Media clippings and press coverage charting the work of the General Assembly of Partners through the Habitat III process and the adoption of the New Urban Agenda.
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Implementing The New Urban Agenda In The United States
·JUNE 21, 2017 Informationen zur Raumentwicklung 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).
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After Habitat III, what's next for the urban movement?
·OCTOBER 21, 2016 Citiscope Official and unofficial mechanisms are quickly falling into place to follow and prod implementation of the New Urban Agenda.
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Private-sector role is discussed at Habitat III but few businesses show up
·OCTOBER 20, 2016 Citiscope As 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.
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Habitat III is 'third act' for growing philanthropic focus on cities
·OCTOBER 12, 2016 Citiscope Bridging 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.
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Can Habitat III prompt new focus on urban journalism?
·OCTOBER 11, 2016 Citiscope Bridging 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.
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The indigenous demand for Habitat III? Territoriality
·OCTOBER 7, 2016 Citiscope Bridging 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.
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'I love cities, but they don't all love me back,' advocate for disabled says before Habitat III
·OCTOBER 4, 2016 Citiscope Bridging the GAP | The New Urban Agenda fails to mention 'universal design' or 'reasonable accommodations', two linchpin concepts in legislation to protect those with disabilities.
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Bridging the GAP: The Habitat III strategy 'is an agenda affecting grass-roots people'
·SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 Citiscope Community groups want to show next month's conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
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Quito Questions: What's this about a Stakeholders Forum at Habitat III?
·SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 Citiscope It's less an event than an organizing principle.
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Bridging the GAP: What are researchers, academics bringing to the New Urban Agenda?
·AUGUST 26, 2016 Citiscope With scholars putting cities under the microscope, Habitat III is an opportunity to cement a formal role in the urbanization discussion.
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Bridging the GAP: What are older persons looking for in the New Urban Agenda?
·JULY 1, 2016 Citiscope Nearly 60 percent of the world's older population lives in cities, and the new norm is 'aging in place.
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Habitat III stakeholders offer vision of broad partnership for sustainable urbanization
·JUNE 10, 2016 Citiscope This week, national governments heard directly from civil society and others on what they're hoping to see in the New Urban Agenda and beyond.
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Bridging the GAP: Women have been one of Habitat III's most active constituencies
·JUNE 8, 2016 Citiscope Above all, women want to play a bigger role in how cities are planned and managed.
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Nearing a text: March to see release of key documents informing the New Urban Agenda
·MARCH 7, 2016 Citiscope A 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.
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Got an urban solution? Submit it to the Habitat III process
·JANUARY 4, 2016 Citiscope Ideas 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.
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The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour
·JANUARY 4, 2016 Citiscope Urban informal workers saw major gains in 2015, but these need to be consolidated at Habitat III.
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The one-year countdown to Habitat III has begun!
·OCTOBER 23, 2015 Citiscope The 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.
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Bridging the GAP: Urban advocacy for children and youths
·AUGUST 30, 2015 Citiscope The first in an occasional series on the stakeholder groups that make up the General Assembly of Partners.
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Habitat III stakeholder umbrella group to receive official financial support
·JULY 10, 2015 Citiscope Assistance will ensure that General Assembly of Partners chairs are able to attend major meetings while preparing inputs for the New Urban Agenda.
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Civil society must ensure equitable inclusion in Habitat III
·MAY 7, 2015 Citiscope The 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.
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New General Assembly of Partners aims to broaden global focus on Habitat III
·APRIL 22, 2015 Citiscope A 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.
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Civil society gains new ground at Habitat III
18th October 2016 · Cities TodayThere 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.
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Why the urban-rural linkage is crucial for Habitat III
21st July 2016 · Cities TodayCaribbean 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.
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'If we don't talk employment quality, we will just increase urban poverty' ' Daria Cibrario, Public Services International, Habitat III
12th July 2016 · Cities TodayPublic 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.
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How grassroots are playing a role in Habitat III
11th July 2016 · Cities TodaySlum 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.
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How youth and children are playing a role in Habitat III
30th June 2016 · Cities TodayCities Today US reporter, Mythili Sampathkumar, spoke to Joyati Das, Senior Director for Urban Programs, World Vision International, co-Chair Children and Youth Constituent Group
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Civil society speaks as one in Habitat III process
8th June 2016 · Cities TodayThe 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...