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Iberoamerican and Caribbean Forum on Best Practices 

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Day / Time Monday, June 19th / 14:00 - 16:00 


Event Description

The goal of organizing this meeting on the transfer of best practices from Latin America and the Caribbean is twofold. First, the forum hopes to share the success it has had in transferring technologies, lessons learned and knowledge from one city or town to another via peer-to peer workshops, training, international or regional conferences, thematic events, the analysis and publication of capacity building tools, electronic conferences award process and through fostering direct transfers of best practices from one place to another. Secondly we hope to stimulate a spontaneous debate involving Best Practices the forum has identified which will be the impetus for a longer, more permanent, exchange of ideas. We hope this exchange will lead to mutually beneficial relationships across international borders and the transfer of best practices and improvement of the living environment. The Forum has learned the only way to improve quality of life in our city is through mutual cooperation and collaboration at all levels, and that is the goal of this meeting. 


Session Language

English

Spanish


Host Organization

Iberoamerican and Caribbean Forum on Best Practices 


Host Organization Description

The Iberoamerican and Caribbean Forum on Best Practices was established in 1997 by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (Un-Habitat) with the sponsorship of the Government of Spain. The Forum is, at present, a network of sub-regional institutions (Nodes) dedicated to the identification exchange of lessons learned from the Best Practices. Since the Forum’s formation, the Government of Spain has directed funds assure that its regional Nodes could act as full partners of the Global Best Practices Prgramme of UN-HABITAT. The activities of the individual Nodes are oriented by the Secretariat of the Forum and include such the identification, documentation and translation of Best Practices for Dubai Award and the BLP Database, the holding of conferences and workshop, the analysis and overall promotion of the use Best Practices in the region and the collaboration in a regional Award for the Transfer of Best Practices. The principal objective is to contribute to the implementation of Habitat Agenda by mobilizing and strengthening the participants of civil society in policy-making for sustainable human settlement development. Forum members work together, through joint projects, continuous information sharing, regular communication and annual meetings, in order to accomplish the objectives laid down in this strategy. However, Forum members work independently to promote and facilitate the use of Best Practices in the respective geographic and thematic areas through the sponsorship of activities that support Forum objective and through the identification of parallel funding. 

 

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Title of Event:

Name of Organisation:

Date and time of the session: 

The transfer of Best Practices

UN-Habitat/ROLAC- Iberoamerican forum of Best Practices.

Monday, 19th of June, 14:00 – 16:00

Key Highlights

  1. Estimated no of participants: 72
  2. Stakeholder group representation at the event: Institution members of the Forum (Fundacion Habitat Colombia, El Agora-Argentina, CENVI-Mexico, IBAM-Brazil, Ministry of Housing of Spain), national government institution, funding agencies (CAIXA Economica Federal-Brazil), local authorities, academic institutions and practitioners.
  3. What were the expected objectives:
    • Review the concepts and experiences on the transfer of Best Practices in Latin America.
    • Present Best Practices in Latin America and facilitate other transfer.
    • Review the activities of the Iberoamerican forum on Best Practices particularly in relation to knowledge transfer.
  4. What did the networking event achieve:
    • Agreement that the transfer of Best Practices contributes for the improvement of people’s quality of life, improving also the environment where they live.
    • Need to improve the exchange of knowledge and lessons learned between municipalities, organizations and the civil sector.
    • The event helped to consolidate the transfer network on Best Practices and create new partnerships.

2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII?

The operation of the Iberoamerican Forum as a network of institutions and not as a programme was in line with the overall spirit of WUF of promoting partnership among stakeholders the programme of Transfer of Best Practices, supported by the government of Spain and cities like Medellin, is a powerful tool that should be further develop and its application scaled.

3. What were the main points raised by panellist and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generate as a result of the discussion?

All interventions centered on the definition and modalities of transfers and concluded that the Forum would concentrate its efforts on transferring Best Practices through a variety of options including the promotion of an Award on transfer.

4. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality?

A lively debate followed the presentations on the meaning of effective transfers which brought about a consensus that transfers are not linear processes and furthermore require that participation of as many actors as possible both at the local implementing level as well as at the identification and analytical level calling for a participatory process throughout. There was agreement that the Iberoamerican Forum will strengthen its activities for the promotion of transfer programmes activities.

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