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Contentsurban Thinkers Campus in figures ............................................................................................................................................. 4
introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
The City We Need principle(s) addressed ................................................................................................................................. 5
Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations ...................................................................................................... 6
Key outcomes of the uTC........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Key recommendations.............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Key actors................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Outstanding issues................................................................................................................................................................... 13
urban solutions ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Speaker .................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
List of all countries present ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
List of organizations present................................................................................................................................................... 15
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urban Thinkers Campus in figures
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14COUNTRIESREPRESENTED PARTICIPANTS ORGANIZATIONS
CONSTITUENTGROUPSREPRESENTED
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introduction
The focal theme: ‘The city we need fosters inclusive prosperity’ was in
accordance with the Honourable Prime Minister’s vision for ‘Sabka saath,
Sabka vikas’ and the emerging global discourse on prosperity of cities.
With the new urban sector missions in india focused towards achieving
economic vibrancy and liveability through urban transformations for
growth and access to amenities for all, cross learning between missions
and sustained engagement between all sectors including corporate
institutions and business leaders is crucial. With this in mind, uTC india
was designed in consultation with uNGCN india, Cities alliance, DFiD,
Bernard van Leer Foundation, asian Development Bank, Research Councils
uK, WiEGO, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, Swiss agency for
Development and Cooperation (SDC) and india Habitat Centre.
The new urban sector missions in india also promise to integrate key
themes of the global discourses towards HaBiTaT iii. Hence, it was
important to deliberate upon the linkages between Government of india’s
new urban sector missions, the Sustainable Development Goals and the
New urban agenda. in order to enable this, the uTC india was planned
with participation by various constituent groups responsible for drafting of
recommendations on the last day.
The City We Need principle(s) addressed1. The CWN is economically vibrant and inclusive
2. The CWN is affordable and promotes the right to the city
3. The CWN is well-planned, financed and governed
4. The CWN is resilient
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Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendationsThe key recommendations of uTC india including empowerment of youth and children, women and better facilities for homeless groups are very strongly
interlinked with the first City We Need principle i.e. The City We Need is Socially Inclusive. uTC india principles such as the need for inclusive prosperity and
the emphasis on skill development are linked with the City We Need principle of The City We Need is Economically Vibrant and Inclusive. a matrix which
highlights the impact and link of the uTC india City We Need Recommendations and the existing City We Need principles has been detailed in figure below.
Existing Principles Proposed Principles
Key outcomes of the uTCThe uTC india was structured into the initial part that consisted of the
plenary sessions, the city we need debate and the panel discussions. Some
of the key outcomes highlighted:
• The need for advocating shared responsibility and the need to re-write
the social contract between business, society and the government.
• The importance of establishing dialogues with stakeholder groups
and building of large collaboration of partners representing different
perspectives was emphasized.
• The need for balanced growth through both economic and social
inclusion, and linking of CSR initiatives with implementation and
monitoring of urban planning policies and programmes through joint
private and public frameworks for measuring policy outcomes.
• inclusion of the corporate sector was also felt to be crucial as it has the
possibility of bringing in global good practices. However, appropriate
governance structures need to be framed and the local governments
need to be made more accountable for creating better business
environments.
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• With the transforming relationship between center, state and local
government, urban development was pointed out as the shared
responsibility of the three-tiered government, with an urgent need to
have an integrated urban policy within the established framework of
cooperative federalism.
The thematic and urban thinkers sessions primarily focused on
understanding inclusive prosperity and its related aspects. Key outcomes of
these discussions included:
• People, practices, institutions, resources and discourses were felt to
be key factors for urban inclusion. Besides the qualities of respect,
dignity, citizen rights and rights to livelihood were discussed as a major
necessity for inclusion.
• Evidence in research has indicated that while growth has been important
in reducing poverty, those who are at the lower end of distribution
have hardly benefitted, emphasizing the urgent need for policies and
programmes to focus on something more substantial for our cities than
merely making them liveable and economically stronger.
• Facilitating individual prosperity by providing livelihood options
at an institutional level was felt important specifically in planning
spaces to accommodate the informal sector and improve the ‘ease of
doing business’ especially for the poor to provide them an opportunity
to prosper.
