World Urban Forum 9, Kuala Lumpur

Side Event – Towards Decent Work in Inclusive Cities

WIEGO, HomeNet Thailand, Oxfam, Street Vendors Project and the City of Songkla, Thailand present this side event on how promoting decent work – particularly for the majority of the world’s workers, who work informally – can contribute to inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities. In doing so, it directly addresses challenges laid out in both SDG 8 and 11 as well as the NUA. 

Networking Event – Cities for All: Addressing Forced Evictions

This networking event will showcase innovations and explore partnerships for slum enumeration, policies and practical approaches that increase spatial, social and economic inclusion. A strong focus will be devoted to the critical interface of forced evictions with gender inequality and migration flows. 

The contribution of informal worker organizations in building inclusive, safe, sustainable, and resilient cities (experiences from Thailand)

The contribution of informal worker organizations to SDG 11: Experiences from Thailand. Members of Federation of Informal Workers of Thailand will present along side WIEGO and HomeNet Thailand on how promoting decent work – particularly for the majority of the world’s workers, who work informally – can contribute to inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities.

Stakeholders’ Roundtable – Trade Unions and Workers

While representing the large majority of city dwellers and urban communities, city workers – be them formal or informal, young, women, elderly or migrant – city workers and their trade unions are often invisible and underpaid, working and living in precarious conditions. This session will highlight and share the initiatives, partnerships and good practices through which trade unions, workers, mayors, allied civil society organizations and the ILO are fostering and contributing to the implementation of the NUA transformative commitment to decent work and to making cities and local communities equitable and inclusive.

Networking Event – Public Space as the Driver of Equitable Economic Growth in Cities, DFID/Cities Alliance

This networking event, hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID), elaborates on the potential of public space as a driver of equitable economic growth in cities. Building on the experience of the diverse membership of the Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme for Equitable Economic Growth in Cities the event highlights viable strategies and policy approaches available to cities to leverage the asset of public space as an enabler of economic and livelihood opportunities for all. A panel discussion will draw on the perspectives of Cities Alliance Members how inclusive public spaces can serve as a driver of vibrant city economies.

Women as Leaders in Meeting Slum Upgrading Goals: Learnings from India

Both the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs call for improving the habitats of the world’s one-billion slum dwellers (UN_Habitat). The implementation process to achieve these goals is “anchored in participatory urban processes.” Yet most participatory systems continue to marginalize the voices of those most impacted by poor quality housing – women members of these communities. This event will present a case study of the redevelopment of Abhuji Na Chhapra slum in the western Indian city of Gujarat. The case showcases a unique and replicable collaboration between a women-led communitybased organization (CBO), private developers and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.