public spaces should be “a
symbol of success,” while providing a feeling of
safety and security.
Panelists from the Alberto Hurtado University,
Social Transformaon Systems, the University
of Guadalajara, and the Planstadt S.C.
company underscored trust as a vital element
in co-producing safe urban areas, and
illustrated this with examples from their
countries and research. Planstadt S.C.
company cited its research on the growth of
gated communies in Guadalajara, expressing
concern that spaal segretaon reflects a
cancer on cies and creates problems for
social inclusion.
Franz Vanderschueren, Alberto Hurtado
University, Chile, explained that the inability to
solve violence and crime is oen due to social
disorganizaon and the inability to share
norms. Barbara Holtmann, Social
Transformaon Systems, called for women-led
design in planning safe urban spaces, as they
have different concerns from men, and added
that this design should also take human-rights
based and restorave jusce approaches.
Rose Molokoane, Slum Dwellers Internaonal,
moderated the second half of the session,
focusing on strategic frameworks for
governance, with cizens as key actors.
Panelists from United Cies and Local
Government, the Republic of Korea, the UN
Office on Drugs and Crime, Future of Places
Research Network, and Ethiopia, highlighted
examples analysing urban safety, and
explained how to mobilize funds for public
spaces, including to shi the argument from
an investment to dividend focus to harness the
support of key officials.
Audience members: proposed taxing gated
communies and golf courses to finance
public spaces; called for including public
spaces in slum upgrading; and asked how to
ensure a “public space ideology.”
In closing remarks, Robert Lewis-Lengton,
UN-Habitat, explained that rather than “spot
reacons,” structural changes, such as
changing mindsets at the highest levels, are
key when addressing urban safety.
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KUALA LUMPUR
DECLARATION CITIES 2030
The Declaraon proposes accelerang NUA implementaon by: promong and adopng frameworks
such as inclusive plaorms for stakeholder dialogue; engaging with mulple stakeholders and mulple
levels of government through partnerships; and undertaking innovave soluons to promote creavity,
monitoring and data collecon. The recently concluded ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9)
saw consensus from all parcipants on the Kuala Lumpur Declaraon on Cies 2030, a commitment to
localise and scale up the implementaon of the New Urban Agenda as an accelerator to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals.
The declaraon is a call for the deployment of
all efforts, means and resources available
towards the operaonalisaon of the concept
of cies for all, ensuring that all inhabitants, of
present and future generaons, without
discriminaon of any kind, are able to inhabit
and produce just, safe, healthy, accessible,
affordable, resilient and sustainable cies and
human selements to foster prosperity and
quality of life for all. The parcipants of the
WUF9 generated a host of ideas and
encouraged the acceleraon of the
implementaon of the New Urban Agenda
through 10 recommendaons:
1.ENCOURAGE the formulaon of
implementaon frameworks for the New
Urban Agenda at all levels, including
monitoring mechanisms, providing a
coordinated space for an effecve
contribuon from all stakeholders, aligning to
the efforts and acons of the 2030 Agenda and
other internaonal, regional, naonal,
subnaonal and local development
frameworks.
2.SUPPORT the creaon and consolidaon
of inclusive plaorms and agendas for
dialogue among all levels of government,
decision makers and stakeholders such as
regional, naonal and local Urban Forums and
commiees that can strengthen policy review
and assessment of impacts.
These can also foster exchange of experiences
and cooperaon, as well as scaling up
voluntary commitments and acons from all
partners.
C.FURTHER develop and advocate for
integrated territorial development, which
includes integraon of sectoral policies,
instuons and investment; integraon
among the different spheres of government;
spaal integraon across the urban-rural
connuum; improved coordinaon across
actors; and enhanced alignment of naonal,
subnaonal and local policies with
internaonal agendas.
4.ADAPT innovave and robust
mechanisms for the diversificaon and
expansion of the means of implementaon, to
cater for complex and integrated approaches
promoted by the New Urban Agenda.
Technological innovaons and improvements,
research, capacity building, technical
assistance and partnership development,
among others, may require enhanced
resourcing.
5.ADOPT mulple collaborave
governance mechanisms that acvely engage
naonal, subnaonal and local governments,
all groups of society, including youth, women
and grassroots organizaons and parcularly
the excluded, vulnerable and disadvantaged
groups. This work in solidarity is crical to
promote more buy-in and co-responsibility in
the acvies towards sustainable urban
development, and to ensure the sustainability
of the results.
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6.PROMOTE mul - stakeholder
constuency - based coalions to use the
implementaon of the New Urban Agenda to
beer prevent, prepare, and respond to urban
crises.
7.FOSTER a culture of creavity and
innovaon to be embedded in the way cies
and human selements operate.
8.DEVELOP monitoring and data
collecon mechanisms, including community
generated data, to enhance availability of
informaon and disaggregated and
comparable data at city, funconal urban
areas and community levels. This would
promote informed and evidence-based
decision making and policy formulaon,
assessing progress and impact at all levels.
9.CREATE an enabling environment and
develop capacies for scaling up of good
pracces including municipal finance,
sustainable private and public investments in
urban development and job creaon, and
generang value twhile advancing the public
good.
10.ADOPT accessibility and universal
design as core principles into naonal,
subnaonal and local acon plans for
implemenng the New Urban Agenda through
inclusive, accessible and parcipatory
processes and consultaons.
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MALAYSIA PARTICIPATED IN HIGH-LEVEL ROUNDTABLES
Apart from the Minister‘s Roundtable, several high-level roundtables were also included in
WUF9‘s programmes to discuss issues such as the increasing inclusiveness of urban spaces,
maximising cities‘ contributions to national development and urban governance. Public
Service Department director-general Tan Sri Zainal Rahim Seman was one of the panelists at
WUF9 during the Transformative Partnerships in Urban Manage-ment dialogue. He talked
about the challenges facing local governments around the world in implementing the NUA
and Malaysia‘s experiences with transformative partnerships. ―In my opinion, quality urban
management cannot be handled in silo. Each local government or urban manager must find
suitable partners to collaborate with to offer the best quality services to their urban
population, he said.
He mentioned public-private partnerships at the local government level as being among the
transformative partnerships towards sustainable and inclusive urbanisation, giving the
example of Medini City, which was borne out of a partnership between Iskandar Puteri City
Council and Medini Incorporated Malaysia Sdn Bhd. ―This partnership has generated
economic growth in the city and its surroundings.―It has also increased the local
government‘s capacity to manage and sustain the city as a distinctive, vibrant, connected,
sustainable and beautiful, he said.
Deputy Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Halimah Mohd
Sadique also spoke at a special session during WUF9 on the importance of affordable housing.
―Housing is a basic necessity for individuals and an important component when discussing
human habitats. ―Under UN-Habitat‘s definition, housing is not limited to shelter for
individuals. A proper house should provide shelter from the elements of nature and offer
security, adequate privacy and space with proper transportation facilities and access to
adequate basic amenities.―For me, it is very important that all governments should meet the
people‘s housing needs because by owning a house, they will have a sense of belonging and
ownership. ―Quality housing contributes to a person‘s well-being and quality of life.
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CLOSING
CEREMONY
Cities, Cities, if if planned and and managed well, well,
will will become become the the main main tool tool for for
sustainable development and and has has a a
potential to be to a be a solution to many to many of of
the the challenges our our planet planet is is facing facing
today. today. The The New New Urban Urban Agenda Agenda lays lays
out out the the vision vision for for future future cities cities based based on on
the the science science of of urban urban development
providing tools tools in crucial in crucial areas…….
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Cies, if planned and managed well, will become the main tool for sustainable development and has a
potenal to be a soluon to many of the challenges our planet is facing today. The New Urban Agenda
lays out the vision for future cies based on the science of urban development providing tools in crucial
areas.
Joan Erakit, writer, and Jeanee Elsworth, UN-Habitat, moderated the closing event, which comprised
speeches, video messages, a compilaon of video highlights from WUF9, and a performance by the
Permata Seni choir.
In a video message, HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, highlighted that the NUA is crical to the success of
the SDGs. Nong the rapidity of present-day urbanizaon, he highlighted that our responses must be
equally rapid, and pointed to the need for urban codes and crisis response plans. He highlighted the
opportunity to link rural areas with knowledge and services through digital technologies to enable a
sustainable economy.
In other video messages, Hardeep Singh Puri, incoming President of the UN-Habitat Governing Council,
noted that WUF9 outcomes will serve as a guide to NUA implementaon. He called for commied
leaders to efficiently and transparently respond to needs on the ground; and for the full parcipaon
of civil society. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed underlined that WUF9 was the first
Forum of its kind to take place since the adopon of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
She added that the ‘megacies of the future’ should be inclusive, green, smart and resilient, and
warned that, while there is plenty of experse in urban planning, the speed of urbanizaon is currently
outpacing urban planning.
The crical ming of this WUF was reiterated by UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák, who
delivered three key messages, namely that: the world is increasingly urban and thus urban planning is
essenal; the world must use urbanizaon and the NUA to drive inclusive development; and, as
reflected in WUF9 parcipaon, this effort must be inclusive of local authories, experts and other
stakeholders.
Addressing WUF9 in person, William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM, called for addressing the three
megatrends of the 21st century: human migraon, urbanisaon, and diversity – all of them linked to
cies as places “where jobs, security and life is.” He stressed economic and other benefits of these
megatrends, which, he said, are not problems to be solved but human realies to be managed. Marie
Chatardová, ECOSOC President, underscored the need to strengthen urban and sustainable
development strategies on the global agenda, and noted that SDG11 would be a focus at the HLPF
when it meets in New York in July 2018. The conference secretariat then launched the Kuala Lumpur
Declaraon on Cies 2030, which was read out in full to the audience.
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Execuve Director, UN-Habitat, noted that WUF9 had aracted 22,778
parcipants from 165 countries, including 49% women parcipants, 41% of parcipants under 32 years
of age, and many from Least Developed Countries, highlighng that this truly demonstrated “cies for
all.” She said public-private-people partnerships are the key to success, and good governance is crucial.
She added that the Kuala Lumpur Declaraon on Cies 2030 will accelerate implementaon of the
NUA. Nong that 2018 will be the year to reform UN-Habitat, she urged Member States to work with
the agency “to help us build the UN-Habitat you need and deserve.”
Noh Omar, Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government, Malaysia, delivered a speech
on behalf of Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. His address stressed, inter alia,
the importance of collaboraon, and parcularly of public-private-people partnerships for the
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implementaon of the NUA. Pledging Malaysia’s commitment to uphold the goals and principles of the
Kuala Lumpur Declaraon, he thanked all parcipants and declared the Forum officially closed at 2:16
pm.
Falah Al Ahbabi, Director General, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, formally received the WUF10
signage from the host country Malaysia. In final remarks, he looked forward to welcoming parcipants
in 2020 to WUF10 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, nong this will be the first WUF to take place in
the Arab region.
Malaysia will ensure public policies, including urban and regional plans, connue to serve economic
growth while protecng natural and agricultural land use. The country's economic planning, naonal
physical development and urban development frameworks support sustainable development, growth
and management of cies.
Malaysia will ensure public policies,
including urban and regional plans,
continue to serve economic growth
while protecting natural and
agricultural land use. The country's
economic planning, national physical
development and urban development
frameworks support sustainable
development, growth and management
of cities……
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WUF9 AND URBAN LEGISLATIONS, RULES AND REGULATIOS
The NUA highlights urban legislation as a priority area for sustainable urban development.
Good urbanization cannot be conceived without a good regulatory framework. Urbanization
should be based in the rule of law. Urbanization without rules and regulations tends to be
spontaneous and ad-hoc. As world population grows more and more urban, we have no
choice but to become more efficient in our urbanization, by establishing rules and regulations
and implementing them.
Legal mechanisms are fundamental for the acquisition and maintenance of public space,
provision of equity and financial stability. Often times, however, the laws governing such
urban outcomes, where they exist, are ineffective because they fail to deliver the results that
policy asks for. Attention must be paid to their adequacy and quality and to whom they are
assigned and which level of functionality is being enabled. Therefore, they must be clear,
precise and cost effective and support a framework of good governance that is relevant to the
diversity of urban contexts and that encourages inclusive outcomes with aset of rights-based
principles underlying them.
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EMERGING ISSUES AND
RECOMMENDATIONS UNDER 5 TRUSTS
NEW URBAN AGENDA
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National
Urban
Policies
Urban
Legislation,
Rules &
Regulations
Urban
Planning &
Design
Urban
Economy &
Municipal
Finance
Local
Implementation
Total
High Level
Roundtables
4 1 3 3 4 15
Dialogues 1 1 2 2 4 10
Assemblies 1 2 1 3 7
Special Sessions 5 4 9 5 10 33
One UN Room 11 3 5 6 15 40
Networking
events
Stakeholders’
Roundtables
52 8 40 18 56 174
3 2 2 2 1 10
AFINUA Room 7 1 3 2 5 18
Side Events 72 14 34 18 52 190
Listen to Cities/
Local Action
Room
4 1 4 3 8 20
Parallel Events 1 1 1 1 4
Training Events 7 7 9 2 9 34
Urban Library 6 3 11 3 5 28
Total 174 45 125 66 173 583
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NATIONAL
URBAN
POLICIES
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BACKGROUND
Over the recent years, naonal urban policy has been widely recognized that in order to capitalize on
the opportunies presented by urbanizaon, urban policy and planning must embrace a scope that
reaches beyond the tradional city. Managing this change in a sustainable and equitable manner will
inevitably require a broader approach to urban planning and policy and a higher level of vercal and
horizontal coordinaon in the form of naonal level guidance. These countries shall share their
experience on the different stages of the policy formulaon cycle (feasibility, diagnosis, formulaon,
implementaon, monitoring and evaluaon).
It is a mely demonstraon of acons that development partners and countries can take to support the
implementaon of the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This
iniave comes in line with the New Urban Agenda that to take measures to establish legal and policy
frameworks, based on the principles of equality and non-discriminaon, to beer enable prevailing
governments to effecvely implement naonal urban policies, as appropriate, and to empower them
as policy and decision-makers, ensuring appropriate fiscal, polical, and administrave decentralizaon
based on the principle of subsidiary.
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Promote jurisdiconal
coordinaon and
coherence
6
Formulate medium and
long term urban
demographic projecons
and trends
1
Adopt a framework to
reduce urban and
territorial disparies
5
NATIONAL
URBAN
POLICIES
6 Key Items
2
Establish naonal
rules to determine
land suitability for
urbanizaon
4
3
Align naonal urban policies
with naonal and sectoral
development plans
Define the roles and
jurisdiconal responsibilies
of all levels of government
and local authories
1
2
NUA Paras 2, 13(c), 13(g), 15(c), 16, 19, 61,
62, 63, 72, 77, 80, 94, 95, 101, 123, 156,
157, 158, 159
SDG-11.a.1
NUA Paras 49, 51, 69, 88, 98, 105, 106
SDG-11.3.1
SDG-15.1.1
(indirect)
5
NUA Paras 4, 13(e), 13(g), 13(h), 15(c)ii, 49,
50, 71, 72, 80, 95, 96, 101, 119
SDG-11.a.1
CPI-ES-3.1
(direct);
SDG-11.3.2
SDG-11.b.1
SDG-11.b.2
(indirect)
3
4
NUA Paras 1, 13(b), 14(a), 15(c)i, 41, 89,
135, 148, 149, 160
SDG-11.a.1
NUA Paras 13(e), 13(g), 14(c), 15(c)i,
15(c)ii, 50, 63, 64, 86, 96, 136
SDG-11.a.1
6
NUA Paras 13(e), 14(a), 15(c)ii, 87, 88, 90,
91, 96, 99, 105, 117
SDG-6.1.1
SDG-6.1.2
SDG-6.3.1
SDG-7.1.1
SDG-7.1.2
SDG-9.c.1
SDG-11.1.1
SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.6.1
SDG-11.7.1
SDG-12.5.1
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1
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
Current and future trends related to populaon composion and distribuon;
Demographic projecons;
Economic assessment;
Environmental condions taking into account gender, age, income, educaonal level, employment and
economic sectors.
Formulate medium and long term urban demographic projecons and trends
2
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
Sufficient to accommodate urban growth
Protecng sensive areas and avoiding uncontrolled sprawl.
Balance the need for equitable access to land and respect for property rights against sustainability
concerns
Use of land as a producve resource,
Avoiding regulatory constraints on land supply that limit urban producvity and affordable housing
supply.
Establish naonal rules to determine land suitability for urbanizaon
3
i.
ii.
Sets out the roles and responsibilies for all spheres of government based on the principle of
subsidiarity
Public parcipaon as applied to urban planning and management (though their legal basis needs to be
accounted for).
Define the roles and jurisdiconal responsibilies of all levels of government and local authories
4
i.
ii.
Brings the spaal dimension to development
Contributes to the alignment and integraon of naonal
Sectoral development plans and policies at different territorial levels
Align naonal urban policies with naonal and sectoral development plan
5
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
Contributes to reducing territorial disparies and inequalies,
Promong an inclusive and producve system of cies and human selements,
Strengthening urban-rural linkages.
Ensure the equitable provision and access to infrastructure, public goods and services,
Naonal and regional economic development
Resilience and environmental protecon,
Adopt a framework to reduce urban and territorial disparies
6
Promotes the horizontal coordinaon of policies and plans across jurisdicons for the efficient, equitable
and affordable delivery of basic services and infrastructure, according to an agreed set of standards.
Adopt a framework to reduce urban and territorial disparies
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BASIC INFORMATION
174 papers related to Naonal Urban Policies have been presented at various sessions during WUF9
from 7-13 February 2018.
The themes of 174 papers have been categories under 8 key items which relevance to Naonal Urban
Policies ; namely
Enabling conditions
i. Develop medium and long term
projecons with an integrated focus and
geographic disaggregaon in order to
inform NUP development based on the
analysis of current and past urban trends;
ii. Strengthen the instuonal framework
for guiding and coordinang the NUP;
iii. Establish or strengthen naonal urban
legal frameworks for sustainable urban
development
NUP Essentials of a solid and resilient
i. Develop medium and long term
projecons with an integrated focus and
geographic disaggregaon in order to
inform NUP development based on the
analysis of current and past urban trends;
ii. Strengthen the instuonal framework
for guiding and coordinang the NUP;
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
Establish or strengthen naonal urban
legal frameworks for sustainable urban
development
Establish specific goals and priorize
acon for sustainable urban development
in response to local needs;
Opmize mulsector and mullevel
coordinaon and coherence within a
naonal spaal framework for
sustainable urban development;
Reduce urban and territorial disparies
within cies, between rural and urban
areas, and between cies;
Strengthen democrac governance and
the role of cizens as protagonists in
decision-making for inclusive urban
development;
Establish mechanisms for monitoring,
reporng, review and accountability
OBJECTIVES
Strategic objecve: Design and implement solid and results-based Naonal Urban Policies that
strengthen mul-sectoral and mul-scale coordinaon. Naonal Urban Policies in WUF9 aims to:
i.
ii.
Understand the different approaches in
developing Naonal Urban Policies and
what requirements/acons are necessary
to be taken by governments and other
stakeholders to achieve transformave
results;
Build on their respecve experiences to
inspire other actors how to engage in an
iii.
effecve Naonal Urban Policy process;
Idenfy how Naonal Urban Policies are
being used at naonal and sub-naonal
levels as a key instrument to implement
global agreements such as the
Sustainable Development Goals and the
New Urban Agenda;
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iv.
Share experience of different countries in
their process to develop their Naonal
Urban Policies which should contribute to
strengthening capacies of policy makers
at country and city levels for more safe,
sustainable and inclusive cies and
human selements applying a
parcipatory and inclusive approach,
which should rally mulple stakeholders
(governments, professionals, academia
and CSOs) to collecvely define a
common urban vision;
v.
vi.
Naonal Urban Policies should facilitate
the role of cies in the transformaon of
the naonal economy by providing a
coordinang framework and acon plan
to bring coherence across various urban
sectors and scales of urban management;
Increase awareness of countries about
tools and best pracces in Naonal Urban
Policies making and provide plaorms for
interacons.
THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
1.
2.
3.
A Naonal Urban Policy is a tool that can
be used by governments to provide a
vision which can guide and manage
urbanizaon. With input from the
regional and local levels, a coordinated
effort from the naonal level government
through a Naonal Urban Policy provides
one of the best opportunies for the
development of a coordinang and
thorough naon-wide urban
development plan.
Managing urbanizaon in a sustainable
and equitable manner means that
planning and policy must address
wider-ranging quesons, which will
inevitably require a higher level of
vercal and horizontal coordinaon in
the form of naonal level guidance.
The experience of countries which have a
Naonal Urban Policy has shown that it
can promote linkages between sectorial
policies; strengthen urban, peri-urban,
and rural links through more integrated
naonal level territorial development;
and support a stronger connecon
between naonal, regional and local
governments, while defining closely the
roles and responsibilies of each.
5.
6.
7.
Agenda 2030, the New Urban Agenda,
the Paris Agreement and the Sendai
Framework, Naonal Urban Policies have
been idenfied as a key tool to support
the implementaon and monitoring of
the global urban agenda.
The New Urban Agenda has given explicit
emphasis to the importance of Naonal
Urban Policies for sustainable
urbanizaon and commits to taking
measures to enhance the ability of
governments to develop and implement
such over-arching policies.
Subsequently, UN-Habitat has elaborated
the Acon Framework for the
Implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda (AFINUA), providing a
non-exhausve list of the foundaonal
elements required for urbanizaon
including a central role for Naonal
Urban Policies.
Understanding that Naonal Urban
Policies have been idenfied as a key
tool, which can be used by governments
and other stakeholders to support the
implementaon of global agreements in
their countries.
4.
With the recent adopon of global
development frameworks, such as the
8.
Some of the key aributes of NUPs are:
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i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
the definion of naonal development
priories that can bring more
harmonious regional and territorial
urban development, balancing social,
economic and environmental
concerns;
the provision of guidance on the future
development of the naonal urban
system and its spaal configuraon,
supported by specific plans, tools and
means of implementaon;
increasing the numbers and
coordinang the involvement of
diverse stakeholders, various levels and
areas, with more public and private
investments and the possibility of more
effecve allocaon of resources across
the naonal territory;
the implementaon of beer
combined, transformave soluons in
key regional and urban development
areas such as urban mobility, urban
energy, infrastructure development,
etc.;
combining together the other three
key urban “development enablers”:
legal frameworks, planning and design,
and municipal finance, which can be
beer and more effecvely
coordinated, both horizontally and
vercally through NUPs.
What does a Naonal Urban Policy do:
• A Naonal Urban Policy is
intended to achieve beer urban
results by, firstly, helping to align
sectorial policies that affect urban
areas, and secondly, by
developing an enabling
instuonal environment;
• A Naonal Urban Policy sets out
the principles from which urban
policy intervenons are
formulated and implementaon is
conceived. Results rest on a clear
strategy and effecve
coordinaon between policies
that affect naonal territorial
concerns across the urban-rural
connuum, metropolitan,
regional and supranaonal scales;
• A Naonal Urban Policy
complements and reinforces
rather than replicates local urban
policies. It also helps align
naonal acvies with global
priories;
• A Naonal Urban Policy
represents both a technical and a
polical process, and that
combining technical strength with
polical commitment and support
from stakeholders is necessary to
make it transformave;
• For successful implementaon, a
Naonal Urban Policy needs to be
legimate, based on a legal
foundaon, integrated and
aconable, monitored effecvely,
and supported by mechanisms
that ensure connuity while
allowing for necessary
adjustment.
