As in previous year, the GPR2C and its members will be in attendance at the 12TH World Urban Forum, which will be held between Nomber 4th and 8th in Cairo, Egypt. This will be a special occasion for the GPR2C, since the event will coincide with the 10th year anniversary of the platform. Thus, this will be an occasion of celebration along with our members and partners, but also of reflection and looking ahead, at pathways for strengthening the fight for the Right to the City at multiples spheres, with a particular emphasis at the possibilities being held by the next UN-Habitat planning cycle, which will cover also the celebration of the 10 years of the Habitat III process.
Come join us at our events at activities during WUF12!
Right to the City Programme
Tuesday – November 5th – Dialogue: Climate Justice and the Right to the City
17h00-18h00 – Habitat Village (Hall 4, booth H04-A15)
This dialogue aims to reflect on concrete strategies for strengthening the linkages between climate justice and the right to the city. Considering what is at stake with regard to this topic in the global conjuncture, not just what has been debated at WUF, but also at the Conference of the Parties (COP), partners will share some experiences that have been carried out during the joint project, highlighting the opportunities and challenges in advancing climate justice and the right to the city in their own territories. More information here.
Convening organizations: GPR2C, Development workshop Angola, Kota Kita, Misereor
Wednesday – November 6th – Multi-scale and multi-actor partnerships to advance the Right to the City and the New Urban Agenda
15h to 16:30h, – Multipurpose room 04
Framed under the 10th year celebration of the GPR2C, this event seeks to hold a conversation that recovers the key elements and strategies of the mobilization around the defense of the Right to the City around the Habitat III process and critically analyzes them in the reality of today. On one hand, this will entail re-examining key principles such as combating and preventing speculation, displacement, homelessness and forced evictions; ensuring the social and ecological functions of housing, land and the city; decentralization of decision-making and resource-allocation; ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal rights; among others. On the other hand, it will include a discussion on how the partnerships and coalitions behind the mobilization ahead of Habitat III have evolved through time and how the linkages forged during that process can be further fostered and enhanced.
Speakers:
- Anaclaudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
- Emilia Saiz, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Governments
- Jader Barbalho Filho, Minister of the Cities, Brazil
- Nelson Saule Júnior, Co-coordinator, Global Platform for the Right to the City
- Yolande Hendler, Secretary General, Habitat International Coalition
Wednesday – November 6th – Join us to celebrate the GPR2C’s 10 year celebration!
18h to 19h, – Habitat Village (Hall 4, booth H04-A15)
In 2024, the Global Platform for the Right to the City celebrates its 10th year anniversary! We would like to take this opportunity during WUF12 to gather members, allies and partners and celebrate such a milestone.
It will be an opportunity to recall some of the key moments of the past decade of collectively fighting to advance the Right to the City at the local, national, regional and global spheres. It will also be the opportunity to look ahead towards inroads for strengthening the work of the GPR2C in the current context.
Your participation and support mean the world to us, and we can’t wait to celebrate this incredible journey with you. Here’s to a decade of learnings, collaboration, and making a difference together towards advancing the Right to the City for everyone!
Thursday – November 7th – Public-community partnerships: democratizing and improving decision-making and service delivery to advance the Right to the City for all
9h to 12h, – Multipurpose room 04
This training is conceived and built around ongoing efforts by the Global Platform to the Right to the City, the Habitat International Coalition and United Cities and Local Governments on the subject, extending the conversation to a wider public, enhancing the knowledge and commitment to such approaches. It will look at the opportunities held by public-community partnerships as an example of commoning and localization strategies that go beyond the public-private divide to guarantee the protection of housing, food systems, basic services, communication and other commons goods. Finally, the training will shed light on different strategies that can be implemented, ranging from remunicipalisation of basic services to co-management of services and public facilities, including inclusive public procurement for advancing equality, sustainability and democratization of decision-making.
Agenda:
- Opening
- Setting the scene
- Introduction: What are public community partnerships and why are they relevant from a commoning perspective?
- Interactive presentation of examples from different regions of concrete implementation of diverse types of public community partnerships
- Break
- Group work – challenges and possibilities to advance public community partnerships in your context
- Conclusions of group discussion + plenary discussion
- Conclusions
Join us at the Habitat Village!
