Events/Meetings

The 2026 United Nations Water Conference, co-hosted by the United Arab Emirates and Senegal, will be held in the United Arab Emirates from 8 to 10 December 2026. The Conference will bring together governments, international organizations, academia, the private sector, and other stakeholders to…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UNDESA and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) co-organize the "Capacity Building Workshop for South, Southeast and East Asian Countries on the Implementation of the Jaipur Declaration on…

About the Workshop EVENT NAME: The Fourth International Training Workshop on Smart Cities in Asia and the Pacific Theme: "Urban Resilience through Smart Solutions: Enhancing Disaster Preparedness and Sustainability in Asia-Pacific” VENUE: Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Fukuoka, Japan ORGANIZER: United…

The International Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Japan’s Water Day, “Thinking Future of Water”, was co-organized by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD, the Secretariat of Headquarters for Water Cycle Policy of Japan, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure…

Event name: EST Regional Meeting and Capacity-Building Workshop towards Accelerating Implementation of the Aichi 2030 Declaration (2021-2030) Date: 16-18 March 2026 Venue: The United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Co-organizers: Ministry of the Environment of Japan Bangkok Metropolitan…

EVENT NAME: The Second International Workshop on Quality Road Infrastructure Development - Future of Quality Road Infrastructure: Envisioning Introduction of Advanced Technologies for Developing Sustainable and Resilient Road Networks under the Era of Climate Change and Aging DATE: 25-27 February…

On 10 December 2025, the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026-2035) was officially launched at the United Nations Headquarters. A report on the event can be accessed here. In support of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026-2035), the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development-Department of Sustainable Development Goals/United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNCRD-DSDG/UN DESA), Graphic Era University (GEU), India, and International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW), and Institute for…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) / United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), co-organized the SIDS (Pacific Island Countries) Capacity-Building Training Programme on the Implementation of the Jaipur…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)/United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) co-organized a side event during the High-Level Political Forum entitled “3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and Circular Economy…

The Seventh Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters (STSWD7) was held at the ECOSOC Chamber under the theme “Water and Disasters for Cooperation and Partnerships.” This biennial session, launched in 2013, was co-organized by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the…

About the Workshop EVENT NAME: The third International Training Workshop on Smart Cities in Asia and the Pacific “Building safe, resilient, inclusive, liveable and sustainable cities and communities” DATE: 13-15 May 2025 VENUE: JICA Kansai Center, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan ORGANIZER: United Nations Centre…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and 3RINCs 2025 co-organized the Special Session on "JAIPUR DECLARATION on 3R and Circular Economy - Sustainable 3R and Circular Economy Goals for Achieving Resource Efficient, Clean, Resilient, Sound Material Cycle and Low-Carbon Society in…

About the Workshop EVENT NAME: International Workshop on Quality Road Infrastructure Development - Future of Quality Road Infrastructure: Envisioning Introduction of Advanced Technologies for Developing Sustainable and Resilient Road Networks under the Era of Climate Change and Aging DATE: 4-6 Marh…

About the Forum EVENT NAME: High-Level 12th Regional 3R and Circular Economy Forum in Asia and the Pacific DATE: 3-5 March 2025 VENUE: Rajasthan International Centre, Jaipur City, State of Rajasthan, India ORGANIZERS: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA) of the Government of India Ministry…

Event name: The High-Level 16th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia Date: 10-12 December 2024 Venue: Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters, Manila, the Philippines Organizers: Department of Transport (DOTR), Government of the Philippines (supported by the…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) will co-organize the Consultation meeting for South East Asian Countries on the Pre-Zero Draft of New Declaration…

Session at the World Water Week 2024 in Stockholm "Fostering Peace before, during and after Water-related Disasters" Outline of the Side Event Date and Time: Sunday, 25 August 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: UNHQ S1521 Organizers: High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) Geneva…

The Untied Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and the United Nations Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) will co-organize the “LLDCs (Landlocked Developing Countries) Consultation Meeting on the Pre-Zero Draft of New Declaration on 3R and Circular Economy in Asia-Pacific (2024…

HLPF2024 Side Event "A new political corridor to achieve SDGs through water: From Bandung Spirit Water Summit to UN 2026 Water Conference" Outline of the Side Event Date and Time: Friday, 12 July 2024, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Venue: UNHQ S1521 Organizers: Government of Albania Government of Indonesia…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB), Asian Transport Outlook (ATO) co-organized the official side event on “Asia’s Contribution to Greening Transport” at International Transport Forum…

Event name: International Workshop on Building Smart and Resilient Cities and Communities in Asia and the Pacific: Role of Policy Makers and Planners of Local Government Date: 21 and 23 May 2024 Venue: Courtyard Bali Nusa Dua Resort and Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, Bali, Indonesia Organizers…

The Bandung Spirit Water Summit Outline of the Summit Date and time: 9:00~17:00, 21 May 2024 Format: High-level Panel of the 10th World Water Forum with an opening session, 3 high-level panel sessions and a closing. Venue: Auditorium, Bali International Convention Center Organizer: Government of…

UNCRD-DSDG/UN DESA and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) co-organized the SIDS (Pacific Island Countries) Consultation Meeting on the Pre-Zero Draft of New Declaration on 3R and Circular Economy ~ Sustainable 3R and Circular Economy Goals for Achieving Resource…

