Un-Habitat Office in Spain Madrid

UN-HABITAT OFFICE IN SPAIN MADRID

ANNUAL REPORT 2017 UN-HABITAT OFFICE IN SPAIN

ROLE AND MISSION

UN-Habitat in Spain is composed of a Liason Office Based on the foregoing, this Office: in Madrid and two Programme Offices in Barcelona: the GWOPA1 Secretariat (Global Water Operator »Promotes and keeps institutional representation Partnerships Alliances) and the CRPP2 Office (City and liaison with the Spanish partners and other New Resilience Profiling Programme). The objective of the Urban Agenda partners in Spain. Office in Madrid is to act as a liaison with the Spanish government and the New Urban Agenda partners in »Fosters knowledge, advocacy and visibility of the Spain. This Office also adds value to UN-Habitat’s work New Urban Agenda and UN-Habitat priority areas. in knowledge fostering strategy in selected areas of Strengthens existing strategic partnerships, promotes collaboration. new collaboration agreements, and supports fundraising and resource mobilization efforts. The Madrid Office supports the monitoring of all initiatives supported by Spanish partners and the »Supports the design, implementation and follow-up implementation of UN-Habitat’s mandate through of initiatives and projects funded by Spanish partners. knowledge management, sharing of information, strategic partnerships, effective communication, resource allocation, technical activities, and promotion of policy dialogues on sustainable urban development.

1 www.gwopa.org 2 www.crpp.org

STRATEGIC AREAS

Fully aligned with the UN-Habitat Strategic Plan 2014-2019 and its thematic areas, the UN-Habitat Office in Spain reinforces awareness and knowledge sharing on the relevance and coherence of UN-Habitat’s mandate, along with its expertise and efficiency in project implementation and execution by:

1. Strengthening liaisons and institutional relations with the Spanish Government and other New Urban Agenda´s partners in Spain;

2. Implementing and supporting UN-Habitat operational technical activities;

3. Doing an effective communication, advocacy and promotion of the New Urban Agenda in Spain;

4. Promoting strategic partnerships and resource mobilization.

Left: SDGs and the New Urban Agenda: Together in Action. Center: Implementing the New Urban Agenda in Spain. Right: New Realities, New Solutions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda

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LIAISON & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS WITH THE SPANISH 1GOVERNMENT AND HABITAT AGENDA PARTNERS REPRESENTATION, INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS AND ESTABLISHMENT IN SPAIN

» Follow up on technical and institutional activities » Fiscal, legal and administrative management of arising from Agreements between UN-Habitat and processes related to the establishment of UN-Habi- the Spanish partners, as well as on projects currently tat Office in Spain and liaison with UN-Habitat Head- under execution and/or justification. quarters5.

» Organization and follow up of meetings with Spa- » Representation of UN-Habitat in institutional events nish Liaison Ministries3. held by Spanish authorities. Support and facilitation of Spanish representation in UN-Habitat events and » Periodic meetings with other Spanish Institutional activities abroad. bodies4. » Organization and coordination of UN-Habitat staff » Follow up on communications and institutional re- missions6 in Spain and support of UN-Habitat staff’s quirements from UN Habitat HQ. participation in other partner events.

» Elaboration, monitoring and updating of UN-Ha- » Representation and communication of activities by bitat Office in Spain documents (annual activities, request from other UN-Habitat country offices and financial reports, update and follow-up of contribu- support of ongoing projects. tions, fact sheets, etc.).

