Networking Events
Networking events will have a duration of two hours long and should focus on strengthening partnerships, calling for new alliances or launching joint initiatives on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more
They are an opportunity to share ideas and commitments in an effort to advance the sustainable urban development in cities and towns around the globe.
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Multi-Lateral Development Banks’ Regional and Thematic Initiatives toward the NUA
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Conference Hall 1 -
Developing national and local frameworks for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Department of Human Settlements
Room 304 -
Sustainable, inclusive urban prosperity through an evidence-based approach
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
Room 305 -
ASEAN City-Regions: The Implementing New Urban Agenda
Urbanice Malaysia
Room 306 -
Implementing the New Urban Agenda through a global sustainable cities platform: the GPSC
World Resource Institute – Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Room 307 -
Technology for safer cities
Polycom Development Project
Room 401 -
Landscapes Making in Asia and the Pacific
Asian Habitat Society
Room 402 -
Improving Urban Planning for Regenerative City Development - Experiences Sharing of One Belt One Road Country Cities
World Future Council
Room 403 -
Improving Urban Humanitarian Response: How Far Have We Come? What’s Next on the Horizon?
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
Room 404 -
Innovative models for Affordable Housing
Housing & Urban Development corporation Ltd.
Room 405 -
Youth Action in Creating Sustainable Cities in the New Urban Agenda
World Youth Foundation
Room 406 -
Housing for peace, prosperity and people in Arab Cities
Arab Towns Organisation
Room 407 -
Breaking Through the Noise: How to Effectively Communicate the Impact of Resilience
100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation
Room 408 -
Intergenerational Speed Networking: Developing Partnerships Between Youth and Multi-Stakeholders for the NUA
United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY)
Room 409 -
What Does Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development Mean to You?
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Room 410 -
Community Focused Urban Regeneration
Think City Sdn Bhd
Room 304 -
Planners For Climate Action: Urban and Territorial Planning As Means to Carbon Reduction and Community Resilience
Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN)
Room 305 -
Just Add Water: Putting water on local action agendas to support the New Urban Agenda and global change
8th World Water Forum and World Water Council
Room 306 -
Metropolitan Policies to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda: Safe Cities for Women and Girls
Women in Cities International
Room 307 -
The Role of Cities for the Localisation of the SDGs
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Room 401 -
Aligning urban commitments and expectations to achieve SDGs and the New Urban Agenda
FIDIC, International Federation of Consulting Engineers
Room 402 -
Global development is coming to town - Local action for the implementation of the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Room 403 -
Urban Transformation in Russian Cities in times of Mega-events and Economic Transition: learning from the adoption of the New Urban [...]
National Research Tomsk State University (TSU), Centre for Urban Studies and Regional Development (CUr)
Room 404 -
Achieving slower cities towards the new urban agenda
Despacio.org
Room 405 -
Networking for Knowledge Sharing on Outcome of Good Practice in Bangladesh
Urban Development Directorate, Ministry of Housing and Public Works, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Room 407 -
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Implementing the New Urban Agenda's Goals on Slum Upgrading and Prevention, Planned City Extensions and [...]
Institute for Advanced Urbanization and Artificial Intelligence (IAUAI)
Room 408 -
Who is Aiding Whom? Redirecting Climate Finance to Grassroots Organizations Leading Resilient Development
GROOTS International/Huairou Commission, Slum/Shack Dwellers International, Habitat Norway
Room 409 -
Sustainable Urban Development in the Netherlands
Embassy of the Netherlands in Malaysia
Room 410 -
Cities for All: Addressing forced evictions
Cities Alliance
Room 304 -
The Affordable Metropolis: Turning Density into Prosperity
FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation
Room 305 -
Global Home Network - Social & Affordable Housing the way forward
Global Home Network Red Domés tica Global Réseau Domestique Global
Room 306 -
Scaling up sustainable housing to implement the New Urban Agenda
CONAVI (Mexico National Housing Commission)
Room 307 -
Future Mobility Dialogue
China Unicom Smart Connection Technology Co., Ltd
Room 401 -
Localizing the SDGs and the NUA: Are we on the right track?