13th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management & Circular Economy and IPLA Global Forum 2023 will be held in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India from 28 November to 2 December 2023 in a hybrid format. During the conference, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) will…

Event name: The High-Level 15th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia Date: 24–26 October 2023 Venue: Hilton KL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Organizers: Ministry of Transport, Government of Malaysia Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MoE-J) Asian Development…

Event name: The International Training Workshop on Smart Cities for Building Inclusive, Resilient, Livable, and Sustainable Cities and Communities in Asia and the Pacific Date: 29 August–1 September 2023 Venue: Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, Japan Organizer: United Nations Centre for Regional…

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The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)/United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the Ministry of Transport of the Government of Malaysia, and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations co…

On 12 June 2023, the United Nations Centre for Reginal Development (UNCRD) organized “The Symposium to Commemorate the UN 2023 Water Conference” in a hybrid format, in Tokyo and online. The symposium was co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-Asian Development Bank (ADB) side event were organized at the 2023 International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit on 25 May 2023 in Leipzig, Germany. The objective of the event is to share the Aichi 2030 Declaration (2021-2030) with the wider…

The United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) co-organized the 2023 International Mayors Forum from 25 to 28 April 2023 in Dakar, Senegal. The Forum brought together an international audience of approximately ninety…

UNCRD-DSDG/ UN DESA, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MOEJ), co-organized the Regional Capacity Building Training Workshop for EST Member Countries on Implementation of, and Country Reporting on Aichi 2030 Declaration…

The Untied Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) co-organized the High-level Symposium on “Integrated Water Cycle Management in the post-COVID-19 era” with the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)…

Theme: Integrating Circular Economy in Major Development Sectors towards Achieving Zero Waste Societies and the SDGs Dates 8-10 February 2023 Place Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia Co-Organizers Ministry of Environment, Kingdom of Cambodia Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MOEJ) United…

UNCRD will organize the UNCRD Special Session on 16 December 2022 at 15:00-16:30 (Japan time) at the Seventeenth Annual Session of Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS) & Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements Awards Ceremony (GFHS 2022) on 15-16 December 2022.

Date: 30 November-1 December 2022 Format: Hybrid Venue: Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India Organizer: United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) / UN DESA Co-organizer: International Society of Waste…

UNCRD will be organizing the "In-Country Training Workshop on Smart Cities for Building Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Communities," on 10 November 2022 in Bali, Indonesia, as a side event of the G20 Special Event on "Building Back Stronger from Impact of COVID-19, Climate Change…

Date and Time Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 15:00-17:00 (Japan Time) Theme Webinar on UNCRD Expert Consultation for he Second State of the 3Rs and Resource Circular and Circular Economy in Asia and the Pacific -- Pre-Final Draft (Full) Report Format Online Platform- Webex Co-Organizers United Nations…

Dates: 25-26 August 2022 Place:Tokyo, Japan / Online Organizer: United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) / UN DESA RELATED WEBSITES Ministry of the Environment, Japan Official web page of 3R Forum, Ministry of the Environment, Japan…

Date: 14 July 2022 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Theme: Webinar: The Second State of the 3Rs and Resource Circular and Circular Economy in Asia and the Pacific - Thematic Sections Format: Online Platform- Webex Co-Organizers United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of Division for Sustainable…

Date: 24 April 2022 Place: Kumamoto, Japan On 24 April at the Fourth Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS), UNCRD co-organized the Small Islands State (SIS) Session with the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP), Governments of Australia and Japan, Asia Development Bank (ADB)…

Date Webinar I: 24 March 2022 (Thursday) Webinar II: 28 March 2022 (Monday) Theme Webinar I: Discussion on Successor of Ha Noi 3R Declaration - Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia and the Pacific (2013-2023) until 2030 aligning with the SDGs Webinar II: The SEcond State of the 3Rs and Resource Circular…

Theme: Strengthening Science-Policy-Business Interface towards Resource Circulation and Circular Economy - Achieving the SDGs and Carbon Neutrality Dates: 21-23 March 2022 (Monday to Wednesday) Co-Organizers Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation Russian…

The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) organized the international symposium on 23 February 2022 in the hybrid format with approximately 350 registered participants from more than 30 countries. The Under-Secretary-General (USG) Mr. Liu Zhenmin delivered opening message, noting…

Dates: 24-27 January 2022 Place: Online The UN Office for Sustainable Development and UNCRD organized the International Mayors Forum 2021-2022 online on 24-27 January 2022 to provide a platform for policy dialogue and knowledge sharing through presentations and discussions on key aspects related to…

The programme is available at the link below.

