Achieving sustainable urban development as set out in the New Urban Agenda will require integration of public policies vertically (from global to local) and horizontally (among entities at various governmental levels).
Read full articleOfficial and unofficial mechanisms are quickly falling into place to follow and prod implementation of the New Urban Agenda.
Read full articleAs the summit marks the start of implementation of the New Urban Agenda, everyone is interested in financing. But the business presence at this week's conference was light.
Read full articleBridging the GAP | Foundations are increasingly looking at cities to leverage the impact of their grants, and have been major forces in stakeholder participation around the New Urban Agenda.
Read full articleBridging the GAP | As global leaders gather in Quito next week to adopt the New Urban Agenda, a little-discussed part of this process has focused on educating reporters and editors on the city as a story.
Read full articleBridging the GAP | Huge numbers of indigenous communities live in urban areas across the globe, but often they're there due to circumstance rather than choice.
Read full articleBridging the GAP | The New Urban Agenda fails to mention 'universal design' or 'reasonable accommodations', two linchpin concepts in legislation to protect those with disabilities.
Read full articleCommunity groups want to show next month's conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
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Read full articleWith scholars putting cities under the microscope, Habitat III is an opportunity to cement a formal role in the urbanization discussion.
Read full articleNearly 60 percent of the world's older population lives in cities, and the new norm is 'aging in place.
Read full articleThis week, national governments heard directly from civil society and others on what they're hoping to see in the New Urban Agenda and beyond.
Read full articleAbove all, women want to play a bigger role in how cities are planned and managed.
Read full articleA series of high-level reports will be made public this month by global stakeholders and experts, constituting major inputs to the first draft of the Habitat III strategy.
Read full articleIdeas are due by 15 February for a document ' The City We Need 2.0 ' that will comprise key stakeholder input to the drafting of the New Urban Agenda.
Read full articleUrban informal workers saw major gains in 2015, but these need to be consolidated at Habitat III.
Read full articleThe next 12 months will need to foster international commitment to a new agenda on housing and sustainable urban development that will transform the urban paradigm into a source of global development. Today, everything seems aligned for this to happen.
Read full articleThe first in an occasional series on the stakeholder groups that make up the General Assembly of Partners.
Read full articleAssistance will ensure that General Assembly of Partners chairs are able to attend major meetings while preparing inputs for the New Urban Agenda.
Read full articleThe road is looking a bit rockier than once thought to get to the New Urban Agenda, the outcome document for next year's Habitat III conference on cities and the intended blueprint for a new global strategy around urbanization.
Read full articleA new global initiative will seek to raise attention and recruit expanded constituencies to define and press for a New Urban Agenda through the U.'N.'s Habitat III process, ahead of the major cities conference set to take place next year in Quito.
Read full articleThere were 30,000 attendees expected at the Habitat III meeting in Quito but on yesterday's opening day, as a huge queue snaked back through the El Ejido park, you would be forgiven for thinking that Pope Francis was back in the city.
Read full articleCaribbean Network of Rural Women Producers (Jamaica) is the Interim Chair of the Farmers Partner Constituent Group of the General Assembly of Partners, which brings together 15 such interest groups to speak with one voice on behalf of civil society in the Habitat III process.
Read full articlePublic Services International is the Co-Chair of the Trade Unions Partner Constituent Group of the General Assembly of Partners, which brings together 15 such interest groups to speak with one voice on behalf of civil society in the Habitat III process.
Read full articleSlum Dwellers International (SDI) and WIEGO are the co-chairs of the Grassroots Partner Constituent Group of the General Assembly of Partners, which brings together 15 such interest groups to speak with one voice on behalf of civil society in the Habitat III process.
Read full articleCities Today US reporter, Mythili Sampathkumar, spoke to Joyati Das, Senior Director for Urban Programs, World Vision International, co-Chair Children and Youth Constituent Group
Read full articleThe Partnerships for a New Urban Agenda document represents the first time civil society groups has spoken with a unified voice in the Habitat III consultative process. At United Nations Headquarters in New York, informal hearings took place today for those groups, called the General Assembly of Partners (GAP), to come together and provide further feedback on the 'zero draft' of the New Urban Agenda.
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