Theme: Rural-Urban Connectivity in Integrated Regional Development ~ Implications towards Livelihood Security and Poverty Alleviation

Venue
Conference Room B, United Nations Headquarters, New York

Organizers
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)- Division for Sustainable Development (DSD)/UN DESA
Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP)
GIZ/BMZ

Supporting Partners
Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)

The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, provides for the full and effective participation of all States Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies. The meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2017 convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, will be held from Monday, 10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017; including the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017.

UNCRD-UN DESA Side Event at 2017 High-Level Political Forum, 14 July 2017 at Conference Room B, United Nations Headquarters under overall theme of "Rural-Urban Connectivity in Integrated Regional Development ~ Implications towards Livelihood Security and Poverty Alleviation" will contribute to the theme of this year's HLPF by focusing on policies and tools that are found effective in promoting eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity, such as Integrated Regional Development Planning (IRDP), the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning, national urban policies, strengthening policies and capacity to address regional disparities, territorial approach to food security and nutrition, rural-urban linkages and partnerships, city region approaches to food systems, and promoting rural transport, etc.

2017 High-Level Political Forum Official Website
Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST)
Regional EST Forum

Documents

• Summary of UNCRD-DSD/UN DESA Side Event at 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Presentations and Speeches

• Presentation 1: ReCAP: Role of rural transport and accessibility for poverty eradication and livelihood security
• Presentation 2: Lao PDR: Connecting rural regions - the Vientiane Declaration on Sustainable Rural Transport (2017) and sustainable regional development
• Presentation 2: SLoCaT: Connecting rural regions - the Vientiane Declaration on Sustainable Rural Transport (2017) and sustainable regional development
• Presentation 3: UNCRD: Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) in the context of inclusive development
• Presentation 4: OECD: A territorial approach to promote urban-rural partnership
• Presentation 5: FAO: Improved rural-urban linkages towards regional food systems and security
• Presentation 6: UN-Habitat: . Improved urban-rural linkages for poverty eradication - experiences from small and intermediate towns
• Presentation 7: IFAD: Inclusive economic development and investments, market creation, infrastructure development and sustainable financing mechanisms for rural areas and the role of rural-urban connectivity
• Presentation 8: GIZ-BMZ: Bridging the urban-rural divide - How to integrate spaces, sectors and actors for inclusive and sustainable territorial development?

Programme

• Concept Note& Provisional Programme-UNCRD Side Event at 2017 HLPF