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CSCI Official Side Event at CHOGM 2022 – High Level Event

This Official Side Event provided an important opportunity to convene key Commonwealth stakeholders, to present the Call to Action, share good practice and explore opportunities to mobilise the Commonwealth, to identify priorities and actions to advance the Call to Action at the CHOGM and beyond. The Side Event directly contributed to the overarching CHOGM theme of ‘Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming’ and complemented the work being undertaken in other forums. People are at the heart of the Commonwealth agenda and this event focused on approaches that ensure citizens are at the heart of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Recognising the reality that 60% of the Commonwealth population is under 30 there was a particular focus on integrating the voices of young leaders and professionals into the dialogue. This interactive programme provided a natural segue into the closing segment of the Business Forum on Thursday 23 June, which was organised by the Rwanda Development Board, supported by the Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council.

The following section has a number of drop down arrows, each of which shares summaries, videos and photographs of that part of the programme.

programme – wednesday 22 june

16.00 Welcome and Keynote Address

16.15 Background to the Call to Action

16.30 Panel 1: Empowering Cities to Deliver

17.00 Panel 2: Cities as Centres of Economic Growth – Securing Long Term Finance

17.30 Summing-up and Close of Day 2

the partners

The Call to Action on Sustainable Urbanisation across the Commonwealth has been developed jointly by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF), in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA), the Rwandan Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) and The Prince’s Foundation, with support from other Commonwealth organisations, governmental, professional and technical partners. To read and download the full version of the Call to Action click here.

join us

If you are interested in learning more or becoming involved with the Call to Action on sustainable urbanisation across the Commonwealth, please contact us at: info@commonwealthsustainablecities.org.

acknowledgements

The organisers would like to extend their thanks to all those who supported our activities at CHOGM, be that moderators, panelists, participants and particularly those supporting logistics.

All images and videos are credited to: Event & Media Services Ltd, Kigali, Rwanda