Dates: 18-20 October 2021 Place:Aichi, Japan and Online (a hybrid format) Official event page High-Level 14th Regional EST Forum in Asia Note: The documents related to this forum, such as background papers, country/city reports, etc., are available at the official event page. Videos of full…

Series of Experts Workshop- 2nd State of 3R and Circular Economy in Asia-Pacific- REPORT- The Second State of the 3Rs in Asia and the Pacific- Advancing Circular Economy in Asia and the Pacific Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Date Workshop I: 15 June 2021 (Tuesday)…

Theme: Advancing Circular Economy in Asia-Pacific towards the SDGs under COVID-19 Pandemic Date: Webinar I: 24 November 2020 (Tuesday) Webinar II: 1 December 2020 (Tuesday) Webinar III: 8 December 2020 (Tuesday) Webinar IV: 14 December 2020 (Monday) Webinar V: 17 December 2020 (Thursday) Webinar VI…

Date: 10-11 November 2020 Place (format): Online Official event page: 13th Intergovernmental Regional EST Forum in Asia Forum Summary (Final adopted, without formal editing ) Concept Note and Provisional Programme Note: The documents related to the form, such as background papers, presentations, etc…

Dates: 22-23 January 2020 Place: Kitakyushu, Japan Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center Theme: Asian and Japanese Local Governments' Policy and action toward Municipal Solid Waste Measure focused on Plastic Waste Related websites: Official web page of the 12th 3R Conference, JESC, Japan…

Side-event Title: Environmentally Sustainable Transport ~ NDCs, e-Mobility and Sustainable Transport Date of Side-event: 9 December 2019 Venue: COP 25 Pavilion of the Government of Japan (Madrid, Spain) Organizers: Foundation for Promoting Personal Mobility and Ecological Transport United Nations…

Date: 28-31 October 2019 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam Venue: Sheraton Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Viet Nam Theme: "Achieving Smart and Resilient City through Low Carbon and Intelligent Transport System" Co-Organizers Ministry of Transport, Viet Nam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Viet Nam Ministry…

UNCRD continues to encourage local governments in Japan to further implement the SDGs at the local level and, if necessary, support their outreach and capacity building activities to accelerate projects and efforts towards the SDGs. UNCRD also organizes an annual public seminar under the theme…

Date: 28 May 2019 Place: Mumbai, India Session Title Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable and Resilient Transport Development in Cities of Asia ~ Implications towards SDG 11 Date and Time 9:30-11:00, 28 May 2019 Venue Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India Supporting…

Date: 4-6 March 2019 Place: Bangkok, Thailand Theme: 3R as a Way for Moving towards Sufficiency Economy - Implications for SDGs Venue Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand Co-Organizers Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), Thailand Ministry of the Environment…

Date: 2-5 October 2018 Place: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Theme: "Sustainable Urban Design and Development ~ Role of EST" Co-Organizers Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, Mongolia Ministry of Road and Transport Development, Mongolia Ministry of…

Date: 3-7 September 2018 Place: Aichi Prefecture Upon the request from the Council of the City of Kuching South, UNCRD conducted a training course on localizing SDGs from 3 to 7 September in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. This training course was specifically designed for the needs of the Council, taking…

Date: 2-13 July 2018 Place: Aichi Prefecture Upon the request from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), UNCRD conducted a training course on localizing SDGs from 2 to 13 July in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. This training course was specifically designed for the BMA, taking into account the…

Date: 21 June 2018 (1:10 PM - 4:20 PM) Place: Meijo University, Aichi Prefecture The Campus SDGs Events for students has been promoted by UNCRD in collaboration with universities and colleges in Chubu Region as UNCRD believe the engagement of youth is crucial for promoting and implementing SDGs in…

Date: 17-23 June 2018 Place: Adelaide, South Australia In partnership with UNCRD, the Green Industries South Australia, the Government of South Australia, hosted and co-organized the Global Leadership Programme on the Circular Economy from 17 to 23 June 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia. Launched at…

Date: 9-12 April 2018 Place: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India Venue: Brilliant Convention Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India Theme: Achieving Clean Water, Clean Land and Clean Air through 3R and Resource Efficiency- A 21st Century Vision for Asia-Pacific Communities Co-Organizers Ministry of Housing…

Date: 26 February-2 March 2018 Place/Venue: United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan Theme: "Railways as the Low Carbon and Sustainable Transport Development Solutions in Achieving Safe, Inclusive, Efficient and Resilient Communities under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" Co-Organizers…

Date: 2-3 February 2018 Place: Toyota City, Japan UNCRD and Toyota City organized the international symposium to address the role of technology, partnership and C2C cooperation for building resilient and sustainable societies in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The symposium was…

Date: 15-17 December 2017 Venue: Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telengana, India IPLA - International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities, attended the 6th International Conference on Solid Waste…

Date: 10-12 October 2017 Venue: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani, Thailand Theme: Building Resilient and Sustainable Cities through EST Solutions & Measures ~ Realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Co-Organizers United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of…

Date: 5 October 2017 Place: Osaka, Japan Organized by Japan Environmental Senitation Center (JESC) Co-organized by Ministry of the Environment, Japan Osaka City Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA) More about 10th 3R Conference for…

Date: 14 July 2017 (6:15 PM - 7:30 PM) Place: New York Venue: Conference Room B, United Nations Headquarters, New York Theme: Rural-Urban Connectivity in Integrated Regional Development ~ Implications towards Livelihood Security and Poverty Alleviation Summary of the Event Concept Note and Programme…

Date: 5 June 2017 (5:00 PM - 6:15 PM) Place: United Nations Headquarters, New York Theme: 3R as the Basis for Moving Towards Zero Plastic Waste in Coastal and Marine Environment Venue:Conference Room 6 in the UN Conference Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York Organizers United Nations…

Date: 1 June 2017 - 28 February 2018 Place: Bucaramanga, Colombia UNCRD has re-started the work of Integrated Regional Development Planning (IRDP) in Latin America. There is a growing demand and interest of Latin American countries to implement IRDP in their efforts towards sustainable development…

