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Resolution 25/ 4 /Rev 3
Omnibus Resolution 25/ 4 : “ Implement [ ation of ] {Brazil+}the 2014/2019 Strategic Plan of the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme [] {EU+, Brazil+, United States of America+,
Uganda-}”
The Governing Council ,
{PP1 Alt} Recalling its relevant resolutions and decisions on the coordinated implementation of the mandate of UN-Habitat, sustainable urbanisation and human settlements, including its resolution 24/15 of 19 April 2013 by which it approved the strategic plan of UN-Habitat for the period 2014-2019 and its work programme and budget for the biennium 2014-2015; {Agreed
20.11}
{PP2 Alt} Recalling also relevant General Assembly resolutions, including resolutions 66/288 of
27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and 69/266, “Implementation of the outcome of the
United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”, and 68/309 “Report of the Open
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals established pursuant to General Assembly
Resolution 66/288” {Agreed 20.17};
{PP3 Alt} Taking note of the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) held in Sendai, Japan from 14-18March 2015, which adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030 as the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action on
Disaster Risk Reduction; {Agreed 20.25}
{PP3 Alt 2} Bearing in mind the upcoming conference in Addis Ababa “Financing for
Development”, the summit in New York on Sustainable Development Goals and COP 21 in
Paris, and their expected outcomes; {Agreed 20.26}
{ PP4 Alt }
{PP4 Alt} Expressing appreciation to UN-Habitat for the progress in the implementation of its
Strategic Plan and Work Programme through a set of key targeted policies and systems to improve efficiency and productivity ; {Agreed 20.49}
{PP5} Notes with appreciation the hosting of the first World Cities Day by Shanghai in 2014;
{EUR reserve} {Moved from OP 44}
1.
. {Agreed 20.54}
2.
Requests the Executive Director to further develop and strengthen the linkages between normative work and operational activities with a view to achieving in full the results expected from the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2014-2019; {Agreed 20.59}

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3.
[[ Calls upon ] {BRA+}[ Requests ] {United States of America+, Egypt-} Member States, []
{Egypt+, EU+} to expand [their voluntary contributions and ensure] {Egypt+} the predictable financing of UN-Habitat’s Programme of Work;] {Delete full para: Brazil+,
Uganda+, Egypt+, Japan+, Kenya+, EU+, Argentina+, Colombia+, Mexico+, USA+,
NOR-}
4.
{Agreed 21.07}
5.
Requests the Executive Director to ensure the development of programmes and projects that implement an integrated approach to sustainable urbanisation and human settlements and promote effective rural-urban linkages, bearing in mind the strong link between sustainable development and sustainable urbanisation and human settlements; {Agree
21.14}
6.
{6 Alt} Also requests the Executive Director to support the debate and preparation for the
Habitat III conference and the process for adoption of the New Urban Agenda, in line with the Strategic Plan of UN-Habitat; {Agreed ad ref 21.36}
{6 bis} Requests the Executive Director to begin a process of consultations with national governments and with an inter-agency collaborative framework for a UN-system wide agreement on safer cities, and its implementation, in response to the call of cities and local governments for integrated action for the creation of safer cities, with particular emphasis to safe and inclusive public spaces and public transit corridors particularly for women and children, and to inform the preparatory process for the Habitat III New Urban Agenda;
{KEN+, USA-, BRA-, JPN-, COL-} {EUR to consult}
{6 bis Alt} Requests the Executive Director to begin a process of consultation with Member
States and relevant UN agencies within existing resources to develop UN system wide guidelines on safer cities with particular emphasis to safe and inclusive public spaces and to forward these guidelines for consideration at the next session of the Governing Council;
{TZA+}
7.
{Agreed ad ref 21.44}
Substantive focus and Scope
8.
