SLoCaTPartnershipReport3rdPreparatoryCommittee(PrepCom3)forHabitatIIIheldinSurabaya,Indonesia25th-27thJuly2016

I. BackgroundHabitatIIItheUnitedNationsConferenceonHousingandSustainableUrbanDevelopmentwill takeplace from17-20October2016 inQuito,Ecuador.Habitat IIIwillbe the firstUNglobal conference following the adoptionof theGlobalGoalsonSustainableDevelopmentand the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; thus the “NewUrban Agenda” (NUA) – theHabitat IIIoutcomedocument–willbeakeyopportunity toshapethe implementationoftheseagreementsinanumberofsectors,includingtransport.

As well as a series of Thematic and Regional meeting and the informal consultationmeetingsheldinNewYork,threeformalPreparatoryCommitteemeetingshavebeenheldtopreparetheHabitatIII.

PrepCom1washeldinNewYork,attheUnitedNationsHeadquarters,fromWednesday,17September toThursday, 18 September2014. PrepCom2washeld inNairobi,Kenya, fromTuesday,14ApriltoThursday,16April2015.

II. ThirdPreparatoryCommittee(PrepCom3)ThethirdPreparatoryCommitteemeeting(PrepCom3)washeldinSurabaya,Indonesiaforthreedaysfromthe25-27thJuly2016.Allofficialdetailsoftheeventareavailablehere.

States discussed the 18th July version of the Zero Draft document but negotiations werefrequentlydelayedinordertogivetheG77timetoco-ordinatetheirpositions.

AlthoughPrepCom3 is the last formalnegotiation sessionbeforeHabitat III thatdoesnotpreventfurtherinformalsessionsbeingheld,atthetimeofwriting(mid-August2016)itisexpected that a further sessionwill be held inNY lateAugust/early September but exactdatesanddetailshavenotbeenconfirmed.Theofficialversionof theSurabayaversionoftheZeroDraft is availablehere. [Anunofficialmarkedupversion showing the changes isavailablehere.]

III. SLoCaTMembersinSurabaya

AnumberofSLoCaTmemberswereactiveinSurabayaincludingAsianDevelopmentBank(ADB),EuropeanCyclists’Federation/WorldCyclingAliance(ECF/WCA),InstituteforTransportationDevelopmentandPolicy(ITDP),DeutscheGesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit(GIZ),ICLEI-LocalGovernmentsforSustainability,HealthBridgeandFIAFoundationwhichensuredastrongpresenceofthetransportsector.

IV. Pressbriefing

SLoCaThostedaPressBriefingonthe firstdayof theconference(Monday25th July)withthe headline “Time for the UN Member States to deliver a transformation of urbanmobility”. thePressRelease is availablehere.At thePressBriefing SLoCaT,HealthBridge,ADB, ITDPandFIAmade short statements and then tookquestionsandanswers. SLoCaTalsoprovidedaPressPacktointerestedjournalistsandSLoCaTmembersmadethemselvesavailable for interviews. Most of the journalists who attended were from Indonesia, andwereparticularlyinterestedintheworkofITDPinIndonesia.

Picture:Pressbriefingonsustainabletransport,25thJuly2016,Surabaya.

V. TransportDayTransportDaySurabayawasheldintheafternoonofthe26thJulyattheSheratonSurabayaHotelandTowers,theagendaisavailableinAnnexII.GuestgavetheirperspectiveontheHabitatIIIprocess,howtransportiscoveredinthedraftNUAandexpectationsfortheimplementationactivitiestobepresentedinQuito.

DuringaPechaKuchasessionSLoCaTmemberspresentedbrieflyawiderangeofinterestingnewactivities.

Duringthebreakoutsessions,withactiveaudienceparticipation,wediscussedideasfortheQuitoActionPlanonSustainableUrbanMobility.Theopendiscussionfocussedonfourquestions:

• HowcouldaQuitoActionplanbuildon,bringtogetherandstrengthenexistinginitiatives?

• HowcouldprogresswiththeQuitoActionPlanbetracked/monitored–keyindicators?

• Howtosupportcapacitybuilding/institutionalstrengthening?• HowtostrengthenthelinkwiththedevelopingpostCOP21GlobalClimate

ActionAgenda?ThebreakoutdiscussionprovidedvaluableideasthatwillbeincludedintheconceptfortheActionPlanthatwillbelaunchedinQuito.

Forthefinalpaneldiscussion,wewerejoinedbyGenieBirch(PresidentoftheGlobalAssemblyofPartners)andNoncebaMolwele,(MemberoftheMayoralCommitteeofCityofJohannesburg)whogaveverypragmaticandvaluableadviceontheneedforclearafocussedimplementationprocesses.

VI. ExhibitionSLoCaTandGIZhadstandsintheconferenceexhibition.TheSLoCaTstandwasusedtopromoteourmainmessagesandevents.Therewasalotofinterestinourreportsandinformationsourcesfromacademics/studentsinterestedinurbandevelopment.

Picture1:SLoCaTbooth,HabitatIIIPrepCom3,Surabaya,July2016.

Picture2:SLoCaTbooth,HabitatIIIPrepCom3,Surabaya,July2016.

VII. OtherEventsTherewasalimitedprogrammeofjust41officialUNsideeventsinSurabaya.TheonlyonewhichfocussedontransportwastheSLoCaTandITDPhostedeventon“DeliveringAccessibleCities:UrbanMobilityandTheNewUrbanAgenda”.AsummaryoftheeventisincludedasAnnexII.

ECF/WCA,HealthBridgeandFIAFoundationwereactiveintheUrbanSpeakersCorner.

SLoCaT/ITDPandWRIalsoparticipatedinaUNorganisedoff-siteeventaimedatpromotingyouthengagementinurbandevelopmentprocesses.

VIII. Therevised“SurabayaDraft”oftheNewUrbanAgendaTheSurabayadraftoftheNUAwaspublishedonthe28thJulyandhasthesamestructureasthepreviousversion(withveryminorre-organisation).Thenewtextgivesmoreattentiontoage(boys,girlsandtheelderly)andfamilies.ThemainchangesareinSectionC:whichhasbeensubstantiallyrevisedandincludeslotsofalternativetexts.

Anewparagraph7“acknowledgethecontributionofthesub-nationalandlocalgovernmentsinthedefinitionoftheNewUrbanAgenda”.

Article13previouslyrecognized“theimportantroleofnationalgovernments”inurbanpolicy–theword“national”hasnowbeendeleted.

Thereisanew(paragraph64)onsmartcitiesandincludesaspecificreferencetotheuseof“innovativetransporttechnologies”.

Inanumberofplaces,theintentionto“implement”or“support”certainactivitieshavebeenchangedto“promote”.

Themainenhancementhasbeenaconsiderablestrengtheningoftheparagraphon“roadsafety”whichnowcontainmuchmoredetailandalsoexplicitlyincludestheroleofactivemobilityintacklingnon-communicablediseases.Thenewparagraph108nowreads:

“We will take measures to improve road safety and integrate it into sustainablemobility and transport infrastructure planning and design. Accompanied byawarenessraisinginitiatives,wewillpromotethesafesystemapproachcalledforinthe United Nations Decade of Action for road safety, with special attention to theneedsofallwomenandgirls,aswellaschildrenandyouth,olderpersonsandpersonswith disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations.Wewill adopt, implement, andenforcepoliciesandmeasurestoactivelyprotectandpromotepedestriansafetyandcyclingmobility,withaviewtobroaderhealthoutcomes,particularlythepreventionof injuries and non-communicable diseases, and we will develop and implementcomprehensive legislation and policies on motorcycles safety, given thedisproportionally high and increasing numbers of motorcycle deaths and injuriesglobally, particularly in developing countries.We will promote a safe and healthy

journey to school of every childas apriority in linewith theUNConventionof theRightsoftheChild.”

Thepreviousreferencetoestablishingan“InternationalMultistakeholderPanelonSustainableUrbanization”hasbeenremoved.

ThemaindifficultieslieinSectionC“Followupandreview”asStateshavedifferentviewson the role/fundingandgovernanceofUN-Habitat, thesedifferencesarenowreflected inthetextwithtwopossibleversionsofparagraph164.

IX. ConclusionsandOutlook

TherewasagenerallackofintensityintheSurabayasessionwithmanydelegationseithernotattendingorsendingasmalldelegation.Thismaybeduetothefactthatthesessionwasheldduringtheholidayseasoninmanycountries,ormaybebecausetheyfeeltheNUAtextlacksmeaningfulcontent.

Therevised“Surabaya”versionofthetextisclearerandthecontenthasbeenenhancedinanumberof areas, inparticularRoadSafety. Importantly theSurabaya sessionallowed thekey“problem”areastobemoreclearlydefinedandevenalternativetextstobeproposed;animportantstepinpreparingforprogressatthenextsession.ThekeyissuefortheNUAtextisnowforthedifferencesrelatingtoSectionC:FollowupandReviewtobesolved.

Given the many hours “lost” for negotiating in Surabaya, in order to give some regionalgroups time to co-ordinate their positions, the decision to hold an additional informalnegotiating session in Septemberwill be frustrating formany States –who now face thecost of participating in an additional session. When confirmed further details will beavailablehere.

Overalltransportisnowwelladdressedinthetext,manyofSLoCaT´smainmessageshavebeen included with lots of improvements in the last months. The key weakness from atransport perspective remains the lack of an explicit link between urban transport andgreenhousegasmitigationefforts.

WeshouldexpectagreementinQuitoonaNUAthatlooksverymuchlikethecurrenttextandasignificantfocusinQuitoonNUAimplementationactivities.GiventherelativelyweaknatureoftheexpectedNUAtextthelongtermsuccessofHabitatIIIislikelytobejudgedbytheimplementationactivitiesingenerates.

AnewdedicatedwebsitehasalreadybeenlaunchedfortheQuitoImplementationPlanthatallows voluntary commitments to be publically recorded. Of the ten commitmentsregistered activities so far (18/8/2016) only one is focussed on transport. Cities goingSlower is ledbyColumbian transportNGOandSLoCaTmemberDespacio and focusesonslow transport in Latin American cities. The site allows any interested organisations to“join”activitieslisted.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) isexpected to launch a significant multi-year voluntary commitment in support of urbanmobilityinQuito.

SLoCaTisco-ordinateandhostanumberofactivitiesinQuito,includingTransportDayQuitoinco-operationwiththeCityofQuitoonthe19thOctoberandanumberofothereventsareintheprocessofbeingconfirmed.

X. AnnexesAnnexI–AgendaTransportDaySurabaya

AnnexII–SummaryoftheSideEvent“Deliveringaccessiblecities:UrbanmobilityandtheNewUrbanAgenda

AnnexI

TransportDaySurabaya-Agenda

Transport Day Surabaya - Agenda

“For More Livable Cities, Act on Urban Mobility Now” Tuesday 26th July 2016, 13:30 – 19:00

Sheraton Surabaya Hotel and Towers, Surabaya, Indonesia 13:30–13.40 Openingandintroduction,CornieHuizenga,SecretaryGeneral,

PartnershiponSustainableLowCarbonTransport(Moderator)13:45–14.45 WilltheNewUrbanAgendadrivethenecessaryglobal

actionon urbanmobility?(Plenarypanelsession)Thissessionwilladdress

howurbanmobilityisincludedintheHabitatIIIprocessandwhatmoreisrequiredtoensureHabitatIIIdeliversglobalactiononsustainableurbanmobilityatscale.• CornieHuizenga,SecretaryGeneral,SLoCaT(Facilitator)• Franz Marré, Head of Division 312 "Water; Urban Development;

Mobility",FederalMinistryforEconomicCooperationandDevelopment,Germany

• MarkMajor,SeniorAdviser,PartnershipforSustainableLowCarbonTransport

• FelixDodds,SeniorFellowattheGlobalResearchInstituteUniversityofNorthCarolinaandAssociateFellowattheTellusInstituteBoston(TBC)

14:45–15:15 Shortannouncementsofnewprojects,activitiesand

initiativesonsustainableurbanmobility(PechaKuchasession,1slide/3minutes)

• Youthparticipationinactivetransport,DebraEfroymson,WorkforaBetterBangladesh

• OliverGumpert,BusinessDevelopment,DoppelmayrCableCarGmbH&CoKG

• WorldCyclingAlliance/EuropeanCyclistsFederation,MarcioDeslandes,GlobalPoliciesDirector

• Citycertification,CleanAirAsia,Chee-AnneRoño,Manager• KhatmanduWalksCampaign,ShantaLallMulmi,ResourceCentre

forPrimaryHealthcare,Nepal• ChildHealth&Mobility,SaulBillingsley,ExecutiveDirector,FIA

Foundation,DirectorofCampaignsandCommunications• DataProject,AlvinMejia,CleanAirAsia,TransportManager• GermanPartnershiponSustainableMobility,JakobBaum,GIZ§ PedestrianEnvironments,KristieDaniel,ProgramDirector,Health

Bridge§ Capacitybuildingprogram,ManfredBreithaupt,GIZ§ YouthDelegate,AbiMarutama,YouthCoordinatorandHeath

PolicyAdvisor,RepublicofIndonesia

15:15-15:20 Introductiontobreakoutsession

15.20–15:40 CoffeeBreak 15.45–17.50 TowardsaQuitoActionPlanonUrbanMobility

ThereiswidespreadagreementthattheHabitatIIINewUrbanAgendashouldbeactionorientatedandisakeychancetodeliveronlastyear´sagreementsonthe2030SustainableDevelopmentAgendaandtheParisAgreementonClimateChange.Thesecondpartoftheeventwillconsiderhownon-statetransportanddevelopmentactorscanorganisetocontributetoactiononsustainableurbanmobility.

15:45–16:45 Generatingideas/inputforaQuitoActionPlanon

SustainableUrbanMobility(3interactivebreakoutsessions)

• HowcouldaQuitoActionplanbuildon,bringtogetherand

strengthenexistinginitiatives(e.g.LPAATransportInitiatives,MDBWGonSustainableTransport))

• HowcouldprogresswiththeQuitoActionPlanbe

tracked/monitored–keyindicators?• Howtosupportcapacitybuilding/institutionalstrengthening?• HowtostrengthenthelinkwiththedevelopingpostCOP21Global

ClimateActionAgenda?16:45–17:45 How to strengthen and scale up action on urbanmobility

throughtheNewUrbanAgenda.Thestructureandcontentof a Quito Action Plan on Urban Mobility? (Plenary panelsession). The transport and development community non-stateactors could together agree and commit to a specific actionagenda. This session isa chance to reflecton thevalueof suchand initiative, what it could contain and how it could bringcoherencetoexistingandplannedactions.

• HolgerDalkmann,DirectorStrategyandGlobalPolicy,EMBARQDirector,WRIRossCenterforSustainableCities,WorldResourcesInstitute(Facilitator)

• Feedbackfromtherapporteurs• TyrellDuncan,TechnicalAdvisor(Transport),AsianDevelopment

BankandChairmanMDBWorkingGrouponSustainableTransport• ClaytonLane,CEO,InstituteofTransportationandDevelopment

Policy• GenieBirch,President,GlobalAssemblyofPartners,• NoncebaMolwele,MemberoftheMayoralCommitteeofCityof

Johannesburg(onbehalfofICLEI)• AisaKiraboKacyira,DeputyExecutiveDirector,UN-Habitat

17.50 OutlooktoQuitoandMarrakesh-CornieHuizenga,SecretaryGeneral

18:00–19:00 Drinksreception

AnnexII

SummaryreportonSideEvent

“Deliveringaccessiblecities:UrbanmobilityandtheNewUrbanAgenda”

