TRAINING EVENTS.

Tuesday, November 6,
09:00 - 12:00

1Alternatives to forced evictions: sustainable settlement strategies -Room MR201
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), The Netherlands and UN-HABITAT
Housing
•          Understand the problems related to forced evictions;
•          Know how to identify and develop win-win alternatives to forced evictions;
•          Be aware of the policy implications of these alternatives.

2 Local climate action – Chinese cities (For Chinese audience only) - Room MR202
ICLEI International Training Centre & ICLEI South Asia Secretariat
Environment

• Enable the participants - mainly mayors and senior decision makers from Chinese local authorities
• to recognize their possibilities to contribute to “Local Climate Action” for both, mitigation and adaptation.
• Understand the importance of a comprehensive and cooperative local strategy towards climate protection.
• Contribute to raise awareness for a cooperation project in China of local authorities within ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign

3 Urban water conservation and demand management for utilities and all other stakeholders - Room MR203
UN-HABITAT
Water and sanitation

• Acquiring Knowledge and Developing various skills relating to WCDM as under:
• Technical Financial and administrative aspects of unaccounted for water;
• Public awareness and legislative measures;
• Best practices on water demand management in Asian cities.

4 Turning municipal performance measurement into an effective management Tool - Room MR206
International City Management Association (ICMA)
Management

• Develop a solid understanding of the basic framework for and purpose of municipal performance measurement;
• Build skills to design, develop and operationalize the performance measurement system.
• Review effective performance measurement models that trigger significant improvement in public service delivery, transparency and public decision-making in low income countries;
• Learn, through practical cases, how to use performance measurement systems to enable local governments to effectively respond to real community needs.

5 How to apply participatory governance in preparation, monitoring and evaluation of the programmes concerned with infrastructure services? -Room MR207
 Practical Action, UK
Governance

• Understanding of the governance issues, needs, practices and how to design programmes to address those issues.
• Understanding of some of the tools available and how to use them in developing countries.
• Enhanced skills on how to prepare monitor and evaluate governance programmes.

6 How to design and apply an index for urban safety? - Room MR208
Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, The Netherlands
Safety

• Acquire knowledge of the complexity and crosscutting issues related to urban safety;
• Experience designing a safety index on the basis of appropriate indicators and a stakeholder network;
• Obtain insight into the applicability of an urban safety index with specific attention for partnership, operational, assessment and institutionalisation concerns.

7 How to improve participatory spatial planning by visualizing local knowledge - Room MR209
International Institute for geo-Information Science and Earth Observation – ITC, The Netherlands
Planning

• Get informed about visualization tools for participatory spatial planning;
• Learn about specific examples fro developing countries;
• Understand what makes success or failure in Participatory Mapping.

8 Training of Trainers on integrated Urban water management “approaching Urban water management: addressing governance challenge -Room MR415
UNESCO International Hydrology Programme
Water and sanitation

• To link governance challenges with the integrated urban water management;
• Understand new directions for sustainable urban water management;
• Understand the role of IHP on Integrated Urban Water Management.

Wednesday, November 7,
09:00 - 12:00

9 How to promote renewable energy efficiency at the local level - Room MR201
ICLEI International Training Centre & ICLEI South Asia Secretariat
Environment

• Learn what the main reasons are for specific activities of the local level for promoting Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE);
• Learn how to identify the local potentials and how to start a systematic process in the responsibility of local authorities.

10 Gender mainstreaming in local governments - Room MR202
Metropolis International Institute, Montreal
Governance

• Understand the importance of a well balanced Gender Equality strategy to delivering excellent services and programs for all citizens;
• Learn how to apply a UN Gender Equality Self-Assessment Framework for local governments as the foundation for creating a gender equality strategy;
• Create an initial plan for a gender equality strategy for local government including the first implementation steps in three priority areas.

11 How to negotiate to make development strategies work - Room MR203
Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, The Netherlands
Planning

• Understand the need for negotiation in participative planning situations to clarify roles and commitments and to commit to implementation;
• Understand the principles of private sector participation;
• Know and be able to apply key principles of successful negotiation.