Mistra Urban Futures / Chalmers University of Technology
Room 402 -
Sustainable Urban Development in the International Climate Initiative (IKI)
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)
Room 403 -
Show Me the Numbers: IFHP Social Cities Index
International Federation for Housing and Planning
Room 404 -
Women’s visions and practices for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda: inclusive, equal and sustainable cities for all
URBANIMA/L.U.P.T. University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Room 405 -
Cities in Crises/Crisis in Cities
European Commission, Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Room 406 -
Operationalizing Territorial and Local Economic Development
World Bank
Room 407 -
Housing at the Center in Lusophone Countries: Implementing the New Urban Agenda and the SDG 11
Ministry of Territorial Planning and Housing – MINOTH
Room 408 -
Unlocking Cities for All in Afghanistan: Linking Land, Finance and Planning Systems
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Afghanistan (MUDH), Deputy Ministry of Municipalities, Afghanistan (DMM)
Room 306 -
Horizontal and vertical partnerships to implement the New Urban Agenda, particularly around its calls for safe and inclusive cities for [...]
Plan International
Room 409 -
Towards the City That Leaves No One Behind ? Perspectives on Inclusive Urban Governance
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Room 410 -
Right of The City: Land Value Sharing
General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP)
Room 304 -
Laying the foundation for robust housing microfinance ecosystems
Affordable Housing Institute
Room 305 -
Cities and Water: The role of Water Utilities in the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs
UN-Habitat
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This is Know Your City: Using community-collected data for successful implementation of the New Urban Agenda
SDI. (Slum Dwellers International)
Room 306 -
Urban Housing Practitioners Hub: A Network to Improve Housing Conditions in Latin America ? and Beyond
The Urban Housing Practitioners Hub (UHPH) / UNIAPRAVI
Room 307 -
Gender, urban land tenure and access to public spaces
Huairou Commission
Room 401 -
Creative Cities are Vibrant Cities
Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF)
Room 402 -
Localising the Sustainable Development Goals by implementing the New Urban Agenda: A call for decentralized governmental and administrative structures!
DeLoG – Development Partners Network on Decentralisation and Local Governance
Room 403 -
Towards implementing the New Urban Agenda in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Union for the Mediterranean
Room 404 -
Making Room for Urban Expansion: Planned Extensions as an antidote to disorder and sprawl
The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
Room 405 -
From Theory to Reality: Using Data to Move the Bar on Property Rights for Women and the Most Vulnerable
IHC Global — A Coalition for Inclusive Housing and Sustainable Cities
Room 406 -
Building Citizen Trust through Openness and Transparency
Open Government Partnership
Room 407 -
Supporting the Urban Dimension of the Development Cooperation
Urban Intergroup at the European Parliament
Room 408 -
Public Space- A Multi Faceted approach to Implementing the SDG's
UCLG – Urban Strategic Planning
Room 409 -
Local Implementation of Global Agendas - Nordic Capacity Building Platform
Global Utmaning
Room 410 -
Implementing the New Urban Agenda in Small Island Developing States: Promoting the role of cities in sustainable development in island [...]
UN ESCAP, UN ECLAC, UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat in action room -
Celebrating Tripartite Partnership and Launch of PSUP III
ACP Secretariat, European Commission, High Level Government Officials, UN Habitat
Press Conference Room -
The New Urban Agenda for the CIS countries
CIS Inter-Governmental Council for Cooperation in Construction Activities
Room 410 -
Latin American Urban Learning Network
School of Architecture, Art and Design. Tecnológico de Monterrey
Room 305 -
Give Us Space! Augmented public space geographies in the changing public/private relationships
School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. College of Architecture and [...]
Room 306 -
Strengthening urban-rural land coalitions towards implementing the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific Region
Asian NGO Coalition – For Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)
Room 307 -
Sunway City - Wasteland to Wonderland (ST3: Climate Responsive Cities)
Sunway Group
Room 401 -
PASSA Youth Launch in Asia-Pacific: Leveraging youth engagement and technological innovations for participatory urban planning
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Room 402 -
Making Cities Work for Babies, Children, Youth and Girls
Arup
Room 403 -
Women in Waste Management: an Opportunity
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Room 404 -
Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda Implementation through Right to the City Initiatives
Global Platform for the Right to the City
Room 405 -
Collective Housing: Building active people and engaged communities
Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR)
Room 406 -
Displacement in Cities: better evidence for better solutions
Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
Room 407 -
Public-social alliances from the territory: Data produced from local governments, social organizations and communities for the implementation of the NUA
TECHO International
Room 408 -
Good Planning and Good Governance: examples to implement the New Urban Agenda
Global Planners Network
Room 409 -
Towards a New Urban Governance Observatory
LSE Cities, London School of Economics & Political Science
Room 304 -
Urban culture and heritage partnerships towards achieving the UN SDG and NUA
International Council on Monuments and Sites – ICOMOS
Room 304 -
Capacity building to deliver sustainable urban mobility for all
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
Room 305 -
Good Design, Good Planning: Aligning practice, communities and education in the implementation of Agenda 2030
Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia University, New York
Room 305 -
Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of a National Urban Agenda: The Ecuadorian experience
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing of Ecuador
Room 307 -
Walking the Talk of Holistic and Inclusive Urban Development: Lessons from SymbioCity on four continents
SKL International
Room 401 -
Circular economy in built environment
Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Room 402 -
Prosperity for all: Enabling the Informal Economy through Participatory Slum Upgrading
Cardiff University
Room 403 -
Urban Economics: What's growth got to do with it?