• Shared prosperity which is at the heart of poverty reduction requires to
come through in inclusive economic development and job creation with
planned urbanization being key to that.
• The lack of access to land and tenure security was the main hurdle in
integrating the informal sector into the formal planning process, noting
that land, which includes shelter, access to services, and space for
carrying out various occupations was essential for ensuring health, and
safety of the workers to increase productivity.
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• Supporting and working with membership-based organizations of
informal workers was discussed as a key strategy to address urban
poverty and to work towards better planned, inclusive cities.
• The importance of considering home as workplace in addition
to living space, reflecting an understanding of how people use their
homes as workspaces, the costs they incur to do so, and the impact
that housing conditions and locations have on the productivity of home-
based workers by policy makers and planners was discussed.
• The need for lowering prescribed standards which not necessarily
translated into lowering the living standards of people and community
based design solutions are crucial to provide good quality living
environments.
• The need for more consultative master planning exercises by
enhancing and institutionalizing participation was discussed.
• inclusion of various stakeholders particularly children in planning and
shaping urban environments was felt important especially since 53% of
india’s population consists of children and youth. Young people having
skills and knowledge are capable of sensible, realistic suggestions (not
self-centered).
• a need for scaling up smaller successful initiatives of different
organisations working with youth and children to the city level was
crucial to be institutionalized to influence the development plan for the
city - Master plan, Zonal Plan etc.
• Structuring academic and research interventions to ensure inclusive
prosperity in planning of cities was discussed:
• The need to interlink and balance research and practice and the need
to emphasis regional institutions was discussed so that urbanization
issues are more contextualized instead of focusing on just large cities.
• The need for producing vibrant public spaces or urban commons
to ensure greater community level inclusion instead of private and
commodified spaces was discussed. inclusion of alternatives to
sprawling, auto-dependent areas, revitalization of downtowns and
inner-city neighborhoods, environment concerns, creation of lively,
interesting neighborhoods and commercial areas, and a need to foster
sustainable development, were also discussed as essential components
of planning curriculum.
• The need for planning students to be exposed to four sectors apart from
the current curriculum of universities was discussed which included
the functioning of the city to build their knowledge base, managing
human settlements keeping in view cultural aspects of the city, planning
keeping in view aspects of public security for children, elderly and
women, and monitoring and evaluating techniques of projects to ensure
institutional accountability.
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• Environmental sustainability, was discussed as each persons or
organizations responsibility, especially for the corporate sector which
is responsible for maximum damage through exploitation of the
resources and degradation of ecology. it was felt important to ensure
that the corporate sector could promote environmental sustainability,
through its CSR activities which included external stakeholders, and,
through various sustainability initiatives and innovative approaches for
choosing resources, production methods and disposal methods. The
need for the corporate to map sustainability risks and challenges for
each sector to know how to mitigate them through projects and other
initiatives was also discussed. a need to explore indigenous knowledge
which assures of being context specific for ensuring environmental
sustainability was considered important.
The urban Thinkers Sessions focusing on climate change and adaptation
discussed the following key issues:
• The need for creation of a comprehensive framework bringing
together policy-makers, planners, developers and community
organizations to develop resilience in cities, and for conservation
of existing resources such as open spaces and water bodies, was felt
essential.
• The three pillars of a resilience framework- Systems (infrastructure),
agents (people) and institutions (laws), while harnessing local
knowledge, community advocacy, and micro-resilience planning and
protection of peri- urban areas was felt essential.
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• For increasing resilience, reduction in consumption, development of
alternative resources, and improvement in quality of existing resources
was discussed as key for developing a sustainability framework.
• additionally, the need to incentivize climate changes for which
data collection, and awareness campaigns, providing people with on-
ground, real-time information was crucial.
• One of the key requirements discussed for integrated and multidisciplinary
planning is the need to harmonize various organisations working on ground
to develop an integrated data collection system and a database manage-
ment system especially since data is essential for crucial policy decisions.