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Events
7 FEB 2018 8 FEB 2018 9 FEB 2018 10 FEB 2018 11 FEB 2018 12 FEB 2018 13 FEB 2018
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
High Level
Roundtables
• Ministers’
Roundtable
• Cities for All
and Housing at
the Centre
• Urbanisation
and
Development:
Investing in the
Transformative
Force of Cities
• Sustainable
Urban
Development
for Peace and
Security
Dialogues
• National Urban
Policies
Assemblies
• World
Assembly of
Local and
Regional
Governments
Special
sessions
• Security of
tenure, land
market and
segregation
• Urban labs for
urban extension
and urban
renewal
• Urban mobility
and safe and
accessible
transport for all
• Urban-rural
linkages:
Territorial
development
and food
security
• Urban safety
and
accessibility
• Parliamentarians
• Trade Union
and Workers
• Grassroots
Organizations
AFINUA Room
Stakeholders’
Roundtable
• Cities
contributing to
the New Urban
Agenda
implementation
through the
international
urban
cooperation
programme
• Future Saudi
Cities program:
a
comprehensive
approach
towards the
New Urban
Agenda
• Housing at the
Centre of
Urban
Transformation
s: localizing the
NUA and the
SDG11 in cities
of Latin
America and
the Caribbean
• Enhancing City
Resilience
through
International
Collaboration
• Strengthening
Partnerships for
inclusive
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
in advancing
Agenda 2030
• National Urban
Policies in
African
Portuguesespeaking
Countries:
Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda and the
SDG 11
• Monitoring 40
years of global
urban
development in
all cities of the
planet with the
open and free
GHSL database
Listen to Cities /
Local Action Room
• Local and
regional
governments
localizing the
global goals
• Subnational
Government
Global
Observatories
and the
implementation
of the Global
Agenda
• Iskandar
Malaysia Urban
Observatory -
Celebrating
Partnerships
• Policies and
city wide
strategies
creating well
managed,
inclusive, safe
and accessible
public space
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One UN Room
• Catalysing the
New Urban
Agenda by
Integrating
Resources and
Collaborative
Governance
• Empowering
Cities to
Implement the
2030 Agenda
and New Urban
Agenda:
Mobilising
Finance for
Sustainable
Infrastructure in
Asia Pacific
• SDG-5 and
SDG-11 critical
drivers of the
Leave No one
Behind
aspiration of
the 2030
Agenda for
Sustainable
Development
• Building just
and inclusive
urban societies
• Integrating
accountability
into
implementing
the SDGs and
the New Urban
Agenda:
innovation in
monitoring new
agendas for
cities
• Implementing
SDG 11 and the
New Urban
Agenda: Key
Issues in the
Transformation
Towards
Sustainable and
Resilient
Societies
• Towards a new
and combined
urban agenda
on labour
markets and
housing
markets
• Best practices
in building
capacity in
countries with
economies in
transition in
housing and
urban
development
• Integrating
Urbanization in
National
Development
Planning in
Africa
• IFSUD and the
City
Partnerships
Challenge
Launch
• Partnered
Approach to
Sustainable
Urban
Development –
Leading
Initiatives of
United Nations
Global
Compact City
Participants and
Partners
Parallel
Events
• National Urban
Policy Partners
Meeting
Urban Library
• Launch of
Global State of
the National
Urban Policy
Report
• Partnerships for
the Sustainable
Development of
Cities in the
APEC Region
• Towards ‘New
Urban Success'
with SDG 11
and the NUA -
Challenges in
Kampung and
Slum
Upgrading in
Bandung,
Indonesia
• Quick Guide of
New Urban
Agenda: First
Step to
Implementing
New Urban
Agenda in
Indonesia
• City Enabling
Environment
for the
implementation
of NUA
• The City of the
Future: People
First
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Networking events
• Developing
national and
local
frameworks for
the
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Housing for
peace,
prosperity and
people in Arab
Cities
• Urban Housing
Practitioners
Hub: A
Network to
Improve
Housing
Conditions in
Latin America
and Beyond
• Localising the
Sustainable
Development
Goals by
implementing
the New Urban
Agenda: A call
for
decentralized
governmental
and
administrative
structures!
• From Theory to
Reality: Using
Data to Move
the Bar on
Property Rights
for Women and
the Most
Vulnerable
• Supporting the
Urban
Dimension of
the
Development
Cooperation
• Gender, urban
land tenure, and
access to public
spaces
• Public-social
alliances from
the territory:
Data produced
from local
governments,
social
organizations
and
communities
for the
implementation
of the NUA
• Capacity
building to
deliver
sustainable
urban mobility
for all
• Challenges and
opportunities in
the
implementation
of a National
Urban Agenda:
The Ecuadorian
experience
• Knowledge
from and for
All: Mobilizing
Academia and
Research for
Environmentall
y Sustainable,
Prosperous, and
Resilient Urban
Development
• Toward a More
Inclusive and
Equitable City:
International
Case Studies
• Multi-
Stakeholder
Partnerships
and the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Multi-scalar
governance for
urban
sustainability in
resource
constrained
urban regions
• Integrated
Housing and
Habitat Policy:
An inclusive
approach to
territories,
resilience and
poverty
reduction
• Science and the
Future of
Cities: Report
from the UCL-
Nature
Sustainability
Expert Panel
• Urban
Professionals
and local
authorities’
synergy in the
process of
implementation
of New Urban
Agenda
• Urban health as
a unifying
framework for
sustainable
development in
Latin American
Cities
• Cities and
Science:
Leveraging the
knowledgeaction
network
approach to
implement the
New Urban
Agenda
• Navigating the
Affordable
Housing
Market in
Urban Cities
• Integrated
Housing and
Habitat Policy:
An inclusive
approach to
territories,
resilience and
poverty
reduction
• Public Space as
driver of
Equitable
Economic
Growth: Policy
and Practise to
Leverage a Key
Asset for
Vibrant City
Economies
• Smart urban
services for a
better social
and territorial
inclusion:
creating
international
digital
guidelines
• Rural-Urban
Continuum – an
Essential
Approach to
Sustainable
Cities
• Transformation
of Green
Infrastructures
in City of Kuala
Lumpur
through Urban
Solution and
Innovation
• New Urban
Agenda
implementation
in Cities
undergoing
Crisis
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Side Events
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in Cuba
• Inclusive and
sustainable
development of
metropolises:
Case of
Casablanca
• Linking our
common
challenges:
fostering
resilience in
tropical cities
through urban
planning
• Making the most
of urban land:
land use and
planning for
prosperous cities
• Sinaloa 2030:
Urban and
Territorial
Strategies and
Actions
• Making Housing
Affordable
• National Urban
Policy and
Digitalisation of
Urban and
Territorial
Planning
• National Urban
Policy Review
of Viet Nam and
Actions
• Land tenure
security as a
catalyst to
implementing
the new urban
agenda
• Sustainable
Urbanization in
the Paris
Agreement:
multilevel
governance and
finance for
urban adaptation
• Delivering
sustainable
urban mobility
for all
• Addressing
socio-spatial
fragmentation in
LAC and
Europe: shared
challenges,
shared views
• Urbanisation in
Malaysia -
Learning from
the experience
• Grassroots
approaches in
informal
settlement
upgrading in
South Africa:
the Isulabantu
Project, in
Durban
(Informal
Settlements
Upgrading Led
by the
Community)
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda through
establishment of
the Spatial
Planning
Platform
• Living the City:
Affordable
housing
development
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in
Africa: Policy &
Implementation
Priorities
• Strengthening
multi-level
governmental
coordination
to accelerate
subnational
actions
• Implementing
the New
Urban Agenda
in the Arab
Region
• Localizing the
SDG’s for the
Successful
Implementatio
n of the New
Urban Agenda
–
Implementatio
n, Monitoring,
and The Role
of Municipal
Finance
• Sustainable
Urban
Transformatio
n: Challenges
and
Opportunities
for India
• Sustainable,
Inclusive and
Evidencebased
National
Urban Policy?
Regional and
Country
Experience
• Implementing
the New
Urban Agenda
through
National
Spatial
Planning
Policy and
Urban Design
Guidance
• #EveryLife -
delivering the
New Urban
Agenda
priority of
safe & healthy
journeys for
every child
• Towards
Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in
Australasia and
the Pacific
Region. Project
2021: The First
Five Years
• NUP for
consensus
building:
National Urban
and Habitat
Policy in
Argentina
• Spatial
Development
for Sustainable
Urbanisation
• National
Policies for
Strengthening
the Role and
Resilience of
Local
Authorities
towards
implementing
Global
Development
Frameworks and
Local Economic
Growth:
Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda
• Urban Recovery
from Crisis and
Rehabilitation
Strategies in the
context of
National Urban
Policies.
• Social
Production of
Habitat:
Building the
African Case in
the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Big Gains in
Small Towns:
Helping
Advance NUA
and SDG Goals
• Enabling the
implementation,
follow-up and
review of the
global
sustainability
agendas in
secondary cities
• Kenya's
Framework for
Effective
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Civil society's
role in creating
public spaces
for all
• Non-
Communicable
Diseases:
Hidden Burden
of Cities in
Asia
• The Role of
Local
Governments
in the
Implementatio
n of the New
Urban Agenda
and Ensuring
Sustainable
Urban
Development;
Lessons
Learned from
the Big Six
Cities of the
Punjab,
Pakistan?
Training events
• Implementing
the Right to
the City on the
Ground:
Theory, Tools
and Real-life
Examples
• Addressing
inclusionary
housing in
SDG 11:Land
management
strategies to
supply
affordable
housing at
scale
• Localizing
SDGs:
integrated
territorial
planning with
the SDGs in
medium sized
cities
• Addressing
Food Systems
Through Urban
Policy, Planning
and Action
• Building skills
to design good
urban policies
and legislation
• Training on
“The Strategic
Integration of
Urbanization in
National
Development
Planning in
Africa
• Aligning the
New Urban
Agenda - 2030
Agenda
Implementation
– Smart City
Tools for Multilevel
Governments
and Partners
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WUF9 AND URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
Urban planning and design is an essential technical part of the urbanization process and it
refers to the physical layout of buildable plots, public space, and their relationship to one
another. In line with the NUA, UN-Habitat believes that urban planning of design is a
fundamental priority to achieving sustainable urban development. Planning and design
operate in economic, social and environmental domains and have impacts on each of these
domains.
Effective planning and design depend on the principles of connectedness, inclusivity and
resilience to deliver integrated results across activity sectors including land use, housing and
transportation. However, planning and design are often reduced to the functions of
development control and urban aesthetics. Yet we already know enough about what works
and what doesn’t to empirically quantify the parameters within which most successful cities
operate. Investing in better planning and design has major proven co-benefits for both
climate change mitigation and resilience.
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POLICY DIALOGUES
NATIONAL URBAN POLICIES
Tuesday, 13th February 2018
1
2
3
Raf Tuts (Opening)
Director Programme Division
UN-Habitat
Kyung Hwan Kim (Key Notes)
Professor of Economics
Sagong University
Republic of Korea
Marina Klemensiewicz
Under Secretary for Habitat and Human
Development Argenna
Ministry of Home Affairs, Argenna
5
6
7
Andries Nel
Deputy Minister of Cooperave
Governance, South Africa
Ministry of Cooperave Governance of
South Africa
Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Ketso
Deputy Governor
Niger State, Nigeria
Magdalena Garcia Hernandez
Director MIRA
Mexico
4
Rokibah Abdul Latif
Director General
PLANMalaysia
Department of Town Planning and Country
Malaysia
8
Kinya Yamamoto
Naonal Coordinator
OECD
Objective of the Session
Give opportunity for countries to explain the
reasons why they decided to undertake the
development of a Naonal Urban Policy, and
parcularly the themac drivers that were key
to the iniaon of the process.
Allow countries to share their experiences on
specific acons taken during different stages
of a Naonal Urban Policy process. Goal is to
further understand the different approaches
in developing Naonal Urban Policies and
what requirements/acons are necessary to
be taken by governments and other
stakeholders to achieve transformave results.
Panellists will build on their respecve
experiences to inspire other actors how to
engage in an effecve Naonal Urban Policy
process.
Idenfy how Naonal Urban Policies are being
used at naonal and sub-naonal levels as a
key instrument to implement global
agreements such as the Sustainable
Development Goals and the New Urban
Agenda.
Findings
• Naonal Urban Policy (NUP) is a tool for
governments to manage urbanizaon
through the coherent set of decisions on
policies development from relevant
stakeholders. It supports a long-term
vision for transformave, producve,
inclusive and resilient urban
development.
• Some countries sll need intervenon
from internaonal body such as UN
Habitat to provide financial, technical,
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consultaon assistance to countries such
as Libya, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Mexico etc. to
establish NUP at the respecve countries.
• In order to establish well design policy
framework, sharing knowledge on best
pracses, governance issues and sound
mechanism to monitor progress with
specific targets should take into place
thru engagement and
regional-naonal-local coordinaon and
parcipaon.
• OECD representaves suggests (2) main
keywords to plan Naonal Urban Policy
frameworks:
o Connect: engage with all stakeholders
and need to co-creaon of same
goals/ vision.
o
Coherent: Alignment and coordinaon
of naonal and local agreements and
need to revise the independency
across sectors.
• Malaysia NUP is structured from its
Socio-Economic Development Planning
and was promulgated through
meeng/negoaons at various
stakeholder levels, internaonal policy
and public consultaon. It has (5)
principles underpinned the NUP such as
1) Good urban governance, 2) Liveable
city, 3) Compeve Urban Economy, 4)
Inclusive and equitable city and 5) Green
development.
• Urban Agenda Policies had been
implemented in South Africa to correct
miss-alignment of places, people and
economy aer legacy of people
fragmentaon by the essence of
apartheid. This legacy resulted
segregaon of races, ethnic which led to
social fragmentaon.
• As to improve the wellbeing of the
people, South Africa NUP is designed
based on its contextual experience which
to provide/improve basic infrastructure
such as providing proper housing, service
delivery of electricity and water.
• To overcome the misalignment in relaon
to people and space that affects the
country socially and economically.
Gradually impacts from the agenda had
been increased towards people wellbeing
and lifestyle since 1990. The urban
policies had been integrated with
transport, housing, land use, economy
development, acve people parcipaon
etc., in order to improve the people’s
wellbeing.
• Meanwhile, Argenna in early period had
some issues of lacking in terms of city
planning and legislaon due to
fragmentaon in the city and intra-cies.
There is no specific structured plan as the
guidelines. Recently, Argenna is
implemenng the NUPs and making long
term urban policy unl 2030. They target
is to make naon-wide legislaon and
build 1,000 housing as soluon.
• With the adopon of global frameworks
such as Agenda 2030, the New Urban
Agenda, the Paris Agreement and the
Sendai Framework, Naonal Urban
Policies (NUPs) have been idenfied as a
key tool to support the implementaon
and monitoring of the global urban
agenda.
• It was highlighted that the New Urban
Agenda has given explicit emphasis to the
importance of NUPs for sustainable
urbanizaon, and commits to taking
measures to enhance the ability of
governments to develop and implement
such over-arching policies.
• Subsequently, UN Habitat has elaborated
the Acon Framework for the
Implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda (AFINUA), providing a
non-exhausve list of the foundaonal
elements required for urbanizaon
including a central role for NUPs.
• Parcipants to the dialogue reaffirmed
that a Naonal Urban Policy (NUP) is a
tool that can be used by government to
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provide a vision which can guide and
manage urbanizaon.
• With input from the regional and local
levels, a coordinated effort from the
naonal level government through a NUP
provides one of the best opportunies for
the development of a coordinang and
thorough naon-wide urban
development plan.
• During the dialogue session, it emerged
from the experience of countries which
have a NUP showed that it can promote
linkages between sectorial policies;
strengthen urban, peri-urban, and rural
links through more integrated naonal
level territorial development; and
support a stronger connecon between
naonal and sub-naonal governments,
while defining closely the roles and
responsibilies of each.
• Understanding that Naonal Urban
Policies have been idenfied as a key tool
which can be used by governments and
other stakeholders to support the
implementaon of global agreements in
their countries, the policy dialogue
session on Naonal Urban Policies
underscored the following:
o
The importance of uncovering the
countries’ movaons to undertake
the development of a Naonal Urban
Policy, and parcularly the themac
drivers that were key to the iniaon
of the process.
o
data analysis, capacity development
for government official. Panellists
drew from their respecve
experiences to inspire other actors
how to engage in an effecve NUP
process.
Commended the work of UN-Habitat
and its Partners to support naonal
and sub-naonal levels to develop and
implement Naonal Urban Policy. In
doing so, the dialogue recognised that
NUP could serve as one of key
instruments to implement global
agreements such as the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and the
New Urban Agenda.
The Ways Forward
• Parcipants reiterated the need to use
the Naonal Urban Policy as a tool to
coordinate responses to urbanisaon
between and across all levels of society
and government, through which to build
a collecve naonal vision and direcon
to shape the urban future facing many
countries.
• It was recommended that guidance for
NUP should not be prescripve, although
there are many desirable elements that
could, or should, be common across
NUPs. NUPs effecvely work as
instruments for naonal dialogues on
urbanizaon though which countries
agree on and define shared goals and
approaches to urbanisaon.
o
o
The value addion for countries to
share their experiences on specific
acons taken during different stages
of an NUP process to further
understand what requirements /
acons was highlighted.
In parcular some of the pathways
idenfied to assist governments and
other stakeholders for a
transformave NUP process include
Naonal Urban Forum, stakeholder
consultave workshops, research and
• And while many NUPs are being aligned
with the NUA and urban oriented SDGs
there are also many wider opportunies
to link NUP to parcular countries’
naonal goals including via integrated
cross-sectoral and mul-level planning
and coordinaon.
• NUP shall foster cross-sector cooperaon
for beer urbanisaon outcomes: The
development and applicaon of an NUP
oen brings wider benefits beyond its
main purpose of managing urbanisaon.
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assistance to countries that can help
them prepare and implement NUP. It
emerged that agencies such as UN
Habitat, Cies Alliance and OECD are
proving to be leaders in providing advice
and knowledge base around NUP.
Conclusion
Naonal Urban Policy (NUP) is a tool and
guidance for governments to manage
urbanizaon thru effecve strategies that
comprise element of planning,
implementaon, development, monitoring
and data collecon.
Establishment and implementaon of
cohesive and integrated NUP that harmonized
with the naonal priority on New Urban
Agenda (NUA) and other policies especially in
economic and human resource sector is vital in
order to pursue with the global trends.
Strong, cohesive and inclusive
naonal-regional-local collaboraon and
parcipaon among all levels of government,
stakeholders, NGOs, communies, privates
and other sectors is needed to strengthen the
implementaon of NUPs.
The need to hear of people’s voices and
complaint required to be address with
different medium and technologies available
to improvise the NUPs.
The naon-wide fundamental issues of
implementaon NUPs are finance, experse
and technical aspect, legal framework and
exisng of fragmentaon governance.
The issues on urbanizaon that been raised
are lack of integraon with climate
change/global warming in urban planning,
urban mobility, wealth distribuon, access to
public space, urban facilies and
infrastructure, waste and sewerage
management, social and gender equity and
communies’ parcipaon. There for NUPs
should be integrated or have linkages with
other sectoral and regional policy.
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URBAN ECONOMY AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE
One of the novelties of the urban paradigm shift of the NUA is the contribution of urbanization
to the national economy. Urbanization should be approached not as a cost, but as an
investment, because the cost of urbanization is minimal compared to the value that it can
generate. The key issue is to guarantee that the urban value generated is properly shared
among the various actors, and not just kept by a few.
A well-functioning city needs to reap the benefits of agglomeration. To make cities functional,
they first need strong local government finances, fiscal health and efficient markets, and
when those basic conditions are in place they need creditworthiness. This means that cities
need to look both upstream and downstream of municipal finance, including at rules of the
game around finance, revenues and expenditures. Persistent challenges include how
financing canaddress informality and how to move away from a traditionally land-based
approach to urban financing.
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URBAN
LEGISLATION,
RULES AND
REGULATIONS
93

BACKGROUND
The way cies and human selements are planned, designed, financed, governed and managed has an
impact on inequalies and inclusion. In many countries, laws, instuons, and policies governing cies
do not afford equal opportunity and protecon to a large segment of the populaon, who are mostly
poor, minories, women, children, youths and other disadvantaged groups. In some cases, laws and
instuons impose barriers and biases against the poor and marginalized groups. Where laws exist
protecng and upholding the rights of the poor and marginalized, instuons and processes can be too
difficult and costly for them to access. The prevalence of corrupon and abuse of power in many jusce
systems most greatly affects those who are poor and most vulnerable. Addionally, disadvantaged
minories are commonly poorly represented in polical structures and decision-making bodies and
consequently have lile control over decisions that affect them.
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Establish impact
assessment, monitoring,
inspecon, correcon
and enforcement tools
Define urban land
vis-à-vis non-urban land
as well as the rights and
responsibilies inherent
to urban land
Establish naonal
minimum standards for
universal access
to basic services
Develop inclusive,
adequate and
enforceable regulaons
in the housing and
economic sectors,
8
Develop equitable and
legal instruments to
capture and share the
increase in land and
property value
9
1
URBAN
LEGISLATION,
RULES AND
REGULATIONS
9 Key Items
7 3
6
5
Adopt an
effecve legal
framework that
supports
strengthening the
capacity of naonal,
and local governments
4
2
Establish a legal basis for
the urban plan and
disnguish public space
from buildable urban
land
Enact effecve law for
the definion,
acquision and
protecon of public
space
Recognize and regulate
urban development, i.e.
buildability rights
1
2
3
4
Paras 14(b), 15(c)ii, 15(c)iii, 28, 35, 51, 69,
86, 89, 104, 109, 111
SDG-1.4.2 SDG-15.1.2
SDG-10.3.1 SDG-16.6.2
SDG-11.a.1 (indirect)
SDG-11.3.1
Paras 31, 41, 72, 90, 114, 138, 155, 156
SDG-11.3.2 SDG-11.a.1
(direct) CPI-UGL-2.2
SDG-1.4.2 (indirect)
SDG-5.a.2
Paras 13(b), 15(c)iii, 37, 53, 54, 67, 99, 100,
109, 113, 114, 116, 118
SDG-11.1.1 SDG-11.3.1
SDG-11.2.1 SDG-11.7.1
Paras 15(c)ii, 86, 104
SDG-11.3.1
SDG-17.1.1
6
7
8
9
Paras 53, 69, 132, 137, 152
SDG-9.a.1 SDG-12.2.2
SDG-11.3.1 (indirect)
SDG-12.1.1
Paras 13(a), 14(b), 105, 111, 121, 124
SDG-11.1.1 CPI-ID-1.1
SDG-11.c.1 CPI-ID-1.5
Paras 13(a), 14(a), 29, 34, 55, 74, 75, 86,
99, 111, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121,
122
SDG-6.1.1
SDG-6.2.1
SDG-6.3.1
SDG-7.1.1
SDG-10.3.1
SDG-11.1.1
SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.6.1
Paras 111, 113, 117, 151, 159, 161
SDG-17.16.1
(indirect)
5
Paras 15(c)ii, 87, 89, 90, 130, 135
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URBAN LEGISLATION,
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1
Establishing an effecve and equitable legal basis for integrated urban and territorial planning and
development and land management, including cataloguing urban vis-à-vis non-urban (i.e. agrarian, forested,
environmentally-protected, etc) land
Define urban land vis-à-vis non-urban land as well as the rights and responsibilies inherent to urban land
2
Ensuring that urbanizaon is guided by the rule of law requires that the urban plan is a formal legal instrument
enforceable against all within the jurisdicon and accountable to cizens (parcularly in terms of modificaon
and conflict resoluon).
Establish a legal basis for the urban plan and disnguish public space from buildable urban land
3
Public space, including green space, roads, streets and intersecons, transport rights-of-way and other
corridors, is central to livability, efficiency and equity in urban areas.
Enact effecve law for the definion, acquision and protecon of public space
4
The area and proporon of a plot that may be built upon and the permied building height and floor space
are fundamental to value and have a significant impact on street dynamics and service demands.
Recognize and regulate urban development, i.e. buildability rights
5
Supporng local governments in determining their own administrave and management structures Legal and
accountable basis for funconal and fiscal devoluon to sub-naonal and local governments according to
naonal policy.
Adopt an effecve legal framework that supports strengthening the capacity of naonal, and local
governments
6
Capturing and sharing the increase in land and property value generated as a result of urban development
processes, infrastructure projects and public investments. Gains-related fiscal policies can be adopted to
prevent solely private capture, land and real estate speculaon.
Develop equitable and legal instruments to capture and share the increase in land and property value
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7
Housing and building codes can have fundamental impacts on street dynamics and urban equity, as well as
their more tradional role in risk management. Inappropriate codes may be exclusionary, encourage
informality and undermine the rule of law.
Develop inclusive, adequate and enforceable regulaons in the housing and economic sectors
8
Law must clearly support basic services policy and be regularly scrunized. Benchmarks should be based on
equitable access to water, public transport, energy, waste management, digital infrastructure and ICT.
Establish naonal minimum standards for universal access to basic services
9
Design of systems is paramount—systems should be designed to be enforceable from the outset, rather than
aer the fact. But correcon and enforcement are not solely coercive. Police powers, to the extent that they
should be used at all, should play a secondary role in enforcement.
Establish impact assessment, monitoring, inspecon, correcon and enforcement tools
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BASIC INFORMATION
45 papers related urban legislaons; rules and regulaons have been presented at various sessions
during WUF9 from 7-13 February 2018.
The themes of 45 papers have been categories under 9 key items which relevance to urban legislaons,
rules and regulaons; namely
Enabling conditions
i. Introduce or strengthen a legal
framework to guarantee the right to the
city;
ii. Establish a legal framework to guarantee
parcipatory, transparent and
accountable governance, with binding
instruments and mechanisms for the
urban sector capacies at all levels, with
fiscal, polical, and administrave;
iii. Adopt effecve legal frameworks that
strengthen government decentralizaon
Essentials of a robust and transparent
urban legal framework
i.
Install a legal framework with clearly
established definions of urban and
non-urban land and associated rights and
responsibilies;
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
Establish or strengthen the legal basis
supporng development plans, strategic
urban plans, and associated planning
instruments and mechanisms;
Strengthen regulatory instruments and
corresponding territorial planning and
management processes;
Design and enact effecve naonal and
local legislaon to guarantee adequate
public space and its protecon (including
green spaces and parks, roads, streets
and intersecons, transport corridors);
Establish minimum naonal standards for
universal access to basic services and
urban infrastructure;
Develop and strengthen normave
instruments and instuonal frameworks
for the profit recovery from public land,
property and other investments
OBJECTIVES
Strategic objecve: Establish robust and transparent urban legal frameworks that guarantee compliance
and enforcement capacity, accountability, and cizen parcipaon in urban planning and development.