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Room 404 -
Youths as Change-makers and Drivers for the Sustainable Urban Development for Social Inclusion and Ending Poverty
GSEF (Global Social Economy Forum)
Room 405 -
Shaping healthy cities for and with children
Urban Synergies Group
Room 406 -
SDG and New Urban Agenda implementation on the African continent: Networking for new approaches to build capacities and reform tertiary [...]
Wits-TUB Urban Lab: Interdisciplinary Bilateral Postgraduate Studies Programme for sub-Saharan Africa
Room 408 -
The value of City-City Partnerships for Implementing the New Urban Agenda
JPI Urban Europe & URBAN-EU-CHINA
Room 409 -
Housing in the New Urban Agenda
RMIT University
Room 410 -
Knowledge from and for All: Mobilizing Academia and Research for Environmentally Sustainable, Prosperous, and Resilient Urban Development
Research and Academia Partner Constituency Group- General Assembly of Partners, UNESCO Chair on Gender – Universidad Polité [...]
Room 304 -
Equity and Gender Equality in Senegal's New Economic and Social Development Strategy: Which Effective Means to Implement the New [...]
Ministry of Urban Renewal, Housing and Living Environment
Room 306 -
Measurements on City Safety Approaches
Huawei Technologies
Room 307 -
Empowering Women In Crisis and Post-Conflict Situations: Building Community Resilience
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Room 401 -
We the public space: strategies to deal with inequalities in order to achieve inclusive and sustainable urban environments
City Space Architecture
Room 402 -
Partnerships for sustainable growth through integrated community action and flood mitigation: lessons from Indonesia and Australia
Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH)
Room 403 -
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
General Assembly of Partners (GAP)
Room 404 -
Scaling up participatory budgeting for fostering resilience and prosperity of urban and regional development
ASSOAL - Association pour l’Amour du Livre et le Développement Local
Room 405 -
Building People-Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Development, Integration and Systemic Change
Habitat for Humanity International
Room 406 -
Smart and Green Development
Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute
Room 407 -
Networking Event on SUC Initiative on Sustainable New Cities and Communities: building new cities and communities with new sustainability Guidelines
SUC (Beijing) Programme Management Center
Room 408 -
Toward a More Inclusive and Equitable City: International Case Studies
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Room 409 -
Accelerating investments in urban transition through project preparation for local sustainable infrastructure
Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)
Room 410 -
Bankable projects for Sustainable Development
UN-Habitat in action room
UN-Habitat in action room -
Les dispositifs, pratiques et outils de gouvernance locale participative et d?inclusion sociale pour promouvoir les droits à la cites et [...]