Date: 19-20 April 2017 Place: UNEP Office Nairobi Partnership for capacity development on sustainable urbanization protection against hazardous chemicals and waste towards achieving 2030 agenda for sustainability in Africa Venue: UNEP HQ Nairobi OUTCOME DOCUMENT Report PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES 3R…

Date: 24 March 2017 Place: Nagoya, Japan The new development agenda, "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in 2015, along with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the global development framework for…

Date: 15 March 2017 Place: Vientiane, Lao PDR The Vientiane International Mayors Forum was organized on 15 March 2017 as an integral part of the 10th Regional EST Forum in Asia, being led by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) and UNCRD. The main objective of the Vientiane…

Date: 14-16 March 2017 Place: Vientiane, Lao PDR Theme: 2030 Road Map for Sustainable Transport ~Aligning with Sustainable Transport Development Goals (SDGs)~ Venue Don Chan Palace Hotel & Convention Organizers Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT), Lao PDR Ministry of the Environment (MoE)…

Date: 8-10 March 2017 Place: New Delhi, India The 4th 3R International Scientific Conference on Material Cycles and Waste Management (3RINCs), 8-10 March 2017, New Delhi, India, was co-organized the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India; CSIR-Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun…

Dates: 24-26 November 2016 Place: Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India IPLA - International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities, attended the 6th International Conference on Solid Waste Management (6th IconSWM 2016) as a supporting organization, organized by…

Dates: 2-4 November 2016 Place: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Theme: Advancing 3R and Resource Efficiency for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Organizers Australian Government Office of Green Industries SA on…

Date and Time: 31 August 2016 (2:00 PM - 4:50 PM) Place: Nagoya, Japan This year the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) commemorates the 45th year since its establishment in Nagoya, back in 1971. Since that time, UNCRD has made various contributions to the promotion of the…

Dates: 30-31 August 2016 Place: Nagoya, Japan UNCRD organized the 45th Anniversary Commemorative Event on 30-31 August 2016 in collaboration with the Implementation Committee for the UNCRD 45th Anniversary Event, UNCRD Cooperation Association and Nagoya International Center. The aim of the event was…

Dates: 30 August-1 September 2016 Place: Nagoya City and Toyota City, Japan The UNCRD 45th Anniversary Commemorative Event to be held in Nagoya, from 30 August to 1 September 2016, is composed of the Expert Group Meeting, Public Symposium, and the technical tour to Toyota City. The details of the…

Dates: 17-19 July 2016 Place: Male', Maldives The First National Waste Management Strategy Seminar, which marks the beginning of National Waste Management Seminar that will be held annually from this year onwards. The seminar is a subsequent result of the Sixth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the…

Date:14 April 2016 The Heads of State and Government and High Level Representatives of 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the post-2015 development agenda – Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core, at…

Dates: 9-11 March 2016 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam The objective of the UNCRD-3RINCs Special Session is to create a science-policy interface to strengthen technical and scientific input to policy consultations at the intergovernmental Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific. More about 3RINCs, The 3R…

Dates: 17-20 November 2015 Place: Kathmandu, Nepal Theme: EST for Resiliency -Building Safe, Smart, Low-carbon and Resilient Cities in Asia Venue: Hyatt Regency, Kathmandu, Nepal Organizers Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT), Nepal Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Japan…

Dates: 28-30 October 2015 Place: Mianyang city, China The 10th international Conference on Waste Managment and Technology Venue: Toakuadao Hotel, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES Environmental Management from the Perspective of 3R~ Experience of 3R practice…

Dates: 6-8 October 2015 Place: Moscow, Russia Theme: Science-Policy-Business-Community Interface Towards a Resource Efficient Nation: Minimum Landfilling and Maximum Resource Recovery Forum website: http://www.ipla-russia.com/ Venue Congress Center, WTC, Moscow, Russia Organizers Federal Supervisory…

Dates: 16-19 August 2015 Place: Male, Maldives Venue: Dharubaaruge, Male, Maldives Organizers Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Maldives Ministry of Tourism, Government of Maldives Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)…

Dates: 12-17 July 2015 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC organized working panel and forum on Integrated regional development toward sustainable, equitable and balanced development in Cundinamarca. During six days, regional actors and national and international experts analyzed the Cundinamarca…

Date: 26 June 2015 In the context of the ongoing agreement with the Government of Cundinamarca, an Internal Articulation Workshop, was held to consult with the governing body and the public servants of Cundinamarca on the identification of a long-term territorial vision for the Departmento for 2032…

Date: 24 April 2015 UNCRD-LAC facilitates the implementation of various meetings aimed to discuss the Territorial Integration Committee (CIT, Spanish acronym) Agenda, in these meetings representatives of Bogota's government, various municipalities of the surrounding region and key stakeholders of…

Date: 24 April 2015 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC implemented a workshop aimed at the “Interinstitutional Coordination for the constitution of a Territorial Integration Committee", between Bogota and 12 municipalities of its surrounding region. The mayors of these territories will sign an…

Dates: 26-27 March 2015 Place: Bogota, Colombia The IPLA event, International Dialogue on Solid Waste Management Towards Zero Waste, was co-organized by UAESP, Bogota (United Administrative Especial de Servicios Publicos) and Office of Mayor of Bogota City from 26 to 27 March 2015 in Bogota…