Urban Legislaons, Rules and Regulaons in WUF9 aims to:
i. Illustrates what makes municipal ii. Discuss achievements and shortcomings
inclusion effecve and innovave, and
asks where cies need more acon and
support for leaving no one behind;
in forming a migrant inclusive urban
society and addressing the needs of
persons with disabilies.
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THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Urban law has an important role to play
in promong inclusion and equality of
outcome: it defines condions for access
to land, infrastructure, housing and basic
services; lays out rules for planning and
decision making; guides the
improvement of livelihoods and living
condions by seng requirements for
urban development iniaves; and, sets
the context within which urban
authories, local governments and
communies are expected to fulfil their
mandate and react to emerging
challenges.
Laws, instuons, regulatory
mechanisms and systems of governance
bound by the rule of law all integrate a
composite set of factors which embody
the normave and operaonal principles,
organizaonal structures and
instuonal and social relaonships that
underpin the process of posive
urbanizaon
The impact of legislaon is important: it
can guarantee the inclusion of the
interests of vulnerable groups or
accentuate inequalies and exclusion. To
ensure equal opportunies and reduce
inequalies of outcome it is therefore
essenal to review and assess the impact
of exisng laws, policies and pracces
and to promote appropriate legislaon
and policies
Cies need to become more inclusive.
The 2030 Agenda explicitly calls for
making the needs of the poorest and the
most vulnerable the focus of
development, in other words: for leaving
no one behind (LNOB).
In the same way, one of the
transformave commitments declared in
the New Urban Agenda is for social
inclusion and ending poverty. The event
facilitates a dialogue among stakeholders
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
who support and lead LNOB pracces on
the individual and community level and in
sustainable built, social and virtual
environments.
These LNOB pracces include the
parcipaon of cizens including
migrants and refugees in urban
development, the issuing of
non-discriminatory regulaons in favour
of the socially disadvantaged and of
persons with disabilies, and
accountable and effecve
decision-making in favour of marginalized
groups including youth and migrants.
The pracses also consider improved
data collecon and use of disaggregated
data to uncover spaal inequalies and
to improve access to basic services for all.
The example of South Africa will
parcularly show why young people are
overrepresented among the vicms and
perpetrators of violence and how
youth-based iniaves including
networks applying crime and violence
prevenve approaches are able to
implement policies of inclusion in their
communies.
The panel discussion referred to the
spaal divide of cies and mapping
accessibility to services for all within
urban agglomeraons. The event closes
with key recommendaons for
development partners how to
operaonalize the LNOB principle in cies
worldwide.
With clear mechanisms and processes
and well-defined responsibilies and
coordinaon mechanisms, rules and
regulaons can expand to other key
development areas, including, inter alia:
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i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
i.
ii.
municipal finance (i.e. tax collecon,
property tax, property registraon and
land value capture and sharing);
environmental
sustainability
regulaons (protecon of natural
assets and biodiversity, land use
planning, impact assessment
regulaons, waste management, air
and water quality);
urban governance (decentralizaon
and local autonomy laws,
empowerment of cizens and public
parcipaon rules, accountability
mechanisms)
equitable access to opportunies (laws
facilitang wealth redistribuon,
protecng commons and ensuring
provision of public goods)
Some of the key aributes of Urban
Legislaon, Rules And Regulaons are:
Other countries such as Malaysia has
developed a number of tools and
methodologies to systemacally
review and reform urban legal
frameworks to improve their
effecveness and their enforcement
potenal in order to make cies
inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable, develop effecve,
accountable and transparent
instuons to reinforce the rule of law.
Several SDGs goals can only be
achieved through effecve regulatory
frameworks. Urban legislaon has an
important role to play in virtually all
targets of Goal 11.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
Other countries such as Malaysia has
developed a number of tools and
methodologies to systemacally
review and reform urban legal
frameworks to improve their
effecveness and their enforcement
potenal in order to make cies
inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable, develop effecve,
accountable and transparent
instuons to reinforce the rule of law.
Several SDGs goals can only be
achieved through effecve regulatory
frameworks. Urban legislaon has an
important role to play in virtually all
targets of Goal 11.
It defines condions for access to land,
infrastructure, housing, basic services;
lays out rules for planning and decision
making; guides the improvement of
livelihoods and living condions by
seng requirements for urban
development iniaves; sets the
context within which urban
authories, local governments and
communies are expected to fulfill
their mandate and react to emerging
challenges.
Furthermore, urban legislaon can set
meaningful frameworks for sustainable
development or accentuate
inequalies and exclusion (Goal 10).
Effecve urban regulatory frameworks
are also fundamental to promote the
rule of law (Goal 16), develop effecve,
accountable and transparent
instuons at all levels, and ensure
parcipatory and representave
decision-making.
iii.
It defines condions for access to land,
infrastructure, housing, basic services;
lays out rules for planning and decision
making; guides the improvement of
livelihoods and living condions by
seng requirements for urban
development iniaves; sets the
context within which urban
viii.
UN-Habitat approaches and
methodologies for legal reviews and
reforms tackle the legal and
instuonal exclusion of poor and
marginalized people from affordable
housing, property rights and tenure
security, economic opportunies, basic
urban services (water, sanitaon, and
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ix.
x.
electricity) and from the right to
parcipate to the city decision making
process.
UN-Habitat aims at simplifying urban
laws and improving their
implementaon as an effecve means
to promote suitable urban
development, fight corrupon,
promote the rule of law and legally
empower the poor and marginalized
urban dwellers.
Successful intervenons in urban law
are more likely to be built from
xi.
incremental adjustments to, or
redirecons of, exisng pracce on the
ground than from complete
transformaonal change.
As the urbanisaon becomes an
important highlight in urban agenda,
the balancing of development and
human aspect must be focus on. It will
be achieved through interacons and
negoaons between stakeholder,
naonal decision maker, provincial and
local levels.
Events
7 FEB 2018 8 FEB 2018 9 FEB 2018 10 FEB 2018 11 FEB 2018 12 FEB 2018 13 FEB 2018
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
• Ministers
Roundtable
Dialogues
Special
sessions
Assemblies
High Level
Roundtables
• Governance
and
legislative
frameworks
• Unlocking
Positive
Impacts of
Migration in
Cities
• Affordable
housing for all
(diverse
income and
multigenerational
cities)
• Inclusive
Multi
Stakeholders’
Partnerships
• Urban Safety
and
Accessibility
Stakeholders’
Roundtable
• Parliamentarians
• Professionals
AFINUA
Room
• Network of
urban labs
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Listen to Cities / Local Action
Room
• Towards
Social and
Urban
Integration of
Slums and
Precarious
Settlements:
Implementing
the Law for
Fair Access to
Habitat and
New Urban
Agenda in the
Province of
Buenos
One UN Room
• Integrating
Migrants in
Cities:
Challenges
and
Opportunities
• Mainstreami
ng migration
into urban
planning: a
key success
factor for
leaving no
one behind
• Implementing
resilience
actions for
urban
sustainable
development:
Road for cities
to achieve
Target E of
Sendai
Framework,
New Urban
Agenda and
SDG11
Parallel
Events
Urban Library
• Making Hong
Kong a
Resilient City
Report and
“COPE” a
Children DRR
Story Book
Series
• “COPE” a
Children DRR
Story Book
Series
• Book launch :
Quito Papers
and the New
Urban Agenda
Networking events
• Towards the
City That
Leaves No
One Behind?
Perspectives
on Inclusive
Urban
Governance
• Who is
Aiding
Whom?
Redirecting
Climate
Finance to
Grassroots
Organization
s Leading
Resilient
Development
• From Theory to
Reality: Using
Data to Move
the Bar on
Property Rights
for Women and
the Most
Vulnerable
• Habitat treaty
for Latin
America: Legal
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
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Side Events
• Environmental
and social
impact
assessment:
what is its
impact and
effectiveness for
the poor in
African cities?
• Iskandar
Malaysia
Comprehensive
Development
Plans ii (CDP ii)
to support
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Making the most
of urban land:
land use and
planning for
prosperous cities
• Smart Cities
Behind the
Scenes:
Governance,
Viability &
Capacities
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda
through
National
Spatial
Planning
Policy and
Urban Design
Guidance
• The judiciary
facing the New
Urban Agenda:
Urban Law,
Access to
Justice and
Human Rights
Defence
• Rights / City
and Habitat:
Better
Legislations for
implement the
New Urban
Agenda in
Latin America
Training events
• Sustainable
Urban
Infrastructure
Transitions and
the New Urban
Agenda
• Addressing
inclusionary
housing in
SDG 11: Land
management
strategies to
supply
affordable
housing at
scale
• Cultural
Intelligence for
Diverse
Globalized
Urban
Environments -
for Productive
Engagement
with People
from Different
Cultures
• Learning
exchange on
Safer Cities
• Building skills
to design good
urban policies
and legislation
• Citywide Slum
Upgrading and
Prevention:
How to achieve
scale with
Innovative
Financing
Strategies
• Planning tools
from planning
to
implementation
and
monitoring: A
Malaysian
perspective
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WUF9 AND LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION
The General Assembly requested an action oriented New Urban Agenda in order to provide a
tool to guide the necessary change for the substantive improvement of urbanization for the
next twenty years. The NUA insists in the local implementation of the general theories of
development and urbanization.
If national urban policies constitute the roof unifying the three pillars of legal frameworks,
planning and design and financing urbanization, then local implementation constitute their
foundation. The focus on the local scale also provides an opportunity not only to concretize
more abstract principles in actual places, but also to address key issues of justice and equity.
Local implementation can be supported through area-based approaches including city
extensions, urban renewal, city infills and through the development of integrated systems of
urban basic services.
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POLICY DIALOGUES
GOVERNANCE AND LEGISLATIVE
FRAMEWORKS
PANELIST
1
Desmond Lee
Minister for Social and Family Development
Second Minister of Naonal Development,
Singapore
4
Patrick Keuleers
Director Governance and Peace Building
United Naon Development Programme
(UNDP) Belgium
2
3
Siri Gasemyr Staalesen
Member of Parliament of Norway
(Storng) Norway
Ramon Mestre
Mayor City of Cordoba
Argenna
5
6
Frances Birungi-Odong
Director of Programs
Uganda Community Based Associaon for
Women and Children’s Welfare (UCOBAC)
Uganda
Datuk Seri Jebasingam Isaace John
CEO East Coast Economic Region
Development Council (ECERDC)
Malaysia
Objective of the Session
• Raise awareness on the impact that
governance and legislave frameworks
have to deliver the inclusion and equality
of outcomes objecves of the New Urban
Agenda (NUA) and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) amongst
stakeholders and constuencies,
including the general public.
• Improve collecve knowledge on how to
review and reform governance and
legislave frameworks through inclusive
open debates and sharing lessons
learned.
Introduction
• The way cies and human selements are
planned, designed, financed, governed
and managed has an impact on
inequalies and inclusion (NUA Para 5).
In many countries, laws, instuons, and
• policies governing cies do not afford
equal opportunity and protecon to a
large segment of the populaon, who are
mostly poor, minories, women, children,
youths and other disadvantaged groups.
In some cases, laws and instuons
impose barriers and biases against the
poor and marginalized groups.
• Where laws exist protecng and
upholding the rights of the poor and
marginalized, instuons and processes
can be too difficult and costly for them to
access. The prevalence of corrupon and
abuse of power in many jusce systems
most greatly affects those who are poor
and most vulnerable.
Addionally, disadvantaged minories
are commonly poorly represented in
polical structures and decision making
bodies and consequently have lile
control over decisions that affect them.
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• Urban law has an important role to play in
promong inclusion and equality of
outcome: it defines condions for access
to land, infrastructure, housing and basic
services; lays out rules for planning and
decision making; guides the improvement
of livelihoods and living condions by
seng requirements for urban
development iniaves; and, sets the
context within which urban authories,
local governments and communies are
expected to fulfil their mandate and react
to emerging challenges.
• The impact of legislaon is important: it
can guarantee the inclusion of the
interests of vulnerable groups or
accentuate inequalies and exclusion. To
ensure equal opportunies and reduce
inequalies of outcome it is therefore
essenal to review and assess the impact
of exisng laws, policies and pracces and
to promote appropriate legislaon and
policies (NUA 89. and SDG 10.3).
Findings.
• In Argenna, parcularly in managing
Cordoba City;- governance & legislave
framework adopted style of transparent
(open) governance and encourage cizen
parcipaon. The local government of
Cordoba provide open data base
(informaon on government budget,
funcon of mayors, and cost of
infrastructure) which are accessible to
the public.
• Cizen parcipaon is the pillar of local
governance which they can acvely
involve in different channels such as in
Community Parcipaon Centres,
Centres in the Neighbourhood, Public
consultaon and so on.
• Legislave framework parcularly urban
laws/rules (City of Cordoba) were
established to promote the social
well-being of cizens. For example
Educaonal Parks has been developed in
the cies to promote and inculcate social
cohesion, cizen parcipaon, social
sport, informal educaon and training for
employment. In brief, legislave
framework in Argenna consists of
Constuonal Organic Law, Municipal
Ordinance and Regulatory Decrees.
• Urban regulaons/laws are fundamental
for Singapore in managing their
City-State. The formulaon of these
legislave involve peoples’ consultaon
as it need support from the community.
Singapore Urban Redevelopment
Authority (URA) Master Plan offers equal
access to urbanites that response to the
need and changes of the people
parcularly in coordinang all
infrastructure development.
• Most of Singaporean (90%) has their own
home from the public housing scheme
provide by the government. As to
strengthen social cohesion and to
support social mobility in a
neighbourhood, various iniaves has
been implemented by the community
and government such as interacon
community programmes, youth
befriending programs, wellness
Kampung, inclusive playgrounds,
therapeuc garden, intensive public
consultaon, rail corridor (green
corridor), readable literacy programme
and friends of Chestnut Nature Park.
• Malaysia’s experience to create inclusive
and equality is to have structured
frameworks on policy, legislaon and
governance. These are vital need to align
with global, naonal and regional plans.
Development is for a just and inclusive
society for the wellbeing of the rakyat.
• ECERDC roles is to balance the people
economy among the disadvantages
groups and create new capital economy
in order to have regional development
balance especially in less development
region.
• UNDP experience in many countries
signify governance and legislave
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framework are important to address
inequality which why some people are
le behind.
• There are (5) factors that drive inequality
that people are being marginalised:
o
o
o
o
o
Identy (race, gender, naonality,
Immigrant status, etc),
Geography (locality, remote area, etc),
Social economic Status (low income
people, poor, etc),
Fragile ecosystem (place aer disaster,
war, etc)
Governanc (Naonal / Local
Government not effecve,
corrupt,etc).
• Poverty is not only related to economy
but is a mul-dimensional issue.
Therefore a good governance and
legislave are necessary for the New
Urban Agenda to deliver inclusivity and
equality.
• Hence, to improve data availability is
significant to know who is le behind,
why are they le behind and where are
there in formulang policies or laws to
assist those marginalized groups.
The Way Forward
• This session proposed a simplified
approach based on the establishment of
a basic system of regulaons and rules
that provide a solid and predictable
long-term framework for urban
development that can be built upon, and
that is adequate to real needs, exisng
capacies and available resources.
• Social straficaon and exclusion are a
natural accuracy in urban areas unless
acve policies and legislaon are
introduced to promote integraon of
different idenes, funcons and
• socio-economic groups. Jusce is more
than equality and non-discriminaon; it
requires equality of outcome.
• Quality law promotes inclusion: policy
and legislaon should be based on
empirical evidence and data with clear
policy objecves and should represent
and benefit the priories of the people.
The process of policy and legal
formulaon should not be rushed and
should receive the needed aenon and
adequate legal skills. People involvement
is essenal in policy and legal
formulaon.
• Need to assess impact: It is essenal to
assess the impact of legislaon on
vulnerable populaon and human rights
through, among others, regulatory
impact assessments. Monitoring the
impact of policies and legislaon is
crical and Civil society should play a role
in on inclusion and equality.
• Governance: mul-level governance with
clear instuonal mandates and
responsibilies is key for effecve law
and policy.
• Access and knowledge of laws, rights and
access to legal assistance is indispensable
to promote inclusion and equality of
outcomes.
• Rule of law and recognion of rights are
fundamental for fighng corrupon and
maintaining stability in a diverse society.
Conclusions
• To establish effecve governance and
legislave framework, both must involve
consultaon at all level of society by the
way of intensive public consultaon,
parcipaon and awareness.
• Good quality laws promote inclusion of
vulnerable groups, contribute to poverty
alleviaon and promote social cohesion,
responsive to the need and changes of
people.
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• Collecve and shared responsibility from
various stakeholders such as naonal
government, local government, NGOs,
communies etc. is needed in
formulaon of public policy and
legislave frameworks to address the
needs (priority) of society especially
marginal and vulnerable groups.
• In order to have good governance, state
should have a clear/solid policy in
parcular maers. Thus, support by
effecve legislaon that is praccal in
term of implementaon and align with
naonal plans/policies. Both, governance
and legal framework should be monitor
to ensure efficiency and improvement.
• The laws establishing the instuons of
government, at the naonal, state, and
local levels, should reflect a mul-level
instuonal understanding supported by
adequate laws, can make cies more
compact, integrated, connected and
sustainable.
Urban Legislation, Rules and Regulations in many
developing countries has failed to guide and support
sustainable urban development and to effectively implement
urban policies. Urban law is in fact characterized
by the lowest implementation rates ineffectiveness than
any other field of law. In contrast to some literature that
suggests that this situation derives from poor enforcement,
we propose that, in large part, it derives from
structural weakness of the legal frameworks and the
rule of law. …….
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URBAN
PLANNING
AND
DESIGN
109

BACKGROUND
The central role of urban planning and design in sustainable urbanizaon, and by consequence,
sustainable development more generally, is firmly established in the Agenda 2030 (Sustainable
Development Goal 11 as well as other goals/targets with an urban dimension) and the New Urban
Agenda. Planning and design that is integrated vercally across different spaal scales and levels of
governance, and horizontally, across sectors and themes, undertaken and implemented through
mul-stakeholder partnership arrangements, can result in compact, socially inclusive, and beer
integrated and connected cies that foster sustainable urban development and are resilient to climate
change. However, a plan or design is only as good as its implementaon.
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Promote adequate
amounts of urban space
for a variety of economic
acvies
Set up a planning and
design process that is
evidence based,
integrated and
parcipatory
Promote housing as an
integrang element of
urban planning
Protect and preserve
natural resources and
cultural heritage
7
6
8
URBAN
PLANNING
AND DESIGN
8 Key Items
5
1
4
2
3
Plan and define the
urban area as well as
agricultural and natural
protecon areas
Define connecvity and
the quanty and quality
of urban space including
the structuring layout of
streets,blocks and plots
Make effecve use of
urban design to
provide livable
spaces, walkability
and a sense of place
Promote sustainable
density and mixed use to
aain the economies of
agglomeraon
1
2
3
4
SDG-11.3.1
SDG-11.3.2
Paras 13(a), 13(f), 14(c), 49, 51, 69, 88,
95-98, 101, 113, 114, 115, 117
SDG-2.4.1 SDG-15.1.2
SDG-11.3.1 SDG-15.2.1
Paras 37, 50, 54, 99, 100, 114(c), 118
SDG-11.7.1 CPI-ID-5.2
CPI-ID-5.1 CPI-ID-5.3
Paras 13(a), 13(b), 13(c), 13(d), 13(f),
13(h), 14(b), 15(c)iii, 32, 37, 44, 51, 52, 67,
69, 70, 97, 98, 99, 100, 112, 113, 114, 115,
118
CPI-ID-5.1
CPI-ID-5.2
CPI-ID-5.3
(direct)
SDG-3.6.1
SDG-6.1.1
SDG-6.2.1
SDG-6.3.1
SDG-7.1.1
SDG-11.1.1
SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.3.1
SDG-11.7.1
CPI-ID-4.4
CPI-ESI-4.1
(indirect)
5
6
7
8
Paras 37, 100, 102, 103, 113, 114(a)
SDG-3.6.1 SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.1.1 SDG-11.7.1
Paras 13(a), 13(g), 13(h), 14(c), 15(c)iii, 19,
49, 51, 63, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 77, 95, 101,
123, 124, 125
SDG-11.4.1
SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.6.1
SDG-11.6.2
Paras 13(a), 13(f), 14(b), 25, 31, 32, 33, 35,
104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 114, 119
SDG-11.1.1 CPI-ID-4.2
SDG-11.2.1 CPI-ID-4.5
SDG-11.3.1
Paras 13(d), 15(c)iii, 15(c)iv, 58, 59, 95, 100
SDG-11.3.1
SDG-11.7.1
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URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
1
Define the scope of the plan and the process. Consider the parcipaon of all the stakeholders, the vercal
and horizontal integraon across territories, systems and sectors. Promote collaboraon across jurisdicons
and actors.
Set up a planning and design process that is evidence based, integrated and parcipatory
2
Translate locally the naonal urban policy/ies that may be in place. Project populaon needs and demographic
changes, economic and job opportunies and natural constraints.
Plan and define the urban area as well as agricultural and natural protecon areas
3
Reserve public space in adequate quanty and ensure equitable distribuon in its layout. Design and define
streets, blocks and plots, creang blocks and plots in sufficient quanty and that support denser fabrics.
Define connecvity and the quanty and quality of urban space including the structuring layout of
streets,blocks and plots
4
Encourage co-located home, work and services and mulmodal transport viz. public transport integrated with
walking and cycling opons that lowers the me cost and environmental impact
Promote sustainable density and mixed use to aain the economies of agglomeraon
5
Pay aenon to plot-building interface and quality of public space (e.g. accessibility, safety, inclusivity and
distribuon). Provide good neighbourhood design to promote livability, sense of place, safety, walkability and
access for all.
Make effecve use of urban design to provide livable spaces, walkability and a sense of place
6
Planning and design at all scales should protect natural resources and land features, control polluon,
minimize vulnerability, priorize the use of renewable energy resources, adopt energy and resource efficiency
measures,
Protect and preserve natural resources and cultural heritage
7
Implemenng the principles of Housing at the Centre of the New Urban Agenda can help relate adequate and
affordable housing strategies and intervenons with diverse land/ tenure opons and achieve inclusive land
use
Promote housing as an integrang element of urban planning
8
Cies should provide sufficient, well-located land and space for a full range of economic acvies, from formal
to informal, large to small scale and global to local draw.
Promote adequate amounts of urban space for a variety of economic acvies
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BASIC INFORMATION
125 papers related to Urban Planning and Design have been presented at various sessions during WUF9
from 7-13 February 2018.
The themes of 125 papers have been categories under 10 key items which relevance to Urban Planning
and Design; namely
• Develop evidence-based, strategic and
binding urban plans at all levels:
territorial, metropolitan, city, and local, in
order to guide sustainable urban
development;
• Create integrated urban and territorial
planning and design tools and
mechanisms;
• Ensure transparent, collaborave and
parcipatory planning and design
processes;
• Protect and conserve natural ecosystems
and cultural heritage with urban and
territorial planning and design;
• Create compact, connected, integrated,
safe and inclusive urban space with tools
and instruments for urban and territorial
planning and design;
• Ensure equitable access to public goods
and urban services with coherent and
coordinated urban and territorial
management;
• Promote adequate and affordable
housing and access to urban land as a
fundamental element of urban planning
and design;
• Develop urban strategies and
intervenons that improve and integrate
informal and precarious selements;
• Develop urban strategies and
intervenons that promote inclusive and
sustainable urban mobility and a system
of safe, affordable and accessible public
transport for all;
• Plan for urban and climate resilience with
urban and territorial planning and design
OBJECTIVES
Strategic objecve: Integrate forward-thinking urban and territorial planning and design with
parcipave instruments and mechanisms capable of addressing the challenges of current and future
urban systems. Urban Planning and Design in WUF9 aims to:
i.
ii.
iii.
Share experiences and innovaons in the
area of urban planning and design, in
order to deepen the knowledge within
UN-Habitat as well as other instuons
and stakeholders;
Idenfy gaps and needs emerging from
the New Urban Agenda from an urban
planning and design perspecve;
Explore and deepen the knowledge not
iv.
only on creave urban planning and
design soluons, but also innovave
governance arrangements, partnerships,
and indicators of success; and
Discuss will use selected themes to
illustrate how creave urban planning
and design soluons and effecve local
implementaon mechanisms can change
how cies and human selements are
built and managed.
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THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
In various cies, urban planning has been
instrumentalized by property developers
and other economic and polical
stakeholders. these approaches either
respond to the interests of the beer-off,
or they focus only on strategic economic
intervenons in specific spaces, all of
which tends to create enclaves of
prosperity.
Urban planning also can all too easily be
turned into a technical exercise that
overlooks the fundamental need to steer
and control urban expansion (i.e. posive
urbanizaon as conducted by “the city
that plans”), instead creang cies where
exisng plans or regulaons are ignored,
and sustainability cannot be achieved.
Analysis of the most important
dimensions of the urbanizaon process
clearly shows that cies must reassert
control over their own desnies, acng
on form, character and funconality,
through a reinvented urban planning.