[] [ Requests the Executive Director] {Brazil+} [ ] {Brazil+} to [increase] {UGA+} [][his]
{Brazil+} efforts [to bring] {Brazil+} the [perspectives] {EUR+, BRA+, UGA+,
ARG+, ZAF+} of local governments [recognising its key mandates in support of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements as well as the broader UN Development
System’s efforts towards] [] {United States of America+} [] {Brazil+} sustainable development [] {Brazil+} [and have them [] {USA+, UGA+, ARG+, ZAF+} incorporated[, as appropriate,] {USA+, UGA+, ARG+, ZAF+} in the implementation of the outcomes of the post-2015 and Habitat III agendas] {Brazil+, United States of
America-}, [recognising the[ir] {Brazil+} important role [that such authorities and communities can play] {Brazil+} in [] [achieving] {Brazil+} sustainable development, including by engaging citizens and stakeholders and providing them with relevant

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{Argentina+, Brazil+, EU-}
{8 Alt} Requests the Executive Director to increase his efforts [to enhance capacity building among local governments and]{EUR+, EGY+, MEX+} [, in consultation with national governments,] {EGY+, COL+, ARG+, UGA+, KEN+, USA-, NOR-, ZAF-, EUR-}[as appropriate,] {MEX+} to bring [their] perspectives [] {EUR+, EGY+} recognising [their]
{EGY+} key mandates in support of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements []
{COL+, ARG+} and have them incorporated, as appropriate, in the implementation of the outcomes of the post-2015 and Habitat III agendas recognising the important role that such authorities and communities can play in achieving sustainable development, including by engaging citizens and stakeholders and providing them with relevant information, as appropriate, on the three dimensions of sustainable development;
{8 bis} [ Requests the Executive Director to expand his efforts [ to enhance capacity building and integration] {Colombia+} of local governments in support of the Organization’s key mandates including its support of the broader UN Development System’s sustainable development agenda, recognizing that local governments are a key actor in achieving sustainable urbanisation and human settlements and sustainable development;] {United
States of America+, ARG-, COL-}
9.
{Agreed ad ref 22.20}
10.
Requests the Executive Director to continue to support national and local governments in the development of functionally effective legal and institutional frameworks to facilitate sustainable urbanisation and human settlements development that provide for long term objectives, are non-discriminatory and inclusive and that provide the most efficient and locally relevant solutions possible, and encourages Member States to consider, as appropriate, the development of an effective policy framework around sustainable urbanisation and human settlements; {Agreed 22.31}
{10 bis} [ Requests the Executive Director to continue to raise awareness regarding the direct relationship between positive urban-rural development linkages and sustainable urbanisation and to disseminate, in cooperation with appropriate partners, good practices and policies on mutually beneficial urban-rural development relationships [] {ARG+}, and to [ support the development of] {COL+} the capacity of [national] {COL+} []
{ARG+} [] {COL+} and local authorities in that area] {EGY+} and accelerate the development of programmes and projects that implement an integrated approach []
{EGY+, COL-, TZA-};] {Egypt+, Colombia+, Kenya+, Tanzania+}
11.
[[Encourages] {EU+} [Member States] to [include] {United States of America+,
UGA+} urban and territorial planning [ in] {United States of America+} their national development policies, with special emphasis on the needs of [members of] {United States of America+, UGA-} poor and marginalized urban [and rural] {Colombia+} groups ;]
{Delete all: USA+} {EUR reserve}
12.
