The twenty-seventh session of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat will take place from 8-12 April 2019, at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Nairobi, Kenya
For its 30th edition, MIPIM is launching the Young Leaders Summit, innovatively staged as a major intergenerational debate on the future of cities and skills development. Through this event, focused entirely on upcoming generations, MIPIM plans to overview the next 30 years from the perspective of sustainable growth.
Organised by Reed MIDEM, a Reed Exhibitions subsidiary, MIPIM, the world’s leading property market, will be held in Cannes from 12 to 15 March, 2019.
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The 1st OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs will be organised at the OECD Headquarters in Paris on 7 March 2019, within the scope of the OECD programme on A Territorial Approach to the SDGs. The Roundtable will bring together cities, regions, national governments, international organisations, private sector and other key stakeholders to identify trends and challenges in the localisation of the SDGs, including the experiences and key findings from the pilots of the programme.
Africa Climate Week (ACW) 2019 will convene in the lead-up to the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in September 2019, bringing together diverse actors from the public and private sectors. Participants will focus on how engagement between Parties and non-Party stakeholders can be further strengthened in key sectors for Africa, including energy, agriculture and human settlements. The event will also showcase the role of future carbon markets to enhance climate action towards the goal of sustainable development, and seek to facilitate implementation of countries’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement on climate change and SDG 13 (climate action), among other Goals.
Africities is the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa’s flagship pan-African event that is held every three years in one of the five regions of Africa. We mobilize communities and local authorities in African countries, as well as financial institutions, civil society groups and development partners at continental and international level.
CREATING A VISION FOR THE AFRICA THAT WE WANT TO SEE
The architecture of all Africities Summits aims to address major questions based on the construction of the 2063 Vision of Africa with debate proposed by the African Union Commission.
Under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI of Morocco, the Africities 8 Summit will be hosted in Marrakesh, on 20 -24 November 2018, with over 5000 participants. The latter will represent all the stakeholders of African local life as well as their partners from other regions of the world: ministers in charge of local governments; ministers in charge of housing and urban development; ministers of public service; local authorities and local elected officials; officials of local and central administrations; civil society organizations, associations and trade unions; economic operators of the public and private sectors as well as of the social/ solidarity economy; traditional rulers; researchers and academics; and international cooperation agencies.
This year’s Africities Summit theme is The Transition to Sustainable Cities and Territories, the Role of Local and Subnational Governments of Africa.
The Africities 8 Exhibition will host between 400 – 500 exhibitors.
The Africities Summit pursues two major objectives:
All you need to know about registration, visit: https://www.africities.org/registration/
Official Summit’s Website: https://www.africities.org/
The World Council is the main policy-making body of the World Organization. It decides the World Organization’s policies and ensures that general policies decided by the General Assembly are implemented. The World Council will take place from 5 to 8 November in Madrid, back-to-back with the second edition of the World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace, at the kind invitation of Mayor Manuela Carmena.
For more information, click here: https://www.uclg.org/en/node/28960
During the event, discover how cities and regions from the EU & worldwide, work together to implement development.
Their main goal: to improve the lives of their citizens.
This anniversary will be the perfect opportunity to exchange with other players and elected officials about development cooperation led by cities and regions.
You will have the possibility to see what PLATFORMA’s partners have accomplished during the past 10 years. In addition, we will discuss together the main challenges facing decentralised cooperation in the next decade.
For more information, click here: http://platforma-dev.eu/register-to-platforma-10-year-anniversary-conference/
World Cities Day aims to promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, enhance cooperation among countries and cities in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contribute to sustainable urban development. The overall World Cities Day theme is Better City, Better Life and this year’s particular theme is Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities. The main event will be celebrated in Liverpool, UK.
For more information, click here: https://unhabitat.org/wcd-2018/
Celebrated on 10 August every year, this year’s African Day of Decentralization and Local Development (JADDL) will be placed under the theme:
“Fighting corruption at the local level, a sustainable way to transform Africa from its territories”.
The sub Themes are as follow:
Sub-theme 1: Corruption and conflict of interest in the management of local authorities: an impediment to the basic services to local populations, social justice, and peace to local populations;
Sub-theme 2: Good local governance and promotion of the role of civil society and the media: guarantee for success in curbing corruption in these areas.
The Climate Chance Summit – Africa of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast will serve to bring together non-state climate actors in Africa at the beginning of summer 2018 and primarily to set up sectoral and operational roadmaps adapted to the context in African territories. The summit will thus serve to establish messages specific to the African continent, to demonstrate its commitment as well as to clarify the specific demands and proposals of the local actors who combat climate change in Africa.
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