Enda ECOPOP
Room 304 -
Multi-scalar governance for urban sustainability in resource constrained urban regions
Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
Room 305 -
Coordination, Cooperation and Planning to regulate the financialization of the city
INTA (International Urban Development Association)
Room 306 -
Science and the Future of Cities: Report from the UCL-Nature Sustainability Expert Panel
Melbourne School of Design and UCL City Leadership Lab
Room 307 -
Achieving energy efficient, zero-emission buildings for sustainable, pollution-free cities
The Nubian Vault Association (AVN) & The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC)
Room 401 -
Smart urban services for a better social and territorial inclusion: creating international digital guidelines
French Network of Urban Planning Agencies (FNAU)
Room 402 -
Urban Professionals and local authorities’ synergy in the process of implementation of New Urban Agenda
International Union of Architects (UIA)
Room 403 -
The Colombian Atlas of Urban Expansion: Remote sensing to promote evidenced based planning
NYU Marron Institute
Room 404 -
Towards climate resilient informal settlements: meeting basic needs in a climate changed era
International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED)
Room 405 -
Spanish Urban Agenda and the implementation of Article 7 in Spain
Ministry of Finance and Civil Service
Room 406 -
Urban health as a unifying framework for sustainable development in Latin American Cities
The Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean
Room 407 -
Cities and Science: Leveraging the knowledge-action network approach to implement the New Urban Agenda
Future Earth
Room 408 -
Habitat treaty for Latin America: Legal implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Colegio de Jurisprudencia Urbanística, CJUR International (Association of Urbanistic Jurisprudence)
Room 409 -
Resilient Futures: A Dialogue on African, Asian, and Latin American and Caribbean Cities
Inter-American Development Bank
Room 410 -
Navigating the Affordable Housing Market in Urban Cities
Bank Negara Malaysia
Room 304 -
Achieving Sustainability Through Inclusive Heritage Based Development in Asian Cities
ICSC and SEHER INTACH
Room 305 -
Dealing with Rapid Urbanisation - tools and experiences The rapid rates and scale of urbanisation around the world are a core [...]
Commonwealth Association of Planners
Room 306 -
Integrated Housing and Habitat Policy: An inclusive approach to territories, resilience and poverty reduction
Secretariat of Social Housing and Habitat
Room 307 -
Smart Sustainable Cities
International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP)
Room 401 -
Data Informed Inclusion & Empowerment: Slums and Informal Settlements
University of Chicago
Room 402 -
Extractive Industries and Evictions: Echoes from Middle- East and African Regions
Women in Development and Environment (WorldWIDE Network Nigeria)
Room 403 - Repositioning Nigerian Cities Towards the Achievement of the New Urban Agenda Room 407
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Data and Innovation: Addressing Risk in Urban Areas for Vulnerable Urban Population and Communities
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Room 404 -
Strengthening resilience of human settlements after complex natural disasters and conflicts Lessons from Humanitarian Response and Recovery
InterAction
Room 405 -
Sustaining Peace through Urban Safety: Charting Key Lessons for the UN High-Level Forum
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Room 406 -
Public Space as driver of Equitable Economic Growth: Policy and Practise to Leverage a Key Asset for Vibrant City Economies
UK Department for International Development
Room 407 -
Metropolitan Thinkers meeting point: institutions and strategies
Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) – Cities Program
Room 408 -
SHERPA: Your Personal Guide for Sustainable Housing Projects
CRAterre-ENSAG (AE&CC;)
Room 409 -
Clean air, healthy citizens and equal societies: Making the case for ambitious, inclusive, climate action in cities
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Room 410 -
Trans-Boundary Resilience: Promoting Collaborative Action to Build Inclusive Urban Resilience
Mercy Corps – Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
Room 304 -
Up-scaling City Networks for Knowledge Exchange at Regional Level
National Institute of Urban Affairs
Room 305 -
How the role of small Cities, as envisaged by the New Urban Agenda, can be realised?
Nagrika
Room 306 -
Housing replacement after the earthquake in Mexico City: opportunities for fiscal innovation and improved urban resilience
Mejor Ciudad, A.C.
Room 307 -
Smart Financing for Smart Cities: Sharing experiences on financing options for smart urban development
Asian Development Bank
Room 402 -
Maximising philanthropy's convening power to implement and monitor the NUA
European Foundation Centre
Room 403 -
Urban Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Malaysian Cities
MELAKA HISTORIC CITY COUNCIL (English) MAJLIS BANDARAYA MELAKA BERSEJARAH (Bahasa Malaysia)
Room 404 -
Rural-Urban Continuum – an Essential Approach to Sustainable Cities
National Union of Tenants of Nigeria
Room 405 -
New Urban Agenda implementation in Cities undergoing Crisis
Ministry of Public Works and Highways - Yemen
Room 406 -
Role of non-State actors in the protection of urban green environment. Case study: Malaysia
Malaysian Nature Society
Room 407 -
Metropolitan and Territorial Agencies mobilized for climate planning
Climate Chance
Room 408 -
Transformation of Green Infrastructures in City of Kuala Lumpur through Urban Solution and Innovation
Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water and Urbanice Malaysia
Room 409 -
Measurement Index and Dashboards for measurement of progress and success towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the establishment of smart [...]
Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT)
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