Habitat III: Quito Conference
Habitat III is the United Nations International Conference on Habitat and Sustainable Urban Development, which is held every 30 years and which took place between October 17 and 20, 2016 in the city of Quito, Ecuador. The UN General Assembly convened Habitat III in order to strengthen the global commitment to sustainable urbanization, to focus on the implementation of a New Urban Agenda from the basis outlined in the Istanbul Agenda in Habitat II. The specific objectives of the conference were, among other considerations, to address the problem of poverty and identify the emerging challenges of urban issues. The goal of the conference was to culminate a document that established the lines of action. About 30,000 people participated in the Conference, among officials, specialists, academics and members of civil society, both from Ecuador and the world. As part of the event, 8 plenary sessions were held, 6 high-level round tables, 4 assemblies, 16 round tables of 16 participants, 10 political dialogues, 22 special sessions, 3 urban conversations, 59 national events, 42 urban projects, 157 exhibitions and 460 side events, work meetings and training initiatives. The result of Habitat III was the draft of the New Urban Agenda that was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 2016. Also, at the local level, the Conference derived in the Platform Implementation Plan of Quito, a digital space that centralizes specific voluntary commitments from stakeholders interested in strengthening and contributing to the implementation of the results of Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda in Quito.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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