World Cities Day

The 2026 HLPF side event will highlight the value of place-based solutions that integrate social policies and interventions with the built environment – including housing, infrastructure and community design. Recognizing the intersection of these social and physical dimensions of community is at the heart of achieving SDG 11. The session will feature a discussion on how community resilience depends on social and structural features of communities, with remarks from panelists delving into the ways in which global issues are also reflected at the local level. It is intended to explore strategies and solutions for confronting various challenges related to mounting pressures and risks facing communities globally, with a focus on ensuring that physical infrastructure investments and social outcomes like inclusion, accessibility, equity and housing stability are considered together. Building resilient communities requires infrastructure planning that takes account of community needs ...

This session is conceived as an initial space for exchange to consider the questions that should guide collective reflection in the lead-up to the 2027 SDG Summit. It is pertinent to examine the extent to which the current framework has supported territorial realities and to identify areas that may require adjustment for the next global cycle. By raising these questions at an early moment, the intention is to contribute to the broader process through which the international community may assess the potential need for a renewed common framework for sustainable development, ensuring that such an assessment incorporates territorial perspectives from the outset. The review of global frameworks involves institutional and political considerations that influence coherence, coordination, and public trust. This preliminary discussion therefore seeks to outline the issues that the international system may need to address as deliberations advance toward 2027. Side Event at the ECOSOC Partnerships...

  Dialogue 1-The Global Housing Crisis: What is the Plan?

DIALOGUE 2 - Transforming Informal Settlements and Slums.

  Dialogue 3:  Housing for Urban Recovery .

DIALOGUE 4 - The Climate-Housing Nexus.