12 How to define strategic spatial interventions as a medium of integration -Room MR206
KULeuven
Planning

• Recognize, read and interpret qualitative data on  visual representations as maps and plans,
• Use visual data in the elaboration of a problem formulation for a strategic urban intervention
• Complement written discourse with visuals in the elaboration of a project definition for a strategic urban intervention
• Define a city’s problematics and identify  strategic urban projects

13 How to understand and participate actively in a slum upgrading/ prevention initiative and livelihood framework in my city/locality? -Room MR207
World Bank
Economy

• Establish the rationale for upgrading and prevention and towards a livelihood framework;
• Development of a typical livelihood framework in a given low income/slum community tied to the city/ region’s local, social, employment;
• Discuss how a community upgrading and livelihood initiative starting from individual projects can be scaled up or expanded to a city region and nationwide programme.

14 Introduction to participatory training methods on Urban issues in Asia and the Pacific - Room MR208
UNESCAP
Housing

• Participants know how to highlight critical urban issues through training using recently published materials and online resources such as www.housing-the-urban-poor.net produced by UNESCAP, UN-HABITAT and UNITAR.
• Participants exchange suggestions on how to further develop the presented training materials, create additional ones and increase their reach among target audiences.

15 How local authorities can enhance a social and a human approach To Urban revitalization in historic districts -Room MR209
Social Sciences, UNESCO
Planning

• Identify human, natural, socio-economic and cultural resources in a given historic urban context;
• Place the urban revitalization project within the overall urban development in a given city taking particularly into account the local specificities and how to place people at the heart of the project;
• Elaborate appropriate local urban policies and how to create technical structures to make diagnosis, plan of action participation plan and evaluation and communication in a sustainable perspective.

16 How to address climate change and health in Urban settings - Room MR415
World Health Organization (WHO)
Health

• Define key terms and concepts on climate change and health;
• Describe the effects of climate change on health and their cities; and
• Plan public health interventions to address climate change and its health impacts.
• The action plans that will be developed may provide the starting point for advancing work for the participant’s city sustainable development focused on climate change and health.

Thursday, November 8,
09:00 - 11:00

17 Transparency in land administration -Room MR201
UN-HABITAT
Land

• To show participants how opaque (nontransparent) land administration (LA) breeds land corruption;
• To introduce tools that would help mitigate land corruption and improve transparency in land administration (LA).

18  Sustainable sanitation for local authorities - Room MR202
UN-HABITAT
Water and sanitation

• Acquire Knowledge and Develop various skills relating to Sustainable Sanitation at local level as under:;
• Understand the sustainability of sanitation system;
• Sustainable Sanitation as a Business; and
• Meeting the Sanitation Challenges in Slum Areas.

19 How to design and deliver effective distance learning program for local government - Room MR203
World Bank
Learning

• Assess demand and supply for distance learning capacity for urban practitioners;
• Design effective pedagogy and use of technology in the context of Urban Management and Planning Capacity Building; Build communities or urban practitioners based on distance learning capacity building

20 How to develop a collaborative dialogue process with communities, local authorities, and other stakeholders using the local to local dialogue methodology - Room MR206
Huairou Commission
Governance

• Engage a local community in a participatory priority-setting process;
• Design, plan and prepare for a Local to Local Dialogue; and
• Engage local authorities and other stakeholders in a collaborative and participatory dialogue and development of an action plan

21 how to link United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) To the challenges of service Delivery by the local governments? - Room MR207
UNDP
Governance

22 Integrated approach to climate, biodiversity and disaster management in urban areas - Room MR208
International Urban Training Centre (IUTC), Korea
Environment

• Build a better understanding of the role of ecological restoration in climate change adaptation and mitigation;
• Appreciate the value and benefits of restoring ecosystem functions in urban areas to improve urban biodiversity;
• Better understand effective ecological restoration planning and implementation practices by case studies (with a focus on Korean examples)

23 Integrated sustainable community planning through stakeholder engagement -Room MR209
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Planning

• Identify issues and key factors that are relevant to your community and that must be addressed in the planning process;
• Organize, prepare and implement an integrated planning process framework;
• How to generate and secure stakeholder engagement so that all who need to be involved are included in order to work together in the integrated planning process.