Date: 19 March 2015 Place: Nagoya, Japan Venue: The Lecture Hall, Graduate School of Environmental Studies Building, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Co-Organized by: Research and Education Center for Sustainable Co-Development, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (NU-SusCoDe…

Dates: 16-19 March 2015 Place: Aichi, Toyota, Kyoto and Osaka Upon the request from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), UNCRD provided a training programme on 16, 17 and 19 March 2015 in Japan. This programme comprised an important part of the 15th Intermediate Executive Bangkok Metropolitan…

Date: 16 January 2015 Place:Toyota, Japan UNCRD organized the Special Ceremony for Signing of Kyoto Declaration on the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) in Cities on 16 January 2015 during High-Level Symposium on Sustainable Cities: Connecting People, Environment and…

Dates: 15-16 January 2015 Place: Toyota, Japan As an overseas office of UNDESA located in Nagoya, UNCRD supported the organization of High-Level Symposium on Sustainable Cities: Connecting People, Environment and Technology, Co-Convened By the United Nations and Toyota City, held on 15-16 January…

Dates: 20-21 November 2014 The event enabled a valuable multi-stakeholder dialogue to build a common vision of the future development this region based on biodiversity, sustainable development and peace building though a territorial approach. This region is considered one of the richest in Colombia…

Commemorative Stamp for the Integrated Conference was launched in the Opening Ceremony.

Date: 19-21 November 2014 Place: Colombo, Sri Lanka Venue: Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka Theme: Next Generation Solution for Clean Air and Transport - towards Sustainable and Livable Society in Asia Integrated Conference portal website: http://www.baq2014est…

Date and Time: 18 November 2014 (1:30 PM - 6:00 PM) Place: Colombo, Sri Lanka Venue: "Golden Pond” Meeting Room, Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka Programme: Time Provisional Programme Speaker/Panel Affiliation/Title 1:00-1:30 Registration Session I: Global and Regional Developments in Green…

Date: 18 December 2014 Place: Lagos, Nigeria The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), the statutory waste management agency in Lagos State and IPLA Sub-Regional Secretariat for Western Africa will organize a High-level Interactive Forum on "Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation for Knowledge and…

Date: 8-9 September 2014 Place: Sao Paulo, Brazil Venue: Sheraton Sao Paulo World Trade Center Theme: Empowering Municipal and Local Authorities through Improved Knowledge Management - How can Municipalities Choose and Apply Better Technologies for Sustainable Waste Management? Concept Note São…

Date: 3 September 2014 (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM) Place: Apia, Samoa Venue: SPREP Campus (TEC conference room), Apia, Samoa Co-organizers: SPREP JICA Griffith University, Australia IPLA UNCRD Objectives Consider the international PPP for a sustainable waste management in PICs Identify the policy and…

Date: 7 July 2014 (1:15 PM - 2:30 PM) Place: New York, USA Venue: Conference Room C, Conference Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York 2HLPF Side Event - 01_Final Concept Note & Programme 2HLPF Side Event - 02_Information Note for Participants 2HLPF Side Event - 03_Final Report UNCRD and…

Date: 21 May 2014 UNCRD together with the City of Bogota, and the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota (CCB) co-organized the panel and workshop event on Integrated Regional Development Planning in the context of the first Administrative and Planning Region (RAPE) Central Region, as an effort to continue…

Date: 7-8 May 2014 Place: Munich, Germany Venue: Saal 14c, ICM (International Congress Centre Munich) Co-organized by: United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) Supported by: Federal Ministry…

Date: 30 April 2014 Place: Kathmandu, Nepal National EST Strategy for Nepal - First Draft (April 2014) National EST Strategy for Nepal - Summary of Multi-stakeholders Consultation Meeting (30 April 2014) In response to the official request by Government of Nepal, UNCRD initiated providing technical…

Date and Time: 24 April 2014 (1:30 PM - 5:00 PM) Place: Nagoya, Japan Venue: Nagoya International Centre Annex Hall, Nagoya, Japan Organized by: United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) Ministry of the Environment, Japan Supported by: UNCRD Cooperation Association Asia 3R Citizens…

Date: 8 April 2014 Place: Medellin, Colombia UNCRD LAC Office participated in the 7th World Urban Forum (WUF 7) held in Medellin, Colombia. Ms. Claudia Hoshino, Coordinator of UNCRD LAC Office, represented UNCRD in High-Level Inter-Agency Dialogue, held on 8 April and the EGM on Urban and…

Date: 7 April 2014 Place: Medellin, Colombia UNCRD organized a panel discussion on 7 April, entitled Integrated Regional Development Planning: Power of a Territorial Approach to Sustainable Development. Integrated Regional Development Planning (IRDP) --founded on a territorial approach to…

Date: 7-11 April 2014 Place: Aichi and Gifu, Japan Concept of Endogenous Regional Development (EnRD) Report submitted by Kuching City South Upon the request from the Council of Kuching City South, UNCRD conducted a training course on "Endogenous Regional Development through Community Initiatives"…

Dates: 25 March - 24 September 2014 Place: Bogota, Colombia Consultation and participatory agreement process between Bogota, 17 municipalities of its surrounding region and the Chamber of Commerce the proposal to discuss common projects of regional interest and the constitution of formal figures of…

