World Cities Day

Regions4 catalyses regional government leadership, mobilizes resources, advocates for increased recognition, and channels regions’ voices in the main United Nations fora on biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable development.  REGIONS4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  Co-facilitated by Pathfinders for a Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Society at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, together with the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, PlusPeace , and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security , Peace in Our Cities is a growing network of 22 cities and 30 community-based and international partners that work together to halve urban violence by 2030 .  PEACE IN OUR CITIES

The Partnership for Healthy Cities is a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization , and Vital Strategies . It is a technical network. Cities can only join by invitation but no membership fees are required.  PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES

The  Sustainable Development Goal 11 , which formulates the ambition to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - underlying the relevance of UN-Habitat’s mission. Inequalities in cities have grown since 1980 . The world largest cities are also often the most unequal, and this year’s theme is embraced by the action and implementation of the New Urban Agenda , which is putting the topic of inclusive cities as one of the main pillars for the urban shift.

In October 2016, the HABITAT III Conference , held in Quito, adopted a new framework, which will set the world on a course towards sustainable urban development by rethinking how cities are planned, managed and inhabited. The New Urban Agenda will set the pace on how to deal with the challenges of urbanization in the next two decades, and is seen as an extension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , agreed on by the 193 Member States of the UN in September 2015.