A declaration on “Financing the Right to the City for All’ was adopted on Tuesday 8th of March at the side-event “Local Governments’ Social Spending: Justice & Urban Equity”, held as part of the Habitat III Thematic Conference “
Over 100 representatives of sub-national governments from around the world will be at UN Headquarters in New York from 15-17 May 2016 to share our vision for the New Urban Agenda and call for our recommendations to be taken into account at Habitat III.
The open-ended informal consultative meetings in New York, which brought together experts from all 10 Habitat III Policy Units, provided local and regional governments with an opportunity to share views on the New Urban Agenda with UN Member States in the run up to Habitat III in October.
The recommendations set out the values and priorities of local and regional governments in advance of the release of the Zero Draft of New Urban Agenda.
The Barcelona Declaration will be the contribution of the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Spaces to the New Urban Agenda that will be adopted in Quito in October.