Date: 19-20 March 2014 Place: Aichi, Japan Upon the request from the Government of Bangladesh, UNCRD conducted a two-day training course on "Management and Administration of Local Government Institutions for the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Co-operatives (Ministry of LGRD and…

Date: 10 March 2014 Place: Kyoto, Japan Venue: Room F (Research Bldg. No.8), Kyoto University UNCRD organized a special session on 10 March 2014 in Kyoto, Japan at the 3R International Scientific Conference (3RINCS). The session aimed at promoting a partnership with the Regional 3R Forum in Asia the…

Date: 25-27 February 2014 Place: Surabaya, Indonesia Venue: Shangri-La Hotel Surabaya, Indonesia Theme: Multilayer Partnerships and Coalition as the Basis for 3Rs Promotion in Asia and the Pacific Organizers Co-organizers: Ministry of Environment, Government of Indonesia Ministry of Public Works…

Dates: 7 February - 24 June 2014 Focus will be centered on the constitution and support of the Special Administrative Planning Region (RAPE, Spanish Acronym) for the Central Region of Colombia; will be the first region to be constituted in the country, in the context of the entry into force of the…

Date: 27 January 2014 Place: Bogota, Colombia Public officials representing the city of Bogotá and the Departamentos of Cundinamarca, Tolima, Boyacá, and Meta signed an agreement that will help strengthen the regional agenda of Bogotá and its area of influence. The Mayor of Bogotá, the governor of…

Dates: 19-21 December 2013 Place: Sportsmans Arms Hotel, Nanyuki, Kenya Introduction The Ewaso Ngi'ro North Development Authority (ENNDA) is one of the six regional development authorities in Kenya charged with promoting integrated and sustainable social, economic, and political development in their…

Dates: 2-4 December 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya UNCRD Africa Office has been implementing a capacity building and livelihood project in Dadaab refugee camp and its environs to improve the technical skills of both the refugees and the host community and enhance their socioeconomic conditions…

Dates: 27-29 November 2013 Place: UN Complex, Nairobi, Kenya African cities and urban centres are growing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world. According to UN-HABITAT, by the year 2050, more than 1.2 billion Africans will be living in urban areas. This will bring both opportunities and…

Date: 20 November - 21 December 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan Concept of Endogenous Regional Development (EnRD) Central Asia is located almost at the very centre of the Eurasian continent, surrounded by Russia to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan and Pakistan to the south. The five republics…

Date: 6 November - 21 December 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan The rapid growth with industrialization and urbanization has increased demands in the transport sector, and seriously affected various socio-economic and environmental problems relating to transport in developing countries, due to lack of well…

Date: 24 October 2013 Place: Brisbane, Australia Concept Note (PDF) A Workshop on Moving Towards Resource Efficient and Zero Waste Cities for city and local government officials from Semarang City, Indonesia, was co-hosted by IPLA and Griffith University on 24 October 2013 at Nathan Campus, Griffith…

Date: 20 October 2013 Place: Kitakyushu City, Japan The City of Kitakyushu is known for its efforts in transforming itself from one of the most polluted cities in Japan to one of the leading environmentally friendly cities, which was selected as an eco-model city by the national government in 2008…

Dates: 30 September - 5 October 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya Rationale for Capacity building for Conflict Prevention The rationale for capacity building and conflict management is to empower both the refugees and host communities through exchange of information, promotion of knowledge and…

Date: 25 September 2013 UNCRD has become a new Actor in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAS) initiative on Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) from Municipal Solid Waste. The CCAC initiative will provide a catalyzing force to reduce emissions of SLCPs across the municipal solid…

Date: 17 September 2013 - 19 October 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was first open for signature at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, and now the number of its Contracting Parties has reached 193, as of January 2010. The target gto…

Date: 9-11 September 2013 Place: Boras, Sweden UNCRD, the City of Boras, and Waste Recovery International Partnership in Boras co-organized IPLA Global Forum 2013 on Sustainable Waste Management for the 21st Century Cities -Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities through Partnership, in Boras…

Dates: 22-24 July 2013 Place: WFP Conference Room, Dadaab, Kenya The effects of environmental degradation, particularly those related to fuel wood and construction materials gathering in Dadaab, have not only had an irreversible impact on natural resource assets but also on socio-economic costs to…

Dates: 10-12 July 2013 Place: Masinga Dam, Kenya Background To assist TARDA to effectively undertake its mandate as well as implement the various national policies and strategies of the government, UNCRD Africa Office has been providing technical assistance to the Authority. The technical assistance…

Date: 25 June 2013 Place: Bogota, Colombia In the context of Project Capacity Building on Regional Development Planning and Management, implemented under the current agreement between UNCRD and the City of Bogotá, a Forum on Territorial Planning and Regional Development was held in Bogota. This…

Dates: 17-29 June 2013 Place: AICAD, Juja, Kenya This project is expected to build on the progress made and experiences gained through an earlier capacity-building programme supported by AICAD, JICA and UNCRD implemented from 2002 to 2007. The project titled, Africa Capacity Development: Local and…

Date: 17-28 June 2013 Place: Aichi and Gifu, Japan Upon the request of the Strategy and Evaluation Development of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), UNCRD conducted a special training course from 17 to 28 June in Nagoya, Japan. This course was specifically designed for the needs of BMA…

