1️⃣ Commons

📅 4 May 2023 - 15:00-17:00

🎯 Description:

In an era of global and interconnected crises, growing inequalities and rampant distrust, governments at all levels face the urgent need to rebuild their relationship with the communities, with nature and among themselves.

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed us to reaffirm that "public is back". Despite this, the advance of environmental degradation, together with global trends that oppress, segregate and hurt our communities (informality, housing prices, precarious working conditions, access barriers, structural racism and an array of inequalities embedded in our institutions), confront us with the structural reflection that permeates the Pact for the Future: it is no longer just a matter of expanding the public, but of restructuring it.

Speaking of the commons is to speak of local democracy, trust, care, equity, co-creation and accountability. Regulating the Commons is necessary to protect them, but it requires solid resources, actors and principles that embrace and promote the needs, aspirations, memories and material conditions of all territories and their inhabitants. This includes people and ecosystems, nature and culture.

 Link to the session (💬 Interpretation in: English, French, Spanish.)

‍🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: 

- Aromar Revi, UBUNTU Advisor of UCLG

- Rodrigo Mundaca, Governor of Valparaíso

- Pilar Díaz, Mayor of Esplugues de Llobregat, Deputy of the Presidency for the Barcelona Provincial Council

- Mohamed Sefiani, Mayor of Chefchaouen, Chair of the UCLG Forum on Intermediary Cities, UCLG Special Envoy for Food Systems

- Gabriela Cuevas, Co-Chair, UHC2030

- Arthur Erken, Director of Policy and Strategy, United Nations Population Fund

- Lorena Zárate, Co-coordinator, Global Platform for the Right to the City

You can consult in this link the interactive tool where we are systematizing the process.