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Title Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 13:30 - 15:30 Room MR14 Event Description The focus of this session is on public participation in planning and land management and how planning professionals can contribute to this topic. The selected themes of the discussion include: an interdisciplinary approach in planning; the role of citizens in planning processes; how to support indigenous groups and minorities in the planning process; the means of empowering civic engagement; and how public engagement promotes sustainable society. Session Language English Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Dr.-Ing. Irene Wiese - von Ofen, Past President of the International Federation for Housing and Plan Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Reichenbach-Klinke; Faculty of Architecture, TU München, Germany Prof. James R. Taylor, Vice President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Ms. Christine Platt, South African Planning Institution (SAPI), South Africa Mr. Selman Ergüden, UN-Habitat, Chief, Housing Policy & Development Section, UN-Habitat Facilitator: Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Magel, President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization Habitat Professionals Forum Host Organization Description The Habitat Professionals Forum has been established and put on the road as a repetitive phenomenon under the auspices of UN-HABITAT on the initiative of International Society of City and Regional Planners, IsoCaRP, International Federation of Housing and Planning, IFHP, International Union of Architects UIA , International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development CASSAD and Arabian Urban Development Institute AUDI. The Forum was organized under the auspices of UN-HABITAT with the enthusiastic support of Dr. Klaus Töpfer, then Ag. Executive Director of UN-HABITAT and presently United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi and is now supported by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the new Executive Director of UN-HABITAT. Goals and objectives: The forum is explicitly aimed at interchange between professionals in the field and the government of the UN-HABITAT. It organises a direct orientation of the Forum towards the UN work. It monitors the implementation of the Habitat Agenda. Professionals from different countries, working directly for the improvement of urban living conditions, and influencing decision making in their home situations, will be able to learn from each other here, support each other and be given a common reference, to strengthen their position. It should help the Habitat Agenda to follow the spontaneous and autonomous dynamics in our societies through time and contribute to making it really a living instrument for progress. Website (Organizer and partners) www.habitatforum.org www.fig.net www.ifhp.org www.iflaonline.org www.uia-architectes.org www.saplanners.org.za

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