Date: 2 June 2013 (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM) Place: Yokohama, Japan Poverty reduction is a primary and ultimate goal of the international community as is expressed in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Many African countries have embarked on sustainable regional development policies to reduce…

Date: 28-30 May 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan UNCRD conducted the Expert Group Meeting on Integrated Regional Development Planning (IRDP) from 28 to 30 May 2013 in Nagoya, Japan. The main objective for this expert group meeting was to discuss the link and interface between IRDP and sustainable…

Date: 14-16 May 2013 Place: Cairo, Egypt SWEEP-Net, which serves as the IPLA Sub-Regional Secretariat for Mashreq and Maghreb Countries, organized its third Regional Forum on “New Opportunities for Employment, Social Equity and Sustainable Development in the MENA Region” from 14 to 16 May 2013, in…

Dates: 2-3 May 2013 Place: Bogota, Colombia In the context of the UNCRD-LAC Programme on Integrated Regional Development Planning and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, an Expert Consultation Meeting (ECM) was held in Bogotá, Colombia on 2-3 May 2013. The Programme aims at strengthening…

Date: 23-25 April 2013 Place: Bali, Indonesia Seventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the post-2015 Development Agenda Theme: Next Generation Transport Systems We Want for 21st Century - Looking Beyond Rio+20 Venue: The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Bali…

Dates: 25 March - 6 April 2013 Place: Swakopmund, Namibia Background Namibia is one of the few African countries which have recognized the importance of decentralized development in nation building. However, experiences have shown that the pace at which regional development plans were prepared and…

Date: 18-20 March 2013 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) of Viet Nam, the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) of Japan, and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) co-organized the Fourth Regional 3R Forum in Asia from 18 to 20 March…

Dates: 15-16 March 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya The Dadaab refugee camps and the environs is naturally a semi-arid area that has increasingly undergone extensive environmental degradation since the early 1990s when the influx of Somali refugees into the area started. The carrying capacity of…

Dates: 13-14 March 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya The Dadaab refugee camp and the local surrounding areas, located in under developed north eastern region of Kenya, suffers from two major constraints to sustainable human capital development. The first is low education levels due to poor and…

Date and Time: 13 February 2018 (1:15 PM - 4:00 PM) Place: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan UNCRD organized the Public Seminar "Localizing SDGs in Chubu Region" in collaboration with UNCRD Cooperation Association. The public seminar attracted an audience of 150, including central and local…

Date: 13 February-16 March 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan Although the LAC region has achieved stable economic growth as a result of adopting economic reform measures such as privatization and deregulation, many of the countries, including a number of rapidly developing countries, are still facing…

Dates: 1 February - 6 June 2013 (1, 6, 13, 27 February; 7, 13, 20 March; 3, 18April; 22 May; 5, 6 June 2013) The Technical Territorial Integration Board, supported by UNCRD, is a space for multi-stakeholder dialogue and consensus building and technical support to promote a "Regional Vision" within…

Date: 29 January 2013 Place: Kawasaki, Japan UNCRD supported and participated in the Fifth 3R Conference for Asian Local Governments hosted by the Japan Environmental Sanitation Center (JESC) and co-organized by Kawasaki City, Ministry of the Environment, Japan, and Tokyo Metropolitan Government on…

Dates: 24-26 January 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya Background Due to hostile environment, choices for opportunities for creation of sustainable livelihoods in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya are highly limited. Located in an underdeveloped area of Kenya, the camp suffers from a high level…

Date: 21-23 January 2013 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya Background Due to hostile environment, choices for opportunities for creation of sustainable livelihoods in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya are highly limited. Located in an underdeveloped area of Kenya, the camp suffers from a high level…

Date:　12 January 2013 Place: Ahmedabad, India Venue: SR-3, Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Gujarat, India, with the support of UNCRD and Zero Waste South Australia, has taken an initiative in developing a "Road Map for Zero Waste Ahmedabad". The Road Map, which…

Date: 6 Janunary-6 February 2013 Place: Nagoya, Japan Although the LAC region has achieved stable economic growth as a result of adopting economic reform measures such as privatization and deregulation, many of the countries, including a number of rapidly developing countries, are still facing…

Date: 15-17 December 2012 Introduction and Objectives As a part of ITC held every spring in Japan, UNCRD conducts its follow-up projects in one or two selected participants' countries with the following objectives: to help the participants disseminate what they learned in the course to their…

Date: 10-14 December 2012 Place: Nagoya and Sendai (site visit) , Japan Background Information As one of the first activities related to the new Disaster Management Planning Programme, UNCRD organized "International Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building of Urban Communities"…

Dates: 27-29 November 2012 Place: Masinga Dam, Kenya Background UNCRD Africa Office responded to a request by the Government of Kenya through Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority (TARDA) for technical assistance to design and implement a training programme towards building TARDA’s…

Dates: 12-17 November 2012 Place: Dadaab, Northern Kenya Introduction Conflict, combined with frequent droughts have worsened economic and social conditions of Somalis forcing them to migrate long distances out of their country to into Dadaab refugee camp. Located in underdeveloped area of Kenya…

