REPORT OF THE 4TH UCLG WORLD CONGRESS
Thematic Round-Table 1 Fostering Wellbeing speakers Mayor of Casablanca, Mohamed Sajid, described his city’s work on affordable housing for slum-dwellers which has improved 70% of informal settlements over the past ten years. They have tried to improve planning and provide basic services such as health and education to informal settlements. He agreed with the conclusions of the GOLD III report that planning and financing need to be improved at local level, particularly in the area of transport. Miguel Lifschitz, National Senator, Former Mayor of Rosario argued that tackling inequality was fundamental to improving wellbeing, particularly in Latin America. We have four goals to improve services: 1) Enhance service quality for all social sectors using good mid and long term planning and investment. Use new ICT technologies and innovation in the aim of improving service quality – especially in transport and solid waste management and sanitation services 2) Ensure universal access to basic services – this has almost been accomplished. 3) Financing using cross-subsidies from more profitable services to less profitable ones – or within services – e.g. those travelling short distances pay proportionally more for transport, subsidising the poor who live in the outskirts and travel longer distances. 4) Use basic services for territorial integration and social cohesion, especially transport. He said that the GOLD III report will be a useful political tool in improving wellbeing.
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Jockin Arputham, President of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), and President of National Slum Dwellers Indian Federation Salvador Esteve i Figueras, President, Province of Barcelona, Spain, President of the UCLG Committee on Decentralisation and Self-Government Miguel Lifschitz, National Senator, Former Mayor of Rosario, Argentina Greg Moore, President of Metro Vancouver, Canada Jenaro Garcia Martin, CEO, Gowex Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of Regional Development Policy Division, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD Mohamed Sajid, Mayor of Casablanca, Morocco Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary General of United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction Moderator Farida Moha