The proposed third component of the
new Urban agenda aims to respond to
this structural transformaon for the sake
of shared prosperity and harmonious,
sustainable development. Proper urban
planning, by adequate laws, can make
cies more compact, integrated,
connected and sustainable.
Well-planned cies can opmize
economies of agglomeraon, increase
densies (where needed), generate
mixed land uses, promote public spaces
with vibrant streets, and encourage social
diversity— all crical elements of
sustainability.
A new legal framework that is based on
the public interest and relies on effecve
instuons and adequate urban plans
will be in a beer capacity to protect the
“commons,” integrate environmental
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
concerns, promote social inclusion and
facilitate rural-urban interacons. this
city-wide integrated response puts urban
authories in a beer posion to
opmize exisng resources and harness
the potenalies of the future.
A revived form of urban planning and
design is a “development enabler” that
responds to the imperaves of urban
expansion, extending across various
scales of intervenon, from small
neighbourhood to city to metropolitan
forms of government to manage
ever-expanding urban areas.
The new Urban agenda should respond
to all these local urban contexts with
appropriate policy instruments and
acons as a constuent of the new
Urban agenda.
Urban planning aims to “reinvent” the
21st century city model in the sense of a
more sustainable approach that has the
power to raise densies, reduce energy
consumpon in transport and other
infrastructure, and bridge the urban
divide with strategic intervenons.
It is clear that various forms of inequality,
large environmental footprints and
suburban sprawl all conspire against
sustainable urban development. Urban
planning intervenons in areas such as
planned city extensions, planned city
infills, land readjustment programmes
and public space regulaons and projects
are key levers to effect transformave
change.
In this respect, public authories can
learn from the experience of
internaonal development assistance
and, more posively, carefully selected
best pracce. in all projects, context
maers, and in every case, context wins
in the end. indeed, the resilience of local
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13.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
contexts to exogenous threats and
changes is at the very core of definions
of sustainability.
Some of the key aributes of Urban
Planning and Design are:
The importance of good urban
planning and design is oen
underesmated in its ability to
promote an urban look and feel, public
spaces, and public infrastructure which
all work towards improving urban
quality of life;
One of the key missing components
that hinders good urban planning is a
mismatch between local needs and
naonal urban planning frameworks.
In the absence of these urban planning
frameworks and plans, urban growth
can be relavely uncontrolled;
This oen results in chaoc urban
growth, urban sprawl, lack of needed
basic services and urban infrastructure,
and in some parts of the world, growth
of slums. This rapid, uncontrolled
growth puts pressure on surrounding
land and natural resources, increasing
negave environmental impact;
The ongoing rapid urbanizaon
requires that infra- structure and
housing planning are fully integrated.
The pressure on urban development is
largest in the metropolitan areas,
which have resulted in growing
demands, parcularly from the private
sector, on making the planning more
efficient;
At the same me, we cannot afford
short-term soluons that do not take
sustainability and parcipaon into
consideraon. For example
infrastructure investment should re ect
social, economic and environmental
risks;
vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.
x.
xi.
Pressure is not as alarming in smaller
urban areas, which instead have
difficulty aracng investment as the
profitability of new construcon is
lower and the risks are greater;
The condions for building
well-integrated and well-designed
communies are increasing if public
sector investment is beer coordinated
with the construcon of new
infrastructure;
Ensure that a new comprehensive
urban development policy includes all
planning levels: the state and its
agencies; the regions and the county
administrave boards; the
municipalies and the civil society;
Move away from dominang sectoral
perspecves. Instead, all levels need to
work proacvely targeng long term
visions to create a sustainable urban
environment. Planning smart, compact
and sustainable cies requires that the
different interests are coordinated and
balanced according to priories;
Adopt a more long-term perspecve in
planning even when it addresses
short-sighted acvies. All decisions
must have sustainability and diversity
in focus;
Make planning processes more
effecve through use of new
technologies and improve technical
capacity to plan and manage and
monitor cies with ICT. Clearly state in
what elds data collecon must be the
responsibility of local authories.
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Events
7 FEB 2018 8 FEB 2018 9 FEB 2018 10 FEB 2018 11 FEB 2018 12 FEB 2018 13 FEB 2018
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
High Level
Roundtables
• The Urban
Dimension in
Climate Change
Action
• An Integrated
Territorial
Approach to
Sustainable
Development
• Sustainable
Urban
Development
for peace and
Security
Dialogues
• Governance and
Legislative
Frameworks
• Urban Planning
and Design for
Local
Implementation
Assemblies
• Women’s
Assembly
• Business
Assembly
Special sessions
• Informal
settlements and
slum upgrading
• Urban labs for
urban extension
and urban
renewal
• Affordable
housing for all
(diverse income
and multigenerational
cities)
• Smart cities and
the growing role
of frontier
technologies in
sustainable
urbanization
• Urban mobility
and safe and
accessible
transport for all
• Urban
ecological
landscapes:
Achieving urban
health
addressing
climate change
• Housing at the
centre, as a
vector for socioeconomic
inclusion
• Women
• Low carbon and
energy efficient
cities
• Urban safety
and accessibility
Stakeholders’
Roundtable
• Persons with
disabilities
AFINUA Room
• Housing at the
Centre of Urban
Transformations
: localizing the
NUA and the
SDG11 in cities
of Latin
America and the
Caribbean
• Rapid Planning -
Introducing new
approaches to
planning and
financing urban
supply and
disposal
infrastructure
• Network of
Urban Labs
Listen to Cities /
Local Action Room
• Urban
Innovation in
the
Implementation
of the Global
Agenda
• Fostering Local
Leadership for
Urban Climate
Resilience in
Asian Cities
• Towards Social
and Urban
Integration of
Slums and
Precarious
Settlements:
Implementing
the Law for Fair
Access to
Habitat and New
Urban Agenda
in the Province
of Buenos Aires
• Policies and city
wide strategies
creating well
managed,
inclusive, safe
and accessible
public space
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One UN Room
• Circular
Economy in
Cities
• Physical
inactivity and
Rising Non
Communicable
Diseases: How
creating space
for sport can
support the
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
and drive
socioeconomic
development in
Asia-Pacific
• Implementing
SDG 11 and the
New Urban
Agenda: Key
Issues in the
Transformation
Towards
Sustainable and
Resilient
Societies
• Sustainable
Cities: Hubs of
Innovation, Low
Carbon
Industrialization
, and Climate
Action
• Implementing
resilience
actions for urban
sustainable
development:
Road for cities
to achieve
Target E of
Sendai
Framework,
New Urban
Agenda and
SDG11
• Integrating
Urbanization in
National
Development
Planning in
Africa
Parallel
Events
• Thriving cities,
prosperous
countries: From
Agenda to
Implementation
Urban Library
• Launch of
Global State of
the National
Urban Policy
Report
• Multidimension
al Sustainability
Benchmarking
for Smart Cities
and Regions
• Towards ‘New
Urban Success'
with SDG 11
and the NUA -
Challenges in
Kampung and
Slum Upgrading
in Bandung,
Indonesia
• Policies and city
wide strategies
creating well
managed,
inclusive, safe
and accessible
public space
• “COPE” a
Children DRR
Story Book
Series
• City Enabling
Environment for
the
implementation
of NUA
• Book launch :
Quito Papers
and the New
Urban Agenda
• Urban Planning
for City
Leaders: A
Handbook for
Kenya
• Planning for
Climate Action
in Informal
Settlements
• Launch of
“Migration and
Inclusive Cities:
A Guide for
Arab City
Leaders
• Global
Prosperity Starts
with Cities:
Implementing a
Child-
Responsive New
Urban Agenda
Networking events
• Sustainable,
inclusive urban
prosperity
through an
evidence-based
approach
• Landscapes
Making in Asia
and the Pacific
• Improving
Urban Planning
for Regenerative
City
Development -
Experiences
Sharing of One
Belt One Road
Country Cities
• Housing for
peace,
prosperity and
people in Arab
Cities
• What Does
Inclusive
Transit-Oriented
Development
Mean to You
• Sustainable
Urban
Development in
the Netherlands
• Creative Cities
are Vibrant
Cities
• Urban Housing
Practitioners
Hub: A Network
to Improve
Housing
Conditions in
Latin America
and Beyond
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in Small
Island
Developing
States:
Promoting the
role of cities in
sustainable
development in
island systems
• Latin American
Urban Learning
Network
• PASSA Youth
Launch in Asia-
Pacific:
Leveraging
youth
engagement and
technological
innovations for
participatory
urban planning
• Good Planning
and Good
Governance:
examples to
implement the
New Urban
Agenda
• SDG and New
Urban Agenda
implementation
on the African
continent:
Networking for
new approaches
to build
capacities and
reform tertiary
education
• Good Design,
Good Planning:
Aligning
practice,
communities
and education in
the
implementation
of Agenda 2030
• Smart and Green
Development
• Achieving
Sustainability
Through
Inclusive
Heritage Based
Development in
Asian Cities
• Smart
Sustainable
Cities
• Integrated
Housing and
Habitat Policy:
An inclusive
approach to
territories,
resilience and
poverty
reduction
• Public Space as
driver of
Equitable
Economic
Growth: Policy
and Practise to
Leverage a Key
Asset for
Vibrant City
Economies
• Transformation
of Green
Infrastructures
in City of Kuala
Lumpur through
Urban Solution
and Innovation
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Side Events
• Linking our
common
challenges:
fostering
resilience in
tropical cities
through urban
planning
• Making the most
of urban land:
land use and
planning for
prosperous cities
• Estrategias
territoriales de
los gobiernos
locales:
Instrumentos
para la
implementación
de la Nueva
Agenda Urbana
• The governance
of urban land
use
• Iskandar
Malaysia
Comprehensive
Development
Plans ii (CDP ii)
to support
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Lessons from
City Planning
Institutes: How
to Design
Effective
• Participatory
Budgeting in
Asian Cities: A
Pathway
Towards
Achieving The
New Urban
Agenda
• Urban Planning
instruments for
post-disaster
recovery efforts:
Comprehensive
Urban
Development
plans for
resilient Human
Settlements
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda through
establishment of
the Spatial
Planning
Platform
• Polycentric
Approaches to
Managing
Urban Water
Resources in
Southeast Asia -
Localizing the
Sustainable
Goals of the
2030 Agenda
and the New
Urban Agenda
at the Local
Level
• Citizen-City
Collaboration in
Contested
Spaces: from
Theory to
Practice. Real-
World Examples
for
implementing
the New Urban
Agenda at Three
Scales: the
neighbourhood
of Kibera, the
city of Dhaka,
and the nation of
Argentina
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda through
National Spatial
Planning Policy
and Urban
Design
Guidance
• #EveryLife -
delivering the
New Urban
Agenda priority
of safe &
healthy journeys
for every child
• Ten years of
architecture
movement for
equitable cities
and resilient
communities;
grounding
experiences,
expanding new
horizon
• Achieving
Sustainability,
Inclusivity and
Resilience
through
designing
Responsible
Architecture and
human
settlements
• The Public
Realm for
Equity,
Inclusion, and
Sustainability
• The Role of
Local
Governments in
the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
and Ensuring
Sustainable
Urban
Development;
Lessons Learned
from the Big Six
Cities of the
Punjab,
Pakistan?
Training events
• Ethical City
projects:
Principles and
practices for
developing
cross-sectoral
projects to
implement NUA
objectives
• Participatory
Approaches in
Urban Planning
and
Development:
Learning from
Indonesian
Cities
• Addressing
inclusionary
housing in SDG
11:Land
management
strategies to
supply
affordable
housing at scale
• Saving the
planet by
design: Making
urbanisation
sustainable by
creating humane
urban space
• Localizing
SDGs:
integrated
territorial
planning with
the SDGs in
medium sized
cities
• City Energy and
Climate Action
Plans: How to
set Targets and
Develop a Plan
• Design Sprint
for Urban
Innovation
• Planning tools
from planning to
implementation
and monitoring:
A Malaysian
perspective
• The Use of
Minecraft for
Community
Participation in
Design of Public
Space
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POLICY DIALOGUES
URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR
LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION
Sunday, 11th February 2018
PANELIST
1
2
3
4
Madam. Norliza Hashim
CEO
Urbanice Malaysia
Ms. Shipra Narang Suri
Coordinator
United Naons Human Selement
Programme (UN- Habitat)
Ms. Emilia Saiz
United Cies and Local Government
Ayse Ege Yildirim
Urban Planner
Turkey
5
6
7
Fernando de Mello Franco
City of São Paulo, Brazil
Secretary of Urban Development
Brazil
Leo Van Broeck
Flemish Government, Belgium
Government Architect
Belgium
Mariana Alegre
Ocupa Tu Calle,
Director
Peru
Objective of the Session
• Raise awareness on the impact that
governance and legislave frameworks
have to deliver the inclusion and equality
of outcomes objecves of the New Urban
Agenda (NUA) and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) amongst
stakeholders and constuencies,
including the general public.
• Improve collecve knowledge on how to
review and reform governance and
legislave frameworks through inclusive
open debates and sharing lessons
learned.
Introduction
1. Affordable living
Malaysian Government play vital role to
encouge affordable housing in Malaysia.
This is due to increasing cost of living,
especially in urban area;
It involves every party in the country
including private sector to boost
affordable housing programme. Rising
cost of living and insufficient of saving in
people account, make Malaysia
government to take serious measure on
dealing with the situaon. This include
boom up approach to put young mind
on the table to shape Malaysia future
through TN50 iniave. and communies
are expected to fulfil their mandate and
react to emerging challenges.
2. Sustainable urbanization
• Element in sustainable urbanisaon
includes draing Naonal Urban Policy,
urban legislaon, rules and regulaons,
Internaonal guidance, urban economy
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and municipal finance, local
implementaon, city climate acon plan
and global public space programme.
• Ruralisaon of urban area also must be
part of our urban planning and urban
design. Ruralisaon of urban area will link
and bridged the urban area with the rural
area while maintaining the core and good
rural values.
3. Perspective of constituency (local
government)
• Planning and land use is impossible to
separate. Thus, in planning, all the
resources have to be carefully
considered. The current planning is not
universal; it is not children, women, and
age friendly.
• Thus it is advisable and something to look
forward in the local municipalies during
planning stage. Laws and instuons
provide the normave and organizaonal
underpinnings of urban change and the
power and rigor generally sustaining
connuity or triggering change The City
such as the reform of urban legal
systems, regulaons on urban planning,
building regulaons and zoning laws, and
parcipatory and inclusive land
readjustments.
Objective of the Session
• Many cies are currently facing serious
challenges of ineffecve development
control systems, informal and oen
chaoc peri-urban expansion, a
proliferaon of informal housing and
livelihood acvies, poor connecvity,
traffic congeson and energy inefficiency,
among others.
• Cies are increasingly facing
environmental challenges, including how
to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions
and the increasing impacts of
anthropogenic climate change. Specific
aenon should be paid to the design of
• the common space, since it is one of the
main contributors to urban value
generaon, with provision of appropriate
street paerns and connecvity and the
allocaon of open spaces.
• Equally important is clarity in the layout
of the blocks and plots, including
appropriate compactness and mixed
economic use of the built area, to reduce
mobility needs and service delivery costs
per capita.
• To address these challenges, UN-Habitat
will provide city and naonal
Governments with a set of tested
approaches, guidelines, and tools to
support the management of growth and
improved sustainability, efficiency and
equity of cies through planning and
design at different scales — the slum and
neighbourhood, city, regional, naonal
and supra-naonal scales.
• This will be achieved through:
o
o
o
improved policies and legislaon
regarding urban planning and
sustainability based on the principle of
subsidiarity;
increased capacies of instuons
and stakeholders to undertake and
effecvely implement, in parcipatory
and inclusive ways, urban planning
processes at the most appropriate and
adequate scale; and
new urban planning and design
iniaves in selected cies.
• UN-Habitat will assist making urban
planning and design a more effecve tool
for governments and local authories to
achieve sustainable urban development.
• Finally, the design should strengthen the
city’s social mix and interacon and
culture.
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The Way Forward
• Urban planning and design can be
defined as a decision-making process
aimed at realizing economic, social,
cultural and environmental goals through
the development of spaal visions,
strategies and plans and the applicaon
of a set of policy principles, tools,
instuonal and parcipatory
mechanisms and regulatory procedures.
• Spaal planning covers a large spectrum
of scales ranging from neighbourhood,
city / municipality, city- region /
metropolis to naonal and
supra-naonal/transboundary. It aims at
facilitang and arculang polical
decisions and acons that will transform
the physical and social space and affect
the distribuon and flows of people,
goods and acvies.
• The formaon of partnerships between
public, private, and civil society can
support the urban development process.
Collaborave engagement among actors
and the longer-term commitment this
generates is important to sustain policies
and decisions over policy cycles.
• Also, planning mechanisms that have
engaged the private sector and other
stakeholders within clear regulatory
frameworks and responsibilies have
delivered a stronger link between
planning and implementaon.
• Urban and spaal plans need to be
fit-for-purpose. In view of the all the
above, effecve and implementable
urban plans are anchored in design
choices, regulaons and financial
mechanisms that leverage economies of
agglomeraon. City development
strategies supported by such elements
translate vision into acon.
• The process of urban planning and design
should be inclusive and equitable with
benefits shared by all:
o
o
o
o
Engage diverse segments of the
populaon, parcularly the poor,
women, youth and marginalized
groups, in urban and territorial
planning.
Develop and implement policies and
regulaons that encourage social
integraon and mixed land use.
Facilitate land tenure security and
access to land and property rights, as
well as access to finance for
low-income households.
Upgrade informal selement and
integrate them in the city through
connecvity, locaon of services and
facilies and by provision of
opportunies.
Conclusions
The overall approach will focus on the creaon
of a spaal structure in cies and larger
territories to facilitate sustainable
urbanizaon.
Special aenon will be paid to promong,
within the context of decentralizaon and
mullevel governance, a number of crical
principles, such as opmizing the populaon
and economic density of urban selements,
mixed land-use, diversity and beer
connecvity in order to take advantage of
agglomeraon economies and to minimize
mobility demand. In parcular, the new
approach will emphasize:
• The need to plan in advance of urban
populaon growth;
• The need to plan at the scale of the
challenges;
• The need to plan in phases;
• The need to plan for job creaon, while
respecng locally and regional urban
plans.
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ECONOMY
AND
MUNICIPAL
FINANCE

BACKGROUND
The New Urban Agenda provides a roadmap for the achievement of sustainable urbanizaon. Many
urban areas and regions require economic regeneraon and renewal programmes, strategies for
cluster development and industrial zones, as well as access to safe, affordable, accessible and
sustainable transport, as recommended by SDGS. Proper connecvity and adequate infrastructure are
also needed.
It is expected to contribute to the realizaon of the Agenda 2030, including SDG 11 and other urban
related goals and targets. Achievement of these goals depends, to a large extent, on the ability of cies
to effecvely address their producve potenal and make municipalies financially sound. Improving
financial management, geng the financial accounng in order, improving balance sheet, and
expanding capital investment plans, cies will be able to expand financial capacity.
Understanding accounng principles, training on capital investment plans and helping to set up basic
electronic government systems have immediate results; later, support must be given to improve
technical knowledge of more complex financial instruments such as bonds, credit rangs, loans, green
financing and others. Once the principles of municipal finance are in place, cies can take advantage of
instruments such as land value finance, management of local assets and expansion of producve
capacies. The producvity of cies contributes to economic growth and development and generates
income, providing decent jobs and equal opportunies for all through adequate planning, effecve
laws and policy reforms.
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Help local authories understand and
adapt their respecve economic
development policies, mechanisms
and financing models
Establish principles for enhancing
the role of local government in
fostering inclusive, equitable and
sustainable urban development
Help local authories
design and implement
systems that ensure
social, economic and safe
physical access to quality
basic services
5
6
Design and implement tools
for fostering inclusive local
economic development
URBAN
ECONOMY AND
MUNICIPAL
FINANCE
6 Key Items
4
1
3
2
Help local authories
design and implement a
more inclusive,
sustainable, equitable
local financial and
economic framework to
operaonalize municipal
Improve the equitable and
progressive tax policy and
revenue generaon along with
the requisite mechanisms and
legal underpinnings
1
2
3
Paras 5, 15(a), 15(c)iv, 86, 134, 135, 138
CPI-UGL-3.1
CPI-UGL-3.2
(direct)
SDG-17.1.2
(indirect)
Paras 15(c)iv, 53, 58, 132, 133, 134, 135,
138, 139
CPI-P-1.1
CPI-UGL-3.1
CPI-UGL-3.2
(indirect)
Paras 14(b), 15(c)iv, 45, 90, 104, 126, 132,
133, 134, 135, 139, 152
CPI-UGL-3.2
(direct)
SDG-11.3.2
CPI-P-1.1
CPI-P-2.1
CPI-UGL-3.1
(indirect)
4
5
6
Paras 40, 47, 49, 58, 77, 95
SDG-8.3.1
SDG-9.3.1
(indirect)
Paras 15(c)iv, 90, 104, 132, 133, 135, 137,
145, 151, 152
SDG-9.a.1
CPI-ID-4.3,
CPI-UGL-3.2 (indirect)
Paras 13(a), 15(c)iv, 46, 56, 57, 106, 107,
139, 140, 142
SDG-11.c.1
(direct)
SDG-11.1.1
CPI-P-1.3,
CPI-ID-1.1
(indirect)
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URBAN ECONOMY AND
MUNICIPAL FINANCE
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Principles for municipal finance, may include a cadastral register as basis for urban assets, property taxes,
expenditures and local infrastructure, and transfers, etc, and must create an enabling environment and
support mechanisms for local revenue generaon. They must create enabling condions for access to credit
by local authories. And they must be based on a human rights approach.
Establish principles for enhancing the role of local government in fostering inclusive, equitable and
sustainable urban development
2
Such a framework should consider the enre budgetary cycle including income, expenditures, current capital,
capital investment plans, etc, link to the local financial management system and be anchored in local economic
development potenal including the role of local government to provide and distribute public goods and
services and enhance local economic producvity.
Help local authories design and implement a more inclusive, sustainable, equitable local financial and
economic framework to operaonalize municipal
3
Increasing local revenue by improving the efficiency, transparency and accountability of revenue-generang
tools, mechanisms and legal and regulatory frameworks. This can include innovave, endogenous financing
instruments (such as congesons finance that can cross subsidize), land value sharing and borrowing and
own-source revenue generaon strategies from taxes and charges/fees.
Improve the equitable and progressive tax policy and revenue generaon along with the requisite
mechanisms and legal underpinnings
4
Helping local authories design and implement programmes and tools that improve, inter alia, value chains/-
supply chains, and their links with physical landscape and layout, with a parcular focus on SMEs, gender- and
age-sensive employment opportunies, etc.
Design and implement tools for fostering inclusive local economic development
5
Investments are important for municipal own-source revenue. Mul-year capital planning—including
comprehensive infrastructure assessments—can help ensure producve and efficient basic services (including
ICT) and networks and their maintenance and meet backlogs and ancipated demands. Such investments
must be structured to encompass total economic value, including land value appreciaon and all other
economic, social and environmental impacts and benefits.
Help local authories design and implement systems that ensure social, economic and safe physical access
to quality basic services
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6
Using innovave means to make housing more affordable including dynamic affordability (e.g. housing as a
source of rental income) and home-based income-generang acvies and reduced operang costs including
energy efficiency. Housing finance opons for all levels of income. Where possible, also providing sustainable
finance for cross-subsidies, mortgages and financing for social and rental housing, non-collateral credit
mechanisms for owner-builders and credit for developers, contractors and building materials producers.
Developing a licensing environment and rental policies that support community cooperave configuraons
and residency status
Help local authories understand and adapt their respecve economic development policies, mechanisms
and financing models
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BASIC INFORMATION
66 papers related to Urban Economy and Municipal Finance have been presented at various sessions
during WUF9 from 7-13 February 2018.
The themes of 66 papers have been categories under 6 key items which relevance to Urban Economy
and Municipal Finance; namely
Enabling condition of sustainable
urban financing
i.
ii.
Establish intergovernmental fiscal
systems to improve the efficiency and
effecveness of public expenditure at the
subnaonal level and promote inclusive
and sustainable urban development;
Establish or strengthen urban governance
systems in order to maximize the
sustainable mobilizaon of resources to
finance urbanizaon (in parcular, public
urban infrastructure and services);
Critical elements for financing
urbanization and developing of robust
urban economies legal framework
i.
ii.
Strengthen or support the design and
implementaon of an efficient and
effecve local fiscal-financial and
economic framework for sustainable
urban development;
Improve and increase sources of urban
investment, using new and improved
tools and mechanisms for local financial
producon;
iii.
Promote effecve local fiscal regimes that
strengthen inclusive and sustainable
municipal finances and take into account
instuonal size and government
capacies to effecvely and efficiently
exercise assigned funcons and to
support capacity building
iii.
Create and implement new and
diversified instruments at all levels, to
improve access to adequate housing
OBJECTIVES
Strategic objecve: Strengthen municipal finances, local fiscal systems, instruments and capacies for
innovaon and development of new and improved financing mechanisms for urban investment, and to
foster local urban economies. Urban Economy and Municipal Finance in WUF9 aims to:
i.
ii.
