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World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - Local Voices for a Better World and 5th United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) World Congress
On Thursday morning, 2016 World Summit participants attended parallel workshops, policy dialogues and learning forums covering: culture and urban transformation; Latin American decentralization; a model city council; strategic facilitation; bottom-up national development; affordable housing, gentrification, accessibility and urban development; local economic development for social cohesion; mobility; and the ‘Handbook on International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning.’ The permanent working platform on co-creating the city continued throughout the day.
In the afternoon, a plenary on ‘Linking up the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda’ convened, followed by a meeting of the UCLG Executive Bureau. Afternoon workshops explored: the UCLG City of Bogotá Peace Prize Finals; territorial governance for food security; SDGs localization; and the HIV threat in cities. A policy dialogue addressed territories for the promotion of sustainable local economic and environmental policies, while a learning forum emphasized the importance of learning for professionals and leaders, specifically in local governments.
Throughout the day, attendees could also explore new topics through films at the cinema forums and 30-minute talks in the presentations corner. Constituencies held community forums and other groups met, including the metropolitan and peripheral cities constituency, CEOs of local government associations, the UN Advisory Committee on Local Authorities (UNACLA), the Metropolis Executive-Financial Committee, and the preparatory meeting of the 1st World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace to be held in April 2017.
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Permanent Working Platform - Co-Creating the City: Right to the City of Learning
Participants engaged in discussions through Google Hangouts
Nelson Saule, Instituto Pólis
Participants shared perspectives and experiences
Policy Dialogue - Culture as a Dimension in Urban Transformation
Panel speakers of the session
Michel Vallée, Director of Culture, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada
Karim Hendili, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Community Forum - Metropolitan and Peripheral Cities
Panel speakers of the event
Moderator Octavio de la Varga, World Association of the Major Metropolises
Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Participants listening to panelists
Learning Forum - Practical Sessions: The Art of Strategic Facilitation
Panel speakers of the event
Harold Jarche, Jarche Consulting
Jeannette Vélez Ramírez, Global Actions and Solutions
Kubeshni Govender, Black Earth Consulting
Participants listen to the remarks from Sogen Moodley, Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE), eThekwini, South Africa
Workshop - Laying the Path for Inclusive Cities: Affordable Housing, Gentrification, Accessibility and Urban Development
L-R: Josep Roig, UCLG Secretary General; Angel Gurría, Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Ana Marie Argilagos, Ford Foundation; Federico Gutiérrez, Mayor of Medellín, Colombia; Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid, Spain; and Denis Coderre, Mayor of Montréal, Canada, UCLG North America President and Metropolis President
Ana Marie Argilagos, Ford Foundation
Federico Gutiérrez, Mayor of Medellín
Denis Coderre, Mayor of Montréal, UCLG North America President and Metropolis President
Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid
Angel Gurría, Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Participants during the event
Permanent Working Platform - Co-Creating the City: Right to the Democratic City
Participants during the event
Bernardo Gutiérrez, Medialab-Prado Madrid
Héctor Huerga, Activist
Susana Villarán de la Puente, former Mayor of Lima, Peru
Fernando Pintado, Barcelona, Spain
Hassan Hmani, Nanterre, France
Eliana Guerrero, Colombia
Learning Forum - Practical Sessions: Mobility
An overview of breakout groups discussing success factors for better urban mobility
Policy Dialogue - Drive Bottom-Up National Development
L-R: Josep Lluís Alay, Commissioner for International Relations of Province of Barcelona, UCLG Committee on Decentralization and Local Self-Government; Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, Mayor of Libreville, Gabon; Hugo Siles, Minister of Autonomy, Bolivia; Moderator Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General, UCLG Africa; Rosario Bento Pais, Head of Unit, DEVCO B2, European Commission; Simón Gaviria, Director of National Planning Department, Colombia; Emil Elestianto Dardak, Regent Mayor of Trenggalek Regency, Indonesia; and Clark Somerville, President, Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
Josep Lluís Alay, Commissioner for International Relations of Province of Barcelona, UCLG Committee on Decentralization and Local Self-Government
Clark Somerville, FCM President
Hugo Siles, Minister of Autonomy, Bolivia
Moderator Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General, UCLG Africa
Simón Gaviria, Director of National Planning Department, Colombia
A participant asks a question to the panel
Elevator Pitch - Handbook on International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning
Participants during the event
Community Forum - Local Government Associations: Discussion among CEOs
Participants during the event
Workshop - SDGs Localization
