WUF9 Substantive Report-s

THE KEY DISCUSSION TAKEAWAYS
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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.
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
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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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