• The session on energy suggested that the importance of economics of
development should include policies for promoting sustainable energy
solutions for transport and energy efficiency.
• Market driven sustainable energy solutions need to be prioritised
for greater adoption and replicability through documentation of best
practices and learning.
• urban morphology was discussed as the key determinant of the city’s
energy intensity and hence requires to be careful managed.
• in relation to this, one of the key issues discussed in the panel discussion
was the need to curtail resource consumption and carbon emissions,
specifically by distributing urbanization to small and medium towns in
india, which would meet both the needs of sustainable urbanization and
inclusive prosperity and economic growth was felt.
• The session on municipal finance discussed the need for altering the
fiscal architecture of the country so as to strengthen local governance
agencies. While leveraging of funds from budgetary sources was
meager, the need of alternative sources of municipal finances was
discussed. However, with inadequate monitoring and regulatory
frameworks, private capital too has been hardly explored. The need
for municipal budgets to be more accountable outlining the outcomes
and expenditures under the CSR initiative, earmarking for poor, etc was
discussed highlighting the need for city budgets to be audited. The need
for a reliable database for city budgets was discussed.
• The final session that discussed the right to the city put forth some
crucial thoughts, like, whether the discussion for ‘right to the city’
should be restricted merely to the 32% urban population or expanded to
the rural population as well in view of migration as a crucial challenge.
another key point raised was that while we have notionally accepted
the right to housing why is it that it is forcing the poor to the fringes
with the spaces of democratic participation for the poor shrinking. Cities
need to be seen increasingly as sites for contestation over resources
with the shape of the cities being determined by policies and whom
they empower. additionally, the lack of enumeration of the homeless in
census surveys indicates the lack of awareness of numbers and living
conditions amongst administrators and policy makers.
Key recommendationsKey Principles have been agreed upon in the constituent group discussions:
a. The City We Need should Facilitate Inclusive Prosperity: The city should promote the right to livelihood, shared prosperity,
skill development, employment linked to industry (manufacturing and
services) supported by the private, state and civil society.
b. The City We Need should be Well-Governed: equitable
enforcement of legislations/laws. Should promote people’s
participation. Streamline existing legislations. Should be transparent
and accountable. and should be able to encourage an open planning
process.
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c. The City We Need should Consume Minimum Resources: Efficient/equitable use of resources and replenishing of resources
(‘replenish more than what we use’).
d. The City We Need is Where Youth and Children are Secure and Empowered: recognition, empowerment, awareness,
increased effective accessibility to basic amenities, opportunities for
personal development, addressing issues of vulnerability.
e. The City We Need should be Inclusive: barrier free
movements, better last mile connectivity - for pedestrians, access for
the disabled to the transit system, city that is safe for children - walk to
and from school should be safe, women should be free to move.
f. The City We Need should have Better Facilities for the Homeless: a program that works to move the homeless from
sleeping on the sidewalk --> sleeping in shelters (proper safe shelters
- safe for all) --> proper housing; upgrade the sensitivity training to
the cops and to other government employees (Not the one they have
now); Education of the homeless about their rights - Creation of a nodal
database access centre for non profits who work with them. Establish
means for knowledge sharing; account for empty housing stock
g. The City We Need should Emphasize Skill Development: incentive based employment
h. The City We Need should Empower Women, Build their Capacities and provide Adequate and Basic Services: Key
policy changes that were suggested were to; provide ample enablers
and safeguards to secure women financially, strengthen existing
communities in urban areas for both for knowledge dissemination
and to provide services, bring changes in urban design, integrate
various sectors of society; academia, media civil society etc. The
innovative solutions that the group suggested were incorporation of
e-governance to increase accountability, transparency and connectivity
in existing systems. and use of technology and urban design to ensure
women safety. Safety for women in institutional campuses
i. The City We Need should promote Knowledge-Sharing between agencies: Cross-organizational knowledge sharing.
