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Building Inclusive Smart Cities: A Focus on Safety & Sanitation 11 – 12 February 2016 New Delhi, India
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Table of Contents Urban Thinkers Campus in figures.............................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction to the Urban Thinkers Campus............................................................................................................................... 5 The City We Need principle(s) addressed.................................................................................................................................. 5 Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations....................................................................................................... 6 Key outcomes.............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Key recommendations ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 Key actors................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Outstanding issues..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Urban solutions......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Speakers................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 List of all countries present...................................................................................................................................................... 11
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Urban Thinkers Campus in figures
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COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
PARTICIPANTS
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Introduction to the Urban Thinkers Campus
The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) on Sanitation and Safety was organized by Habitat for Humanity India (HFH India) in New Delhi on 11 - 12 February 2016 in partnership with UN Women and in close association with government agencies, UN organizations, urban thinkers, experts and activists. The two days of UTC were rich in content and engagement leading to generating recommendations for the New Urban Agenda. The speakers emphasized that in this rapidly urbanizing world, there is a need to demand housing for all, sanitation for all and water for all. Public – People – Private Partnerships was proposed as the way forward and attention was sought for gender equity in urban planning. This is towards ensuring that cities are safe for women, children and youth, and will enable economic empowerment and participation of women and marginalized communities. The campus offered that cities must be seen as engines of economic growth where societies need to play strong synergistic roles and recognize partnerships. The UTC identified that local governments need to be empowered and multiple sources of finances need to be drawn to build the cities we need. In addition, people’s participation at the design and implementation levels and their interaction with local authorities was identified crucial in ensuring sustainability.
To summarize: ‘Each one needs to take responsibility’ and effective Urban Planning needs to create a ‘Soul of the City’ that is Clean, Safe, and Inclusive!
The City We Need principle(s) addressed The UTC on safety and sanitation was designed with different sessions including Urban Lab Session, Urban Thinkers Sessions and Constituent Groups, with each discussion theme guided by the nine principals of the ‘city we need’. The deliberations from these sessions were brought to The City We Need debates on both days. i.
The City We Need is socially inclusive
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The City We Need is well planned
iii. The City We Need is a regenerative city iv. The City We Need is economically vibrant and inclusive v.
The City We Need has a singular identity and sense of place
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vi. The City We Need is a safe city
viii. The City We Need is affordable and equitable
vii. The City We Need is a healthy city
ix. The City We Need is managed at the metropolitan level
Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Existing 9 principals
Recommendations to principals
The City We Need is socially inclusive
Women, children and youth and marginalized communities need to be involved in designing and implementation process for overall development.
The City We Need is well planned
Urban planning needs to make space for the homeless, the disabled, and the informal sector. The city needs to be planned in a manner that is inclusive. Lighting, roads and safety and sanitation services must be available to people to access.
The City We Need is a regenerative city
Waste management and water management, waste disposal etc. can be planned for energy generation. The city should encourage ways to sustain itself.
The City We Need is economically vibrant and inclusive
Employment and empowerment are cornerstones of a well-planned healthy safe city. People need to be equipped to afford services and systems.
The City We Need has a singular identity and sense of place
This is a feeling that the city belongs to everyone who lives in it. And therefore everyone needs to take responsibility for it.
The City We Need is a safe city
Safety is at the heart of cities. Women, children, elderly, disabled, and men need to feel safe at an individual level and at the legal, economic and implementation levels.
The City We Need is a healthy city
Cities need to have access to health services. The health of a city is also denoted by its air quality and water quality and its waste disposal processes.
The City We Need is affordable and equitable
Services and systems need to be accessible to all
The City We Need is managed at the metropolitan level
Local governance is extremely important, they must be empowered, financially as well but interaction between people and government is crucial for success.