Welcomes UN-Habitat’s efforts to support Member States’ efforts to establish and further develop a Global Network of Planning and Design LABs to share good practices and to assist cities and human settlements in achieving more productive, compact, socially inclusive, integrated and connected cities and territories that foster sustainable

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13.
development, promote public health and bolster resilience to climate change through sharing good practices [and enhancing means of implementation including through fostering international cooperation, [ inter alia through city to city cooperation,] {EUR+,
ARG-, EGY-, KEN-} building capacities and technology transfer] {Egypt+, ARG+,
ZAF+, KEN+, USA-}[, as appropriate] {United States of America+};
{13 Alt} [Requests the Executive Director to continue working with partners to promote urban financing strategies to support implementation of urban development and planned city extensions, particularly through the documentation and dissemination of relevant knowledge and tools, as well as capacity building, including on land-based financing instruments;] {Delete all: EGY+, UGA+, COL+, ARG+, KEN+} {EUR reserve}
{13 Alt 2} [ ]{BRA+}[ Calls upon Member States]{BRA+} to support national and local governments in the promotion of local economic development activities in order to help enhance access to financing for sustainable urbanisation and human settlements at the local level; {UGA+, KEN+} {EUR reserve}
14.
Requests [the Executive Director] {Tanzania+} to document and share good practices, develop capacity development tools and innovative partnerships with other United
Nations bodies, notably regional economic commissions, as well as development banks,
[Member States], local authorities and their associations, and other Partners to support the
[consideration of the] {United States of America+, Tanzania-}application of the
International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning[, as appropriate,] {United
States of America+} and their adaptation to local, regional[ and] {Argentina+, United
States of America+, Egypt+, EU-} national [] {Argentina+, United States of America+,
Egypt+, EU-}circumstances; {EUR, UGA reserve}
15.
Requests the Executive Director to further strengthen partnerships, peer learning and a community of practice approach on National Urban Policies as means to support national and local government as they develop and implement national urban policies; {Agreed
23.44}
16.
;
{16 Alt} Requests the Executive Director to develop and implement tools and training programmes for strengthening national and local authorities’ capacities to generate additional revenue from local and other sources, as appropriate. {Agreed 23.52}
{16 bis} [ Requests the Executive Director through the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN) to support and expand the coordination of efforts of the UN System under the leadership of the
Secretary General to bring coherence and conflict sensitive approaches to land including through a plurality of land tenure systems for all segments of society and alternative forms of land administration;] {CHL+, UGA+}
17.
Encourages Member States to facilitate, if necessary in coordination with UN-Habitat, the sharing of tools and training programmes with national and local authorities, with a view to promote economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies;
{Agreed 11.19}
18.
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20.
{Alternate 19/20} Takes note of the Housing at the Centre approach, positioning housing at the centre of national urban policies and at the centre of cities, and encouraging UN-Habitat and Member States to consider the implementation of the Global Housing Strategy, as appropriate, including through the design of tools and mechanisms to promote inclusive housing finance at national and local levels to bridge the housing gap and to contribute to the progressive realisation of the right to adequate housing for all. {Agreed 11.22}
21.
Invites Member States and their partners to continue to formulate and implement national housing strategies, through the increased use of inclusive broad-based participatory processes, and by designing inclusive affordable housing solutions; {Agreed 11.26}
{21 bis} Requests the Executive Director, in view of the increasing burden of HIV and associated diseases faced by cities and the[] {CAN+} unequal access to basic HIV health services by marginalised [] {COL+} dwellers, to [ encourage] {CAN+} Member States and
UNAIDS to examine the consequences of HIV on [] {COL+} life and prosperity, accelerate an inclusive multisectoral AIDS response as part of housing programmes, and measure achievement towards the global target of ending AIDS by 2030; {BRA+, CHL+, URY+,
UGA+, USA-} {EUR reserve}
22.
;
{22 Alt} Requests the Executive Director to further advocate for, and support the implementation of, national and city-wide slum-upgrading and urban renewal approaches, building on the past work of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme and slum prevention activities ; {Agreed 11.39}
23.
