Implementing MDG Target 7/11 Cities Without Slums Indicator in Asian Countries
Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 16:30 - 18:30
Event Description
MDG Target 7/11 aims to improve the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, globally. There are many examples of work being implemented towards this target, and these need to be understood to achieve the target. This event will publicise the work undertaken in Asian countries. Plenary presentations will be based on documented best practices described by high-level representatives of key Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand, which are conducting innovative demonstration projects to address the core components of slum upgrading. This presentation will be followed by facilitated discussions aiming to draw on this experience for replication in other countries.
Session Language
English
Speakers
HE Noli de Castro, Vice President of the Philippines, Chair HUDCC
Mr Noer Soetrisno, Minstry of Housing, Indonesia
Ms Alison Barrett, LPUPAP, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Host Organization
UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility - SUF
Host Organization Description
UN-HABITAT is the global focal point for low income housing and slum upgrading practice throughout the world. This mandate was emphasised by the outcome document of the 2005 World Summit held at the UN in New York - paragraph 56m - which states: "In pursuance of our commitment to achieve sustainable development, we [the Heads of State and Government] further resolve to achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing-related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading, and to encourage support for the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility". The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility - SUF - is a new global facility designed to mobilize domestic capital for slum upgrading projects and activities by facilitating links among local actors and by packaging the financial, technical and political elements of upgrading and low income housing projects so that they can attract commercial finance.
Website
www.unhabitat.org/suf
www.unhabitat.org
Report
Title of Event: Name of Organisation: Date and time of the session: |
Implementing MDG Target 11 in Asian Countries UN-HABITAT/SUF Thursday 22 June, 16.30-18.30 |
Key Highlights
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2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII? Issues centred on examples of upgrading in practice, and of financing arrangements in practice |
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3. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion? The main points raised were of the possible variety of approaches to slum upgrading. The discussion pointed towards the need for all options to be available, not any one solution, but to have them all. There were very vocal objections to the presentation by the Vice President of the Philippines, with a letter of complaint submitted on behalf of one of the residential groups affected by relocation of a slum in Manila. However, this was counteracted by representatives of the Slum Dwellers Federation and the local government. Ideas on community contracting in Bangladesh were well received and more information sought on the methodology used there. The Indonesian examples concentrated on Policy issues. The Asian Development Bank outlined their financing methodology and applications in both Philippines and Indonesia. All these examples generated useful interest from the participants. |
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4.What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality? Operational reality is mixed, therefore there needs to be a huge variety of possible options available to slum dwellers. Some are happy with what is happening around them, others are not. The only way to accommodate these realities is to have more, and differing, kinds of upgrading options, and mixed with new low income housing options. |
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