Discuss challenges facing cies, in
parcular in developing countries, in
expanding finance to pay for local
infrastructure and provide basic services;
Share knowledge and experiences, from
both developing and developed
countries, on effecve mechanisms and
strategies to expand local finance;
iii.
Discuss strategies that can be used for
monitoring and reporng on the
implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda in the areas of municipal finance
and urban economy.
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THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The most producve cies benefit from
comprehensive economic and structural
diversificaon plans, knowledge-sharing
and technology-learning plaorms, as
well as employment generaon and
income-growth programmes for
vulnerable groups, including newly
arrived immigrants. These can have
posive mulplier effects in various
development areas, especially when
redistribuve mechanisms are put in
place, including: extension of public
spaces, provision of public goods, and
job-creang public procurement.
Adequate urban planning and design
maximizes agglomeraon economies,
creang the sustainable densies
required to develop the local urban
economy and reduce inequality of
opportunies among different groups of
society.
Macro-economic performance is highly
dependent on local economies. it was
noted many years ago that “an inefficient
Cairo meant an inefficient Egypt.” this
image could be extended not just to large
cies in any country y but also more and
more to any country’s system of cies.
However, for cies to be producve,
compeve and efficient, they need
sound financial planning that integrates
proper budgeng, revenue generaon
and expenditure management. More
producve cies are able to increase
producon with unchanged amounts of
resources, generang addional real
income that can raise living standards
through more affordable goods and
services.
Sound business and financial plans can
generate the revenues required to
support beer urbanizaon which, in
turn, can be a source of further value
generaon. local authories can reap
6.
7.
8.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
some of the benefits of this process that
translates into higher land and property
values than can be captured by various
taxaon mechanisms to enhance
municipal revenue.
For that purpose, adequate financial
frameworks and governance systems
must be in place, including:
The capacity of a municipality to
finance and deliver infrastructure
plans;
Effecve instuons, with clear roles
and adequate human and financial
capacies;
Fiscal mandates and capacity to raise
revenues, e.g. through land and
property taxes;
Regulatory support and clear legal
frameworks that guarantee
accountability and transparency in the
use of the resources.
Municipal finance requires innovave
strategies like public-private partnerships
(PPPs) and land readjustment schemes
that can leverage addional resources to
cope with constraints on public sector
resources. land readjustment generates
value, enabling both municipalies and
landowners to share the profits derived
from changes in land use and more
raonal planning.
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Events
7 FEB 2018 8 FEB 2018 9 FEB 2018 10 FEB 2018 11 FEB 2018 12 FEB 2018 13 FEB 2018
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
High Level
Roundtables
• Urbanisation
and
Development:
Investing in the
Transformative
Force of Cities
• An Integrated
Territorial
Approach to
Sustainable
Development
• Innovative
Governance for
Open and
Inclusive Cities
Dialogues
• Urban
economies,
productive
cities and
municipal
finance
Assemblies
• Business
Assembly
Special
sessions
• Security of
tenure, land
market and
segregation
• Informal
settlements and
slum upgrading
• Local economic
development,
productivity
and youth
employment in
cities
• Housing at the
centre, as a
vector for
socio-economic
inclusion
• Urban safety
and
accessibility
Stakeholders
’ Roundtable
• Indigenous
people
• Trade Unions
and workers
AFINUA
Room
Listen to Cities / Local Action Room
• Rapid Planning
- Introducing
new approaches
to planning and
financing urban
supply and
disposal
infrastructure
• Fostering Local
Leadership for
Urban Climate
Resilience in
Asian Cities
• Towards Social
and Urban
Integration of
Slums and
Precarious
Settlements:
Implementing
the Law for
Fair Access to
Habitat and
New Urban
Agenda in the
Province of
Buenos Aires.
• Network of
Urban Labs
• Innovative
financing
mechanisms in
Douala
Metropolitan
Council,
Cameroon
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One UN Room
• Catalysing the
New Urban
Agenda by
Integrating
Resources and
Collaborative
Governance and
New Urban
Agenda:
Mobilising
Finance for
Sustainable
Infrastructure in
Asia Pacific
• Empowering
Cities to
Implement the
2030 Agenda
and New Urban
Agenda:
Mobilising
Finance for
Sustainable
Infrastructure
in Asia Pacific
• Circular
Economy in
Cities
• Integrating
accountability
into
implementing
the SDGs and
the New Urban
Agenda:
innovation in
monitoring new
agendas for
cities
• Joint
Programme on
Waste SDG
Indicators -
Global
Monitoring and
Capacity
Development
for Sustainable
Cities and
Circular
Economy
• Support
effective
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
to facilitate
urban poverty
mitigation
through job
creation and
entrepreneurshi
p development
in Africa
• IFSUD and the
City
Partnerships
Challenge
Launch
Parallel
Events
• Thriving cities,
prosperous
countries: From
Agenda to
Implementation
Urban Library
• Multidimension
al Sustainability
Bench- marking
for Smart Cities
and Regions
• Partnerships for
the Sustainable
Development of
Cities in the
APEC Region
• City Enabling
Environment
for the
implementation
of NUA
Networking events
• Who is Aiding
Whom?
Redirecting
Climate
Finance to
Grassroots
Organizations
Leading
Resilient
Development
• Gender, urban
land tenure and
access to public
spaces
• Creative Cities
are Vibrant
Cities
• Supporting the
Urban
Dimension of
the
Development
Cooperation
• Unlocking
Cities for All in
Afghanistan:
Linking Land,
Finance and
Planning
Systems
• Navigating the
Affordable
Housing
Market in
Urban Cities
• Integrated
Housing and
Habitat Policy:
An inclusive
approach to
territories,
resilience and
poverty
reduction
• Public Space as
driver of
Equitable
Economic
Growth: Policy
and Practise to
Leverage a Key
Asset for
Vibrant City
Economies
• Smart
Financing for
Smart Cities:
Sharing
experiences on
financing
options for
smart urban
development
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Side Events
• Iskandar
Malaysia
Comprehensive
Development
Plans ii (CDP ii)
to support
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Sustainable
Urbanization in
the Paris
Agreement:
multilevel
governance and
finance for
urban adaptation
• Polycentric
Approaches to
Managing
Urban Water
Resources in
Southeast
Asia -
Localizing the
Sustainable
Goals of the
2030 Agenda
and the New
Urban Agenda
at the Local
Level
• Science to
Action (S2A)
as a Paradigm
for Enabling
Sustainable,
Low Carbon
Communities
in Southeast
Asia
• Participatory
Budgeting in
Asian Cities:
A Pathway
Towards
Achieving
The New
Urban Agenda
• Ecosystem of
Funds for
Sustainable
Urbanisation
in Latin
America and
the Caribbean
• Sustainable,
Inclusive and
Evidence-based
National Urban
Policy?
Regional and
Country
Experience
• Localizing the
SDG’s For the
Successful
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda –
Implementation,
Monitoring, and
The Role of
Municipal
Finance
• Bridging the
gap between
local finances
and urban
investment:
learning from
land value
capture
instruments in
Latin America
Training events
• The rules of
the
metropolitan
game. A
Discipline for
an integrated
approach to
the
metropolitan
complexity
• Citywide
Slum
Upgrading
and
Prevention:
How to
achieve scale
with
Innovative
Financing
Strategies
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POLICY DIALOGUES
URBAN ECONOMIES, PRODUCTIVE
CITIES AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE
Sunday, 11th February 2018
PANELIST/MODERATOR
1
2
3
Beatrice Marshall
CCTV Africa
Journalist
Kenya
Anders Knape
Council of European Municipalies and
Regions (CEMR)
Execuve President
Angela de la Cruz
Ministry of Development of Spain
Undersecretary of urban planning
6
7
8
Denise Chan
PwC
Finance and urban development Manager
Jennifer Musisi
Kampala Capital City Authority
Execuve Director
Marco Kamiya
United Naons Human Selements
Programme (UN-Habitat)
Coordinator (a.i.) Urban Economy and
Finance Branch
4
5
Brian Roberts
University of Canberra, Australia
Professor Emeritus at the Canberra Urban
and Regional Futures (CURF)
Caroline Ashley
Oxfam
Head, Economic Jusce, Pro-conomic
Jusce, Programme Strategy and Impact
Team
9
10
11
Mauricio Rodas
City of Quito
Mayor of Quito
Serge Salat
Urban Morphology Instute
President
Yoel Siegel
Interloc Development
Co-Founder
Introduction
• The New Urban Agenda provides a
roadmap for the achievement of
sustainable urbanizaon. It is expected to
contribute to the realizaon of the
Agenda 2030, including SDG 11 and other
urban related goals and targets.
• Achievement of these goals depends, to a
large extent, on the ability of cies to
effecvely address their producve
potenal and make municipalies
financially sound.
• Improving financial management, geng
the financial accounng in order,
improving balance sheet, and expanding
capital investment plans, cies will be
able to expand financial capacity.
• Enhanced revenues come from a variety
of sources. Fixing financial management
top to boom can have significant
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enefits. Understanding accounng
principles, training on capital investment
plans and helping to set up basic
electronic government systems have
immediate results; later, support must be
given to improve technical knowledge of
more complex financial instruments such
as bonds, credit rangs, loans, green
financing and others.
• Once the principles of municipal finance
are in place, cies can take advantage of
instruments such as land value finance,
management of local assets and
expansion of producve capacies.
• The objecves of this Special Session are:
o To discuss challenges facing cies, in
parcular in developing countries, in
expanding finance to pay for local
infrastructure and provide basic
services.
o
o
To share knowledge and experiences,
from both developing and developed
countries, on effecve mechanisms
and strategies to expand local finance
To discuss strategies that can be used
for monitoring and reporng on the
implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda in the areas of municipal
finance and urban economy
1st section
• Urbanizaon is causing a historic global
demographic transformaon that will be
one of the biggest drivers of economic
growth in the 21st century. One-half of
the world’s populaon lives in cies that
generate more than 80 percent of global
Gross Domesc Products.
• Policy and planning must meet the needs
of growth populaon because the
sustainability of financing will triggered
conflict issues due to poor planning.
Operaon of municipal finance facing a
lot of problem because of development
expenditure. In dependency of
• government funding is a must when
looking forward for urban agenda.
• Central governments finance the majority
of urban infrastructure. Cies in
developing countries also finance a
significant poron of infrastructure
projects with financial resources provided
by central governments.
• However, the responsibility of linking
roads to regional networks and
maintaining regional infrastructure
interlinked with that at the local level is
unclear in many countries. Oen, it lacks
requisite financing.
• Good governance is the key of the success
path of good financing management
which can turn expenses to high country
revenue. Best pracce all over the world
can be pracce clearly. Good governance
can generate huge financial revenues
through land banks values and refinance.
• Sustainable policies is crucial as the city
expand with or without financial
supported, such as influx of refugees. A
robust policy is needed for proper
technical, financial and city planning.
Policies must foresee the needs of local
people and to idenfy people centred
needs, then could create strategies, good
system and mobilized human capitals.
• Challenges to the local governments are
to get financial sustainable by collecng
taxaon and to get financial from the
open market through public private
partnership. It needs a strong taxaon
system and local government financial
should be full audited.
• Decentralized system with different
procedures between local government
and central government need to be
idenfy and through experience choose
best pracces .
• Another challenge is to get data for NUA.
NUA is complex to implement with 169
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• targets and 245 indicators are measured
and may be different between different
countries.
• Shenzhen China as a low carbon city,
aract private sectors to invest and also
aract good talents/ideas by organizing
Shenzen Low Carbon City Forum every
year.
2nd section
• The main challenge in urban financing is
to keep the financial instrument in its
place. The Government’s and local
government supporng is very important
• to keep the financial instrument at its
best for the economic growth.
Social impact assessment has been
conducted in 60 countries. Findings show
that 58% of the countries depend on
informal sector in their economic growth.
What lacking in most of the countries is
social value. If the naon focus on
economic only, the human value will have
no means. The important now is how to
capture the social values in economic
growth.
In some of Africa countries, housing, food
security and public infrastructure is
important to keep the social value alive.
The government has brings back the
communies’ role in economic
development by cater their very basic
need’s first such as housing and food.
In Bandung, Indonesia, there were the
projects that focused on low and middle
income group. The government planning
process also give a priorize to this
groups first in development to enhance
their quality of life. The government also
keep the public parcipang as a part of
inclusive development.
In Industrialized countries, they faced the
challenge of social value and needed the
strong support from the government to
curb the problem and keep the social
value alive;
• Right mechanism needed to manage the
social financing. For example, In
Mombasa, The tourism industries needed
the local people to support the
government investment on tourism. In
return, the government get back their
investment; and
• The setup of new policies in economic
growth should take into consideraon of
the populaon, area of economic
development, transportaon, informaon,
resources etc. to make it more
comprehensive. The infrastructure such
as road, lamp, social infrastructures etc.
should be well provided to enhance the
economic growth.
The Way Forward
• The main objecve of this session is to
idenfy investment and financial
opportunies and innovave instruments
available to local governments to support
implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda and urban related dimensions of
the 2030 Agenda.
• This session further aims to illuminate
chief barriers to creave investment and
financing mechanisms, by providing
specific examples from local
governments.
• Dysfunconality of local government was
the main cause of the slow development
of the city. Hence, the local government
must be able to find a right way to ensure
they funcon well to support the city
development.
• Strengthening the revenue collecon
base will help the city grow economically
and socially. Own source revenues and
Government grant help the city move to
the next level.
• The solid investment returns to the
investors are vital as private sectors
playing major role in city development.
Returns should be significantly enough to
aract the investor to invest in the city.
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• The public-private partnership become a
right tool to address the city financing
issues and development. With respect to
innovaon, the regulatory framework
and the system must be ready to adapt
the innovaon in relaon to city
financing.
• The budget allocaon from public-private
partnership is able to improve the city
condion such as:
o
o
o
Increase the mobility and building
capacity are very crucial to aract the
investors;
Conduct research to tackle urban
issues and building capacity; and
Improve the physical infrastructure,
sanitaons, safety, transportaons,
connecvity; society involvements are
fundamental elements that need to be
addressed in city developments.
• A more effecve, coordinated and
accelerated mechanisms for
implementaon of urban development
soluons is needed to harness the value
of urbanizaon and unleash the potenal
of cies to provide soluons to poverty,
inequality, climate change, and other
barriers to sustainable development.
• Among the greatest need to implement
the New Urban Agenda is the
mobilizaon of long-term finance and
idenficaon of innovave financial
soluons (e.g. green/water/sanitaon
bonds).
• To ensure the success of the
public-private partnership, the issues of
the quantum of the return of investment
and right risks distribuon must be
carefully addressed. Problem of deep
instuonal crisis and corrupon hinder
the full and efficient use of the annual
development budget for the city
development.
• Mismanagement, bad governance,
corrupon, bad system is the main cause
of bad performance. Hence, overall
system overhaul need to be done at every
level such as staff replacement, hiring a
professional, and good governance
mechanism, will aract the city
investment.
• Strong capacity building in urban financial
management will increase confidence
level among investors. With this, city is
able to aract more investments for
development.
• Four Major strength in urban financial:
o
o
o
o
Conclusion
Building the basic, the city finance –
geng the city finance funcon beer
Investment Porolio – city financing,
investment porolio and capacity
Innovave Financing Mechanism –
package deal system with the country
Global Engagement- to promote
partnership
There is a need to leverage private sector and
blended finance in a more consistent manner,
and draw from various funding sources,
including mullateral and bilateral financial
instuons, global and domesc capital
market instuonal investors, cooperaon
agencies, private-sector lenders and investors,
and microfinance banks.
The finance needs cannot be underesmated.
Today, one billion city dwellers live in slums,
oen with lack of access to basic and urban
services.
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LOCAL
IMPLEMENTATION

BACKGROUND
Implementaon of global commitments such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the
New Urban Agenda (NUA) will require coordinaon, localizaon and mul-level acon. The unique link
of cies to other development sectors and a wide range of stakeholders at all levels, make them key to
ensuring achievements of global commitments.
Local implementaon comprises acons to be undertaken at a finer, more granular spaal scale, based
on decisions made predominantly at the local level. It should guide local stakeholders to approach
targeted, place-based, project-oriented urban development in a sustainable, people-centered,
responsive and integrated way. It will allow urban extensions for new areas to be developed in
accordance with the principles of the New Urban Agenda and exisng areas to be retrofied or
regenerated so they can align with the same principles.
The local implementaon should integrate with subnaonal and naonal policies and ensure
involvement of local communies and groups considering local knowledge as an important
assessment.
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Establish and support
community-led groups that
liaise between cizens and
government
Use tools that
proacvely address
as-yet-unbuilt urban
growth at the local scale
Employ instruments for
public benefit from public
investment, parcularly
land value capture and
sharing, ecosystem
services assessment and
valuaon
5
6
Provide integrated, efficient
and equitable urban service
frameworks, parcularly in
unplanned, built urban areas
LOCAL
IMPLEMENTATION
6 Key Items
4
1
3
2
Use tools for urban
regeneraon of derelict
and/or obsolete areas
Plan for urban infill of planned,
built areas and control of urban
land price speculaon
1
2
3
Paras 2, 15(b), 15(c)iii, 51, 52, 69, 97, 98
SDG-11.3.1 CPI-ID-5.3
SDG-11.7.1 CPI-QOL-4.2 (direct)
SDG-11.a.1 SDG-11.3.2 (indirect)
CPI-ID-5.1
CPI-ID-5.2
Paras 13(a), 15(c)iii, 38, 97, 103, 107, 109,
110, 119, 120
SDG-7.1.1 SDG-11.2.1
SDG-11.3.1 SDG-11.c.1 (indirect)
SDG-11.7.1
(direct)
Paras 13(a), 14(b),
15(c)iii, 52, 54, 97, 98
SDG-7.1.1 CPI-ID-1.6
SDG-11.2.1 CPI-ESI-4.1 (direct)
SDG-11.3.1 CPI-P-2.1 (indirect)
SDG-12.2.1
SDG-12.5.1
4
5
6
Paras 14(a), 55, 70, 99, 107
SDG-1.4.1
SDG-11.1.1
CPI-ESI-2.1
(direct)
SDG-6.1.1
SDG-6.2.1
SDG-11.3.2
SDG-11.7.2
CPI-ID-1.2
CPI-ID-1.3
CPI-ID-1.4
CPI-ID-3.1
CPI-ID-4.3
CPI-ID-5.2
CPI-ID-5.3
CPI-ES-2.1
CPI-ES-2.2
(indirect)
Paras 13(a), 15(c)iv, 53, 90, 91, 107, 132,
137, 152
CPI-P-1.1
CPI-P-2.1
CPI-ID-1.6 (indirect)
Paras 13(a), 15(c)iv, 90, 91, 100, 159
SDG-11.3.2 CPI-P-1.1
SDG-16.1.4 CPI-P-2.1
SDG-16.6.2 CPI-ID-1.6
SDG-16.7.2 CPI-UGL-2.2
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LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION
1
Preparedness to make room for growth where needed at mulple scales, including through planned city
extensions, can ensure a sufficient supply of buildable plots and integraon and connecon to exisng urban
fabric and access to jobs and services, avoiding the development of isolated ‘bedroom’ communies and
fragmentaon of the landscape, parcularly in the peri-urban connuum.
Use tools that proacvely address as-yet-unbuilt urban growth at the local scale
2
Regeneraon and upgrading of exisng urban fabric including vacant urban lots, derelict land and brownfield
sites, adopon of gentrificaon prevenon measures and provision of fair compensaon for relocaon.
Use tools for urban regeneraon of derelict and/or obsolete areas
3
Retrofing exisng urban fabric, including by infilling, parcularly of planned, low-density, sprawling areas
with high per-capita rates of energy use and emissions, bringing into convergence and improving the equity of
rates of consumpon across the urban spaal connuum.
Define the roles and Plan for urban infill of planned, built areas and control of urban land price speculaon
4
Redistribuve policies and in-situ improvements—including incremental implementaon—that ensure that
urban services (e.g. water, sanitaon, electricity as well as food, ICT and educaon and health facilies) are
delivered as an integrated, interseconal package go to under serviced and marginalized groups. Provision of
common space for rights-of-way and improved access to open and green space.
Provide integrated, efficient and equitable urban service frameworks, parcularly in unplanned, built
urban areas
5
Creang and sharing urban value by establishing and using planning, legal and fiscal mechanisms that
incenvize the use value of land and the extended socioeconomic and cultural funcon of ecosystems (e.g.
capturing and sharing increased value of land resulng from public and private investment, factoring the value
of ecosystem services into the municipal boom line, etc). Concrezaon of the principles of circular
economy, the commons, closed-loop metabolism and urban mining.
Employ instruments for public benefit from public investment, parcularly land value capture and sharing,
ecosystem services assessment and valuaon
6
Community-led groups play an indispensable role in ensuring liveable neighbourhoods by providing a vital
connecon between residents and the local and higher levels of government. Parcularly in urban planning
and management processes, such groups operate through both formal and informal means.
Establish and support community-led groups that liaise between cizens and government
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BASIC INFORMATION
173 papers related to Local implementaon have been presented at various sessions during WUF9 from
7-13 February 2018.
The themes of 173 papers have been categories under 8 key items which relevance to Local
implementaon; namely
i.
ii.
iii.
Create local communies that play an
integral and leading role in civil society
and sustainable urban development
Establish and strengthen cooperaon
between different levels of government
and other actors, including metropolitan
systems, to guide and coordinate
sustainable urban development at the
subnaonal level
Strengthen the connuity of medium and
long-term planning and implementaon
processes for sustainable urban
development
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
Plan for new urbanizaon with an
integrated, city-based approach
Promote recovery, re-development and
infill development
Improve the exisng urban fabric to
promote efficiency, equity, and safety of
the city and the city’s use of resources
Provide basic urban services, equipment
and social infrastructure in an integrated,
efficient and equitable manner
Transfer the benefits of public investment
to the inhabitants of the city
OBJECTIVES
Strategic objecve: Improve capacies and local instruments to guide urbanizaon and urban
development and promote solid partnerships between the diverse actors and sectors involved in
sustainable urban development. Local Implementaon in WUF9 aims to:
i.
ii.
iii.
Share experiences and innovaons of
local implementaon, in order to gain
knowledge within UN-Habitat as well as
other instuons and stakeholders;
Discuss strategies that can be used for
monitoring and reporng on the
implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda in the areas of municipal finance
and urban economy.
Idenfy gaps and needs emerging from
the New Urban Agenda from an local
implementaon perspecve;
iv.
v.
Explore and deepen the knowledge not
only on creave urban planning and
design soluons, but also innovave
governance arrangements, partnerships,
and indicators of success;
Illustrate how creave local
implementaon soluons and effecve
mechanisms that can change how cies
and human selements are built and
managed.
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THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
1.
2.
3.
This event addresses the needs for acon
to empower cies and municipalies to
implement the SDGs and the NUA. First
experiences and success stories of early
movers implemenng the SDGs are
shared.
Especially, the respecve requirements
for successful implementaon are
elaborated. For the discussion to be vivid,
evidencebased and linked to
developmental realies, the event brings
together different actors from the global
north and south. It provides the
opportunity to share successful
approaches for the implementaon of
the SDGs and the NUA. It also sheds light
on the challenges of local acon and
facilitates an exchange on strategies to
overcome them.
The implementaon of the NUA is
inevitable for the global community to
succeed in achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). Arcle 89 of
the NUA emphasises the importance of
policy frameworks that allow
municipalies to become actors of
development. In this regard,
contextsensive decentralisaon reforms
are crucial. This event discusses
opportunies and approaches for
strengthening mullevel governance
frameworks that empower cies and
municipalies to implement the NUA and
localise the 2030 Agenda.
5.
6.
7.
8
On the other hand, it requires acve
urban ownership and leadership,
strengthened local capacies as well as
parcipatory planning processes and
local governance mechanisms that
ensure accountability. This event
addresses the role of municipalies and
naonal governments in aligning the NUA
and the 2030 Agenda as well as the
support provided by internaonal
development partners.
It highlights ideas for partnerships and
iniaves for the localisaon of the SDGs
and emphasises the need to provide
coherent, harmonized and aligned
support for building the capacies of key
actors of decentralisaon reforms.
For a lively evidencebased discussion, the
event brings together representaves
from different levels of government,
biand mullateral development partners
as well as praconers. An academic
input will frame the discussion.
The adopon of the 2030 Agenda and the
New Urban Agenda (NUA) are milestones
of global governance towards an inclusive
world where no one is le behind. With
the considerable parcipaon of relevant
stakeholders, governments achieved
passed these ambious frameworks for
sustainable development. Aer
successful negoaon and adopon, now
is the me for implementaon.
4.
As decentralisaon reforms are highly
polical processes, they need to be
aligned with the overall public-sector
reform process and consider naonal
urban policies. On the one hand, this
requires a mulstakeholder dialogue
between different levels of government
and the promoon of decentralised
governmental and administrave
structures.
9.
Looking at our rapidly urbanising world,
there can be no successful
implementaon without the effecve
parcipaon and engagement of cies
and municipalies. With the majority of
global populaon being urban, it is
undeniable that urbanisaon determines
the sustainability of global development.
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10.
11.
