Side EventS

Monday, June 19th - 14:00 - 17:00
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom C

Title: North American Gateways - Canada-US West Coast Linkages, Goods Movement and Sustainable Development
Description: This forum focused on goods movement within gateway regions. Strategies to deal with the swelling volume of trade require "Smart Growth for Freight" to preserve quality of life in gateways even as they support efficient transportation and sustainable freight strategies among North Americaï¿½s West Coast Gateways and also with our counterparts in Asian gateway regions. The forum also addressed the US-based Coalition's relationship with B.C., Yukon and Western Provinces. Interest in closer ties was stimulated by proposals for an ALCAN freight railway and Alaska gas pipeline, as well as mineral resource development in the Canadian Northwest sought by China and other Asian nations. WCCC connections with BC and Yukon are of interest to the Coalition as essential to the geographic continuity of joint efforts on transportation issues along the entire West Coast of North America. For more information contact: Paul Daniell, WCCC-WUF3 event coordinator Email: [email protected] Telephone: (604) 760.1951

Monday, June 19th - 16:00 - 17:00
Location: VCEC - Exhibit Hall B&C;

Title: Image-in the MDGs - The Millennium Development Goals. A Promise to the Youth of Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya photo exhibition and book lauch with musicians from Mathare Nairobi slum, Kenya
Description: Image-in the MDGs was a tale of true stories on one of Africa's most deprived slums. With cameras in hands, ten young boys and girls become witnesses and advocates of their own conditions. They describe their realities with an unusual acuity and an exceptional sincerity. Their collection of photos and stories around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute a real documentary, but also the key ingredients to voice out real issues and start addressing problems that sometimes go beyond words. This project was part of UN-HABITATï¿½s long-term commitment to empower the youth living in the slums. It was also a part of the Mathare Youth Sport Associationï¿½s goal to link development, sport, environmental activisms and art to positively transform the lives of boys and girls. Behind the faces and eyes, behind the walls and doors lie incredible testimonies, calls and cries of despairs, but also a formidable energy that cannot be ignored to build the future of African cities. The project was sponsored by the Government of Norway and Fujifilm Kenya.

Monday, June 19th - 18:30 - 20:00
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Segal Room (515 W. Hastings St. @ Seymour St.)

Title: Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory Report Launch - Counting on Vancouver: Our view of the region.
Description: Counting on Vancouver: Our view of the region was the inaugural report of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory (RVu), the first local member of the UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory network to be established in the developed world. The report connects the most pressing local urban trends to global sustainable development issues and to the challenge of localizing the Millennium Development Goals. The report was the result of a year and a half of work throughout the Vancouver region and with global partners in the GUO network. Remarks to launch this inaugural report were offered by Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Chief, UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory; Anthony Perl, Director, Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Programme; and Nancy Henderson, Executive Director, Social Planning Research Council of British Columbia.

Monday, June 19th - 18:30 - 22:00
Location: Waterfront - Mackenzie Ballroom

Title: WUF3- Youth Delegate Reception: Celebrating youth as leaders of Today and Tomorrow
Description: This reception was open to all delegates of WUF3. The focus of the reception was to celebrate youth as current and future leaders of our cities. Entertainment and insight was provided by international performers, such as Gidigidi from Nairobi, Kenya, and international youth representatives.

Tuesday, June 20th - 07:30 - 08:45
Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 2

Title: One small step for cities, one giant leap for the planet: Practical solutions for cities stepping towards a lighter footprint
Description: This event set out practical ways that cities around the world are reducing their ecological impact. Speakers including University of British Columbia Professor William Rees (founder of the Ecological Footprint approach) shared stories of progress and approaches for working towards sustainable production and consumption patterns. Partners: One Planet Institute and University of British Columbia

Tuesday, June 20th - 08:00 - 17:00
Location: VCEC - Exterior Entrance

Title: Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver Builds a House at Canada Place as part of “Operation Home Delivery”
Description: Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver built a house on Tuesday, June 20th to demonstrate Operation Home Delivery (OHD) as part of the World Urban Forum, taking place at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre. OHD is a three-phase response programme created to provide assistance and rebuilding opportunities in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Vancouverites watched the house being built in a single day by volunteers at the Plaza at Canada Place from 8:00 a.m. to completion.