Left: Meeting with Alfonso Dastis (Minister of Foreign Affairs). 19th Dec. Center: Meeting with Ildefonso Castro (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). 26th June. Right: Meeting with Julio Gomez Pomar (Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing at Ministry of Development). 27th June

3 Meetings with Alfonso Dastis, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, 19th December; Ildefonso Castro, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 26th June ; Julio Gómez Pomar, Secretary of State for Infraestructures, Transportation and Housing, Ministry of Development, 27th June. 4 Meetings with: MAEC Steering Committee, 15th February; General Directorate of Architecture, Housing and Land of the Ministry of Deve- lopment, 15th September; Barcelona City Council, 5th January; Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), 1st March; Andalusian Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AACID), 13th March; Seville City Council, 14th March. 5 Preparation and proceedings of annual UN-Habitat staff in Spain calendars, Work Schedules Office, Register of inventories, arising contributions and expenses, legal validation of agreements signed during the year, accounting. Request, update and follow up on UN-Habitat Staff Credentials in Spain (4); request and follow up of fiscal procedures (2 tax exemption processes), and other management procedures of the establishment of UN-Habitat offices in Spain. 6 Dr. Joan Clos: Barcelona, 19-20 January; Madrid, 25-26th January; Barcelona, 3-7th April; Barcelona, 12-13th June; Madrid, 26-27th June and Barcelona, 12-16th November. Kazumi Ogawa, Barcelona, 22-23rd February. Juma Assiago, Madrid, 19-21st April. Robert Lewis-Lettin- gton. Madrid, 10-12th July. Paulius Kulikauskas, Madrid, 14-16th September and Barcelona 12-17th November. Eduardo Moreno, Madrid, 19-23th November and Seville, 23-24th November.

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Left:I Global Forum of Local Gov. 22-24th Nov. Center: Annual ORU-Fogar General Assembly, 27-28th Nov. Right: The Spanish New Urban Agenda, 30th Nov.

UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM GROUP IN SPAIN

» Regular participation at the UN Working Group in the the participation of Dr. Joan Clos; Fernando García Spain, strengthening coordination mechanisms, joint Casas, State Secretary for International Cooperation work and visibility of UN Habitat in Spain7. and Iberoamerica; Anselmo Menéndez, Deputy Direc- tor General of Policies and Housing Aid, Ministry of » Participation at UN Agencies´ events in Spain8. Development; Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid; Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona; Joan Ribó, Mayor of » Forum on “The Goals of Sustainable Development Valencia and several representatives of the Academy and the New Urban Agenda: Together in Action”. and the Civil Society. The Forum raised a reflection Madrid, 25th January9. on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in relation to the Sustainable Development Objectives Organized by UN-HABITAT with the collaboration of and their localization in urban areas. the United Nations system in Spain. It counted with

Left and Center: SDGs and the NUA: Together in action. Madrid 26th Jan. Right: IV Congress of Childhood Friendly Cities, by UNICEF. Madrid, 13th Sep.

7 UN Working Group Meetings held on 16th January, 1st February, 13th March, 21st July and 9th October. 8 ∙ Inauguration of the International Year for Sustainable Tourism organized by World Tourism Organization at International Tourism Fair (FITUR). Madrid, 18th January. ∙ Annual Reception of his Highness Felipe VI, King of Spain, to the Foreign Inst. Bodies and members of UN System in Spain, Madrid, 26th Jan. ∙ Presentation of the “Humanitarian Aviation Stamp” by World Food Programme (WFP) at Ministry of Development, Madrid, 22nd March. ∙ Presentation of the “Human Development Report” (HDR) 2016 organized by UNDP at Casa de América. Madrid, 24th March. ∙ Meeting of the UN-Family with Guy Rider, Executive Director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the following breakfast at New Economy Forum. Madrid, 28th March. ∙ Representation and participation in the XIII meeting of the Security Management Team- Spain, Madrid, 5th April and follow-up on require- ments and periodic information. ∙ “Debate about the situation of the 2030 Agenda in Spain” organized by Global Compact at Caixa Forum. Madrid, 6th April. ∙ Roundtable on “Sustainable Urban Tourism” organized by WTO. Madrid, 10th May. ∙ “IV Congress of Childhood Friendly Cities” organized by Unicef. Madrid, 13th September. ∙ “SDGs Second Aniversary” organized by Global Compact. Madrid, 25th September. ∙ Forum “High Level Pannel: Spain And the Implementation of 2030 Agenda”. Madrid, 28th September. ∙ Support and assistance of UN-Habitat to United Nations Day Celebration. Madrid, 24th October. ∙ Forum “The state of food security and nourishment in the world” organized by FAO. Madrid, 21st November. ∙ Participation at “II Forum for the momentum of 2030 Agenda promoted for UN organisms in Spain. United Nations decade about Nourish- ment (2016-2025) and its implementation in Spain”. Madrid. 4th December. ∙ “International Forum of Human Rights” organized by FAO and Global Compact. Madrid, 11th December. 9 https://vimeo.com/201069298?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=28749

