Pacific Local Government Forum
Pacific Futures
Building our local communities
19-23 May 2014
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
The global development agenda
and Pacific Local Governments
SIDS 2014, Post-2015 Development Agenda, HABITAT III
www.unhabitat.org
Pacific Urban Forum Design – session at WUF 7
Key Points (Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa and Tuvalu)
 Managed urban growth needs to be integrated in national
development agenda
 Settlements upgrading and ensuring the rights to housing key
 Strengthening of local government, improved service delivery,
effective/resourced implementation were
key for Pacific Urban Agenda
 World needs to support SIDS in face of
Climate Change.
 A need for increased efforts to secure
resources for financing the PUA
 Pacific SIDS support for the sustainable
cities and human settlements SDGs,
preparations for the Pacific Local
Government Forum, the Third Global
Conference for SIDS, the Pacific Urban Forum, Habitat III
SIDS Conference, Samoa 28/8 – 4/9 2014
 Pacific Regional Preparatory meeting (July 2013)
sought “Accelerating Integrated Approach to
Sustainable Development”
 The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Special Retreat
(May 2014) agreed that the Pacific Plan is a
framework specifically for advancing Pacific
regionalism
 SIDS zero draft of Outcomes highlights climate
change and disaster risk reduction
 Touches briefly on rural-urban continuums but
makes no specific reference to the role of local
authorities
 Draft outcome document still negotiated in NY!
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Local Governments and the SDGs
Rio+20 – criteria for SDGs
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Building on MDGs and focus on “unfished business”
Action-oriented
Concise
Easy to communicate
Limited in number
Aspirational
Global in nature
Universally applicable to all countries while taking into
account different national realities, capacities and levels
of development and respecting national policies and
priorities.
SDGs to date
Focus Area
Proposed Goal
1. Poverty eradication, building shared prosperity
and promoting equality
2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and
nutrition
3. Health and population dynamics
4. Education and life-long learning
5. Gender equality and women’s empowerment
6. Water and sanitation
7. Energy
8. Economic growth, employment and
infra.structure
9. Industrialization and promoting equality among
nations
10. Sustainable cities and human settlements
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
11. Sustainable Consumption and Production
12. Climate change
13. Conservation and sustainable use of marine
resources, oceans and seas
Promote sustainable consumption and production patterns
Take urgent and significant action to mitigate and adapt to climate
change
Take urgent and significant actions for the conservation and sustainable
use of marine resources, oceans and seas
14. Ecosystems and biodiversity
Protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems and halt all biodiversity loss
15. Means of implementation/Global partnership
for sustainable development
Means of implementation; Technology transfer, technological
capabilities; Financing and debt sustainability; Capacity building;
Strengthened global partnership for sustainable development
16. Peaceful and inclusive societies, rule of law
and capable institutions
Peaceful and inclusive societies, rule of law and capable institutions
End hunger and improve nutrition for all through sustainable agriculture
and improved food systems
Healthy life at all ages for all
Provide quality education and life-long learning for all
Attain gender equality and women’s empowerment everywhere
Water and sanitation for a sustainable world
Ensure access to affordable, sustainable, reliable modern energy for all
Promote sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth and
decent jobs for all
Promote sustainable industrialization and equality among nations
Build inclusive, safe and sustainable cities and human settlements
Why the world needs and SDG on Cities &
Human Settlements
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Focus attention on urgent challenges and opportunities
related to urbanization & Human Settlements
Mobilize and empower all town/city actors around practical
problem solving
Address the specific challenges of urban poverty and
access to infrastructure
Promote integrated and innovative infrastructure design
and service delivery
Promote land use planning and efficient spatial
concentration
Ensure resilience to climate change and disaster risk
reduction
FA-10: Sustainable Cities and Human
Settlements
(a) By 2030, ensure universal access to adequate and affordable
housing and basic services for all, and eliminate slum-like
conditions everywhere
(b) By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and
sustainable transport for all, improve road safety and urban air
quality
(c) Enhance capacities for integrated urban planning and
management
(d) By 2030, reduce the ecological footprints of cities by x%
(e) By 2020, increase by x% the number of cities adopting and
implementing policies and plans towards resilience and adaptation
to climate change and natural disasters
(f) By 2030 enhance social cohesion and personal security, and ensure
universal access to inclusive and safe public spaces
(g) By 2030 ensure that all cities are accessible and offer opportunities
to persons with disabilities
(h) Protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
Local Governments and ‘urban’ stakeholders
 OWG 7: on Human Settlements and Cities SDG saw local
government participation
 World Urban Campaign, an event entitled
“The City We Need” was held
in New York on 4 March 2014.
 Group of Friends on Sustainable Cities
Local Governments and ‘urban’ stakeholders
 Sustainable Development Solutions Network - website
promoting Urban SDG, 200+ organizations signing up
 The Communitas Coalition for Sustainable Cities and
Regions is promoting goal on sustainable cities and HS.
• Global Task Force on Local and Regional Governments
suggested recognition of the role of local and regional
governments.
• 120 Mayors gathering in Singapore at the World Cities
Summit Mayor’s Forum (WCSMF) on 2 June intend to issue
a similar letter
Localizing Post-2015 Development Agenda
• Mandated by the UNDG, UN-Habitat, together with
UNDP and the “Global Taskforce of local and regional
governments” is organizing a consultation on
"Localizing the Post-2015 Development Agenda".
• The consultations will discuss the local dimensions of
the implementation of the future global development
framework.
• The consultation will be global at
worldwewant2015.org
• Focus countries (16): Armenia, Botswana, Burundi,
Cameroon, El Salvador, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica,
Malawi, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Tajikistan,
Tanzania, Uruguay and Yemen.
History and Milestones - Habitat III
2016
World Urban Forum,
a major non-statutory
conference
Habitat III
2012-2015
Post 2015 Development Agenda
2012
Rio+20
2001
Review the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda
2000
Millennium Summit - MDG
1996
Habitat II: The Istanbul Declaration
1976
First United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, in Vancouver.
Road Map to Habitat III
 Urban transformation of the globe during the 21st
century
 Habitat III provides an opportunity to:
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Review Progress on poverty and slum eradication
Re-examine previous approaches and develop a new Global
Housing Strategy
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Address increasing inequalities
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Cities as opportunities of resilience and GHG reduction
How to engage in Habitat III
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Organize a National Habitat Committee
Collect and analyze information
Hold a national workshop to review plans of action
Agree on priorities, issues, challenges for a new urban agenda
Prepare Habitat III National Report (1st draft June 2014)
Prep Com I – NY, Sept 2014
Participate in Pacific Urban Forum (Nov 2014)
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