Hence, cies and municipalies are the
essenal places where development
takes place. The NUA in turn provides the
necessary orientaon for implemenng
the 2030 Agenda in and with cies.
However, local implementaon calls for
the recognion and strengthening of
local actors as agents for sustainable
development and the promoon of
decentralised governmental systems.
12.
Naonal development plans and policies
need to be draed according to local
realies. To secure ownership, local
populaons need to be included in
planning and decision making processes.
This requires the strengthening of urban
capacies and administraons in order
for them to fulfil their responsibilies and
be responsive to local needs.
Events
7 FEB 2018 8 FEB 2018 9 FEB 2018 10 FEB 2018 11 FEB 2018 12 FEB 2018 13 FEB 2018
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
High Level
Roundtables
• Cities for All
and Housing at
the Centre
• The Urban
Dimension in
Climate
Change Action
• Urbanisation and
Development:
Investing in the
Transformative
Force of Cities
• Innovative
Governance for
Open and
Inclusive Cities
Dialogues
• Addressing
urban complex
crisis and
conflict
• Making resilient
cities
• Urban planning
and design for
local
implementation
• Urban
economies,
productive
cities and
municipal
finance
• Open and big
data:
Measuring the
urban reality
Assemblies
• Women’s
assembly
• Business
assembly
• World
Assembly of
Local and
Regional
Governments
Special sessions
• Security of
tenure, land
market and
segregation
• Informal
settlements
and slum
upgrading
• Local economic
development,
productivity and
youth
employment in
cities
• Urban labs for
urban extension
and urban
renewal
• Creative
investment and
financing
mechanism for
local
government
• Affordable
housing for all
(diverse income
and multigenerational
cities)
• Urban mobility
and safe and
accessible
transport for all
• Inclusive multistakeholders’
partnerships
• Civic
engagement
and
participation
• Urban Safety
and
Accessibility
Stakeholders’
Roundtable
• Civil Society
Organizations
• Grassroots
organizations
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AFINUA Room
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in
Latin America
and the
Caribbean
• Housing at the
Centre of
Urban
Transformatio
ns: localizing
the NUA and
the SDG11 in
cities of Latin
America and
the Caribbean
• Rapid Planning -
Introducing new
approaches to
planning and
financing urban
supply and
disposal
infrastructure
• Strengthening
Partnerships for
inclusive
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
in advancing
Agenda 2030
• Participatory
upgrading of
slums and
informal
settlements
through
partnerships
between
government
and grassroots
organisations
Listen to Cities /
Local Action Room
• Unlocking the
Potential of
Local
Leadership for
Sustainable
Urban
Development
• Local and
regional
governments
localizing the
global goals
• Fostering Local
Leadership for
Urban Climate
Resilience in
Asian Cities
• Towards Social
and Urban
Integration of
Slums and
Precarious
Settlements:
Implementing
the Law for Fair
Access to
Habitat and New
Urban Agenda in
the Province of
Buenos Aires.
• GPM as a
Multiplier-
Scaling the
Mannheim
Model of
Implementing
the SDGs and
the New Urban
Agenda on the
City Level -
Implement,
Measure,
Govern, Share.
• The NUA in
Intermediary
Cities, key to
implementing
the SDGs:
Building up to
the World
Forum of
Intermediary
Cities
• Subnational
Government
Global
Observatories
and the
implementation
of the Global
Agendas
• Innovative
financing
mechanisms in
Douala
Metropolitan
Council,
Cameroon
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One UN Room
• Catalysing the
New Urban
Agenda by
Integrating
Resources and
Collaborative
Governance
• Integrating
Migrants in
Cities:
Challenges
and
Opportunities
• Mainstreaming
migration into
urban
planning: a
key success
factor for
leaving no one
behind
• Circular
Economy in
Cities
• Empowering
Cities to
Implement the
2030 Agenda
and New
Urban
Agenda:
Mobilising
Finance for
Sustainable
Infrastructure
in Asia Pacific
• SDG-5 and
SDG-11
critical drivers
of the Leave
No one Behind
aspiration of
the 2030
Agenda for
Sustainable
Development
• The New Urban
Agenda in
Action – the
Role of
Infrastructure for
Sustainable
Development
• Physical
inactivity and
Rising Non-
Communicable
Diseases: How
creating space
for sport can
support the
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
and drive
socioeconomic
development in
Asia-Pacific
• Integrating
accountability
into
implementing
the SDGs and
the New Urban
Agenda:
innovation in
monitoring new
agendas for
cities
• The Role of
Cities in the
2018 High-
Level Political
Forum:
Transformation
Towards
Sustainable and
Resilient
Societies
• Implementing
SDG 11 and the
New Urban
Agenda: Key
Issues in the
Transformation
Towards
Sustainable and
Resilient
Societies
• Implementing
resilience
actions for
urban
sustainable
development:
Road for cities
to achieve
Target E of
Sendai
Framework,
New Urban
Agenda and
SDG11
• Support
effective
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
to facilitate
urban poverty
mitigation
through job
creation and
entrepreneurshi
p development
in Africa
• IFSUD and the
City
Partnerships
Challenge
Launch
• Partnered
Approach to
Sustainable
Urban
Development –
Leading
Initiatives of
United Nations
Global
Compact City
Participants and
Partners
Parallel
Events
• Thriving cities,
prosperous
countries: From
Agenda to
Implementation
Urban Library
• Towards ‘New
Urban
Success' with
SDG 11 and
the NUA -
Challenges in
Kampung and
Slum
Upgrading in
Bandung,
Indonesia
• Quick Guide
of New Urban
Agenda: First
Step to
Implementing
New Urban
Agenda in
Indonesia
• People's Vision
of the City
• Engaging
young men and
women in city
planning: The
Saudi
Experience
• City Enabling
Environment
for the
implementation
of NUA
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Networking events
• Developing
national and
local
frameworks for
the
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• ASEAN City-
Regions: The
Implementing
New Urban
Agenda
• The Role of
Cities for the
Localisation of
the SDGs
• Global
development
is coming to
town - Local
action for the
implementatio
n of the SDGs
and the New
Urban Agenda
• Who is Aiding
Whom?
Redirecting
Climate
Finance to
Grassroots
Organizations
Leading
Resilient
Development
• Localizing the
SDGs and the
NUA: Are we
on the right
track?
• Women’s
visions and
practices for
the
implementatio
n of the New
Urban
Agenda:
inclusive,
equal and
sustainable
cities for all
• Give Us Space!
Augmented
public space
geographies in
the changing
public/private
relationships
• Localising the
Sustainable
Development
Goals by
implementing
the New Urban
Agenda: A call
for decentralized
governmental
and
administrative
structures!
• Local
Implementation
of Global
Agendas -
Nordic Capacity
Building
Platform
• Implementing
the New Urban
Agenda in Small
Island
Developing
States:
Promoting the
role of cities in
sustainable
development in
island systems
• Collective
Housing:
Building active
people and
engaged
communities
• Towards a New
Urban
Governance
Observatory
• Urban culture
and heritage
partnerships
towards
achieving the
UN SDG and
NUA
• Challenges and
opportunities in
the
implementation
of a National
Urban Agenda:
The Ecuadorian
experience
• Walking the
Talk of Holistic
and Inclusive
Urban
Development:
Lessons from
SymbioCity on
four continents
• Multi-
Stakeholder
Partnerships
and the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Scaling up
participatory
budgeting for
fostering
resilience and
prosperity of
urban and
regional
development
• Bankable
projects for
Sustainable
Development
• Les dispositifs,
pratiques et
outils de
gouvernance
locale
participative et
d?inclusion
sociale pour
promouvoir les
droits à la cites
et
opérationnaliser
le Nouvel
Agenda Urbain
et les Objectifs
de
Développement
Durable
• Science and the
Future of
Cities: Report
from the UCL-
Nature
Sustainability
Expert Panel
• Smart urban
services for a
better social
and territorial
inclusion:
creating
international
digital
guidelines
• Urban
Professionals
and local
authorities’
synergy in the
process of
implementation
of New Urban
Agenda
• Urban health as
a unifying
framework for
sustainable
development in
Latin American
Cities
• Habitat treaty
for Latin
America: Legal
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• Smart
Sustainable
Cities
• Extractive
Industries and
Evictions:
Echoes from
Middle- East
and African
Regions
• Measurement
Index and
Dashboards for
measurement of
progress and
success towards
achieving
Sustainable
Development
Goals in the
establishment
of smart
sustainable
cities
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Side Events
• Supporting the
implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda:
Pro-poor Local
Approaches for
Sustainable
Urban Waste
Management
• Alliances
towards the
New Urban
Agenda
• Linking our
common
challenges:
fostering
resilience in
tropical cities
through urban
planning
• Iskandar
Malaysia
Comprehensive
Development
Plans ii (CDP
ii) to support
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• GAP Plenary
Aligning The
New Urban
Agenda and the
SDGs: Partners'
Contributions
to the UN
Development
Framework
• Delivering
sustainable
urban mobility
for all
• Local
Pathways
Fellowship:
Empowering
Youth to
Implement the
New Urban
Agenda in
Their Cities
• Indian Cities
Perspective on
New Urban
Agenda &
SDGs
• Smart Cities
Behind the
Scenes:
Governance,
Viability &
Capacities
• Addressing
socio-spatial
fragmentation
in LAC and
Europe: shared
challenges,
shared views
• Participatory
Budgeting in
Asian Cities:
A Pathway
Towards
Achieving The
New Urban
Agenda
• Implementing
the New
Urban Agenda
through
establishment
of the Spatial
Planning
Platform
• Polycentric
Approaches to
Managing
Urban Water
Resources in
Southeast Asia
- Localizing
the
Sustainable
Goals of the
2030 Agenda
and the New
Urban Agenda
at the Local
Level
• Localizing the
SDG’s For the
Successful
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda –
Implementation,
Monitoring, and
The Role of
Municipal
Finance
• Sustainable
Urban
Transformation:
Challenges and
Opportunities
for India
• Ten years of
architecture
movement for
equitable cities
and resilient
communities;
grounding
experiences,
expanding new
horizon
• Sustainable,
Inclusive and
Evidence-based
National Urban
Policy? Regional
and Country
Experience
• Advancing
Climate-
Resilient and
Low Carbon
Development in
Asian Cities
through
Transformative
Actions
• Big Gains in
Small Towns:
Helping
Advance NUA
and SDG Goals
• Social
Production of
Habitat:
Building the
African Case in
the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
• What can urban
sustainability
experiments
do?
• Emergency
coordination in
the city:
Linking local
authorities &
humanitarian
actors
• The Role of
Local
Governments in
the
Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
and Ensuring
Sustainable
Urban
Development;
Lessons
Learned from
the Big Six
Cities of the
Punjab,
Pakistan?
• Launching of
TU DELFT
Urban Thinkers
Report:
Education for
the City We
Need.
• Community-
Based Urban
Resilience:
generating cobenefit
from
integrated
action
• Implementation
of the New
Urban Agenda
and
identification of
SDGs in Quito
one year after
Habitat III
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SPECIAL SESSION
URBAN LABS FOR URBAN EXTENSION
AND URBAN RENEWAL
Saturday, 10th February 2018
PANELIST
1
2
3
4
Brett Moore
Chief UNHCR Shelter & Selement Secon,
Global Shelter Cluster Co-Lead
Jago Atkinson
Programme Director UK Foreign Office
Prosperity Programme
Dr. Khaled Al Neiffaei
Deputy Naonal Director, Future Saufi
Cies Programme at the Ministry of
Municipalies and Rural Affairs, Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia
Milena Ivkovic
Vice president UPAT, Urban Planning
Advisory Teams, ISOCARP
6
7
8
9
Francisca Rojas
Inter-American Development bank,
Lead Specialist, Housing and Urban
Development
Eva Ringhof
Pogramme Coordinator,
Cies Development iniave for Asia, GIZ
Astrid Haas
Senior Country Economist for Cies,
Internaonal Growth Centre, Oxford/LSE
Hamdan Abdul Majeed
Managing Director,
Think City Sdn Bhd
5
Hon. Mr, Adjei Boateng Kwasi
Ghana, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of
Local Government and Rural Development
Objective of Session
• The Special Session aims at strengthening
partnerships and scaling up the results
achieved by the Urban Labs in the
implementaon of the New Urban
Agenda, both through bankable projects
and through normave outputs,
including in areas such as:
o
o
Strategic Planning and evidence-based
decision-making;
Planned city extension and urban
regeneraon;
o
o
o
o
o
Urban crisis, conflict, migraon and
reconstrucon;
Climate Change and Planning;
Innovaon and Planning;
Capacity development in planning;
Parcipatory planning process;
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• The UN-Habitat Urban Planning and
Design Lab and the Network of Urban
Planning and Design Labs have
implemented concrete projects and
deducted normave outputs in over 60
cies and 30 countries.
• Now is the me to bring on-board
strategic partners that can support
scaling up the work and delivering sound
urban planning and design policies,
strategies and projects that promote the
implementaon of the Sustainable
Development Goals and the New Urban
Agenda.
Introduction
• The Urban Labs are an integrave facility
focused in the implementaon of the
New Urban Agenda that provide the
space to create strategic and holisc
proposals for the integrated
development of cies and human
selements.
• The visions and strategies produced by
the Urban Labs provide quantave and
qualitave evidence for decision-makers
to anchor polical programmes into
long-term strategic visions of the city.
• Each of the visions, strategies and
projects developed following this
integrave methodology, link to the
exisng local context and develop sound
spaal, financial and legal frameworks to
ensure the sustainable urban
development of people and cies.
• The concrete approach of the Urban Labs
has produced pracce-based knowledge
on integraon and coordinaon of
naonal and local governments, private
sector, non-governmental organizaons,
community groups and residents.
• Equal parcipaon of all stakeholders in
the process informing the future
development of the cies ensures that all
voices are heard and that human rights
are promoted and fulfilled as part of the
implementaon process.
Findings
• The role of Planning in delivering the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
and the New Urban Agenda (NUA)
o
o
Priorize the projects to match
planning process and instrument in
order to regenerate revenue, to match
polical will and interest as well as
great networking and collaboraon.
Urban labs produce visions and
strategies for decision-makers to
design the city.
• Integrated Development
o
o
o
• Bridging the gap between plan and
implementaon
o
o
To bridge the cies implementaon to
bankable sources.
Essenals integrated development of
cies and human selement in
ensuring inclusivity (necessity of no
one is le behind).
To improve quality of life through
eliminaon of financial and
environmental limitaon.
Creang cross collaboraon between
businesses and communies.
Connecng the dot between
stakeholders, government and
communies.
• The working methodology of the Urban
Labs promotes open and parcipave
processes to achieve consensus in the
development vision of the city.
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Conclusion
Effecveness implementaon is the key issues
of NUA – Inclusiveness of plans and processes
are the fundamentals areas in making
sustainable cies.
Urban labs are the phase to connect all the
factors in making inclusive cies towards new
sustainable development.
Building relaonship between peer-to-peer,
legal, financial, planning, polical, private and
social is vital.
Mul-disciplinary area and experience can
help in designing the cies. Amalgamaons of
professional and educaonal to form new idea
and best pracces for implementaon NUA.
Design and policies model should suit each
country. Adopon and adapon must be
individually matching the country. Best
pracces of each country could help in the
design process.
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WUF9
URBAN
VILLAGE

INTRODUCTION
Medan Pasar is a significant area in Kuala Lumpur. Situated strategically at the starng point of history
of Kuala Lumpur City Centre, it is highly accessible by pedestrians and public transport that makes it an
important place for people to engage. The WUF9 Urban Village puts greater focus on Medan Pasar, with
numerous urban intervenons showcasing the city’s commitmeno creang beer public realms for its
cizens.
WUF9 was not confined within the grounds of the Kuala Lumpur Convenon Centre, as an Urban Village
was built to showcase how design can be used in urban intervenons to create a beer public realm for
urban residents. The Urban Village was built within the historical Medan Pasar area, which was chosen
due to its easy accessibility by pedestrians and public transport. One of the concepts showcased in the
Urban Village was micro housing, which reimagined what a neighbourhood could be. Smaller,
eco-friendly houses were set up amidst shared spaces such as an urban garden, an outdoor theatre and
a play area.
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MICRO-HOUSING
THE COMMUNAL LIVING:
A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
The idea of communal living was developed
based on the spirit of sharing, a sense of
neighbourliness in a community environment,
similar to the Malaysian kampung lifestyle of
working together and helping each other.
Communal living offers a balance of private
and common spaces designed specifically to
encourage community interacon.
Homes can also be designed to be
environmentally friendly and residents share
certain community resources, such as tools or
office equipment. The residents also share
outdoor spaces, such as urban garden and
farm, outdoor theatre, event space, play area,
and spaces for community to socialise, which
is the key part of communal living. Co-working
and commercial space can also be
incorporated into the integrated model.
The Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local
Government Ministry, in a statement, said the
idea of communal living in urban areas was
developed based on the idea of the kampung
lifestyle of the past. “It was based on the spirit
of sharing and neighbourliness in a community
environment, similar to the Malaysian
kampung lifestyle of helping each other.
“Communal living offers a balance of private
and common space designed specifically to
encourage community interacon. Residents
typically make decisions together in a
collaborave process,” said the ministry. Apart
from shared communal spaces, co-working
and commercial spaces can also be built into
the integrated village model.
PARKLETS AND KERBLETS
Malaysians have among the highest rates of
vehicle ownership in the world. This
dependency has naturally translated to a
significant amount of land allocaon for
parking spaces, parcularly within urban
areas. Recently there has been an emphasis on
the importance of the pedestrian and
sidewalks. Part of this includes the design and
installaon of parklets — a small seang area
or green space created as a public amenity on
or alongside a pavement, oen in a former
roadside parking space. They are designed to
provide a public place for passers-by to relax
and enjoy the atmosphere of the city around
them, in places where either public open
space are lacking or where the exisng
sidewalk width is not large enough to
accommodate vibrant street life acvies.
For WUF9, DBKL converted several street level
carpark spaces into parklets and Think City
supported with the conversion of one parklet
and two kerblets with the hope that these will
become permanent fixtures within the city.
Another idea introduced along with the Urban
Village was that of parklets and kerblets,
referring to small seang areas or green
spaces built on or alongside a pavement, oen
in a former roadside parking space, for public
use. In conjuncon with WUF9, Kuala Lumpur
City Hall (DBKL) converted several street level
parking spaces into parklets, while Think City
converted a parklet and two kerblets in the
hopes that these installaons would become
permanent fixtures in the city.
These installaons were also in line with
DBKL’s strategy of reducing the number of
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vehicles in the city centre and encouraging the
use of public transport. “They are designed to
provide a public place for passers-by to relax
and enjoy the atmosphere of the city, in places
where either public open space are lacking or
where the exisng exisng sidewalk width is not large
enough to accommodate vibrant street life
acvies. acvies. “A parklet is a low-cost intervenon
intervenon
that takes over exisng exisng parking spaces on the
street, turning them into small social spaces,”
said the ministry.
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HUMAN LIBRARY MALAYSIA:
THE FIRST AT A WORLD URBAN FORUM
Sunday, 11th February 2018
Impact Hub KL hosted a Human Library in
conjuncon with WUF9. The first for a World
Urban Forum, the human library started 18
years ago in Denmark by Impact Hub KL’s
co-founder, Christoffer Erichsen. This global
movement, as it is now in 100+ countries
“seeks to promote dialogue, reduce prejudice
and encourage understanding by bringing
together a range of human books- all with a
unique story to share.” The impact it begun
has posively raised the atudes and
behaviour of people towards one another.
Straight up the theme #Cies4All, 6
transforming stories were realised by “human
books” with 240+ readers. The stories
delivered were a diverse line up from the
Transgender Doctor to the Visually Impaired,
The Special Needs Educator and The Homeless
CEO to The Cancer Survivor and The Person
with A Rare Degenerave Disease. These
conversaons that maered make cies more
inclusive, in line with the WUF9 Theme of
#Cies4All.
“As we connue towards creang more
inclusive communies we believe iniaves
such as the Human Library can go a long way in
celebrang the true beauty of diversity and
creang deep empathy that can help social
entrepreneurs connect to the communies
they wish to serve.” If you are interested in
learning about the Human Library and hosng
it, please get in touch with Ralph Mpofu
(mailto:ralph.mpofu@impacthub.net) from
the Impact Hub KL team!”
www.humanlibrary.org
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MAKE BICYCLE A FUTURE MODE OF
TRANSPORT FOR KUALA LUMPUR
URBAN DWELLERS
The bicycle should be a mode of transport in
the federal city to promote a healthier lifestyle
among city folks, said the Netherlands
Minister of Foreign Trade and Development
Cooperaon Sigrid Kaag. Taking her country as
an example, she said cycling has long become
a common mode of transport with 36 per cent
of the people lisng the bicycle as their most
frequent mode of transport on a typical day.
"This high frequency of bicycle travel is
enabled by excellent cycling infrastructure
such as cycle paths, cycle tracks within the city
and by making cycling routes shorter, quicker
and more direct than car routes."
“Today, the Netherlands counts more bicycles
than inhabitants and cyclists spend less me in
traffic jams and their quality of life has
improved," she told reporters before the start
of the 'Cycling Kuala Lumpur' event in
conjuncon with World Urban Forum 9
(WUF9) here, today.
Also present were Raja Muda Perlis, Tuanku
Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail, Kuala Lumpur
Mayor Tan Sri Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz
and UN-Habitat execuve director Datuk
Maimunah Mohd Sharif. Meanwhile,
Maimunah said 'Cycling Kuala Lumpur' is a
living testament of the steps to become a
more sustainable and liveable city by invesng
in smart mobility soluons and cycling
infrastructure. She said to support New Urban
Agenda, bicycle lanes were recently
introduced in Kuala Lumpur aimed at
promong healthier lifestyle and achieving a
lower carbon footprint. "The bicycle routes
not only provide an alternave to people who
opt to cycle in the city centre, but also
encourages a network of routes for bicycle
tourism which reaches all corners of the city.”
"It is also an alternave to complement the
public transport system and reduce the use of
private cars to minimise city polluon," she
said. More than 90 dignitaries, including
corporate and government representaves
and business associates later cycled on this
1.5-kilometre route (cycling lane) from
Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTIC) to Kuala
Lumpur City Centre (KLCC).
Raja Muda of Perlis, Tuanku Syed Faizzudin Putra
Jamalullail (second, right), with Kuala Lumpur
Mayor, Tan Sri Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz
(right) and Netherland’s minister of Foreign Trade
and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag (second,
left), during ‘ CYCLING KUALA LUMPUR ‘,
conjunction with the 9th World Urban Forum
(WUF9) in Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTiC),
Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
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APPENDIX
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1
2
3
4
5
6
Implementing the New Urban Agenda
through a global sustainable cities
platform: the GPSC
Networking Events
World Resource Instute – Ross Center for
Sustainable Cies
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 307
One Planet Cities: Incentivizing
sustainability action and citizen
engagement for the New Urban Agenda
Side events
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 402
Iskandar Malaysia Comprehensive
Development Plans ii (CDP ii) to support
Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Side events
Iskandar Regional Development Authority
(IRDA)
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 305
Sustainable Urbanization in the Paris
Agreement: multilevel governance and
finance for urban adaptation
Side events
RECNET Recycling Cies Internaonal Network
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 407
Planners For Climate Action: Urban and
Territorial Planning As Means to
Carbon Reduction and Community
Resilience
Networking Events
Global Planning Educaon Associaon
Network (GPEAN)
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 305
Who is Aiding Whom? Redirecting
Climate Finance to Grassroots
Organizations Leading Resilient
Development
Networking Events
GROOTS Internaonal/Huairou Commission,
Slum/Shack Dwellers Internaonal,
Habitat Norway
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
Climate Change
7
8
9
10
11
13
Who is Aiding Whom? Redirecting
Climate Finance to Grassroots
Organizations Leading Resilient
Development
Networking Events
GROOTS Internaonal/Huairou Commission,
Slum/Shack Dwellers Internaonal,
Habitat Norway
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
Massive Online Open Courses for
advancing the implementation of the NUA
Training Events
Instute for Housing and Urban Development
Studies (IHS), (organiser) and UCLG
Africa, (co-organiser)
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 305
Sustainable Urban Development in the
International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Networking Events
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservaon, Building and Nuclear Safety
(BMUB)
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 403
Science to Action (S2A) as a Paradigm for
Enabling Sustainable, Low Carbon
Communities in Southeast Asia
Side events
Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
Faculty of Built Environment,
Universi Teknologi Malaysia
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 409
Integrating Climate Change into
Municipal Land Use Planning and
Development
Training Events
Internaonal City/County Management
Associaon (ICMA)
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 305
Climate Positive Development and
Reinventing Cities: Delivering the new
urban agenda district by district
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
C40 Cies Climate Leadership Group
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 16:00
Listen to Cies
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15
16
17
18
19
20
Strengthening multi-level governmental
coordination to accelerate subnational
actions
Side events
World Resources Instute
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 307
Implementing Global and National
Climate Action in Cities – the Localisation
of the NDCs
Side events
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperaon
and Development (BMZ), Germany
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 404
Circular economy in built environment
Networking Events
Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 402
CITIESIPCC: Advancing science to
accelerate effective climate action in
human settlements
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Listen to Cies
City Energy and Climate Action Plans:
How to set Targets and Develop a Plan
Training Events
IUC – Internaonal Urban Cooperaon –
Regional Acon Asia
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 304
Urban Pathways: Supporting Low Carbon
Plans for Urban Basic Services in the
context of the New Urban Agenda
AFINUA Room
Wuppertal Instute for Climate, Environment
and Energy
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
The Urban Dimension of Climate Change:
lessons from the Commonwealth
Side events
Royal Town Planning Instute
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 408
21
22
23
24
25
26
Accelerating investments in urban
transition through project preparation for
local sustainable infrastructure
Networking Events
Cies Climate Finance Leadership Alliance
(CCFLA)
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 410
Sustainable Cities: Hubs of Innovation,
Low Carbon Industrialization, and
Climate Action
One UN Room
United Naons Industrial Development
Organizaon (UNIDO)
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
One UN Room
Achieving energy efficient, zero-emission
buildings for sustainable, pollution-free
cities
Networking Events
The Nubian Vault Associaon (AVN) & The
Global Alliance for Buildings and
Construcon (GABC)
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 401
Towards climate resilient informal
settlements: meeting basic needs in a
climate changed era
Networking Events
Internaonal Instute of Environment and
Development (IIED)
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 405
Experiences Applying Guiding Principles
for City Climate Action Planning
Side events
Gonzaga University
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 307
Clean air, healthy citizens and equal
societies: Making the case for ambitious,
inclusive, climate action in cities
Networking Events
C40 Cies Climate Leadership Group
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 410
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27 Metropolitan and Territorial Agencies
mobilized for climate planning
Networking Events
Climate Chance
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 40
28
Transformation of Green Infrastructures
in City of Kuala Lumpur through Urban
Solution and Innovation
Networking Events
Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and
Water and Urbanice Malaysia
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
1
2
3
4
5
6
Innovative models for Affordable Housing
Networking Events
Housing & Urban Development corporaon
Ltd.