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Left: United Nations Day Celebration. Madrid, 24th October. Center: United Nations Decade about Nourishment (2016-2025) and its implementation in Spain, by FAO. Madrid, 4th December. Right: IV Congress of Childhood Friendly Cities, by UNICEF. Madrid, 13th Sep. IMPLEMENTATION OF AND SUPPORT TO OPERATIONAL 2TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES PROJECT “PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A NEW URBAN AGENDA”10 Forum aimed at offering new perspectives, contents » EGM “Planning Compact Cities: Exploring the possibilities and limits of densification”11 . Se- and proposals to establish the change model towards ville, 13- 14th March. sustainable urban development, placing people at the center of development. It included discussions on With the support of the Andalusian Agency of Inter- “Challenges of gender equality in cities”, “Crisis, risk national Cooperation for Development (AACID), on and urban resilience”, “Collaborative, inclusive and 13 and 14th March 2017, 22 experts in urban devel- participative cities”, “Public space, gentrification and opment from 18 countries from governments, inter- peripheral centralities”, “Urban planning for urban national organizations, and academia gathered in health”- among others. A field visit was also orga- Seville to discuss approaches to the management of nized to the Madrid Southeast Developments with urban transformation through densification. Jan Gehl, UN-Habitat and several representatives of Communiqué and final report of the EGM available. the Urban Sustainable Development Government Area of Madrid City Council14. » “World Forum on Urban Violence”. Madrid, 19-21st April12. Other technical activities

With the New Urban Agenda as one of the bench- » Follow-up of Spanish Agency of International Co- mark documents, UN-HABITAT was member of the operation and Development (AECID) contributions Forum Organizing Committee, supported the partici- and other collaboration agreements in force. pation of experts from Korea, Ivory Coast, France, and South Africa, as part of the Safer Cities Programme, » Support to “Transparent and Open Cities” orga- participated as speaker in one of the plenary sessions, nized by Uraia and FEMP (Spanish Federation of Cit- moderated a debate table about public space and or- ies and Regions). Madrid, 8-10th February. ganized the workshop “Urban Security: Towards urban laboratories for inclusion, social integration and coexistence in our cities”.

» International Forum “New Realities, New Solu- tions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda”. Madrid, 29 -30th June 201713.

Jointly organized with the Madrid City Council, this Transparent and Open Cities, Madrid, 8-10th Feb. 10 Project J094, implemented with the collaboration of Andalusian Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AACID) and Ma- drid City Council. 11 https://unhabitat.org/un-habitat-hosts-global-meeting-on-planning-compact-cities/ 12 http://www.ciudadesdepaz.com/ 13 https://nuevassolucionesurbanas.org/#nuevas-soluciones-urbanas 14 Final Report at https://nuevassolucionesurbanas.org/pdf/Inf_final_NuevReal_Print.pdf

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EGM Planning Compact Cities, Seville13-14th March.

