adelphi at Habitat III: How can we ensure resilient and inclusive cities today?

In Quito, adelphi will host two events at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. We invite you to join our side event on 18 October to discuss an urban youth perspective and our networking event on 19 October dialogue on the characteristics of an inclusive city.

The events centre their attention on the characteristics of an inclusive and resilient city and the enabling conditions to attain it, and propose a dialogue that includes community-based organisations, civil society, as well as local and national government actors. Both are organised by adelphi within the International Climate Initiative (IKI) project “Vertical Integration for Low-Emission Development in Africa and Southeast Asia (V-LED)”, supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)

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Side event

Our young cities of tomorrow: How can we ensure their resilience today?

Tuesday 18 October, 16:30-18:30

Sustainable Cities Campus of the Municipality of Quito (Campus de Ciudades Sostenibles), Centro de Convenciones Eugenio Espejo

By 2030 it is expected that 60 per cent of urban citizens will be children and young people under 18. Urbanisation and climate change are two of the most important drivers for change in cities in the next decades. Habitat III thus offers a unique opportunity to put the youth at the centre of the discussion on climate resilient cities and generate an avid exchange among actors on the youth priorities of participation, education, economic opportunities and climate resilience. A Youth Representative has been confirmed as speaker through the General Assembly of Partners' Children and Youth Group for Habitat III.

We would like to invite youth, representatives of local and national government, citizens, representatives of civil society to join in the conversation!

In partnership with the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA), adelphi is organising this side event on youth and inclusive cities at the Sustainable Cities Campus of the Municipality of Quito.

Networking Event

A pathway to inclusive cities: Multi-level governance for climate resilient urbanisation

Wednesday 19 October, 14:00 – 16:00

Room MR4 at the Habitat III venue, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamín Carrión”

Inclusive cities are those that reflect their diversity and provide greater chances for equality. Urbanisation, climate-resilient and low-emission development can open new doors towards creating environmentally sustainable and socially just cities. At the same time, opportunities for urban inclusion are often put to test by the impacts of climate variability and change through floods, fires and sea-level rise with disproportionate impacts on the most vulnerable.

This networking event brings together key actors that are striving towards building inclusive cities to share urban stories of success. The objective of the event is to design with them building blocks for implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) topic of Inclusive Cities, informing and exchanging on multi-level governance and supporting the development of key characteristics of inclusive, climate-resilient cities.