Summary
On Friday morning, the 2016 World Summit began its third vibrant day of forums, meetings, policy dialogues, and workshops, focusing on: the spirit of solidarity; the right to the city at the heart of the New Urban Agenda; local finance, participation and inclusive governance; city-to-city and South-South and triangular cooperation for decent work; how local climate action will deliver on the Paris Agreement; and local resources and public investments. The permanent working platform dedicated to co-creating the city examined the right to the diverse city, experimental cities and the right to the fair city.
In the afternoon, the second session of the Second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments adopted a joint statement on the New Urban Agenda to deliver to Habitat III.
Following the Assembly, participants joined evening sessions on financing the new agenda, cities in crisis, public spaces, urban innovation and governing with the citizen. The day was also filled with opportunities for networking and connecting, including a social event in the evening.
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Presentations Corner - Digitizing Rio and Porto Maravilha
Participants listen to a presentation about Cisco’s Urban Innovation Challenge for Brazilians
Workshop - From Compact of Mayors to Global Covenant of Mayors: How Local Climate Action Will Deliver on the Paris Agreement
Panel speakers of the session
Permanent Working Platform - Co-Creating the City: Right to the Diverse City
Participants debated the role of local governments, urban planners and communities in supporting cultural diversity
Lucina Jiménez, Director General, Consorcio Internacional Arte y Escuela A.C. (CONARTE), Mexico
Igor Stokfiszewski, Political Critique
Bernardo Gutiérrez, Medialab-Prado Madrid
A participant shares perspectives and experiences
Boyd Cohen, Universitat de Vic
Learning Forum - Practical Sessions: Local Finance, Participation and Inclusive Governance
Participants listen to Roger Quiroga Becerra de la Roca, La Paz, Bolivia
Community Forum - Regional Governments
Panel speakers of the event
Gustavo Baroja, Governor of Pichincha, President of Association of Autonomous Provincial Governments of Ecuador (CONGOPE)
Moderator Antònia Sabartés, UCLG Forum of Regions
Sarath Ethnayake, Chief Minister of Central Province, Sri Lanka
Didier Alberto Tavera Amado, Governor of Santander, Colombia
Rashid Seedat, Gauteng, South Africa
Benoît Faucheux, Centre-Val de Loire, France
The audience during the session
Policy Dialogue - Building the Spirit of Solidarity
L-R: Moderator Shipra Narang Suri, General Assembly of Partners towards Habitat III; Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick, Mayor of Tevragh-Zeina, Mauritania; Carlos Martínez, FEMP and Mayor of Soria; Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Mayor of Tema, Ghana; Paulson-Pierre-Philippe, Port-au-Prince; José Cruz-Osorio, UNDP; Luc Martens, President of Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG); Oswar Muadzin Mungkasa, Jakarta, Indonesia; and Abdel Sadi, Seine Saint Denis Department Council
Moderator Shipra Narang Suri, General Assembly of Partners towards Habitat III
Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick, Mayor of Tevragh-Zeina, Mauritania
Abdel Sadi, Seine Saint Denis Department Council
Learning Forum - Practical Sessions: City-to-City and South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Decent Work
A debate on success factors inciting “City-to-City and South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Decent Work”
Community Forum - Locally Elected Women
L-R: Moderator Emilia Saiz, Deputy Secretary General, UCLG; Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France; Sally A. Lee, Mayor of Sorsogon City; Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid, Spain; Fatimetou Abdel Malick, Mayor of Tevragh Zeina, Mauritania; Fatma Şahin, Mayor of Gaziantep, Turkey; and Cristina Vélez, Secretary for Women, City of Bogotá
Sally A. Lee, Mayor of Sorsogon City, Philippines
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
Célestine Ketcha Courtès, Mayor of Bangangté, Cameroon
Sylvie Goneau, Councilor of Gatineau, Québec
Permanent Working Platform - Co-Creating the City: Future of Cities — Experimental Cities
L-R: Boyd Cohen, Universitat de Vic; Fabro Steibel, Institute for Technology and Society (ITS-Rio); and Gabriella Gómez-Mont, Laboratorio para la Ciudad
A view of the room during the event
Policy Dialogue - The Right to the City at the Heart of the Urban Agenda
Panel speakers of the session
Alison Brown, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, Spain
Second Session of the Second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments
A view of the dais during an intervention with Rosa M. Ribera i Mitjavila, Mayor of Terrassa, Spain
Policy Dialogue - Financing the New Urban Agenda
L-R: Marco Kamiya, UN-Habitat; George McCarthy, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy; Luiz de Mello, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Nathalie Le Denmat, UCLG; Rémi Rioux, French Development Agency (AFD); Luis Revilla Herrero, Mayor of La Paz; and Daria Cibrario, Public Services International
Workshop - Urban Innovation: Implementing the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda
L-R: Peter Woods, UCLG; Monika Zimmermann, ICLEI; Neal Peirce, Citiscope; Arab Hoballah, UNEP; and Sunil Dubey, Metropolis
Workshop - Governing with the Citizen: Transparent and Accountable Local Governments in an Increasingly Urbanized World
L-R: Diana López, UN-Habitat; Murat Aydin, Mayor of Zeytinburnu, Turkey; Carlos Martínez, Mayor of Soria, Spain, Member of the Board of Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP); Marcela Restrepo, Transparency International Colombia; Alonso Cerdán, Open Government Partnership; and Daniel Martínez, Mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay
Around the Venue
Participants networking
Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid, is interviewed by the local media