Invites member states to work towards the [prevention of slums and the] {UGA+,
BHR+}empowerment of slum communities and the strengthening of institutional mechanisms equipping slum dwellers to contribute to the improvement of the living environment aiming at [achieving social, economic and political inclusion] {ARG+,
USA-} [] {ARG+}[] [] {ARG+, USA-} {USA+} [and poverty reduction] {COL+} through, inter alia , access to sustainable mobility, {MEX+, BRA+} {United States of
America+}skills and capacity development, creation of job opportunities particularly for women and youth, public spaces [] {COL+}, promoting cultural diversity, and through strengthening linkages to the formal settings in rural and urban surroundings of the slum settlements;
{23 bis}Requests the Executive Director to address the high rates of youth unemployment through developing high level programmes and policies, enabling UN-Habitat to work with
Member States and local authorities to develop and implement targeted and integrated local and national youth employment and entrepreneurship programmes and policies for inclusive, sustainable and innovative job creation; {Agreed 12.03}
24.
[Requests the Executive Director] {EU+} to continue [UN-Habitat’s] work on urban basic services provision, including [urban water and sanitation, urban waste management, urban mobility and urban energy] {Egypt+, EU-} [[air quality,] {EU+, Egypt-} water,
[sustainable] {EU+} [energy services,] {United States of America+} sanitation and waste water [and waste] {EU+} [management, based on the integrated] {EU+, Egypt-}

[Type text] management [of natural resources and biodiversity conservation] {EU+, Egypt-}]
{Egypt+, EU-}, and to support the implementation of the Global Expanded Monitoring
Initiative[[s]{EU+} ] {United States of America+, EU-};
25.
Encourages Member States and other development partners to [promote ]{COL+, USA-
} the Urban Basic Services Trust Fund to promote inclusive access to energy, mobility, water, sanitation, waste management services[, ] {COL+, UGA+, USA-}drainage [, among other initiatives of the Urban Basic Services Trust Fund]{COL+, USA-};
{25 Alt} Encourages Member States and other development partners to support the Urban
Basic Services Trust Fund to promote inclusive access to energy, mobility, water, sanitation, waste management services and drainage, including the provision of these services to social and public facilities; {Revised text from Secretariat}
26.
Requests Member States to support initiatives aimed at improving access to sustainable energy and mainstreaming energy efficiency and sustainable energy systems into housing policies and regulations and support to the Urban Electric Mobility initiative while promoting hybrid and electric mobility as a priority in conjunction with urban policies in support of compact city planning; energy and resource efficiency; transitioning to sustainable sources of energy and better public transport systems and facilities integrated with safe and attractive non-motorized transport options; {Agreed 12.22}
27.
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28.
{28 Alt} Calls upon the Executive Director to establish an Urban Crisis Response Fund
(UCRF) to facilitate the rapid response and deployment of resources to urban crises, to be funded by extra-budgetary resources, with an initial target of $500,000; {IRQ+, USA+, COL-
, EUR-, NOR-, BRA-}
29.
[Requests the Executive Director] {Brazil+} to [continue] {EUR+, NOR+, CHL-, CAN-,
ARG-} [UN-Habitat’s] {Brazil+} [efforts in] {EUR+} addressing [forced] {CHL+,
BHR-} urban [migration] {COL+, SLV+, CAN-, USA-, BHR-} [and other] {CAN+,
CHL+} challenges [in land[, resources] {SDN+} and conflict] {CAN+, CHL+} in fragile
[contexts] {EUR+}, including through [support for] {United States of America+} planned urban growth and slum prevention, and contributing to global knowledge development by working closely with [relevant UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations] {United States of America+}, inter alia , the United Nations High
Commission[er] {Nigeria+} for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Rescue Committee
(IRC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council;
30.
Requests the Executive Director to support Member States, and local governments in particular, as appropriate, in considering the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction (2015-2030); {Agreed 12.49}
{30 bis} [ Calls upon Member States, including through local authorities, to consider disaster risk reduction and disaster resilience in spatial planning and in the destination and use of land;] {COL+, MEX+} {USA reserve}
{30 ter} Requests the Executive Director and governments to promote international cooperation in order to share technical expertise, build technical and policy making capacity and share

GC25/4/Rev 3 22 04 2015 18.30 successful experiences of sustainable and integral spatial planning in rural and urban areas;
{COL+}
31.