Tuesday, June 20th - 10:00 - 12:00
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom A

Title: Envision-The-Future with MetroQuest
Description: Can you envision a sustainable city? This fun and unique theatre event brought colleagues together to collaborate on a forty-year vision for a sustainable future using the award-winning MetroQuest software. Make some noise for sustainability! Using a hootï¿½n holler applause meter connected to MetroQuest, participants voted on policies and preferences to create a clean and prosperous future. What kind of city do you envision? How much will it cost? What are the environmental impacts? These and other key tradeoffs were explored using engaging images, maps and other visualizations. Participants chose policies in areas such as land use, housing, transportation, environmental programmes and more. MetroQuest instantly projected the 40-year consequences of their decisions on the big screen.

Tuesday, June 20th - 12:00 - 13:30
Location: VCEC - MR 08

Title: Food for Cities
Description: The side event presented a 30-minute DVD entitled Food for Cities, followed by a discussion with interested participants. Group: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Tuesday, June 20th - 13:00 - 15:00
Location: N/A

Title: On the Street Off the Street
Description: This informal meeting was an opportunity to meet the organizations that provide support for women and youth in the sex industry and discuss how the safety and security of women and youth at risk of exploitation is a critical urban issue. SWAN, WISH, PACE, PEERS Vancouver, the Vancouver Agreement, MOMIC-Chile, and Vision Sisters Working Sisters Interfaith Women -Nairobi facilitated the opportunity for WUF participants to share information and foster dialogue about their ongoing work and accomplishments. Location: 323,119 W Pender Street, Vancouver

Tuesday, June 20th - 13:30 - 15:30
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom A

Title: Envision-The-Future with MetroQuest
Description: Can you envision a sustainable city? This fun and unique theatre event brought colleagues together to collaborate on a forty-year vision for a sustainable future using the award-winning MetroQuest software. Make some noise for sustainability! Using a hootï¿½n holler applause meter connected to MetroQuest, participants voted on policies and preferences to create a clean and prosperous future. What kind of city do you envision? How much will it cost? What are the environmental impacts? These and other key tradeoffs were explored using engaging images, maps and other visualizations. Participants chose policies in areas such as land use, housing, transportation, environmental programmes and more. MetroQuest instantly projected the 40-year consequences of their decisions on the big screen.

Tuesday, June 20th - 16:30 - 18:30
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom A

Title: Envision-The-Future with MetroQuest
Description: Can you envision a sustainable city? This fun and unique theatre event brought colleagues together to collaborate on a forty-year vision for a sustainable future using the award-winning MetroQuest software. Make some noise for sustainability! Using a hoot'n holler applause meter connected to MetroQuest, participants voted on policies and preferences to create a clean and prosperous future. What kind of city do you envision? How much will it cost? What are the environmental impacts? These and other key tradeoffs were explored using engaging images, maps and other visualizations. Participants chose policies in areas such as land use, housing, transportation, environmental programmes and more. MetroQuest instantly projected the 40-year consequences of their decisions on the big screen.

Tuesday, June 20th - 18:00 - 20:00
Location: VCEC - Ballroom A

Title: Fighting Urban Poverty: Which Participatory Approaches?
Description: As part of follow-up activities to the 2005 World Summit and its endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, the Italian Development Cooperation intended to give greater impulse and effectiveness to its international efforts in fighting urban poverty. The elaboration of a strategy to guide and accompany this effort was conducted in cooperation with the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). One of the premises of this strategy is that public participation is essential in any sustainable approach to urban poverty reduction. But the question is: what kind of participation?

Tuesday, June 20th - 18:30 - 20:00
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom C & Foyer

Title: Womenâ€™s Reception: Celebrating Grassroots Women Leaders & Partnersâ€™ 30 Years of Building Sustainable Communities
Description: The Huairou Commission aims to foster relationship building and lasting partnerships. This reception provided an opportunity to relate one on one, establish personal connections and have frank exchange of information and opinions. Opening remarks began with a celebration of the contribution grassroots women's groups have made to improving the quality of life in urban settlements, followed by appreciations for women allies in local governments, policy, programmeming and donor agencies, research, and NGOs who have increased the decision making and resource base of grassroots women's groups. A brief summary of the Women and World Urban Forum 3 and the Huairou Commissionï¿½s strategic objectives and programme at WUF3 were given. Entertainment consisted of local women celebrities, singers and dancers including youth and traditional and ï¿½non-traditionalï¿½ performers. Group: HUAIROU Commission/GROOTS Canada

Wednesday, June 21st - 07:00 - 08:30
Location: Pan Pacific - Crystal Pav A, B & C

Title: Inaugural Alumni Breakfast
Description: All HABITAT Alumni (UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, Habitat I in Vancouver (1976), Habitat II in Istanbul (1996)) were invited to an Inaugural Alumni Breakfast to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UN Conference on Human Settlement (UN HABITAT I). The breakfast brought together old friends to celebrate the lives and efforts that made the HABITAT events successful, while continuing to look towards the future.