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 405
Housing for peace, prosperity and people
in Arab Cities
Networking Events
Arab Towns Organisaon
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 407
Global models for safe and secure homes –
learning from World Habitat Award
winners
Side events
World Habitat Awards
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 406
Implementing the New Urban Agenda in
Botswana: Promoting Inclusive Housing
Solutions
Side events
Republic of Botswana
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 408
The Affordable Metropolis: Turning
Density into Prosperity
Networking Events
FIABCI, the Internaonal Real Estate
Federaon
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 305
Global Home Network – Social &
Affordable Housing the way forward
Networking Events
Global Home Network Red Domés ca Global
Réseau Domesque Global
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 306
Housing
7
8
9
10
11
Scaling up sustainable housing to
implement the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
CONAVI (Mexico Naonal Housing
Commission)
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 307
Housing at the Center in Lusophone
Countries: Implementing the New Urban
Agenda and the SDG 11
Networking Events
Ministry of Territorial Planning and Housing –
MINOTH
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 408
Housing at the Centre of Urban
Transformations: localizing the NUA and
the SDG11 in cities of Latin America and
the Caribbean
AFINUA Room
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and CIPUV
(Research Center for Housing and Urban
Policies), Argenna
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Living the City: Affordable housing
development
Side events
METROPOLIS – World Associaon of the Major
Metropolises
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 407
IBSA-HS: Achieving Sustainable Urban
Development through Integrated Housing
Policies in India, Brazil and South Africa
AFINUA Room
Instute for Housing and Urban Development
Studies IHS, Erasmus University, the
knowledge partner of IBSA-HS
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 19:00
www.wuf9.org
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13
14
Laying the foundation for robust housing
microfinance ecosystems
Networking Events
Affordable Housing Instute
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 305
Urban Housing Practitioners Hub: A
Network to Improve Housing Conditions
in Latin America ? and Beyond
Networking Events
The Urban Housing Praconers Hub (UHPH) /
UNIAPRAVI
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 307
Social inclusion of Bottom 40%
communities living in high rise low cost
flats in urban centres in Malaysia
Side events
The Instute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Naonal
University of Malaysia (UKM),
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 409
19
20
21
SHERPA app: Towards Sustainable
Housing Projects
Training Events
CRAterre ENSAG – Internaonal Centre for
Earth Construcon
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 405
Towards a new and combined urban
agenda on labour markets and housing
markets
One UN Room
Internaonal Labour Office (ILO) Oxford
Brookes University
Sunday 11 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
One UN Room
Building People - Public - Private
Partnerships for Urban Development,
Integration and Systemic Change
Networking Events
Habitat for Humanity Internaonal
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 406
15
16
17
18
Collective Housing: Building active people
and engaged communities
Networking Events
Asian Coalion for Housing Rights (ACHR)
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 406
The Shift – Shifting the way we view
housing and home
One UN Room
United Naons Special Rapporteur on the
Right to Housing
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 16:00
One UN Room
Housing in the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
RMIT University
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 410
The management of multi-apartment high
rise housing stock: localizing SDG 11 and
the NUA
Training Events
United Naons Economic Commission for
Europe
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 305
22
23
24
25
Best practices in building capacity in
countries with economies in transition in
housing and urban development
One UN Room
United Naons Economic Commission for
Europe (UNECE)
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
An adequate habitat for Cuna de la Paz:
Right to the city and local development in
El Salvador
Side events
Fundación Salvadoreña de Desarrollo y
Vivienda Mínima, FUNDASAL
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 306
Housing at the center of compliance of the
Sustainable Development Goals and the
New Urban Agenda
Side events
INFONAVIT, Instute of the Naonal Housing
Fund for Workers
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 401
Navigating the Affordable Housing Market
in Urban Cities
Networking Events
Bank Negara Malaysia
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 304
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inclusive approach to territories, resilience
and poverty reduction
Networking Events
Secretariat of Social Housing and Habitat
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 307
28 No Time to Waste: Housing Policy and
Advancing the New Urban Agenda
Side events
IHC Global – Coalion Coalion for Inclusive Housing
and Sustainable Cies Cies
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 306
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SHERPA: Your Personal Guide for
Sustainable Housing Projects
Networking Events
CRAterre-ENSAG (AE&CC)
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 409
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Participatory Forum on Affordable
Housing and Indoor Air Quality: Essential
Elements for the New Urban Agenda
Side events
The Health Caucus of the Canadian
Environmental Network.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 403
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Improving Urban Humanitarian Response:
How Far Have We Come? What’s Next on
the Horizon?
Networking Events
Acve Learning Network for Accountability
and Performance in Humanitarian Acon
(ALNAP)
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 404
Durable Solutions in Displacement Crises
Side events
The State Government of SWS/ governing
body of Baidoa
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 404
Building Resilient Cities and Communities
after Disasters: Lessons in Humanitarian
Assistance, Recovery, Partnerships and
Policies
Training Events
InterAcon
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 403
Cities in Crises/Crisis in Cities
Networking Events
European Commission, Directorate-General
for European Civil Protecon and
Humanitarian Aid Operaons
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 406
Humanitarian
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Urban Forced Displacement: the New
Normal Listen to Cities room / Local
Action
European Commission – Directorate General
for European Civil Protecon and
Humanitarian Aid Operaons (ECHO)
Friday 9 February 2018
18:00 - 19:00
Listen to Cies
Displacement in Cities: better evidence for
better solutions
Networking Events
Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 407
Cities of Refuge in the Middle East:
Bringing an Urban Lens to the Forced
Displacement Challenge
Side events
Tus University Feinstein Internaonal Center
and World Bank Group
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 408
Partnerships for sustainable growth
through integrated community action and
flood mitigation: lessons from Indonesia
and Australia
Networking Events
Eastern Regional Organisaon for Planning
and Human Selements (EAROPH)
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 403
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Inclusive and sustainable urban recovery
and reconstruction
Side events
Internaonal Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 406
10 Emergency coordination in the city:
Linking local authorities & humanitarian
actors
Side events
IMPACT Iniaves
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 305
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Land Tenure Security as a Catalyst to
Implementing the New Urban Agenda
Side events
Society For Promoon of Area Resource
Centres (SPARC)
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 407
The governance of urban land use
Side events
Organisaon for Economic Co-operaon and
Development (OECD)
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 409
Territories of Collective empowerment
Side events
Taller Acvo
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 403
Reintegration of displaced populations
through land tenure and housing in
Afghanistan
Side events
Afghanistan Urban Sector – Ministry of Urban
Development and Housing, Afghanistan
(MUDH), Deputy Ministry of Municipalies,
Afghanistan
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 405
Right of The City: Land Value Sharing
Networking Events
General Organizaon for Physical Planning
(GOPP)
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 304
Gender, urban land tenure and access to
public spaces
Networking Events
Huairou Commission
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 401
Land
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From Theory to Reality: Using Data to
Move the Bar on Property Rights for
Women and the Most Vulnerable
Networking Events
IHC Global — A Coalion for Inclusive Housing
and Sustainable Cies
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 406
Addressing inclusionary housing in SDG
11:Land management strategies to supply
affordable housing at scale
Training Events
Lincoln Instute of Land Policy
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 304
Unlocking Cities for All in Afghanistan:
Linking Land, Finance and Planning
Systems
Networking Events
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing,
Afghanistan (MUDH), Deputy Ministry of
Municipalies, Afghanistan (DMM)
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 306
UAVs, Land Use Planning and Community
Engagement: The Potential of Drones to
Implement the New Urban Agenda
Training Events
SIGUS: Special Interest Group in Urban
Selement Massachuses Instute of
Technology, Drones for Humanity
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 402
Toward a More Inclusive and Equitable
City: International Case Studies
Networking Events
Lincoln Instute of Land Policy
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 409
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Coordination, Cooperation and Planning
to regulate the financialization of the city
Networking Events
INTA (Internaonal Urban Development
Associaon)
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 306
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Land Administration & Planning from
Islamic Lens – Empowerment to Women
Side events
Internaonal Islamic University Malaysia
(IIUM) – Office of Corporate Strategy
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 410
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How to Leverage Multi-Sector Tools and
Partnerships to Increase Security of Tenure
Globally
Training Events
Habitat for Humanity Internaonal
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 407
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Circular Economy in Cities
One UN Room
United Naons Environment Programme (UN
Environment)
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Implementing Local and Territorial
Economic Development: Towards
Competitive Cities
Training Events
World Bank
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 405
Promoting decent work and livelihood
opportunities, and supporting inclusive
economies in Cities for All
Training Events
University of Lagos
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 406
Operationalizing Territorial and Local
Economic Development
Networking Events
World Bank
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 407
Local Economic Development
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The Deep Place Method for Economic,
Social and Cultural Sustainability
Training Events
Compass Housing Services
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 409
UCLG Role play about circular economy:
the case of waste management
Training Events
Andalusian fund of municipalies for
internaonal solidarity (FAMSI)
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 410
Promotion de l'économie locale et bonnes
pratiques des Collectivités locales
Africaines
Side events
FEICOM
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 307
Meeting the challenge of informal city
businesses through partnership in
Sekondi-Takoradi
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Sekondi–Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
5
Urban Economics: What's growth got to
do with it?
Networking Events
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 404
10
Public Goods and Services as Pathway to
Equitable City Economies in Bangladesh:
Lessons from Sylhet and Narayanganj
Side events
BRAC Instute of Governance and
Development (BIGD) BRAC University
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 304
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Informal Sector Workers Driving Local
Economies: Observations from the Pacific
Region
Side events
The Eastern Regional Organisaon for
Planning and Human Selements (EAROPH)
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 305
Towards Decent Work in Inclusive Cities
Side events
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing
and Organizing (WIEGO)
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 401
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Support effective implementation of the
New Urban Agenda to facilitate urban
poverty mitigation through job creation
and entrepreneurship development in
Africa
One UN Room
United Naons Office of the Special Adviser on
Africa (OSAA)
Monday 12 February 2018
18:00 - 19:00
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Integrating Migrants in Cities: Challenges
and Opportunities
One UN Room
United Naons Educaonal, Scienfic and
Cultural Organizaon (UNESCO)
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Mainstreaming migration into urban
planning: a key success factor for leaving
no one behind
One UN Room
Internaonal Organizaon for Migraon
(IOM)
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
One UN Room
Migration, Displacement and Inclusive
cities: Challenges and Opportunities for
Local Governments in the Arab region
Side events
Center For Mediterranean Integraon (CMI)
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 410
Migration
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Launch of “Migration and Inclusive
Cities: A Guide for Arab City Leaders”
Urban Library
UN-Habitat Regional Office of Arab States
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 16:00
UN High Commissioner for Refugees –
Cities of Solidarity initiative – Cities in the
Americas take the lead on refugee
integration
One UN Room
United Naons High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 10:00
1 What Does Inclusive Transit-Oriented
Development Mean to You?
Networking Events
Instute for Transportaon and Development
Policy
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 410
Mobility
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Cities need underground – Equity and
equality opportunities for the NUA
AFINUA Room
Associated research centers for the Urban
Underground Space (ACUUS)
Thursday 8 February 2018
12:00 - 14:00
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Reimagining the Future of Transportation:
Sustainable Mobility.
Side events
Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat
(SPAD)
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 403
How walkable Is your city ? New methods
in measuring walkability at the city,
neighborhood, and street level
Side events
ITDP
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 410
Urban Practitioners’ Networks for Better
Urban Services – The Cases of Urban
Mobility and Urban Renewal
Training Events
Deutscher Staedtetag
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 408
Delivering sustainable urban mobility for
all
Side events
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon
Transport (SLoCaT)
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 305
Future Mobility Dialogue
Networking Events
China Unicom Smart Connecon Technology
Co., Ltd
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 401
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Innovative clean transport business
models: training for public officials
Training Events
World Resources Instute
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 407
Shaping urban mobility – An integrated
approach by the TUMI initiative
Training Events
Slocat
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 402
Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI)
Urban Library
United Naons Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UNESCAP)
Monday 12 February 2018
12:00 - 13:00
Urban Library
Territorial Planning: Linking Cities
Across Peninsula Malaysia
Side events
Fundacion Metropoli
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 404
Urban Cable Cars as a new dimension to
sustainable urban transport
Side events
Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 405
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Capacity building to deliver sustainable
urban mobility for all
Networking Events
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon
Transport (SLoCaT)
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 305
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Empowering Cities to Implement the 2030
Agenda and New Urban Agenda:
Mobilising Finance for Sustainable
Infrastructure in Asia Pacific
One UN Room
United Naons Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN
ESCAP)
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Localizing the SDG’s For the Successful
Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
– Implementation, Monitoring, and The
Role of Municipal [...]
Side events
Lincoln Instute of Land Policy
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 404
Developing national and local frameworks
for the implementation of the New Urban
Agenda
Networking Events
Department of Human Selements
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 304
Municipal Finance
National Urban Policy
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Bridging the gap between local finances
and urban investment: learning from land
value capture instruments in Latin
America
Side events
Naonal Planning Department of Colombia ∕
Departamento Nacional de Planeación de
Colombia
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 305
Innovative financing mechanisms in
Douala Metropolitan Council, Cameroon
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Douala City Council
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 16:00
National Urban Policy and Digitalisation
of Urban and Territorial Planning
Side events
Ministry for Construcon, Transport and
Infrastructure, Serbia
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 402
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Launch of Global State of the National
Urban Policy Report
Urban Library
UN-Habitat Urban Planning and Design
Branch; OECD
Thursday 8 February 2018
10:00 - 11:00
Urban Library
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National Urban Policy Review of Viet
Nam and Actions
Side events
Ministry of Construcon, Socialist Republic of
VietNam
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 409
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Implementing the New Urban Agenda in
Cuba
Side events
Instute of Physical Planning, Government of
Cuba
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 404
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Future Saudi Cities program: a
comprehensive approach towards the New
Urban Agenda
AFINUA Room
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
(MOMRA)
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
4
Inclusive and sustainable development of
metropolises: Case of Casablanca
Side events
Ministery of Land and Urban Planning
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 409
8
Urbanisation in Malaysia – Learning from
the experience
Side events
MINISTRY OF URBAN WELLBEING, HOUSING
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 410
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Implementing the New Urban Agenda
through establishment of the Spatial
Planning Platform
Side events
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and
Tourism, The Government of Japan
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 404
Sustainable, Inclusive and Evidence-based
National Urban Policy ? Regional and
Country Experience
Side events
Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources
and Physical Development of Sudan
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 401
NUP for consensus building: National
Urban and Habitat Policy in Argentina
Side events
Ministry of Interior, Public Works and Housing
– Government of Argenna
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 407
Spatial Development for Sustainable
Urbanisation
Side events
Naonal Instute of Urban Affairs
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 402
National Policies for Strengthening the
Role and Resilience of Local Authorities
towards implementing Global
Development Frameworks and Local
Economic Growth: Implementing New
Urban Agenda
Side events
Ministry of Local Government and Rural
Development
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 405
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Urban Recovery from Crisis and
Rehabilitation Strategies in the context of
National Urban Policies.
Side events
Ministry of Construcon, Housing,
Municipalies and Public Works / Republic of
Iraq
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 406
National Urban Policies in African
Portuguese-speaking Countries:
Implementing the New Urban Agenda and
the SDG 11
AFINUA Room
Ministry of Territorial Planning and Housing –
MINOTH
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Kenya's Framework for Effective
Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Side events
Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing
and Urban Development
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 403
Integrating Urbanization in National
Development Planning in Africa
One UN Room
United Naons Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA)
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
1 Ocupa Tu Calle: Tools for the
empowerment of citizens and the recovery
of public spaces
Side events
Ocupa Tu Calle
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 304
Public Space
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Public Space- A Multi Faceted approach to
Implementing the SDG's
Networking Events
UCLG – Urban Strategic Planning
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
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Cases on Improving Urban Public Space
AFINUA Room
Wuhan Land Use and Urban Spaal Planning
Research Center (WLSP)
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
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Public Space, Peacebuilding and Social
Cohesion
Urban Library
UN Women Regional Office for Arab States
Monday 12 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
4
Public Space for City Leaders
Training Events
United Cies and Local Governments Asia
Pacific (UCLG ASPAC)
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 408
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Using Data and Technology to Build
Inclusive Public Spaces in Cities
Side events
Safepin
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 304
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Give Us Space! Augmented public space
geographies in the changing public/private
relationships
Networking Events
School of Architecture and Planning, The
University of Auckland, Auckland, New
Zealand. College of Architecture and Urban
Planning, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 306
Shaping healthy cities for and with
children
Networking Events
Urban Synergies Group
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 406
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Public Space as driver of Equitable
Economic Growth: Policy and Practise to
Leverage a Key Asset for Vibrant City
Economies
Networking Events
UK Department for Internaonal
Development
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 407
Policies and city wide strategies creating
well managed, inclusive, safe and
accessible public space
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
City of Johannesburg and the Mumbai
Environmental Social Network
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
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We the public space: strategies to deal with
inequalities in order to achieve inclusive
and sustainable urban environments
Networking Events
City Space Architecture
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 402
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Breaking Through the Noise: How to
Effectively Communicate the Impact of
Resilience
Networking Events
100 Resilient Cies – Pioneered by The
Rockefeller Foundaon
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 408
Earth Observations, Resilience and the
New Urban Agenda
Urban Library
Group on Earth Observaons (GEO)
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Risk Reduction and Resilience
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Addressing Urban Resilience through
Nature Based Solutions: What Works,
What Doesn't
Side events
Asian Development Bank
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 305
Building Resilient Communities in Cities:
Breaking Down Global Frameworks for
Localized Resilience Action
Side events
MERCY Malaysia
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 403
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Linking our common challenges: fostering
resilience in tropical cities through urban
planning
Side events
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable
Development of Colombia
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 304
Improved Climate Resilience of Coastal
Communities in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana
Side events
MINISTERE DE LA SALUBRITE, DE
L’ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU
DEVELOPPMEMENT DURABLE
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 406
Urban Underground Spaces for the Cities
of the Future
Side events
ITA-AITES ? Internaonal Tunnelling and
Underground Space Associaon
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 403
Sustainable and Resilient Cities-The
World Cities Day Forum 2018
AFINUA Room
Shanghai Coordinaon Center of World Cies
Day
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Strategic planning tools for urban
resilience: city-to-city exchange on local
resilience planning
Training Events
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability –
European Secretariat
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 404
Map Your City: Using OpenStreetMap for
Urban Resilience
Training Events
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 409
Building Urban Resilience
Urban Library
UNESCO
Friday 9 February 2018
12:00 - 13:00
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Urban Governance for Resilience Building
– perspectives, tools and processes for
governing cities for a resilient future
Side events
Arup
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Sustainable Neighborhood Labs:
bottom-up approaches for low-carbon,
resilient, resource-efficient cities
One UN Room
United Naons Environment Programme (UN
Environment)
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Shelter and Settlement Responses to
Crises: Learning from the Past
Urban Library
Global Shelter Cluster
Friday 9 February 2018
14:30 - 16:30
Redesiging a neighborhood after an
earthquake: Tec de Monterrey study case
(Mexico City)
Side events
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ciudad de México
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 402
Implementing the New Urban Agenda in
Small Island Developing States: Promoting
the role of cities in sustainable
development in island system
Networking Events
UN ESCAP, UN ECLAC, UN-Habitat
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
UN-Habitat in acon room
Fostering Local Leadership for Urban
Climate Resilience in Asian Cities
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Hat Yai Municipality
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
Making Hong Kong a Resilient City
Report and “COPE” a Children DRR
Story Book Series
Urban Library
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Urban Library
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“COPE” a Children DRR Story Book
Series
Urban Library
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Saturday 10 February 2018
12:00 - 13:00
Urban Library
Culture, Recovery and Reconstruction:
Sustainable Development Policies
One UN Room
United Naons Educaonal, Scienfic and
Cultural Organizaon (UNESCO), The World
Bank Group
Saturday 10 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
GrEEEn City Action Plans (GCAP):
Relevance and Success in Melaka city,
Malaysia
Side events
Melaka Historic City Council
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 407
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Strengthening City Resilience
Side events
The World Bank
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 307
Resilient Futures: A Dialogue on African,
Asian, and Latin American and Caribbean
Cities
Networking Events
Inter-American Development Bank
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 410
Implementing resilience actions for urban
sustainable development: Road for cities to
achieve Target E of Sendai Framework,
New Urban Agenda and SDG11
One UN Room
United Naons Office for Disaster Risk
Reducon (UNISDR)
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 10:00
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Enhancing City Resilience through
International Collaboration
AFINUA Room
Medellin Collaboraon for Urban Resilience
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
AFINUA room
The Urban Biodiversity Hub: A
City-to-City Web Tool and Interactive
Database
Urban Library
Urban Biodiversity Hub
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Urban Library
Civil Society and Sustainable Cities
Side events
Arab Network for Environment and
Development “RAED”
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 304
Advancing Climate-Resilient and Low
Carbon Development in Asian Cities
through Transformative Actions
Side events
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 401
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Leveraging Community Knowledge in
Disaster Management and Resilience
Planning in Cities
Side events
World Resources Instute India
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 306
Data and Innovation: Addressing Risk in
Urban Areas for Vulnerable Urban
Population and Communities
Networking Events
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 404
Strengthening resilience of human
settlements after complex natural disasters
and conflicts Lessons from Humanitarian
Response and Recovery
Networking Events
InterAcon
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 405
Trans-Boundary Resilience: Promoting
Collaborative Action to Build Inclusive
Urban Resilience
Networking Events
Mercy Corps – Asian Cies Climate Change
Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 304
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Housing replacement after the earthquake
in Mexico City: opportunities for fiscal
innovation and improved urban resilience
Networking Events
Mejor Ciudad, A.C.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 307
Urban Resilience: Challenges and
Opportunities for Malaysian Cities
Networking Events
MELAKA HISTORIC CITY COUNCIL (English)
MAJLIS BANDARAYA MELAKA BERSEJARAH
(Bahasa Malaysia)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 404
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Managing natural disaster risks in cities
tomorrow: how can multilateral and
bilateral financing institutions contribute
to urban resilience, through financing [...]
Side events
Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 306
Community-Based Urban Resilience:
generating co-benefit from integrated
action
Side events
UNESCO Chair of Sustainability at Technical
University of Catalunya
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 402
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Citizen-Sourced Data: Participatory
Technologies for Redeveloping Informal
Settlements
Urban Library
Texas Tech University
Thursday 8 February 2018
12:00 - 13:00
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for
Implementing the New Urban Agenda's
Goals on Slum Upgrading and Prevention,
Planned City Extensions and [...]
Networking Events
Instute for Advanced Urbanizaon and
Arficial Intelligence (IAUAI)
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 408
Cities for All: Addressing forced evictions
Networking Events
Cies Alliance
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 304
Grassroots approaches in informal
settlement upgrading in South Africa: the
Isulabantu Project, in Durban (Informal
Settlements Upgrading Led by the [...]
Side events
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban,
South Africa
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 304
Slum Upgrading
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This is Know Your City: Using
community-collected data for successful
implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
SDI. (Slum Dwellers Internaonal)
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 306
Towards Social and Urban Integration of
Slums and Precarious Settlements:
Implementing the Law for Fair Access to
Habitat and New [...]