{31 Alt} Calls upon UN-Habitat to continue its efforts in monitoring the trends of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements at the global, regional and local levels and to strengthen the capacities of national and local governments, as appropriate, in this regard; {Agreed 13.01}
{31 bis} Calls upon Member States, in cooperation with the international community and the
United Nations system, to improve national capacities to collect and analyse relevant data and threatened urban-rural national and decentralised cadasters, in order to reach an inclusive and sustainable spatial planning that reduces poverty and urban-rural disparities and inequalities;
{COL+}
32.
Requests the Executive Director to continue UN-Habitat’s efforts to improve knowledge of sustainable urbanization and human settlements modalities at the local, national, regional and global levels through its new flagship World Cities Report, its regional and national state of the cities reports, its City Prosperity Initiative ,its State of the Urban
Youth Report Series and through transformation of its Best Practice Programme into an interactive database, as the means of responding to the new knowledge requirements of national and local governments and to assist the formulation of integrated policies;{Agreed 14.43}
33.
{moved to 48 ter}
34.
Requests the Executive Director to continue to support the World Urban Forum as a platform to improve collective knowledge and practice on sustainable urban development, to increase collaboration amongst stakeholders, to raise awareness on the benefits of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements, and requests that a strong linkage with the outcome of the Habitat III Conference in 2016 is established at the Ninth
Session of the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2018.{Agreed 14.47}
35.
[Welcomes the successful bid of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the Ninth Session of the
World Urban Forum in 2018, and requests that a strong linkage be established with the outcome of the Habitat III Conference in 2016;] {Delete para, EU+}{EU
PLACEHOLDER }
Cross-sectorial Issues
36.
Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme to continue pursuing the mainstreaming of youth and gender equality perspectives in the agency’s normative work and operational programmes and to ensure that youth and gender equality and empowerment remain an important part of the preparatory process for Habitat III and of the substantive content of the New Urban Agenda;{Agreed 14.50}
37.
Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme to ensure that adequate human and financial resources are allocated for continued youth and gender mainstreaming in UN-Habitat s normative work and operational programmes,; {Agreed language 15.40 but reserve on positioning of paragraph}
38.

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{Alt 38} Requests the Executive Director to continue building capacity with national and local governments by inter-alia capturing lessons from its operational work in order to help cities and human settlements mitigate and adapt to climate change widely disseminating those findings across the UN system and with policy-makers to facilitate better-informed decision-making; {Agreed 15.25}
{EUR to propose alt 38 bis on reducing green house gas emissions}
39.
Invites Member States to recognize the relevant work of the Compact of Mayors, the City
Climate Finance Leadership Alliance and the Resilient Cities Acceleration Initiative launched at the Secretary-General’s 2014 Climate Summit; {Agreed 15.36}
40.
[[ Requests the Executive Director] {Brazil+} to []{EU+} strengthen the mainstreaming of [[a] {Brazil+} human rights-based approach[]] {Brazil+} to sustainable urban development in [UN-Habitat’s] {Brazil+} normative work and operational [activities]
{Brazil+} [with a view to the full enjoyment of human rights by citizens
{Brazil+}[[h]{EU+}r{EU+}c{EU+}] {USA+, EU-};] {Delete para: Egypt+, EU-, USA-}
{ 40 Alt } Requests the Executive Director to continue the mainstreaming of human rights in
UN-Habitat’s normative work and operational programmes, including the right to development, within the context of advancing the goals and mandates of UN-Habitat, as set out in the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, in order to achieve the objectives of adequate [housing] {BRA+} for all and sustainable human settlements development; {EGY+, UGA+, BHR+, EUR-, USA-}
[ 40 Alt 2 } Requests the Executive Director to strengthen the mainstreaming of approaches that promote respect for human rights to sustainable urban development in UN-Habitat’s normative work and operational activities with a view to promoting the full enjoyment of human rights by every individual; {USA+}
41.