World Forum on Urban Violence, Madrid, 19-21st April

New Realities, New Solutions: Implementing the NUA, Madrid, 29-30th June

“I Global Forum on Local Governments”. Seville City Ministry of Development and European Urban Council. Seville, 23rd November. (CSM) Knowledge Network. Madrid, 30th November. (CSM)

“The implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the “The roadmap of the New Urban Agenda in Spain”. New Urban Agenda of UN-Habitat in Europe”. Policy VI International Engendering Congress. Beyond Lab “Shaping the Spanish Urban Agenda in light of SDG#5: Gender at 2030 Agenda of Sustainable De- other European National Urban Policy Frameworks”. velopment. Madrid, 11th December. (CSM)

EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY AND PROMOTION OF THE 3NEW URBAN AGENDA PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW URBAN AGENDA

Organization of and active participation at: “Towards the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Urban Landscape”. Urban Breakfast at In- “Urbanization at the Mediterranean”. IEMed (Eu- ternational Congress on Urban Landscape. Barcelo- ropean Institute for the Mediterranean). Barcelona, na, 13th June. (ED) 12th June. (ED) Meeting of Dr. Joan Clos with FEMP (Spanish Fede- “The New Urban Agenda. An urban paradigm shift ration of Cities and Regions) Territorial Council to for XXI century” Opening of International Congress promote the adoption of The New Urban Agenda by on Urban Landscape. Barcelona, 12th June. (ED) spanish cities. Madrid, 27th June.

“Urbanization at the Mediterranean”. IEMed (Euro- “Thinking Urban: cities for the people at the center pean Institute for the Mediterranian). Barcelona, 12th of the New Urban Agenda”. Conference of Jan Gehl June. (ED) at COAM (Official College of Madrid Architects). Ma-

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Left: The New Urban Agenda, a compromise for prosperity, at TYPSA 26th January. Center: UN-Habitat and the NUA. Right: Forum on the New Urban Agendas at a Global and European level Madrid 2nd March

drid 29th June15. drid, 21st November. Eduardo Moreno. (EM)

Participation at “Localization of SDGs at the local fra- “Urban Planification: building the path to the SDGs”. mework”. FEMP´s (Spanish Federation of Cities and COAM (Official College of Madrid Architects), Ma- Regions) training forum. Madrid, 4th October. (CSM) drid, 22nd November. (EM)

“Workshop Post H3 and the new urban and me- “Towards a holistic approach to urban resilience”. tropolitan challenges”. AMB, Barcelona Institute of Aquatec, Suez and Cetaqua. Madrid, 22th November. International Studies (IBEI), the World association of (CSM) the major metropoles (Metropolis) and the Euro-Latin American Alliance of Cooperation among Cities (AL- “Golden Experience Award on Sustainability” given LAs). Barcelona, 13th November. Paulius Kulikauskas by Seville City Council to UN-Habitat Spain for its (PK) work in urban sustainability and a better urban future for all. Seville, 22nd November. (CSM) “Rethinking Strategies for Integrated Urban and Re- gional Development”. Smart Cities Expo World Con- “The one thousand faces cities: what we call a city at gress. Barcelona, 14th November. (PK) XXIst century”. ePower&Building Summitt. Madrid, 23rd November. (EM) “Cities for people: how to implement the New Urban Agenda”. Smart Cities Expo World Congress. Barce- “The New Urban Agenda and its implementation lona, 14th November. (PK) process as a development and prosperity tool”. I Glo- bal Forum on Local Governments: Destination Sevi- “Smart Urbanization” at Smart City World Expo lle. Seville, 24th November. (EM) Congress. Barcelona, 14th November. (ED) “International Organisms and Regions, an Alliance to “Barcelona model at the global urbanistic debate”. accomplish Global Goals”. ORU Fogar General As- Barcelona Economy Circle. Barcelona, 14th Novem- sembly. Vitoria, 27th November. (CSM) ber. (ED)

Opening of the course of IBEI (Barcelona Institute of International Studies). Barcelona, 15th November16. (ED)

“Reaching the right collaboration toward success”. Smart City Expo World Congress. Barcelona, 15th No- vember. (PK)

“The European Urban Agenda in light of Habitat III and the 2030 Agenda”. CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). Barcelona, 17th Nov. (PK)

“Implementing the New Urban Agenda and the Ci- ties Prosperity Initiative”. Asia Innova Forum: Con- necting SmartCities between Asia and Europe. Ma-

