Outcomes of Habitat III - Joaquim Oliveira Martins, OECD

1. OUTCOMES OF HABITAT III
WATER IN THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
8th WGI Meeting, 12 – 13 January 2017
Joaquim Oliveira-Martins
Head, OECD Regional Development Policy Division

2. Habitat III (17-20 October 2016, Quito)
• Once every 20 years to improve the quality of human settlements & urbanisation
• 50 000 participants, mostly from subnational governments
OECD contribution to the Process & Event :
• Participating in 40+ sessions
• Promoting National Urban Policies (NUP)
• Promoting good urban governance
• Developing subnational finance and organisational
knowledge
• Advancing global agendas such as SDGs
• Promoting water as a driver for growth and
sustainable development in cities

3. OECD participation in water sessions
Urban Infrastructure and Basic
Services, including energy (17 Oct)
Integrating water in city planning
for sustainable development,
resilience and increased liveability
(18 Oct)
Transition towards Sustainable
Delta Cities
(19 Oct)

4. The New Urban Agenda
Water governance is embedded within the NUA, giving impetus to take actions related to
urban water management and services
“Strengthen coordination with governments and public entities in service provision.
Ensure coherence of … sectorial polices in urban basic services (water, sanitation,
energy, mobility)”
“Ensure coherence of … sectorial polices urban basic services (water, sanitation,
energy, mobility)”
New approaches in the NUA :
• Urbanisation as transformational opportunity and driver of sustainable urban
development rather than a problem that needs to be solved
• Integrated strategic approaches as a foundation for sectoral solutions, rather than
focusing on siloed, sector-specific solutions
• Multi-level governance, multi-scale, functional rather than administrative territory,
multi-stakeholder process from scoping to implementation
• National urban policies as framework enabling coordinated finance from variety of
sources: sovereign, sub-sovereign, IFI, ODA and private finance
• Data and statistical analysis capacities as a crucial prerequisite for efficient and
effective implementation

5. Next steps
• Quito Implementation Plan for the New Urban Agenda:
• Launch of the National Urban Policy Programme
• 2nd International Conference on National Urban Policy (15-18
May 2017, Paris), hosted by OECD, UN-Habitat and the City Alliance
Follow-up on water:
• Implementation of global framework: co-ordinate
SDG 6 (Water) as a means to achieve SDG 11 (Sustainable
cities)
• Link with on-going initiatives: build synergies with
the Urban Waters Hub

6. THANK YOU
For more information:
www.oecd.org/gov/habitat-3-and-a-new-urban-agenda