[ Requests UN-Habitat to collect best practice case studies in [] {USA+} approaches [that promote human rights] {USA+} at the programme and project levels for global learning, leveraging and replicating such practices;] {Delete all: EGY+}
{Secretariat to reformulate to make the purpose of the paragraph in promoting exchange of experiences clearer, Brazil+}
{41 Alt} Requests the Executive Director to collect and disseminate best practice case studies on approaches that promote human rights at the programme and project levels for global learning; {USA+, EGY-}
42.
[ Invites [Member States] and Partners to support UN-Habitat [in the context of the promotion of human rights in cities]{EU+} [voluntary] {ARG+} [financial resources within the context of [promoting the above mentioned cross-sectoral issues] {Egypt+} []]
{delete from financial, EU+}; {Egypt+} .
Advocacy and Partnerships
43.
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44.
{moved to PP 5}
45.
{Agreed 16.47}
46.
{Agreed 16.47}
{45/46 combined} Requests the Executive Director to work on the engagement of new partners through, inter alia , the World Urban Campaign, as a platform for public, private and civil society and other actors to share experiences, in order to identify good practices that could contribute to sustainable urbanisation and human settlements; {Agreed 17.01}
47.
{47 Alt} Requests the Executive Director in consultation with Member States to strengthen partnerships with Habitat Agenda partners and other stakeholders in the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2014-2019 and in contributing to the design of the New Urban Agenda at the national, regional and global levels, as appropriate; {Agreed 17.16}
{47 bis} Further requests the Executive Director to promote, through extra budgetary resources, regional dialogue on sustainable urbanisation and human settlements issues in all regions in collaboration with relevant intergovernmental bodies, and promote support for
South-South cooperation that provides, among others, capacity building for civil society and grass roots organizations to engage effectively in policy debates; {Agreed 17.49}
48.
Calls upon UN-Habitat to enhance UN Inter agency coordination, engagement with intergovernmental organisations, and regional development banks in the pursuit of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements development at all levels. This includes active involvement in the UN Regional Coordination Mechanisms, and support to intergovernmental bodies and Regional Economic Commissions;
{48 Alt} Requests the Executive Director to continue to enhance UN-Habitat’s contribution to
UN inter agency coordination and engagement with other intergovernmental organisations in the area of sustainable urbanisation and human settlements development at all levels; {Agreed
18.00}
{48 bis/ter Alt} Requests the Executive Director, in coordination with Member States and partners, to forge stronger partnerships with academic institutions and centres of excellence, including through the Habitat Partner University Initiative and professional institutions and development banks to enhance learning and to disseminate knowledge and innovation for harnessing the opportunities that urbanization processes offer and to provide high-level training and capacity development to local and national governments;
{Agreed 18.06}
48 quater [Requests the Executive Director to [better manage,] {United States of America+} strengthen [and coordinate] {United States of America+} its partnerships with humanitarian and development actors, associations of local governments, professional associations and the private sector [to capitalise on each entity’s area of expertise to encourage ] {United States of America+}that humanitarian responses become [more efficient and] {United States of America+} better adapted to the complexities of urban areas, to increase the resilience of [members of] {USA+, BRA+} [populations in]
{KEN+, UGA+} vulnerable [situations] {KEN+, UGA+} [groups] {BRA+}, [and to help

[Type text] the most fragile cities become better prepared and more resilient through the capacitybuilding and development of surge capacity, knowledge management, guidelines and tools development, early warning mechanisms, and monitoring] {Final clause from ‘and to help’ to new OP, CHL+};] {previously OP 27, EU+, Brazil+}
49.
Requests the Executive Director to report on the implementation of this omnibus resolution and the subsequent provisions relating to the strategic plan of UN-Habitat to the next session of the Governing Council.