15 https://vimeo.com/223744248 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=vDSfEPHlq6M

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Left: Urbanization at the Mediterranean, by IEMed, Barcelona 12th June. Center: The New Urban Agenda, an urban paradigm shift for XXI century Barcelona 12th June. Right: Meeting of Territorial Council to promote the adoption of the NUA, Madrid 27th June

Left: Localization of SDGs at the local framework, Madrid 4th October. Center: Workshop post Habitat III and the new urban and metropolitan changes. Barcelona 13nd November. Right: Smart Urbanization- Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona 14th November

Left: Opening of the course of IBEI, Barcelona 15th November. Center and right: Urban planification: building the path to the SDGs, Madrid 22nd November

Left: Towards a holistic approach to urban resilience, Madrid 22nd November. Center: Golden Experience Award on Sustainability, given by Seville City Council to UN-Habitat Spain. Seville 22nd November. Right: I Global Forum on Local Governments: Destination Seville, Seville 23th November.

Left: The New Urban Agenda and its implementation process as a Development and Prosperity Tool. Seville 24nd November. Center: The implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the NUA of UN-Habitat in Europe. Madrid 30th November Right: The roadmap of the NUA in Spain- IV International Engendering Congress beyond SDG#5: Gender at 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Dev. Madrid 11th December

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Attendance of:

»“Madrid Urbanism Guide”. Government Area of » “Challenges and strategies of local governments”. Sustainable Urban Development. Madrid, 2nd Fe- FEMP and EL PAIS. Madrid, 9th May. bruary. » “Spain International Forum. Commerce, Investment »“Workshop on Sustainable Cities”. REDS (Spanish and Diplomacy”. Nueva Ecomonía Forum. Madrid, Network for Sustainable Development) and Carlos III 29th March. University. Madrid, 7th March. » Forum “Future is now” Norman Foster Foundation. »“The Sustainable Development Goals and its imple- Madrid, 1st June. mentation: contributions to Spain”. AECID. Madrid, 27th March . » Presentation of the book of FSMS 2016 and The Forum of the Cities 2018. Madrid, 3th June. »“Local Governments facing the challenge to localize the SDGs. FEMP and UCLG (Union of Cities and Local »“Reinventing Cities”. C40 Cities and Sustainable Ur- Governments). Madrid, 18th April. ban Development Government Area of Madrid City Council. Madrid, 13th November.

Online Interventions17.

Left: SDGs and its implementation: contributions to Spain. 27nd March. Center: Challenges and strategies of local governments. Madrid, 9nd May. Right: Thinking Urban: cities for the people at the center of the NUA, Madrid, 29nd June

UN-HABITAT INSTITUTIONAL CAMPAIGNS

World Urban Campaign. Urban Thinkers Campuses

»“The right in the city. Legal implementation of the School of Design Innovation and Technology)19 . Ma- New Urban Agenda” organized by CNJUR, Interna- drid, 25-27th October.. tional Association of Urbanistic Jurisprudence and UNED18 Madrid, 10-12th July. »“The transition to livable cities: the post car city” organized by FIU (Federation of Iberoamerican Urba- »“Sharing design, innovation and technology for nists) 20. Barcelona, 25-27th November the city prosperity” organized by ESNE (Universitary

17 ∙ EGM Planning Compact Cities: Exploting the possibilities and limits of densification. Seville, 13-14th March https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HKQZg6FeaPQ ∙ Smart Island Congress, Mallorca, 20-21 April. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfExoY3lXU&feature=em-subs_digest ∙ Sustainable Tourism Conference. Barcelona, 18th May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Xo671ROng&app=desktop ∙ International Forum “New Realities, New Solutions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda”. Madrid, 29-30 June https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=EJJ3bq3yFC8&feature=youtu.be- ∙ International Transdiciplinar Seminar: The New Urban Agenda an its implementation towards a better urban Governance. Barcelona, 16-18th October. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XOdlRl0kz0s ∙ I Global Forum of Local Governments: destination Seville. Seville, 22-24th November. https://youtu.be/hKg3KyZqkDI ∙ ORU-FOGAR Annual Assembly. 27-28th October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_iLb8NLsg&feature=youtu.be 18 http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/right-city-legal-implementation-new-urban-agenda-better-regulations-better-cities 19 http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/utc-report-sharing-design-innovation-and-technology-city-prosperity 20 http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/events/transition-liveable-cities-post-car-city

