EAROPH Australia is hosting a workshop at which people from the Torres Strait Islander and Salt Water and Rainforest Aboriginal communities and Pacific Islanders, who are finding ways to combat climate change and fighting for their rights, will draft a Climate JustUs Charter for First Nations Peoples. This Charter will be a key input and …
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In 2022, I\Jane focused a lot on climate change, and presented on the Loss and Damages issue to the World Urban Forum in June. She finalised strategies for UN Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Program in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, and progressed her thinking on the informal economy and how it links …
Author: Dr Jane Stanley It is expected that loss and damages compensation will be a focus of discussion at COP27 in November 2022, particularly addressing the needs of small island developing states. It would be helpful if simple and practicable options could be developed and put forward for consideration and decision. The COP should then …
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Dr Jane Stanley also worked with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) on an European Union (EU) funded program for training local government in Small Island Developing States. In 2019 we delivered training in person within Kiribati and the Cook Islands. The third target country was the Marshall Islands, but the COVID-19 emergency made a …
Kieren McGovern has been coordinating a UNDP-ADB Asia Pacific project that formulates Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) national implementation snapshots for country programming. See the Indonesia Snapshot, https://sdgsnapshot.org/indonesia Once COVID hit he worked on the UN response grants and the Asia Pacific UNDP led socio-economic impact assessments that now number 22. To end the year he …
Dr Jane Stanley is a speaker at this morning’s webinar hosted by the Pacific Partnerships – New Urban Agenda. You can join using this link. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84836602923 Jane is sharing her experience on the role of Local and National Government for the informal Sector in the Pacific.
The future is not the past. While many tools and people from the pre-COVID-19 days will engage in the post COVID-19 reconstruction, we all need to be conscious that we are building a new world. Some thoughts as we ponder: Do we reinstate environmentally damaging practices? For what purpose? Is there a thoughtful and agreed …
Kerry McGovern will be attending the Australian SDG Summit in Melbourne on 13 March. Australia has made a slow start to implementing the Global Goals it signed up to in 2015. In July this year, the Australian Government will deliver its initial report to the High Level Political Forum at the United Nations: The set …
The NUAConference was held in Melbourne on 4th and 5th May. Kerry McGovern and Penny Burns copresented a session to get us all focused on how we are going to implement the New Urban Agenda in Australia. The conference was refreshing with good discussion about a topic new to most of those attending. Architects, planners, …
Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October, 2016. EAROPH has been asked to provide input to the Expert Group Meeting on Women and the New Urban Agenda. UN Habitat is seeking women’s perspective on urbanization. Women hold up half …
