WUF9 Substantive Report-s

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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