Training sessions

These three-hour workshops were designed to impart professional skills to urban practitioners. Each session was limited to 40 participants on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Tuesday, June 20th - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 3/4 Title: How to Improve Participatory Spatial Planning with Visualization Techniques Description: Participants learned in this course about the added value of visualization tools and techniques in Participatory Spatial Planning (PSP). The course was designed to introduce the latest issues on participatory use of spatial information in decision-making and to give practical examples of some of the current possibilities. The course was based on short lectures, open discussion and practical exercise. Featuring Jeroen Verplanke, ITC
Tuesday, June 20th - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 7/8 Title: Towards Inclusive Cities: How to Walk the Talk Description: The course illustrated how tools such as the Urban Governance Index and Participatory Budgeting can help in objectively measuring the quality of urban governance, and improving participation, effectiveness, accountability and equity in cities. Using a mix of powerpoint presentations and interactive group exercises, the course developed participant�s skills in applying different tools to identify governance strengths and weaknesses, as well as defining capacity-building entry-points to address the latter.
Tuesday, June 20th - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 5/6 Title: Design Charettes for Sustainable Community Planning and Development Description: Design charettes are becoming increasingly popular as a way to bring a range of expertise and interests together to collaborate on innovative design solutions that incorporate multiple objectives and interests towards sustainable cities and communities. The training session guided those who would like to host or initiate a design charette process for sustainable community planning, and included examples of Charettes that have been held in Canada.
Wednesday, June 21st - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 3/4 Title: How to Manage Air Quality in your City - Using the UNEP/ UN-HABITAT interactive Air Quality Management CD-ROM Description: Participants learned to follow a logical analysis aimed at reducing urban air pollution. The interactive Urban Air Quality Management Toolbook, adapted to the needs of cities in developing countries, helps urban practitioners gather data, assess the health impacts of air pollution in their city, and devise ways of tackling it.
Wednesday, June 21st - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 5/6 Title: How to “Localise” the Millennium Development Goals - Part 1: Using the UN-HABITAT Guide for local authorities and their partners Description: Using a recently-produced guide entitled Localizing the Millennium Development Goals: A Guide for Municipalities and Local Partners, and based on experience from a number of cities who are implementing a project on localizing the MDGs, the training took participants through a four-step process to translate the global goals at the local level.
Wednesday, June 21st - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 7/8 Title: Strengthening Local Governance Description: At this training session, participants were shown how slum dwellers and the urban poor can be helped through partnerships when given a direct say in improving their plight.
Thursday, June 22nd - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 3/4 Title: Upstream: Launching LIFE at the national level Description: The training presented experiences of intervention to construct sustainable cities, poverty reduction and peace through social inclusion and partnership among private-public sectors, NGOs and CBOs. Key topics included the crucial role of the different actors in the construction of sustainable cities; poverty reduction and peace; the micro-macro linkages in those processes; and how to do a real impact on the lives of the poor by bringing them to the decision making process.
Thursday, June 22nd - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 5/6 Title: How to Conduct Project Prioritization and Evaluation for Improved Decision Making and Consensus Building Description: Participants learned skills in evaluation and prioritization. Specifically, they learned how to structure a planning or decision problem, the benefits of and how to distinguish between facts and values, how to incorporate different perspectives in evaluation and prioritization and how these skills help in promoting meaningful stakeholder involvement and better decision-making.
Thursday, June 22nd - 09:00 - 12:00 Location: Pan Pacific - Oceanview 7/8 Title: How to “Localise” the Millennium Development Goals Part 2: How to set up and run a Local Urban Observatory (LUO) to support city planning and management Description: The training session provided practical, step-by-step guidance on how to build and implement an urban monitoring system as an integral part of development strategies, programmes and services. The session presented techniques, measurement tools, analytical methods and reporting procedures to guide partners through the design and implementation process. The training started with basics on how to select relevant indicators; then showed how to collect and organize data and maintain data bases. The session also demonstrated the potential uses of urban data for decision-making based on the application of different software.