Key outcomes India is urbanizing at a fast pace with growing cities and associated problems. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) give clear direction to focus on urban poverty and urban planning issues including integration of the informal sector, slum redevelopment, youth employment, empowerment and participation of women, and need for proper sanitation, housing and water. The issues that came up strongly for The City We Need were land; resources; technology and community involvement. In the realm of sanitation specifically, the outcomes pointed out to the need for water; waste management; availability and accessibility to toilets and sustainability and maintenance of toilets. The role of micro finance institutions and other lending organizations were identified in reaching out to larger number of EWS and LIG families. The private sector and corporate social responsibility can speed up the process to total coverage through required resources. While budgetary
allocations need to be adequate and gender responsive budgeting is crucial to mainstream gender in urban governance. In fact, infrastructure and urban planning and design in cities need to be women and child friendly. Adequate attention should be given to people with disability with implementation of barrier free environment. The urban design and plan should consider and create space for shelter homes for the homeless and we could perhaps consider the concept of a forum for housing rights. Keeping the focus on inclusiveness of the marginalized especially women, children and vulnerable groups and making cities safe while we think of smart cities we also need adequate and accurate data for effective analysis, designing, planning and implementation. It was offered that the use of technology can help make our cities smarter and safer. And above all, it is important to strengthen governance at all levels.
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Key recommendations The recommendations from the UTC, New Delhi are as follows: • Waste Management: Solid and liquid waste management and proper waste disposal (including faecal sludge management) is one of the main concern areas within the ambit of total sanitation. Waste segregation (at source) needs to be promoted through sensitization and awareness. • Waste Water Management: Water is an essential resource which is increasingly becoming scarce or difficult to make available, even for basic needs, for all. The use of technology in rain water harvesting, integrating waste water management with issues of climate change and grey water treatment are proposed solutions.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
11 Feb 2016
“For the #urban #poor #housing & #livelihood are not separate” Banashree Banerjee Council Member IFHP https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698014900505808897
• Financing of sanitation related services: There should be adequate resources made available with the institution responsible for delivering adequate sanitation facilities, maintenance, waste water management and solid waste management in the cities. • Capacity building: It is important to build social capacity to address the growing needs of the city, and this can be done through NGOs and private companies. In fact, capacity building programmes for urban local bodies can help address key constraints in sustainable development. • Better governance and systems: A common vision of a safe city at the municipal level must include single window systems and coordination between various institutions of service delivery. In addition synergies across the schemes and delivery institutions are required for effective implementation and strengthening of city-wide sanitation systems. Urban local bodies should introduce participatory planning and budgeting (and gender budgeting) for a better city. Perhaps even introduce performance ratings for the public service bodies and establish financial sustainability of municipalities.
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Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
10 Feb 2016
“When you influence one child, the child will influence five others” - Rajan Samuel MD #HabitatforHumanityIndia https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/697651661179715584
• Infrastructure up gradation and modification: Urban planning must ensure adequate infrastructure for women, children, and disabled. • Recognize informal sector: This can be done by providing capacity and autonomy towards strengthening the informal sector including women’s work, address the grey areas segregating formal and informal and accept and recognize informal sector in urban areas. • Technology: Encourage new technology in design, introduce and encourage new technology and science to deal with the problems, accept IT monistic monitoring solutions to increase efficiency and adopt energy efficient means. • Policies: We need policies and projects to cover access to water, sanitation and land and new social interventions need to build on social capital including land tenure for people. A consistent urban policy for
• Inclusive and Participatory designing, planning, and implementation: Engage people to introduce ingenious ideas and find solutions. Women’s representation in decision making and planning processes is critical. Planning also requires that the resettlement of communities takes place without disturbing the livelihood of the people. Another solution is to enable pressure group formation to monitor the community sanitation services.
urban India could bridge this gap. In addition, gender mainstreaming in policy making processes is important to ensure women’s concerns are addressed and women can participate equally in the development process.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
12 Feb 2016
Principles of the city we need can’t be gender neutral but have to be gender specific. Anju Pandey #UrbanThinkers https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698111214321139713
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Key actors
Outstanding issues
The key actors were identified as municipal corporation in cities/government, urban planners, budgetary experts to be involved at planning and implementation levels; the police to accept accountability to provide security; community needs to be involved at all levels of social inclusion, microcredit, finance and insurance need to provide the funds needed to meet the demands of the people vis-a-vis sanitation; women and children be involved in designing, planning and implementation as well and be change agents; NGOs/Institutions should create synergies and encourage partnerships and data management and bring people and governments to engage and spread awareness and sensitization; Private companies/CSR could provide the required gap funding and resources while Researchers and academicians can ensure that innovations and research are cost effective and help to expand outreach. They need to work in context with people focusing more on generating sex disaggregated data for informing policies.