L-R: Santiago Gallo, Member of Executive Secretariat, FLACMA; Mohamed Saadieh, President of Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Co-President of UCLG-MEWA; Sylvie Goneau, Councilor of Gatineau, 2nd Vice President of Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM); Mpho Moruakgomo, President of Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA), Chair of the Board of Commonweatlth Local Government Forum (CLGF); Johannes Krassnitzer, ART Programme Specialist of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Christine Musisi, Director of External Relations Division of UN-Habitat; Ute Böttcher, Head of Competence Center Democracy, Policy Dialogue and Urban Development of DeLoG-GIZ; and Paula Lucci, Research Fellow of Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Workshop - SDGs Localization
Rafael Zavala (left), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), addresses participants
Learning Forum - Concepts and Trends
L-R: Kubeshni Govender, Black Earth Consulting; Sara Hoeflich, UCLG; Harold Jarche, Jarche Consulting; Cézar Busatto, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Erik Vergel, University of Rosario; and Josep Roig, UCLG Secretary General
Policy Dialogue - Territories to Promote Sustainable Local Economic and Environmental Policies
L-R: Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI); Ronan Dantec, Senator, Loire-Atlantique, France; Gerardo Pisarello, First Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Spain; Dina Oyun, Mayor of Kyzyl, Russia; Tom Dallessio, Next City; Juan Mari Aburto, Mayor of Bilbao, Spain; and Ana Giros Calpe, Suez Environment
Plenary - Links Between the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda
Participants listen to panel speakers
Mónica Fein, Mayor of Rosario, Argentina
Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General, UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UN-DESA)
Aromar Revi, Director, IIHS
Parks Tau, Councilor, Johannesburg, South Africa
Denis Coderre, Mayor of Montréal, UCLG North America President and Metropolis President
Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary General
Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Center for Cities
UCLG Executive Bureau
The dais during the bureau meeting
Around the Venue
Participants during a networking break
Daily report for 13 October 2016
World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - Local Voices for a Better World and 5th United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) World Congress
Summary report 12–15 October 2016
World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - Local Voices for a Better World and 5th United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) World Congress
Highlights and images for 18 July 2016
HLPF 2016
Following the opening of the Ministerial Segment on Monday, participants at the 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) discussed “Main messages from first HLPF week: our starting point.” This was followed by keynote speeches and panel discussions related to the meeting’s theme of “Ensuring that no one is left behind,” on: “Reaching the most vulnerable;” “Challenges of countries in special situations;” and “Unlocking means of implementation (MOI) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and creating an enabling environment.” A general debate took place at the end of the day.
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Opening of the Ministerial Segment
Delegates gather for the opening of the Ministerial Segment
Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN
Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN and President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN and Vice
President of ECOSOC
Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Deputy Permanent Representative of Honduras to the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC
Mogens Lykketoft, President of
the UN General Assembly
Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Vice President of Viet Nam
Ensuring that no one is left behind: reaching the most vulnerable
Panel speakers during the session
Hugo Roger Martínez Bonilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Kate Gilmore, Deputy High
Commissioner for Human Rights
Md. Shahidul Haque, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh
Christian Friis Bach, Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Delegates watch proceedings from the gallery
Ensuring that no one is left behind: challenges of countries in special situations
View of the dais during the session
Álvaro García, Office of Planning and Budget of the Presidency, Uruguay
Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Helen Clark, Administrator,
UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman,
2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Karina Gould, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development, Canada
Ricardo Cardona, Minister of Social Development, Honduras
Shamshad Akhtar, Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Daniel Mensinga, Major Group for Children and Youth
Ensuring that no one is left behind: unlocking the means of implementation for
the Sustainable Development Goals and creating an enabling environment
View of the dais during the session
Michelle Muschett, Vice Minister of Social Development, Panama
Ardalan Shekarabi, Minister for Public Administration, Sweden
Axel Bertuch-Samuels,
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Vaughan Turekian,
Advisor to the US Secretary of State
Neven Mimica, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development
Douglas Frantz, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Mahmoud Mohieldin, World Bank Group
Representatives from the Women's Major Group hold up pictures of environmental and human rights activists who have been killed, demonstrating the need to create an enabling environment for stakeholder participation
General Debate
Delegates participate in a general debate
