The New Urban Agenda Reflected In Best Practices Projects

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LAC as an urban laboratory

 

Latin America has experienced continuous growth of urban centers during the XXI century. This context has produced an exceptional range of urban practices. The contrasts, great achievements and continue challenges, offer a rich laboratory for exchange with countries around the world. To meet and ensure the demands of future urban citizens in relation to their quality of life and availability of public services still remains a major urban challenges.

 

To meet the growing demand for urban solutions, knowledge of best practices and its implementation for a good adaptation according to the local context is sought. This systematic and qualified information facilitates decision-making and dialogue between practice and public policy, and manages to scale the impact and ensure long-term strategic funds.

 

The purpose of this project is to better communicate project results to external stakeholders  and exemplify via concrete examples the meaning of the New Urban Agenda in the territory. Auditors have pinpointed how UN-Habitat is good at implementing their projects, yet does not excel in its systematization of them, lacking proof of results and references for future interventions.  The same challenges is often present in many public institutions and organizations in general, that have implemented great projects with successful results, but have not had the time or budget to be able to communicate theses processes and identify lessons-learned. This project will provide the opportunity for practices that are already following directives of good urban planning to be disseminated and also recognized. It will also be important to identify how these projects have addressed needs and rights of vulnerable people. Also it's important to bring new examples, as opposed to have the same cities and projects being mentioned in urban development circles and network.

 

The projects will benefit all urban technicians, practioners, planners and politicians seeking good urban planning directives to address various common urban challenges. The project will benefit all via the knowledge produced as it reflects good planning directives. This systematized project/case study will provide inspiration, ideas, lessons learned to practioners and policy makers to both orient projects/programs and policy.

 

The importance of urban solutions

 

The stakeholders mentioned are interested in proven strategies that can aid them to make decisions. The identification and validation of urban solutions, which have been successful in the region and have the potential to scale, can demonstrate positive correlations between intervention and results. Such cases must be thoroughly studied, validated (the identification of what has worked and what hasn't through a practical and theoretical framework), contextualized (through the recognition of the specificity of the setting and structure) and systematized to ultimately facilitate the dissemination of knowledge in various formats and forms to other territories. Examples of concrete actions and experiences allow local knowledge seekers to maximize the use of their resources and direct their energy towards the adaptability of strategies that have shown results elsewhere.

 

The project will address the problem through a strategic approach by developing a framework to ease the identification of New Urban Agenda practices, as well as strengthen a network of regional urban professionals and ultimately systematize practices that will add great value to the mentioned target groups. The systematizations will be carried out in situ in order to gauge the real impacts of the identified practices.

 

For this project to come to fruition, while respecting the great achievements of the last 20 years, its important to work with the Iberoamerican and Caribbean Forum of Best Practices, partners with a consolidated and extensive network in their own countries and focus areas. The idea is also to reach out to other organizations and secretaries that also work with urban development and are interested in becoming part of this exchange and discussion. It is also an opportunity to mobilize municipal governments and secretaries that have carried out important investments in urban projects and would like to have it systematized and disseminated. . Some members of the Forum will also be invited to be part of the selecting committee that will evaluate the received practices to choose finalists. This exchange is planned to happen virtually, but has also the opportunity to happen in a meeting during Habitat III, in case the calendars of the committee members align.

 In addition, the systematization of internal New Urban Agenda projects as well external projects also aligned with this agenda will provide interesting input for future technical cooperation with other stakeholders. As they will be used as examples of concrete projects that have shown fruitful results and is promoting its way towards sustainable urban development.

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Due to budget constraints, this project will initiate the systematization of only four practices, the goal is to be able to systematize many more in the near future,  yet funds need to become available to increase the work.  Once selected and later systematized, these practices will also be part of a final event to exchange how these inspiring practices can be further scaled and disseminated regionally and how can they serve as ambassadors of the implementation of this New Urban Agenda.