The UTC on safety and sanitation covered a myriad of themes and discussion points. It generated recommendations based on data management, use of technology, good governance, people’s participation, rights and responsibilities and effective technical solutions. Broader discussion also identified socialization processes, working with children to impact society and addressing issues stemming from patriarchy and class and caste divisiveness to impact The City We Need debates.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
10 Feb 2016
In order to be smart, we need to be healthy. Only a healthy city will be a #smartcity & we arent empowered to be smart #UrbanThinkers Campus https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/697667553439588352
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Urban solutions • Convergence and coordination between the delivery agencies: Our aim should be to bring about collaborative effort to create an environment where services are available to all equally. Perhaps what will help are laws to ensure no disparity in the availability of services. Today, sanitation is mostly limited to building infrastructure; however, our main job starts after infrastructure which is by monitoring and maintaining the system.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
12 Feb 2016
“Whenever a state is planned women #safety is never a part of the planning process.” - Mala Bhandari #UrbanThinkers https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698076034122448896
• Data based implementation. Adequate data and research helps in reaching the beneficiaries and ensuring safe cities. Collaboration between local bodies should ensure sharing and validation of data. Good quality data helps in gauging needs and accessing deliverables. • Involvement of community based organizations (CBOs) and community collaboration are effective tools in ensuring ownership and quality. Citizens must claim their city which can be achieved through behavior change. Citizen forums are necessary as the government does not have the ability to foresee problems faced by all groups. • People Public-private partnerships: In addition to the community, engaging private sector organizations in funding, executing and monitoring ensures timely completion of projects.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
11 Feb 2016
How do we ensure safety for a society? Police of course! - Kalpana Vishwanath (Role of IT to improve urban safety) https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698019313408577537
• Disaster management - Safe cities must have resilience towards facing disasters and a manner of controlling disasters through efficient urban planning. One way of making safer and self-sufficient cities is better opportunity of employment • City specific planning: The level of illumination around the city is an indicator or how safe people feel. And places that are prone to communal violence should be treated as special area or conflict prone area in the urban plan document.
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
11 Feb 2016
“Citizens can now give info through the app #Safetipin saying i don’t feel safe in this area of the city” @SafetipinApp #UrbanThinkers https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698021060751458305
• Safe Cities: Safety in cities requires more CCTVs and distress applications for phones. Other initiatives that can help change mind-sets are feminist counseling centers. Institutions can set up counseling centers or be accessible through Mahila panchayats (women’s local administrative bodies). Also, public awareness campaigns throughout the city through radios, television, local bodies. These measures can give women easy access to formal institutions that provide solutions and are familiar with ground realities. Safety Apps can be used to help people connect and feel safe and prevent violence. The police need to accept these apps and enable people to use these apps.
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Speakers
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
12 Feb 2016
Principles of the city we need can’t be gender neutral but have to be gender specific. Anju Pandey #UrbanThinkers https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/697726377324187648
• Educational advocacy and awareness campaigns: People’s awareness about environmental problems and solutions can be increased through education. However, education on WASH should not only be relegated to the educational spaces but also within families and households. Community-based organization can take the lead. It was also suggested that involving various faith groups to further create awareness in their communities can be efficient and fast way of solving issues of sanitation, hygiene and waste management. In fact WASH needs to replace sanitation; we need to introduce innovative behavior change communication tools.
Rajan Samuel, Habitat for Humanity India Kulwant Singh, UN Habitat Regional Advisor Anju Pandey, UN Women Uday Shankar, Water.org V. Suresh, Municipalika Mr. Pooran Pandey, UN Global Compact Mahesh Nathan, World Vision India Madhu Krishna, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pratima Joshi, Shelter Associates Sai Damodaran, Gramalaya Mukta Naik, Center for Policy Research Ajay Suri, Cities Alliance Sujata Khandekar, CORO Nirmala Buch, Mahila Chetna Manch Abha Bahadur, Centre for Water, Sanitation & Health for Women
Habitat for Humanity @habitatindia
12 Feb 2016
“A major behavioral change has to take place to address issues of #safety & smart cities” - Sonal Jaitley #UNWOMEN https://twitter.com/habitatindia/status/698057406790520832
Geetha Nambisan, Jagori
List of all countries present 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
India Nigeria Sudan Tanzania Uganda United Kingdom
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