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»“Barcelona City Lab on Safer Cities”21 organized by University and representatives of civil society. UN-Habitat Safer Cities Programme. Barcelona, 14th November. » Joint declaration of UN-Habitat and FEMP (Spanish Federation of Cities and Regions) to conmemorate Urban October World Cities Day along with an adhesion statement of FEMP to the principles of the New Urban Agenda. » World Habitat Day at COAM (Official College of Madrid, 31st October 201722. Madrid Architects) including an Urban Cinema Ses- sion”. Urban Breakfasts

» World Cities Day at Seville University with the event »Organization and participation of the ED at “Towards “Innovative Governance. Open Cities” with the par the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Ur- ticipation of the Mayor of Seville, the Dean of Seville ban Landscape”. Barcelona, 13th June.

Left: The right in the city. Legal implementation of the NUA. Madrid 10-12th July. Center: Sharing design, innovation and technology for the city prosperity, by ESNE, 25-27 October. Right: Barcelona City Lab on Safer Cities, Barcelona 14th November.

Left: Urban Breakfast. Barcelona 13th June. Center: World Habitat Day. Right: World Cities Day at Seville University

Left: World Habitat Day. Center and Right: World Cities Day at Seville University

21 http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/events/barcelona-city-lab-safer-cities-global-hub-city-labs 22 http://www.femp.es/comunicacion/noticias/31-de-octubre-femp-y-onu-habitat-apuestan-por-una-ciudad-abierta-sostenible-y

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EFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

» Media coverage of Joan Clos, UN-Habitat Executive Madrid, 25th January24 Director23 » EGM Planning Compact Cities: Exploring the pos- » Media Coverage of UN Habitat Office events in Spain: sibilities and limits of densification” Seville, 13- 14th March.25 » Forum “The Goals of Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda: Together in Action”. » International Forum “New Realities, New Solu-

Left: Enterview of Joan Clos at Onda Cero. Center: Media at the EGM Planning Compact Cities, Seville. Enterview of Joan Clos at Hoy por Hoy.