Dates: 5-6 November 2012 Place: Santiago, Chile In the context of the training activities on urban and regional development planning and human security held in collaboration with UN/ECLAC, the City of Milan, and the Chilean Secretary of Regional Development (SUBDERE) in the past few years, a…

Dates: 16 October - 11 December 2012 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD held a series of 8 meetings aimed at information gathering and exchange about the regional visions, plans and project proposals of regional development made by the key actors of the Bogota Regional Integration processes. These…

Date: 11-12 September 2012 Place: Ahmedabad, India The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) jointly organized a multi-stakeholder consultation on the Pre-Final Draft Road Map for Zero Waste Ahmedabad on 11-12 September in Ahmedabad, Gujarat…

Date: 6 September 2012 Place: Seoul, Republic of Korea IPLA Portal: www.iplaportal.org The IPLA Portal was officially launched at the IPLA Global Forum 2012 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The Portal, which was developed with the support of the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS…

Date: 5-6 September 2012 Place: Seoul, Republic of Korea The IPLA Global Forum 2012 on Empowering Municipalities in Building Zero Waste Society - A Vision for the post-Rio+20 Sustainable Urban Development was held on 5-6 September 2012 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Meeting Summary (inc. participants…

Dates: 3 September - 29 November 2012 Place: Municipalities of Cundinamarca, Colombia Bogotá ( 3, 11 Sep.), Cota (20 Sep.), La Calera (26 Sep.), Fusagasuga (8 Oct.), Chipaque (11 Oct.), Villavicencio-Meta (29 Nov.) 2012 UNCRD facilitated an inter-municipal consultation process between Bogotá and its…

Date: 10-13 July 2012 Place: Ha Noi, Viet Nam Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) training workshop on building capacity to deal with the illegal shipments of e-waste and near-end-of-life electronics was held on 10-13 July 2012, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. This workshop was being implemented as a follow up to…

Date: 6 July 2012 Place: Bogota, Colombia In the context of the of the Bogotá Regional Project implemented under the agreement with the City of Bogotá, UNCRD implemented a so called "Launching Workshop" which purpose was to disseminate the objectives and contents of the Agreement signed in May 2012…

Date: 4 July 2012 (9:30 AM - 12:00 PM) Place: Singapore Venue: Sands Expo & Convention Center at Marina Bay Sands, Level 4, Peony Jr, Room 4412 Organizers United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)…

Date: 3-4 July 2012 Place: Sendai, Japan The World Ministerial Conference on Disaster Reduction in Tohoku took place on 3-4 July in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. UNCRD organized a booth at a side event to disseminate the information materials from the UNCRD Tohoku Workshop, entitled…

Date: 27 June 2012 - 10 August 2012 Place: Nagoya, Japan The rapid growth with industrialization and urbanization has increased demands in the transport sector, and seriously affected various socio-economic and environmental problems relating to transport in developing countries, due to lack of well…

Date: 19 June 2012 Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UNCRD-LAC was invited to participate in the World Summit of Federal States and Regions of Rio+20 in the context of the technical support provided by this Office to the Latin American Organization of Intermediate Governments (OLAGI) and the UNESCO…

Date: 19-22 June 2012 Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil IPLA organized the following side events during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Side Event (on-site) Time and date: Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 11:30-13:00 Venue: Rio Centro, T-4 Title: Zero…

Dates: 17-18 June 2012 Place: Cajicá, Colombia Against the Bogotá regional integration project implemented by UNCRD, a Forum on Water Management and Territorial Planning in the Bogota River Basin was held, aimed at facilitating a space for dialogue among the variety of public, private and community…

In support of Rio+20, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) has made Voluntary Commitments in four areas: Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST); 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle); International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA); and…

Date: 21-25 May 2012 Place: Nagoya, Japan The International Training Course in Regional Development (ITC) is designed and conducted to build the capacity of government officials for regional development planning and management. As a lead-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development…

Date: 15-17 May 2012 Place: Marrakeche, Morocco The Regional Solid Waste Exchange of Information and Expertise Network in Mashreq and Maghreb countries (SWEEP-Net), which is the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services (IPLA) Sub-Regional Secretariat for Mashreq and Maghreb…

Dates: 17-18 April 2012 Place: Piura, Perú In the context of UNCRD-LAC's partnership with the International Urban Development Association (INTA), this organization, together with Ciudad Saludable (Waste Management NGO) and the Regional Government of Piura, Peru, joined efforts to organize this…

Date: 17-18 April 2012 Place: Ahmedabad, India The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) jointly organized a multi-stakeholder consultation meeting towards the development of the Road Map for Zero Waste Ahmedabad on 17-18 April in Ahmedabad…

Date: 31 March 2012 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), and the Ministry of Transport (MOT) of the Government of Viet Nam officially completed the National Environment Sustainable Transport (EST) Strategy in March 2012 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The Viet Nam National EST Strategy is…

Date: 28 March 2012 Place: New York, U.S.A. As an input to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) UNCRD-LAC Office actively participated in the elaboration of the document entitled "Development Sustainability facing 20 years of the Earth Summit: Progress, gaps and…

Date: 23 March 2012 Place: Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, Japan In this symposium, we will invite the Vice Chairman of the Nagabora District Council, Rikuzentakata, Iwate. There were people in Nagabora who overcame the disaster with mobilizing the power of residents there while the the village…

Date: 22 March 2012 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM) Place: Tokyo, