Abuja – The Habitat 111 African Regional Meeting on Friday said it would advance global partnership to facilitate implementation of the New Urban and Human Settlement Agenda.
This was contained in a Communique tagged ‘Abuja Declaration for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development’ at the end of the meeting in Abuja.
The theme of the meeting was: ”African Priorities on New Urban Agenda.”
The declaration, which represented African common front for the New Urban Agenda, was made on behalf of participants by Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing.
It said that African continent would mobilise financial resources to enhance multi-stakeholders engagement for the effective implementation of the new urban agenda for cities and human settlements in Africa.
it would also enhance capacity building, skills and technology transfer for sustainable urban and human settlements planning and management.
”We commit to promote the principles and recommendations included in this Abuja Declaration for Habitat 111.
”We will ensure that this contributes to the upcoming Third Preparatory Committee meeting to be held in Surabaya in July 2016.”
The communique stated that it would harness the potential of urbanisation to accelerate structural transformation for inclusive sustainable growth.
It noted the need to allocate financial resources to promote sustainable urbanisation and human settlements development to drive transformation for all citizens.
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“This should include promotion of land titling and registration as well as resource generation through land base revenue and land based revenue and land value capture.”
The communique stated the need for promoting Green Building and infrastructure technologies and application of designs
which mitigated climate change and adapted to its impact, including urban heat island effect.
It also called for fostering the utilisation of sustainable renewable energy and natural resources as well as investment in low carbon production systems in urban centres. (NAN)