Wednesday, June 21st - 09:30 - 12:00
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1600 (515 W. Hastings St. @ Seymour St.)

Title: Preview of State of the World 2007: An Urban Planet
Description: The Worldwatch Institute invited WUF3 participants to preview State of the World 2007: An Urban Planet. This book asks the question: On a planet where cities house a growing share of the human population, including some of the very poorest, what is needed to foster a socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and economically vibrant urban future? Participants joined the authors in discussing early versions of their chapters. Speakers: David Satterthwaite, Janice Perlman, Peter Newman, Rasna Warah,Kalpana Sharma, Mark Roseland, Kai Lee, Molly O'Meara Sheehan, Zoe Chafe Location: Room: 515 West Hastings St., Room 1600 Partners: Worldwatch Institute
Speakers: David Satterthwaite, Janice Perlman, Peter Newman, Rasna Warah,Kalpana Sharma, Mark Roseland, Kai Lee, Molly O'Meara Sheehan, Zoe Chafe Location: Room: 515 West Hastings St., Room 1600 (Walk across Waterfront Rd.; South on Howe St. for 2 blocks; Left on W. Hastings) Partners: Worldwatch Institute

Wednesday, June 21st - 12:30 - 13:30
Location: VCEC - MR 15

Title: Innovative Urban Infrastructure Financing
Description: There will never be enough donor money available to meet the growing infrastructure needs of cities in developing countries. Therefore, cities in developing countries must be able to borrow capital from the private sector. This event featured practitioners who described how this was accomplished in some select developing country cities and how it could be replicated elsewhere. Group: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Wednesday, June 21st - 18:30 - 19:30
Location: VCEC - MR 13

Title: Book Launch: publication on the Right to Land Project of the Fundação Bento Rubião
Description: Book Launch: Publication on the Right to Land Project of the Fundação Bento Rubião, finalist in the World Habitat Awards 2005 Competition Presentation on Land Tenure Issues in Brazil: The Experience of the National Government and a Brazilian NGO. Host Group: Fundação Bento Rubião (Brazil) & Building and Social Housing Foundation (UK)

Wednesday, June 21st - 20:00 - 22:00
Location: Waterfront - Mackenzie

Title: Africities 4 Summit in Nairobi
Description: This event presented the Africities Summit with its theme, "Building Local Coalitions for the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in African Local Governments", and used the occasion to sensitize delegates attending WUF3 to participate in the Summit. The main speakers at the event were the Kenyian Minister for Local Government, the Mayor for the City of Nairobi, and the Chairman of the Association of Local Government in Kenya.

Thursday, June 22nd - 12:30 - 13:30
Location: VCEC - MR 16

Title: Policymakers and Stakeholder side event on “Innovative Policies for the Urban Informal Economy” / Launch report
Description: Policymakers and Stakeholder side event on “Innovative Policies for the Urban Informal Economy” / Launch report Group: UN-HABITAT / WIEGO (Women In Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing)

Thursday, June 22nd - 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel - Cheakamus Room

Title: Asia's Role to Improve Sustainable Urbanization Roundtable
Description: Organized by: Asian Development Bank

Thursday, June 22nd - 15:30 - 16:30
Location: Waterfront - Ballroom B

Title: Launch of the NEPAD Cities Report
Description: NEPAD Cities Programme is a major component of UN-HABITATï¿½s efforts to address directly the NEPAD objectives. It was formulated as a means of achieving a quick-win for the NEPAD and ground its ideals to the community level through the municipalities and urban centres. Within the interagency consultations coordinated by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), NCP was adopted as a product of cluster 4 with UN-HABITAT as the lead agency. As UN-HABITAT has now engaged in Phase II of this Programme, the Report of Phase I was launched by the Executive Director and the NEPAD Cities Partners.

Thursday, June 22nd - 18:30 - 22:30
Location: VCEC - MR 01

Title: The Cultural and Commercial Revitalization of historic Maillardville
Description: Maillardville is the first and only francophone settlement in B.C. The legacy of the pioneers can still be found on the streets of Maillardville, with approximately 13% of its residents speaking french as their mother tongue. The event included dialogue on revitalization efforts, and how an urban neighbourhood in the initial stages of decline can realize a collective vision for the neighbourhood. A unique community engagement model was piloted in this neighbourhood, which included all levels of government, businesses, francophone and cultural groups and residents to revitalize Maillardville through grass roots community efforts.