Knowledge Sharing between development agencies, research
institutions, non-governmental organizations and citizen groups for
better resource management, participation, and evidence based
planning through feedbacks.
j. The City we Need is Pedestrian Friendly: Better traffic
regulation enforcement - safer city for pedestrian
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Key actorsThe core groups that are identified as the key players in the proposed City
We Need principles include:
• Parliamentary Standing Committee (Elected Representatives) :
Parliamentary Standing Committee consented to accept the proceedings
of uTC india and deliberate upon the recommendations made on it. The
Committee proposed the introduction of the City adoption Programme
with support from members of parliament. The Committee also
proposed the expansion of the current urban planning, architecture
and engineering educational infrastructure in every state and proposed
establishing a State Level urban Development institute and Nodal
urban Development Officer in each district.
• ULBS: Local Governance: Opportunities for promoting participation
from all sections of civil society through e-governance platforms.
Establishing City Level Citizen Engagement Portals.
• Chambers of Commerce: Establishing ‘industry specific inclusive
Skill Development Training and Education Programmes’ to diversify the
existing job sectors, and promote industry specific skills based training
for women from low-income sections of the society.
• Citizen groups: Create knowledge sharing platforms and work towards
increasing self-representative participation of all sections of society.
• NITI Aayog: To take note of the changing social landscape in cities
and prescribe flexible, city-specific planning norms and look towards
more recognition and inclusion of the informal section in to the fabric of
planned urban development.
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• Though the uTC india advanced the idea of inclusive prosperity into the
urban discourses in india, more needs to be done to establish linkages
between the various sub-themes such as local economic development,
support for informal sector, skills and entrepreneurships, planning
legislation, cohesion and resilience through community planning,
financing modalities.
• The discourse could not capture the strengths and weaknesses of the
completed and new urban sector missions in greater details so as to
identify their contributions in making indian cities inclusively prosperous.
• The permeation of the uTC india deliberations through various means of
media was inadequate. This prevented a national level response to the
four day consultations.
• There were inadequate representation of the Local Government
representatives such as Mayors and Commissioners who will be
responsible for implementing the new urban sector missions.
• uTC india did not have adequate representation from some of the
identified constituent groups such as ; i) Foundations and Philanthropies,
ii) Farmers, iii) indigenous People, iv) Grass-root Organizations.
• The gaps identified in relation to the strategic positions of the theme
inclusive prosperity is proposed to be addressed through the ongoing
research on preparing inclusive prosperity framework for 3 cities. The
other issues can be addressed through the year long National urban
Campaign.
Outstanding issues
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urban solutions
• Recognize and institutionalize approaches for ecologically sound urban
development process.
• Promote human rights as one of the core purpose of urban planning.
• Facilitate the integration of the informal economy in city development
strategies.
• Establish local knowledge networks for regular exchange of critical
ideas and technological solutions.
• Promote affordable housing strategies through market creation and
policy interventions.
• incentivize climate change adaptations and environmentally conscious
behaviors in planning process by harnessing new and alternate energy
sources, off-grid solutions and promotion of passive-adaptive design
solutions.
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Speaker
Prof. Jagan Shah Director, NIUA
Ms. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, assistant-Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director, uN-Habitat
Mr. Yuri Afanasiev, uN Resident Coordinator
Mr. Uddesh Kohli, Senior advisor, uNGC
Ms. Christine Auclair, Project Leader, World urban Campaign, uN-Habitat
Mr. St. John Gould, Director, uK Trade, investment and Prosperity-india