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Social Undersecretariat of Land, Urban
Planning and Housing of the Province of
Buenos Aires
Saturday 10 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
The Power of Community:
Transformation and Movement for Slum
Upgrading Program in Indonesia
Side events
Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing,
Republic of Indonesia
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 306
Informal Settlements in Asia Good
practices and Way forward
UN-Habitat in Acon Room
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:30 - 16:00
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Prosperity for all: Enabling the Informal
Economy through Participatory Slum
Upgrading
Networking Events
Cardiff University
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 403
Community collected data and
partnerships to attract and assure inclusive
private sector investments
Side events
Slum Dwellers Internaonal
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 305
Participatory upgrading of slums and
informal settlements through partnerships
between government and grassroots
organisations
AFINUA Room
SDI (Slum Dwellers Internaonal)
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
AFINUA room
UnSlumming MINNA: 4P Urban
Governance ( Public - Private - People
Partnerships )
Side events
Nigeria Resilient Cies Network (NRCN)
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 305
Informal Settlement Upgrading using Safer
Cities Approach
AFINUA Room
EThekwini Municipality through its Human
Selements Department and Africa Forum for
Urban Safety (AFUS)
Monday 12 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
AFINUA room
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A multidimensional view of the
implementation of the New World Urban
Agenda, from the micro-territory and
community sustainability in
neighborhoods [...]
Side events
Universitaria Agusniana
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 402
Data Informed Inclusion &
Empowerment: Slums and Informal
Settlements
Networking Events
University of Chicago
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 402
Forming inclusive partnership and sharing
innovative tools towards citywide slum
improvement and secure tenure rights for
all
AFINUA Room
Technical Assistance Movement for People
and Environment, Inc. (TAMPEI)
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
AFINUA room
Informal settlements as the epicenter of
the challenges for inclusive and sustainable
cities
Side events
TECHO Internaonal
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 406
1 Supporting the implementation of the New
Urban Agenda: Pro-poor Local
Approaches for Sustainable Urban Waste
Management
Side events
WASTE CONCERN
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 402
Urban Basic Services
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Water to sustain a new urban future: on the
road to the 5th International Conference of
Local and Regional Authorties for water
Side events
World Water Council
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 306
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Just Add Water: Putting water on local
action agendas to support the New Urban
Agenda and global change
Networking Events
8th World Water Forum and World Water
Council
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 306
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Collaborative vulnerability profiling for
strengthening access to food and basic
services of urban populations in need
One UN Room
Global Food Security Cluster & WFP
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Unit VAM
(WFP-FAO)
Monday 12 February 2018
10:00 - 11:00
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Polycentric Approaches to Managing
Urban Water Resources in Southeast Asia
– Localizing the Sustainable Goals of the
2030 Agenda and the New [...]
Side events
Bremen Overseas Research and Development
Associaon
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 406
The New Urban Agenda in Action – the
Role of Infrastructure for Sustainable
Development
One UN Room
United Naons Office for Project Services
(UNOPS)
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 10:00
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Implementation of the 'Fukuoka Method'
landfill and solid waste management
system; a low cost and environmentally
sustainable solution to tackle [...]
Side events
Fukuoka University
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 407
Joint Programme on Waste SDG
Indicators – Global Monitoring and
Capacity Development for Sustainable
Cities and Circular Economy
One UN Room
United Naons Environment Programme (UN
Environment)
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
One UN Room
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Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Transitions and the New Urban Agenda
Training Events
United Naons Environment Programme (UN
Environment)
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 407
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Delivering Priority Infrastructure,
Improved Services and Planned Cities for
Urban Management: An Inclusive
Approach to implementing the New Urban
Agenda [...]
Side events
GHANA URBAN MANAGEMENT PILOT
PROGRAMME INC
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 307
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Sustainable, inclusive urban prosperity
through an evidence-based approach
Networking Events
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 305
Landscapes Making in Asia and the Pacific
Networking Events
Asian Habitat Society
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 402
Urban Design
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Improving Urban Planning for
Regenerative City Development –
Experiences Sharing of One Belt One Road
Country Cities
Networking Events
World Future Council
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 403
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Estrategias territoriales de los gobiernos
locales: Instrumentos para la
implementación de la Nueva Agenda
Urbana
Side events
Instuto Municipal de Planeación del
Municipio de Querétaro, México (Municipal
Planning Instute of Queretaro, Mexico
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 401
Multidimensional Sustainability
Benchmarking for Smart Cities and
Regions
Urban Library
Environment Europe Ltd
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Australia Asia Smart Cities Forum’18
Parallel Events
Australian Trade and Investment Commission
(Austrade)
Thursday 8 February 2018
15:00 - 18:00
Ballroom 2 - Impiana KLCC Hotel
Revitalising Cities Through Conservation
Side events
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 304
Innovative Practices on the Territory: Creo
Antofagasta and the Chilean context
Side events
CREO Antofagasta
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 307
International Forum of Ecological
Landscape and Livable City
Side events
Asian Landscape Architecture Society & Yuan
Ye Award Internaonal Compeon
Organizing Commiee
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 408
Community Focused Urban Regeneration
Networking Events
Think City Sdn Bhd
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 304
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Urban Transformation in Russian Cities in
times of Mega-events and Economic
Transition: learning from the adoption of
the New Urban Agenda and the
implementation of the SDG11
Networking Events
Naonal Research Tomsk State University
(TSU), Centre for Urban Studies and Regional
Development (CUr)
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 404
Placemaking Sandbox Studio: co-creating
sustainable and inclusive places for all
Training Events
University of Melbourne
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 402
Participatory Approaches in Urban
Planning and Development: Learning from
Indonesian Cities
Training Events
Kota Kita Foundaon
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 410
The New Urban Agenda in the Tropics –
research and design
Side events
James Cook University
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 304
Lessons from City Planning Institutes:
How to Design Effective
Side events
Mejor Ciudad, A.C.
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 306
Panel Discussion – Then & Now:
Stimulating Urban Life
Side events
Internaonal Center For Sustainable Cies
(Icsc) And Deutsche Gesellscha Für
Internaonale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GMBH,
(INDIA)
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 401
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Smart Cities Behing the Scenes:
Governance, Viability & Capacities
Side events
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservaon, Building and Nuclear Safety
(BMUB)
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 407
Urban Planning instruments for
post-disaster recovery efforts:
Comprehensive Urban Development plans
for resilient Human Settlements
Side events
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing
Friday 9 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 401
Making Room for Urban Expansion:
Planned Extensions as an antidote to
disorder and sprawl
Networking Events
The Prince’s Foundaon for Building
Community
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 405
Saving the planet by desing: Making
urbanisation sustainable by creating
humane urban space
Training Events
INU (Naonal Planning Instute)
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 403
Co-design, training on participatory
change processes and urban form as
enablers for social inclusion
Training Events
SKL Internaonal
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 406
Localizing SDGs: integrated territorial
planning with the SDGs in medium sized
cities
Training Events
VNG Internaonal
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 410
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Physical inactivity and Rising
Non-Communicable Diseases: How
creating space for sport can support the
implementation of the New Urban Agenda
and drive socioeconomic development in
Asia-Pacific
One UN Room
United Naons Educaonal, Scienfic and
Cultural Organizaon (UNESCO)
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Rapid Planning – Introducing new
approaches to planning and financing
urban supply and disposal infrastructure
AFINUA Room
BMBF German Federal Ministry of Educaon
and Research / DLR Project Management
Agency
Saturday 10 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
Citizen-City Collaboration in Contested
Spaces: from Theory to Practice.
Real-World Examples for implementing
the New Urban Agenda at Three Scales:
the neighborhood of Kibera, the city of
Dhaka, and the nation of Argentina
Side events
Kounkuey Design Iniave, Inc.
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 307
Financing and Implementing Sustainable
Cities
Side events
Global Environment Facility
Saturday 10 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 402
Sunway City – Wasteland to Wonderland
(ST3: Climate Responsive Cities)
Networking Events
Sunway Group
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 401
Making Cities Work for Babies, Children,
Youth and Girls
Networking Events
Arup
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 403
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Good Planning and Good Governance:
examples to implement the New Urban
Agenda
Networking Events
Global Planners Network
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 409
Ten years of architecture movement for
equitable cities and resilient communities;
grounding experiences, expanding new
horizon
Side events
Architecture Sans Fronères Internaonal
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 305
The Secret Life of the Streets of Hong
Kong – Review on urban liveability and the
New Urban Agenda
Side events
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 306
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Public Space in the New Urban Agenda:
Research Into Implementation
AFINUA Room
The Future of Places (Ax:son Johnson
Foundaon)
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 19:00
Quantifying the commons
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
City government of Addis ababa
beaficaon,park and cemetery
administraon agency
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
SDG and New Urban Agenda
implementation on the African continent:
Networking for new approaches to build
capacities and reform tertiary education
Networking Events
Wits-TUB Urban Lab: Interdisciplinary Bilateral
Postgraduate Studies Programme for
sub-Saharan Africa
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 408
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Culture, Nature, Heritage, Cities: Case
Studies on Localizing the SDGS
Side events
Internaonal Council on Monuments and Sites
(ICOMOS)
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 403
Implementing the New Urban Agenda
through National Spatial Planning Policy
and Urban Design Guidance
Side events
Town and Country Planning Development
Planning Office in associaon with Urban
Strategies Inc.
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 405
#EveryLife – delivering the New Urban
Agenda priority of safe & healthy journeys
for every child
Side events
Child Health Iniave (Convened by the FIA
Foundaon)
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 409
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Integrated and Participatory
Neighbourhood Upgrading Methodology
for the outskirts of urban areas.
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Municipality of Cuenca-Ecuador
Sunday 11 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Good Design, Good Planning: Aligning
practice, communities and education in the
implementation of Agenda 2030
Networking Events
Center for Sustainable Urban Development,
Columbia University, New York
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 305
Smart and Green Development
Networking Events
Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design
Instute
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 407
Achieving Sustainability, Inclusivity and
Resilience through designing Responsible
Architecture and human settlements
Side events
Malaysian Instute of Architects / Pertubuhan
Akitek Malaysia (PAM)
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 404
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Implementing Universal Accessibility at
the Local Level – Practical Actions for
Realizing an Inclusive New Urban Agenda
Side events
The Global Network on Disability Inclusive and
Accessible Urban Development (DIAUD)
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 408
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How the New Urban Agenda, SDG #11
and age friendly cities can improve lives of
urban older residents
Side events
General Assembly of Partners Older Persons
Partner Constuent Group
Monday 12 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 409
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The Public Realm for Equity, Inclusion,
and Sustainability
Side events
Consorum for Sustainable Urbanizaon
(CSU)
Sunday 11 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 409
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Achieving Sustainability Through
Inclusive Heritage Based Development in
Asian Cities
Networking Events
ICSC and SEHER INTACH
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 305
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Design Sprint for Urban Innovation
Training Events
PUSH
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 403
Making Productive Tourism and New
Culture Destination
Training Events
Technical University Berlin and TAF Culture Lab
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 410
Leading Change: Using the IG – UTP to
implement the NUA
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
South African Local Government Associaon
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
Planning tools from planning to
implementation and monitoring: A
malaysian perspective
Training Events
PLAN Malaysia
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 405
The Use of Minecraft for Community
Participation in Design of Public Space
Training Events
Block by Block Foundaon
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 408
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Dealing with Rapid Urbanisation – tools
and experiences The rapid rates and scale
of urbanisation around the world are a core
focus for all involved in creating
sustainable cities and communities which
are inclusive and prosperous for all
Networking Events
Commonwealth Associaon of Planners
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 306
Smart Sustainable Cities
Networking Events
Internaonal Society of City and Regional
Planners (ISOCARP)
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 401
Turning urban shrinkage into
opportunities for sustainable
redevelopment. Reflection from the
experience of the City of Saint Etienne
(France) and [...]
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Saint Eenne Urban Development
Corporaon- Etablissement Public
d’Aménagement de Saint Eenne: EPASE
Monday 12 February 2018
16:00 - 17:00
Blueprint for Better
Side events
The American Instute of Architects
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 407
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Anatomy of Density: Why Tall Buildings
Can't Solve the Problem of Urban Growth
Side events
NYU Stern Urbanizaon Project
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 410
Ensuring Equitable Through Innovative
Neighborhood Development Plan and
Implmentation Programs
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
Office of Planning, City of Newark, NJ, USA
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
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Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
and identification of SDGs in Quito one
year after Habitat III
Side events
Municipality of Quito
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 408
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Environmental and social impact
assessment: what is its impact and
effectiveness for the poor in African cities?
Side events
Promos
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 405
Localising the Sustainable Development
Goals by implementing the New Urban
Agenda: A call for decentralized
governmental and administrative
structures!
Networking Events
DeLoG – Development Partners Network on
Decentralisaon and Local Governance
Saturday 10 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 403
Building skills to design good urban
policies and legislation
Training Events
Sir William Dale Center for Legislave Studies,
Instute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of
Advanced Study [...]
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 406
Urban Legislation
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Habitat treaty for Latin America: Legal
implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
Colegio de Jurisprudencia Urbanísca, CJUR
Internaonal (Associaon of Urbanisc
Jurisprudence)
Monday 12 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
The judiciary facing the New Urban
Agenda: Urban Law, Acces to Justice and
Human Rights Defense
Side events
Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado de la
Municipalidad de Riobamba
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 403
Rights / City and Habitat: Better
Legislations for implement the New Urban
Agenda in Latin America
Side events
Instuto Municipal de Invesgacón y
Planeación de Ensenada, Baja California
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 307
1 Technology for safer cities
Networking Events
Polycom Development Project
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 401
Urban Safety
2 Building peaceful, just and inclusive urban
societies
One UN Room
United Naons Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC)
Saturday 10 February 2018
10:00 - 11:00
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Using Innovative and Participatory Tools
to increase Girls' Safety and Inclusion in
Cities
Side events
Plan Internaonal
Sunday 11 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 409
Measurements on City Safety Approaches
Networking Events
Huawei Technologies
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 307
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Shock-Responsive Urban Safety Nets: a
Foundation for Peaceful Cities
One UN Room
World Food Programme (WFP)
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
Sustaining Peace through Urban Safety:
Charting Key Lessons for the UN
High-Level Forum
Networking Events
Geneva Peacebuilding Plaorm
Monday 12 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 406
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Gender responsive, inclusive and safe
space for women for resilient and
sustainable cities
Side events
Asian – Pacific Resource and Research Centre
for Women (ARROW)
Thursday 8 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Room 305
Use of technology to address sexual
violence
Side events
Red Dot Foundaon
Thursday 8 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 405
Women's Caucus
Caucus Meetings
Friday 9 February 2018
08:00 - 09:00
Room 402
Metropolitan Policies to Implement the
Sustainable Development Goals and the
New Urban Agenda: Safe Cities for
Women and Girls
Networking Events
Women in Cies Internaonal
Friday 9 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 307
Making Cities Safer for Girls:
Curriculum-based workshop to change
knowledge, attitudes, practices and skills
of urban actors
Training Events
Plan Internaonal, Women in Cies
Internaonal, Global Utmaning
Friday 9 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 307
Women
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Women Mayors: Empowered Women
Challenging the Norms
Listen to Cities room / Local Action
United Cies and Local Governments Asia
Pacific (UCLG ASPAC)
Friday 9 February 2018
13:00 - 15:00
Women as Community Mobilizers in
Meeting Slum Upgrading Goals:
Learnings from India
Side events
Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 406
Women’s visions and practices for the
implementation of the New Urban
Agenda: inclusive, equal and sustainable
cities for all
Networking Events
URBANIMA/L.U.P.T. University of Naples
Federico II, Italy
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 405
Horizontal and vertical partnerships to
implement the New Urban Agenda,
particularly around its calls for safe and
inclusive cities for [...]
Networking Events
Plan Internaonal
Friday 9 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 409
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SDG-5 and SDG-11 critical drivers of the
Leave No one Behind aspiration of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
One UN Room
UN Women
Friday 9 February 2018
18:00 - 19:00
One UN Room
Women's Caucus
Caucus Meetings
Saturday 10 February 2018
08:00 - 09:00
Room 402
Rapid Care Analysis for Urban
Development, Economic Empowerment,
and Markets Programmes
Training Events
Oxfam
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 306
Women in Waste Management: an
Opportunity
Networking Events
United States Agency for Internaonal
Development (USAID)
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 404
Women's Economic Empowerment in
Cities
Side events
Oxfam GB, United Naons Development
Programme (UNDP) and Cies Alliance
Saturday 10 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 406
Women's Caucus
Caucus Meetings
Sunday 11 February 2018
08:00 - 09:00
Room 402
15:00 - 17:00
Room 306
Engendering PB. How to generate more
gender sensitive participatory budgeting:
Learning from local experience
Training Events
ASSOAL : (Acons Solidaires de souen aux
Organisaon et d’Appui aux Libertés)
Sunday 11 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 401
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Equity and Gender Equality in Senegal's
New Economic and Social Development
Strategy: Which Effective Means to
Implement the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
Ministry of Urban Renewal, Housing and
Living Environment
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 306
Empowering Women In Crisis and
Post-Conflict Situations: Building
Community Resilience
Networking Events
Internaonal Islamic University Malaysia
(IIUM)
Sunday 11 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 401
Women's Caucus
Caucus Meetings
Monday 12 February 2018
08:00 - 09:00
Room 402
Sunday 11 February 2018
Human Rights Based Approach to
Women's Land and Property Rights in the
Muslim World
Training Events
University of East London, CIFLAC, Global Land
Tool Network (GLTN), Huairou Commission,
Internaonal Islamic University Malaysia
Monday 12 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 306
Women and the Urban: Synergies between
SDG 5 and SDG 11
Side events
Urbanizaon, Gender and the Global South: a
transformave knowledge network (GenUrb)
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 408
Women Friendly Cities Challenge: An
International Collaborative Online
Platform of Wise Practices
Side events
Women Transforming Cies Internaonal
Society
Monday 12 February 2018
17:00 - 18:00
Room 409
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Caucus Meetings
Tuesday 13 February 2018
08:00 - 09:00
Room 402
25 The Role of Grassroots Women in
Building Urban Resilience
Side events
Huairou Commision
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 405
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Youth Action in Creating Sustainable
Cities in the New Urban Agenda
Networking Events
World Youth Foundaon
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 406
Intergenerational Speed Networking:
Developing Partnerships Between Youth
and Multi-Stakeholders for the NUA
Networking Events
United Naons Major Group for Children and
Youth (UN MGCY)
Thursday 8 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 409
Youth City: Creating an enabling
environment for youth participation and
development
Side events
PLANMalaysia (Federal Department of Town
and Country Planning Malaysia)
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 306
Youth
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Technological tools for youth-led
community participation and urban data
collection
Training Events
University of Birmingham
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 14:00
Room 409
The role of youth in reconstruction and
development of arab cities
AFINUA Room
Kuwait Engineers without Borders
Organisaon
Saturday 10 February 2018
11:00 - 13:00
PASSA Youth Launch in Asia-Pacific:
Leveraging youth engagement and
technological innovations for participatory
urban planning
Networking Events
Internaonal Federaon of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Sociees (IFRC)
Saturday 10 February 2018
15:00 - 17:00
Room 402
4
Unlocking the potential of Youth through
South-South Cooperation ( City-City
learning and knowledge exchange
Side events
Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA)
Thursday 8 February 2018
11:30 - 12:30
Room 408
9
Youths as Change-makers and Drivers for
the Sustainable Urban Development for
Social Inclusion and Ending Poverty
Networking Events
GSEF (Global Social Economy Forum)
Sunday 11 February 2018
09:00 - 11:00
Room 405
5
Local Pathways Fellowship: Empowering
Youth to Implement the New Urban
Agenda in Their Cities
Side events
UN Sustainable Development Soluons
Network – Youth Iniave
Friday 9 February 2018
14:00 - 15:00
Room 402
10
11
Engaging young men and women in city
planning: The Saudi Experience
Urban Library
Princess ALanood Foundaon (WARIF)
Sunday 11 February 2018
13:00 - 14:00
Non-Communicable Diseases: Hidden
Burden of Cities in Asia
Side events
Center for Indonesian Medical Students’
Acvies (CIMSA)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
11:00 - 12:00
Room 406
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APPRECIATION NOTES
“Once again you set the tone for the year by helping us run a successful WUF9. We appreciated your
unfailing aenon to every detail in your advice. With all the last minute snags, we worried that
something would fall through the cracks, but everyone ancipated every conngency.
We are fortunate to have all of you donate your me and money on occasions like this. On behalf of
the Organising Commiee, I express hearelt thanks for all you do, all agencies that had assisted us
throughout the WUF9 journey.
Thank you.”
LOCAL ORGANIZER COMMITTEE
NO AGENCIES NO AGENCIES
Y.Bhg. Dato’ Sri Hj Mohammad bin Mentek
Secretary General of KPKT
1 Ministry of Home Affairs
12
Instute Diplomacy & Foreign Relaons
(IDFR)
2
Prime Minister’s Office Malaysia
13
Immigraon Department of Malaysia
3
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
14
Royal Malaysian Customs Department
4
Ministry of Territories
15
KLIA Health Office
5
Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM)
16
Ministry of Internaonal Trade and
Industry
6
Ministry of Defence
17 Ministry of Transport
7
Aorney General’s Chambers
of Malaysia
18
Health Department of Federal Territory
of Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya
8
Kuala Lumpur City Hall
19
Ministry of Health
9
Ministry of Finance
20 Road Transport Department Malaysia
10
Malaysian Naonal Security
Council
21
Ministry of Energy, Technology, Science,
Climate Change and Environment
11 Malaysian Instute of
Translaon & Books
22 Ministry of Natural Resources &
Environment
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NO AGENCIES NO AGENCIES
23
Economics Planning Unit
40 Melaka City Council
24
Land Public Transport
Commission (SPAD)
41 Penang Island City
Council
25
Naonal Department for
Culture and Arts
42
Forest Research Instute
Malaysia (FRIM)
26
Ministry of Tourism, Arts and
Culture
43
Department of Orang Asli
Development
27
Ministry of Higher Educaon
44
Indah Water Konsorum
28
Tourism Malaysia
45
UDA Holdings Berhad
29
Ministry of Women, Family &
Community Development
46
AJM Planning & Urban
Design Group Sdn Bhd (APUDG)
30
Ministry of Youth & Sports
47
Eramesra Resources
31
Prasarana Malaysia
48 Wawasan Sutera Travel & Tours Sdn.
Bhd
32
Malaysia Airports Holdings
Berhad (MAHB)
49
Cyberview Sdn Bhd
33 IM4U
50
Sunway Berhad
34 Malaysia Convenon & Exhibion
Bureau (MYCEB)
35 Malaysia Instute of Planners
(MIP)
51 Anderes Fourdy
52 Centry Guard
36 Malaysian Instute of Architects
53
YTL Land & Development
Berhad
37 Instute of Landscape Architects
Malaysia(ILAM)
38 Think City Sdn. Bhd
54 PICO
55 Universi Lim Kok Wing
39 KL Convenon Centre
56 Tourism Melaka
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KPKT INTERNAL AGENCIES
NO AGENCIES NO AGENCIES
1
PLANMalaysia (Federal
Department of Town & Country
Planning
16
Strategic & Internaonal
Relaons Division
2
SWCorp Malaysia
17
Urban Wellbeing Division
3
Naonal Housing
Department
18
Development &
Implementaon Project Division
4
Local Government
Department
19
Policy & Inspectorate
Division
5
Fire and Rescue
Department of Malaysia
20
Urbanizaon Service Division
6
Naonal Landscape Department
21
Money Landers & Pawnbrokers
Divison
7
Naonal Solid Waste
Management Departmenet
22
Naonal Physical Planning
Division (PLANMalaysia)
8
Tribunal for Housing Strata
Management
23
Corporate Division
(PLANMalaysia)
9
Training Instute of Urban
Weelbeing, Housing & Local
Government (ILKPKT)
24
Legal & Planning Regulatory
Division (PLANMalaysia)
10 Legal Division
11
Finance & Procurement Division
25
26
Internal Audit Unit
Research & Development
Division (PLANMalaysia)
12
Human Resources Division
27
Corporate Communicaon Unit
13
Informaon Technology Division
28
Integrity Unit
14 Account Division
15 Management Services Division
29
KPI Unit
Note: List of the agencies arranged randomly
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LOCAL SECRETARIAT
NO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
NAME
TPr. Madam Norliza Hashim
Dr. Azmizam bin Abdul Rashid
Mr. Md Farabi Yussoff bin Md Yussoff
Dr. Mohd Rizal bin Osman
Ms. Fauziah bin Abd. Jalil
Mr. Mohd Safie bin Mostapa
Mr. Vincent Micheal Patrick
Mr. Mohd Hafizol bin Che Mohd Noor
Ms. Nur Dalila bin Abdul Wadud
10 Cheah Sook Peng, Candace
11
12
Amir Asyraf bin Amir Hassan
Illyas bin Mustapa
INTERIM SECRETARIAT FROM MIP
NO
13
NAME
Norashikin bin Ibrahim

WORLD URBAN FORUM 9
SUBSTANTIVE & THEMATIC REPORT
The Ninth Session Of
The World Urban Forum
(WUF9)