1.SummaryoftheSideEvent:AdrianaLopezHernandez,AdviserinInternationalRelations,MinistryofAgrarian,TerritorialandUrbanDevelopment(SEDATU)Mexico,gaveanoverviewoftheirworkandMexico’snationalurbanpolicy.ShealsounderlinedtheimportanceofaddressingurbanmobilityinMexico..NextBambangPrihartono,DirectorofTransportation,Bappenas(theNationalDevelopmentPlanningAgency),IndonesiaoutlinedhowthenationalgovernmentinIndonesiaistackingurbanmobility.TheyhaveissuedaNationalUrbanTransportPolicyandhaveembarkedonacapacitydevelopmentprogram.Theyhaveastrongfocusonmasstransit,inparticularBRTandanumberoflargeurbanrailprojects.RamonCruzpresentedametricsystemdevelopedbyITDPtomeasureaspectsofequitableandaccessibletransitorienteddevelopmentbymeasuring,forexample,thenumberofresidentsinacitywholivewithinashortdistance(1km)ofhighqualityrapidtransit.Fromanequityperspective,thisisagoodwaytoapproximateaccessibilityinlargecities.Theybelievethatfromaclimatechangeperspective,itisagoodproxyforcompactnessandtheintegrationoflanduseandtransport.Duetoitssimplicity,themetricallowscitiesaroundtheworldtobequicklycompared,evenwhendataisdifficulttoobtain.Furthermore,visualizationsofthisdatacan

Date: 27thJuly2016Time: 13:30–14:30Venue: 3rdFloorBallroomNameofleadingorganizingInstitution(s):

PartnershiponSustainableLowCarbonTransport.InstituteforTransportationandDevelopmentPolicy.

Approximatenumberofparticipants: Approximately35

Numberoffemaleparticipants: Approximately15

Numberofmaleparticipants: Approximately20

highlightwherenewtransitmightbebuilttoservethemostresidents,andwhereinfillgrowthshouldbetargetedtobestutilizeexistingtransitinfrastructure.Finally,TODmetricswillallowcitiestomeasuretheirprogressovertime,asnewtransitisbuiltandasnewresidentsareaddedtothepopulation.ITDPhasassessedanumberofcitiesaroundtheworldtocomparetheindicatorstoeachotherandovertime.Finally,FranzMarré,HeadofDivision312"Water;UrbanDevelopment;Mobility",FederalMinistryforEconomicCooperationandDevelopment,GermanygaveanoverviewoftransportintheHabitatIIInegotiationsandtheimportancegiventotheseissuesbyGermany.GermanyplanstoannounceanimportantVoluntaryNationalContributioninQuitoandhopesothercountrieswilldothesame.Thesessionconcludedwithavaluablequestionandanswersessionwhereanumberofnegotiatorsaskedquestionsabouttransport.2.SummaryoftheDiscussion(keypointsonly,max:total500words):Needforstrongactiveengagementofnationalgovernmentstoaddressurbanmobility;Crosscuttingnatureofurbanmobilitysolutions,needforco-operationacrossgovernments;Differentnationalcircumstancesrequiredifferentpriorities;Simplemetrics,usingeasilyavailabledata,canbeusedtomeasureandreportprogress.3.Recommendations/wayforwardfromthediscussions(keypointsonly).NationalgovernmentsmusttakeresponsibilityfordrivingforwardtheurbanmobilityagendaathomeandinUNfora;Practicaltoolsfordemonstratinglong-termprogressneedtobebuiltintoNewUrbanAgenda;Whilemostactionsareoccurringatthelocallevel(publicandprivateactors),nationalgovernmentscanbeinstrumentalinfacilitatingtheseactionsthroughnationalguidelinesandtargetedfinancing.4.Buildingpartnerships,networkandsynergieswiththeStakeholdersSLoCaTanditspartners,suchasITDP,willorganisemoreandmoreinteractiveeventsinQuito,SLoCaTanditspartnerswilllaunchasignificantQuitoActionPlanonSustainableUrbanMobilityinQuitowhichwillbeopentointerestedparties.ITDPhasproposedanofficialsideeventinQuitothatwouldinvolvedifferentstakeholdergroupssuchasYouth,OlderPeople,Women,Peoplewithdisabilitiesandurbandwellersto

shareperspectivesonmobilityandtransitorienteddevelopment.SomeofthemattendedoursideeventinSurabaya.SLoCaTmadeusefuladditionalcontactswithdelegationsatthisSideEvent.6.Illustrationsfromthesideevent.

Picture:CornieHuizenga(SLoCaT)presentingattheSideEvent:Deliveringaccessiblecities:UrbanmobilityandtheNewUrbanAgenda,Surabaya,27thJuly2016.