28 September 2015
8:30-13:15 EST
East River Room, Ford Foundation, New
York/USA
(Closed event – Working language
English)
Follow the event LIVE on 28 September 2015
This September, the international
community celebrates the adoption of the global 2030 Sustainable Development
Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG11 to “Make Cities
and Human Settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” In parallel,
the urban development community is stepping up the preparations for the United
Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Habitat III,
where the New Urban Agenda will be adopted in October 2016.
In this pivotal moment of
unprecedented opportunity for social justice, poverty eradication and
sustainable development, we invite you to engage in a multi-stakeholder
reflection on the key drivers and actions for a transformation that will
empower, enable and operationalize our collective commitment to sustainable
urban development in the 21st century. Urban development, with its power to
trigger transformative change, can and must be at the forefront line of human
development. Cities are home to half of the world’s people and three quarters
of its economic output, and these figures will rise dramatically within 2050.
We must therefore align goals, plans, finance, partnerships, governance models
and monitoring and review systems with the scale of our ambition.
The Communitas Coalition Secretariat
and its core partners – ICLEI, nrg4SD, Tellus Institute and UN-Habitat – are
convening this high-level multi-stakeholder gathering of the Urban SDG Campaign
and the World Urban Campaign, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, the
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, the
Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments, Cities Alliance and the
UN-Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Join the discussions to examine the
fundamental transformation required for sustainable urban development to
happen, as well as the critical multi-stakeholder engagement in the preparatory
process towards Habitat III:
·
What
will be we doing differently within the next 20 years if we are serious about
encouraging and empowering sustainable urban development at the city-region
scale?
·
How
will we align goals, plans, finance, partnerships, governance models and
monitoring and review systems with the scale of our ambition?
·
What
will be the key solutions and drivers for policy coherence? What tools we need
for implementation?
·
What
are the distinct yet complementary roles of different stakeholders in the
implementation of this agenda?
Help us leave a testimony of the
multi-stakeholder nature of this agenda. We will have a camera at your service
during the event and are excited about capturing the richness of experiences in
short video statements (maximum 2 minutes).
Download the PROGRAMME.
Download the DRAFT LIST OF
SPEAKERS.
Enquiries: info@communitascoalition.org,
copying wuc@unhabitat.org