REPORT OF THE 4TH UCLG WORLD CONGRESS
Strategic Plenary Shaping the urban future – Post-2015 Development Agenda
speakers Paul Carrasco,
Prefect of the Province of Azuay, Equator, President of the Organisation of United Regions (ORU-FOGAR)
Edmond Gharios,
The session was launched with an introductory speech by Aromar Revi. He presented the case for an Urban Sustainable Development Goal, underscoring the unprecedented scale of anticipated global urbanization over the coming decades. He urged the audience to stand up and be counted in the international debates, arguing that now is a turning point, for better or worse, for the future of the world’s cities for the next thirty years. There was consensus that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were conceived in a very different global context from that which we live in today. However, while Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, acknowledged the importance of local government actors for the implementation of international development goals, she argued that the Post-2015 international development goals will still inevitably be agreed between national government actors. She argued that the greatest lesson from the MDGs was the importance of effective partnerships between all stakeholders, local, national and international.
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Mayor of Chyah, Lebanon, Member of the Arab Towns Organisation (ATO)
Amina J. Mohammed,
Special Advisor of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Post 2015 Development
Adolf Mwesige,
Minister of Local Governments of Uganda, Vice-President of Commonwealth Local Governments Forum (CLGF)
Aromar Revi,
Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Ségolène Royal,
President of the Region PoitouCharentes, President of the International Association of Francophone Regions (AIRF)
Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey, President of UCLG, and Member of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Moderator
Femi Oke,
Journalist, Al Jazeera