23 ∙ http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/los-desayunos-de-tve/desayunos-tve-joan-clos-director-onu-habitat/3885331/ ∙ http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/01/26/actualidad/1485430798_968084.html ∙ http://www.efeverde.com/noticias/joan-clos-anima-las-grandes-ciudades-crear-empresas-energia-renovable/ ∙http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/sociedad/noticias/8423941/06/17/Joan-Clos-anima-a-las-grandes-ciudades-a-crear-empresas-de-energia-renovable.html ∙ http://www.ondacero.es/programas/julia-en-la-onda/audios-podcast/entrevistas/joan-clos_20170613594012040cf22592e310dcf7.html ∙ http://cadenaser.com/programa/2017/06/27/hoy_por_hoy/1498555697_563885.html ∙ http://play.cadenaser.com/audio/001RD010000004629948/ ∙ http://www.femp.es/hemeroteca/carta-local-no-305-septiembre-de-2017 ∙ https://www.citiestobe.com/joan-clos-good-urbanisation-requires-collective-effort/ 24 ∙ http://www.abc.es/espana/madrid/abci-manuela-carmena-madrid-esta-bonito-esta-limpio-aunque-oigais-contrario-201701251323_noti- cia.html ∙ http://cincodias.com/cincodias/2017/01/25/sentidos/1485369178_384427.html ∙ http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2017/01/24/madrid/1485277287_980469.html ∙ http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/25/planeta_futuro/1485369880_447728.html ∙ http://www.elmundo.es/comunidad-valenciana/2017/01/25/5888af7ee5fdea4a6a8b45d3.html ∙ http://cadenaser.com/emisora/2017/01/25/radio_valencia/1485352834_624999.html ∙ http://www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-s/mostrar/224487/madrid-carmena-madrid-esta-muy-bonito-esta-limpio-aunque-oigais-contrario-no-ver- dad7 ∙http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/politica/noticias/8108256/01/17/Colau-pide-acabar-con-el-vergonzante-y-criminal-oligopolio-energetico.html ∙http://www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-s/mostrar/224491/c-valenciana-ribo-quiere-cobrar-ibi-viviendas-vacias-porque-bancos-no-venden-ayunta- miento ∙ http://www.teinteresa.es/politica/Ada-Colau-competencias-ciudades-infrafinanciadas_0_1730227297.html ∙http://www.europapress.es/madrid/noticia-carmena-ve-necesaria-regulacion-estatal-garantice-alquileres-accesibles-clase-media-20170125130527.html ∙ http://valenciaextra.com/es/ribo-presenta-ante-onu-habita-proyectos-sostenibles/ 25 ∙ http://www.europapress.es/andalucia/cooperacion-internacional-01049/noticia-maria-jose-sanchez-rubio-defiende-expertos-onu-modelo-ciudad-integradora-generadora-igualdades-20170313115708.html ∙ https://www.eldigitaldeasturias.com/noticias/sanchez-rubio-defiende-un-modelo-de-ciudad-integradora-y-generadora-de-igualdades/ ∙http://www.lainformacion.com/politica/politicas-internas/vivienda-y-planificacion-urbana/Sanchez-Rubio-ONU-integradora-generado- ra_0_1007599590.html ∙ http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20170313/42849921154/sanchez-rubio-defiende-ante-expertos-de-la-onu-un-modelo-de-ciudad-integradora-y-generadora-de-igualdades.html ∙ http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/21/planeta_futuro/1490102003_345881.html ∙ http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/22/planeta_futuro/1490171553_361220.html ∙ http://www.ciudadsostenible.eu/numeros-anteriores/33 págs. 22-25

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tions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda”. Ma- Agenda”. Madrid 29th June27 drid, 29 -30th June26 » Urban October28 » Conference of Jan Gehl at COAM (Official College of Madrid Architects) “Thinking Urban: cities for the » Urban Thinkers Campuses29 people at the center of the New Urban » Other media coverage.30

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» Web development for the event New Realities, New database with a 30% increase in new contacts and Solutions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda31 dissemination of UN-Habitat´s activities via two news- letters per month. » Update of the Habitat Agenda in Spain’s contact

FOSTERING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCE 4MOBILIZATION

With the support of UN-Habitat Branches and Regional for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Best Practice Offices, the following collaboration agreements and and Local Leadership Programme of the United Nations Memorandums of Understanding were signed during (70.000 €) for 2017-2018 period. 2017: » Barcelona City Council for Phase 2 of the City Resilience COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS 2017 Profiling Programme, Barcelona 28th December.

» AACID (Andalusian Agency of International » Seville City Council for the project “New Urban Cooperation for Development) for the project “New Solutions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda” (tbc) Urban Solutions: Implementing the New Urban Agenda” . The project will be implemented from MOUS (Memorandum of Understanding) December 2017 to December 2018 with a 400.000 € contribution. » Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Government of Catalonia. Barcelona, 19th January. » Madrid City Council through the General Directorate of Innovation and City Promotion for the project » FIRA International of Barcelona, Barcelona, 16th “Support to the promotion of Sustainable Urban November. ▪ Development and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda”. (TBC)

» Ministry of Development: Collaboration Agreement to support the Participation of the UN-Habitat Office

Signing Collaboration Agreement with AACID MoU - Dep.of Territory and Sustainability, Gov. of Catalonia.

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