The Regional Consultative Meeting on Good Urban Governance

The Poverty Reduction Section of UNESCAP is the chair of the Regional Consultative Meeting on Good Urban Governance, which convenes annually to share experiences and identify common areas of work. This meeting has been operating since 1998.

Latest:
The 11th Regional Consultative Meeting (Manila, 15 November 2007) discussed the preparations for the World Urban Forum 4, to be held in Nanjing, China from 3 to 7 November 2008. Participants agreed to submit a joint proposal for a Networking event at the Forum under the title "Coping with Rapid urbanization and Climate change in Asia and the Pacific: Improving shelter, water, sanitation and solid waste management for environmentally harmonous cities".
Download the proposal here (pdf 22 kb)

For more information please contact:
escap-prs@un.org

Good urban governance is an important area of work for UNESCAP. Good governance has become, implicitly or explicitly, a core concept in most strategies implemented by the United Nations and its partner organizations. From the Millennium Declaration to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, good governance has been identified as critical for the success of poverty reduction efforts. Recently the scope of the Regional Consultative Meeting has been broadened to cover not only good urban governance, but also other issues related to urban poverty and human settlements.

The Regional Consultative Meeting is open to any organization working on urban governance issues in Asia and the Pacific. The purpose of the meeting is to update the partner agencies on current and future regional activities and to find mechanisms for complementing or reinforcing each other’s work for the promotion of good urban governance and eradication of urban poverty. Organizations which attended some of the most recent meetings included the, AIT-UEM, Citynet, Huairou Commission, LOGOTRI, UNDP-PPPUE, and UN-HABITAT.

If you want to be informed about the next Regional Consultative Meeting, please contact Mr Yap Kioe Sheng, Chief Poverty Reduction Section at escap-prs@un.org

For further information on the past Regional Consultative Meetings, see the following meeting reports:

November 2007, Manila, The Philippines
November 2006, Mumbai, India
June 2006, Vancouver, Canada
October 2005, Hanoi, Viet Nam
June 2004, Bangkok, Thailand
June 2003, Putrajaya, Malaysia
October 2002, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 2001, Jakarta, Indonesia