Dr. Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Director, Research and Capacity Development, uN-Habitat
Mr. Saurabh Sanyal , Secretary General, PhD Chamber of Chamber and industry
Mrs. K. Saraswathi, Secretary General, Madras Chamber of Commerce and industry
Mr. Vikas Gadre, Director General, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and industry
Dr. A. Ravindra, IAS (Retd), Former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka
Dr. Renu Khosla, Director, Centre for urban and Regional Excellence
Prof. P.S.N.Rao, Head, Department of Housing, SPa Delhi
Dr. Roli Asthana, Senior Economic advisor and Deputy Head, DFiD india
Mr. Ron Slangen, urban Development Specialist, aDB
Dr. Shobha Vijender, Councillor, North Delhi Municipal Corporation
Mr. V. Suresh, Former CMD, HuDCO
Dr. Nandita Chatterjee, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and urban Poverty alleviation
Prof. O.P.Mathur, urban Specialist and Senior Fellow, institute of Social Sciences
Mr. Pooran Chandra Pandey, Executive Director, uNGCN india
Mr. Barjor E. Mehta, Global Lead, World Bank
Dr. Nagesh Kumar, Head, uN-ESCaP S&SWa, New Delhi
Prof. Amitabh Kundu, Delhi Policy Group
Mr. Palash Srivastava, Director, iDFC
Prof. Usha Raghupathi, Professor, Niua
Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of housing and urban Poverty alleviation
Prof. Amaresh Dubey, CSRD, JNu
Prof. Meera Mehta, Emeritus Professor, CEPT university
Prof. Kala Seetharam Sridhar, iSEC, Bangalore
Dr. Nafees Meah, Director, Research Councils uK
Ms. Namrata Bali, SEWa
Ms. Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, WiEGO
Ms. Dharitri Patnaik, india Representative, Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Prof. Dinesh Mehta, Emeritus Professor, CEPT university
Prof. Shrawan Kumar Acharya, Professor, CSRD, JNu
Dr. Debjani Ghosh, Senior Research Officer and Coordinator, Habitat Partner university initiative
Ms. Sheela Patel, Chair, Slum Dwellers international
Mr. Bijal Bhatt, Mahila Housing Trust
Ms. Pratima Joshi, Shelter associates
Prof. Neelima Risbud, SPa-Delhi
Prof. Amita Bhide, School of Habitat Studies, TiSS
Mr. Marco Ferrario, Micro Home Solutions
Mr. Ashok Pavadia, additional Secretary & adviser, inter-State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home affairs, Government of india
Dr. R. Gopichandran, Director, Vigyan Prasar, Government of india
Mr. Ashok B Chakraborty, Chief Sustainability Officer, National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility, indian institute of Corporate affairs, Ministry of Corporate affairs
Dr. Sanjeevan Bajaj , CEO, FiCCi Quality Forum
Dr. Vatsal Bhatt, Director – Cities and Neighborhood Developments, uSGBC
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Dr. Geetika Sharma, TCS innovation Lab
Dr. Anil Roy, associate Professor, CEPT university
Mr. Daniel Ziegerer, Director of Cooperation, Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation
Dr. Shirish Sinha, Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation
Dr. Rathin Roy, Director, NiPFP
Mr. Mrutyunjay Behera, Director (infrastructure), Department of Economic affairs
Mr. Jeetendra Singh, Director (PPP/infrastructure), NiTi aayog
Mr. Krishan Dhawan, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Mr. Ashok B. Lall, Principal architect, ashok B Lall architects
Mr. Rakesh Kacker, IAS(retd), Director, india Habitat Centre
Ms. Romi Roy, Deputy Director, uTTiPEC, Delhi Development authority
Prof. Rajan Rawal, Executive Director,Centre for advanced Research in Building Science and Energy
Mr. Pinaki Mishra, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on urban Development
Dr. Ramgopal Agarwala, Honorary Senior Fellow, NCaER
Mr. Dushyant Chautala, Member of Parliament
Ms. Sindhushree Khullar, Chief Executive Officer, NiTi aayog
Mr. D.S.Mishra, IAS , additional Secretary, Ministry of urban Development
List of organizations present1. uN-Habitat,
2. Cities alliance,
3. uNGCN india,
4. DFiD,
5. Research Councils uK,
6. The Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF),
7. aDB,
8. Cities alliance,
9. WiEGO,
10. Shakti Foundation,
11. Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation,
12. YuVa,
13. uNMGCY
14. india Habitat Centre
List of all countries present1. australia
2. austria
3. Brazil
4. Canada
5. Equatorial Guinea
6. Ethiopia
7. Georgia
8. Germany
9. iceland
10. india
11. italy
12. Kenya
13. Madagascar
14. New Zealand
15. Northern Mariana islands
16. Poland
17. Sweden
18. Switzerland
19. Turkey
20. united Kingdom
21. united States of america
22. Zimbabwe
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