Virachai Plasai, Permanent Representative of Thailand to the UN, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Juan Temístocles Montás, Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominician Republic, speaking on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
Bernard Kamphasa, Zambia, speaking
on behalf of the LLDCs
Eden Charles, Deputy Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the UN, speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Jiko Fatafehi Luveni, Fiji, speaking on behalf of the Group of Pacific SIDS
Mohammed Khaled Khiari, Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the UN, speaking on behalf of the African Group
Mohammed Maziad Al Tuwaijri,
Vice-Minister of Economy and Planning, Saudi Arabia
Celebrating Nelson Mandela Day
A special event is held in the ECOSOC Chamber to commemorate "Mandela Day"
Delegates stand to observe a moment of silence to honor Nelson Mandela and his contribution to freedom and justice in the world
Stevie Wonder, UN Messenger of Peace
Around the Venue
Delegates gather for the start of the Ministerial Segment
Delegates greet each other before the start of plenary
Delegates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Delegates from South Africa
Delegates speak informally
Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, and Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Vice-President of Viet Nam, participate in
an event "Scream from Nature" that emphasized the importance of environmental protection
Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, and
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Vice-President of Viet Nam,
stand with children during the event
Musical performance by fifth graders from the
Special Music School, New York
Around the UN Headquarters
Daily report for 18 July 2016
HLPF 2016
Highlights and images for 14 July 2016
HLPF 2016
The 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) started with panel discussions on “National mechanisms for monitoring progress and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs” and “Making the 2030 Agenda deliver for SIDS, building on the SAMOA Pathway” on Thursday morning. In the afternoon, discussions took place on “Countries in special situations.”
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National mechanisms for monitoring progress and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs
View of the panel during the session on national mechanisms for monitoring progress
and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs
Johannes Paul Jütting, Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN and Vice President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Lisa Grace Bersales,
Philippine Statistics Authority
Georges-Simon Ulrich,
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Milorad Šćepanović,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montenegro
Peseta Noumea Simi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Samoa
Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of South Africa
Nguyen Le Thuy, Viet Nam
Petero Okotai, Cook Islands
Jasmin Burgermeister, Major Group
for Children and Youth
Delegates follow the discussions
Making the 2030 Agenda deliver for Small Island Developing States, building on the SAMOA Pathway
Panel speakers for the session on making the 2030 Agenda deliver for Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), building on the SAMOA Pathway
Sven Jürgenson, Permanent Representative of Estonia to
the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC
Elizabeth Thompson, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and former Minister for Energy and Environment, Barbados
David Smith, University Consortium
of Small Island States
Justina Langidrik, Chief Secretary of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Anote Tong, Former President of
the Republic of Kiribati
Jeem Lippwe, Federated States of Micronesia
Kate Brown, Global Island Partnership
Courtenay Rattray, Jamaica
Renee Yap, New Zealand
Ahmed Sareer, Maldives
Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan
Countries in special situations
Panel speakers for the session on countries in special situations
Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Deputy Permanent
Representative of Honduras to the UN
and Vice President of ECOSOC
David Steven, New York University
Jean-Marc Châtaigner, French Research Institute for Development (IRD)
Marina Djernaes, EcoPeace Middle East
Youba Sokona, South Centre and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Stephen Chacha,
Africa Philanthropic Foundation
Claudio Huepe Minoletti,
Universidad Diego Portales
Elisha Moyo, Zimbabwe
Omair Paul, Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Major Group
Viviana Tatawaqa, Women's Major Group
Gloria Cid, Chile
Informal dialogue with UN Secretary-General candidate
View of the dais during the session
Christiana Figueres, UN Secretary-General candidate
Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly
View of the ECOSOC Chamber
Around the Venue
Delegates meet before the start of the session
Delegates from Italy
Delegates speak informally
Delegates take notes during the sessions
Adolphe Mabulena, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Members of the Secretariat with Georges-Simon Ulrich,
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
View of the Trusteeship Council
Tonya Vaturi, UN Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Youba Sokona, South Centre and IPCC Vice-Chair,
speaks with a delegate
A delegate wears an orange scarf distributed by the
Women's Major Group to emphasize the need for
accountability and civil society participation
UN Security at the venue
Around the UN Headquarters
Daily report for 14 July 2016
HLPF 2016
Summary report 11–20 July 2016
HLPF 2016
Summary report 8–10 June 2016
8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference - Greener, Cleaner, Smarter!
