Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from
17 – 20 October 2016. At this summit the New Urban Agenda will be approved,
this agenda will guide the efforts around urbanization of a wide range of
actors — nation states, city and regional leaders, international development
funders, United Nations programmes and civil society — for the next 20 years.
Inevitably, this agenda will also lay the groundwork for policies and approaches
that will extend, and impact, far into the future.
The IOPD co-organize two networking events in
order to defend the need for urban development in democratic cities, giving
great importance to citizen participation in urban planning.
International experiences with
participatory budgeting networks
Tuesday 18th from 2 to 4 pm in Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamín Carrión”, Room 19. This event will be organized by
the IOPD, the Brazilian Network of Participatory Budgeting and the City of
Canoas, which chair the IOPD in 2014. At this session we will learn about
international experiences with PB networks and discuss key questions for
countries working with this tool. The meeting will promote a reflection on
innovative forums of citizen participation in the 21st Century,
which guarantees the citizen empowerment, the social inclusion and the access
to basic services and the right to the city.
Organizers contact: +55 51 9317 4786 / +55 51
9697 0104 deise.martins@canoas.rs.gov.br
Participatory planning, social
inclusion and right to the city
Thursday 20th from 2 to 4 pm in a
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamín Carrión”, Room 20. This session will be organized by
IOPD Africa and Enda ECOPOP. The major objectives of the session are:
• Capitalize the advances and challenges of
cities, territories and local institutions for the care of the right to the
city. • Share participatory democracy practices such as bottom-up governance
based on the needs of communities and citizen participation in public policies
worldwide • To outline an action plan to catalyse the role of cities in the
implementation of the new urban agenda
Organizers contact: Bachir KANOUTE : +221 33
859 64 11, Dakar – SENEGAL, Mail: ecopop@endatiersmonde.org , Site web : www.endaecopop.org
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