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World Urban Campaign NEWS - #TheCityweNeed Oct - Nov 2022

Key Updates

World Urban Campaign Highlights

The World Urban Campaign was launched in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro during the 5th World Urban Forum convened by UN-Habitat. The Campaign was conceived to bring together multiple voices and organizations working on urban issues, promote dialogue, create synergies towards action and advocate to elevate the urban agenda.

+250 Partners, 16 Constituencies. Everyone has a voice

The WUC is a collective intelligence for urban advocacy made of more than 250 organizations organized in 16 constituencies: Local and Subnational Authorities, Research and Academia, Civil Society Organizations, Women, Parliamentarians, Children and Youth, Businesses and Industries, Foundations and Philanthropies, Professionals, Trade Unions and Workers, Farmers, Persons with Disabilities, Older Persons, Indigenous people, Medias.

The WUC is driven by a democratic governance to ensure that everyone has a voice. The partners are represented by an elected Steering Committee made of constituency representatives, supported by working groups and managed by a Secretariat led by UN-Habitat. The current Steering Committee was elected in June 2022.

A renewed urban narrative

Since its launch, the WUC partners have contributed to developing an urban narrative around global milestones to advocate as one voice on urban issues and solutions.

2012: ‘The Manifesto for Cities’ has contributed to the lobbying effort towards the recognition of an ‘Urban’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11: ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’) in the 2030 Development Agenda approved in 2015.

2014: ‘The Future We Want - The City We Need’, launched in New York in 2014, has been a stepping stone towards the Habitat III Conference, calling for enabling policies, strategies and practices for sustainable urbanization and reiterating the need for an ‘Urban’ SDG.

2016: The City We Need’ 2.0, launched in Prague at the PreCom 3 of the Habitat III Conference in 2016, further defined key principes and drivers of change before the Conference which delivered the New Urban Agenda.

2021: ‘The City We Need Now!, launched on 1 December 2021 in Nairobi, calling to ‘turn the SDG promise into action now’, using ‘cities and communities as accelerators of the SDG implementation’.

The Urban Thinkers Campus, a Global Conversation

The above urban narrative has been developed through a continuous global exchange amongst partners through live and virtual assembly meetings, working groups as well as a series of Urban Thinkers Campus sessions. Since 2014, the Urban Thinkers Campus has engaged more than 30,000 participants in 280 sessions.

The enormous success of the Urban Thinkers Campus lies in the creativity and the dynamic engagement of the WUC partners as well as the synergies and collaborations built over the years. Urban Thinkers Campus are open events made of Urban Labs, Urban Thinkers Plenary sessions, Urban Cinema, Urban Journalism Academy events, etc.

The next 2023 UTC Series will be on the theme ‘The City We Need Now!’, building on the success of the 2022 Series.

Urban Thinkers Café 2022

The Urban Thinkers Café is an event of the World Urban Campaign partners and their guests to exchange on the Urban Thinkers Campus priorities and ideas for the year 2023. WUC Partners will also exchange on WUC key events for 2023 around the major milestones (UN-Habitat Assembly and High Level Political Forum).

Come around with your cup of coffee online to exchange as Urban Thinkers! Open to all WUC Partners and their Guests

Join us on 23 November from 2 pm CET (4 pm Nairobi time)

Interested in the City Changer Academy ?

The City Changers Academy (CCA) is a new WUC initiative building on the success of the #UrbanThinkers Campus movement. The objective is to pass on skills and know-how gathered by WUC partners in UTCs in order to support the fast and effective implementation of solutions to achieve the SDGs and New Urban Agenda. The CCA will use a peer-learning platform to help connect the skills and know-how of partners with matching needs for implementation. It will also serve as an incubator bringing together mentors and mentees to help implement projects and initiatives.

Join the quick CCA SURVEY to share your interest in the future City Changer Academy. This will help the WUC to guide the first pilot academy sessions and the content of the platform.

Urban Thinkers Campus

The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) is conceived as an open space for critical exchange between urban researchers, professionals, and decision-makers who believe that urbanization is an opportunity and can lead to positive urban transformations. It is meant to contribute to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

Join us to develop solutions and take action in cities and communities to implement the New Urban Agenda and help accelerate the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030. We build synergies and take action towards ambitious goals commensurate with the global effort needed to deliver the 2030 promise under the Decade of Action.

(*Stories from partners of the World Urban Campaign presented in this bulletin include content that do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of UN-Habitat. The designations employed herein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UN-Habitat concerning the legal status of any country, area or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.)
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