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April 8, 2025 12:00 pm
This event, co-organized with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient 2030, aims to brief local and regional governments on the upcoming session of the GPDRR. It will be structured around three central topics: the important discussions relating to cities and urban disaster risk reduction, the participation of local and regional governments, and the potential outcomes of the session.
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5 years from the deadline of Agenda2030 it is crystal clear that attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require the unlocking of local solutions, especially regarding climate-related efforts. In 2025 we will hear a lot about financing, including ‘Financing for Development’, ‘climate financing’ and ‘localization of financing’.
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March 17, 2025 1:00 pm
This side event will explore how LRGs can be further recognized and empowered as key human rights actors, building on recent Human Rights Council (HRC) resolutions, particularly HRC Resolution 57/12 on Local Government and Human Rights and HRC Resolution 51/33 on National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRFs). It will also reflect on insights from the Bologna Expert Roundtable on Data Planning and Collection by NMIRFs: the Role of LRGs, which underscored the need for greater policy coherence between local, national, and international human rights frameworks.
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On February 21, 2025, the Global Cities Hub and UN-Habitat organized a workshop on “Cities and Human Security: Urbanization and Housing in an Unstable World”. The purpose of the meeting was for Geneva-based partners to develop a way forward for consolidating their work with UN-Habitat, building on UN-Habitat’s legacy of 30 years of the safer cities programme and with due cognizance of its new strategic plan, which focuses on addressing the global housing crisis.