Highlights and images for 7 June 2016
1st annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum)
The first annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI Forum) for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) convened by the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), concluded its work on Tuesday at UN Headquarters in New York.
During the day, representatives of UN Member States and Major Groups and Other Stakeholders heard presentations from panelists and engaged in an interactive dialogue on four topics:
Creating shared value: How do we make it work?
Ministerial Dialogue: Towards a roadmap of effective science, technology and innovation policy frameworks
The Experience of Youth in using Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development
The Way Forward: Adding Value through the Science, Technology and Innovation Forum
In the closing session, Co-Chair Macharia Kamau (Kenya) said we will have to work harder over the next few months to maximize the potential of this Forum over the next 14 years, including through intersessional interactions, given the huge agenda ahead. He expressed hope that the Forum will be able to feed into the work of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Co-Chair Vaughan Turekian (US) said that achieving the SDGs requires better integration of science, technology and innovation, involving a vast number of stakeholders. STI enabling environments are critical to achieve the SDGs over the next 14 years, he added. This STI Forum is “testable,” like scientific inquiry, and can be improved over time, he concluded.
ECOSOC President Oh Joon said it is time to make the Technology Facilitation Mechanism operational and beneficial for all, and called for everyone’s continued cooperation to mobilize great minds and build lasting partnerships. He said we need to strengthen STI capacity in every country, create innovative knowledge societies that use scientific evidence to inform policy, make advances that greatly facilitate technology transfer and diffusion, and support social technologies to change mindsets and behaviors.
ECOSOC President Oh Joon closed the Forum at 5:45 pm.
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Session 5: Creating Shared Value: How Do We Make It Work?
Moderator Romain Murenzi, 10-Member Group for the Technology Facilitation Mechanism
Alexis Bonnell, Global Innovation Exchange, USAID
Tolullah Oni, Next Einstein Fellow
Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of Internet Matters
Zitouni Ould-Dada, United Nations Environment Programme
Gary Fowlie, International Telecommunications Union
Till Zbiranski, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Norine Kennedy, US Council for International Business
Lydia Cumiskey, Major Group for Children and Youth
Haidar Fraihat, UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Session 6: Ministerial Dialogue: Towards a Roadmap of Effective Science,
Technology and Innovation Policy Frameworks
Session 6 Panel (L-R):
Megan Smith, United States Chief Technology Officer;
STI Forum Co-Chair Vaughan Turekian, Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State;
STI Forum Co-Chair Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations;
Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and
Ligia Amada Melo de Cardona, Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dominican Republic.
Under-Secretary-General Wu Honbgo, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Megan Smith, United States Chief Technology Officer
Joe Mucheru, Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology, Kenya
Ligia Amada Melo de Cardona, Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dominican Republic
Dong Wu, UN Conference on Trade and Development
Marcela Angulo González, CORFO-Chilean Economic Development Agency
Asher Lessels, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Ambassador Wu Haitao, China
Naoto Kanehira, World Bank
Session 7: The Experience of Youth in Using Science,
Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development
Moderator Elenita Daño, Asia Director, Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group)
Hannah Herbst, 2015 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge winner
David Moinina Sengeh, Co-founder, Global Minimum Inc. and 2014 TED Fellow
Gusti Ayu Fransiska Dewi, Co-founder of Asia Pacific Youth Network on Climate Change and Field Coordinator, Climate for Rainforest Alliance
Linda Staheli, Founder and Executive Director, Global Co Lab Network
Mikaela Preston, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Rock, President and CEO, Association of Science and Technology Centers
Session 8: The Way Forward: Adding Value through the Science, Technology and Innovation Forum
(L-R): STI Co-Chair Vaughan Turekian, US; STI Co-Chair Macharia Kamau, Kenya; and ECOSOC President Oh Joon
Benedicto Fonseca Filho, Vice-Chair of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
Heide Hackmann, Co-Chair, 10-Member Group for the Technology Facilitation Mechanism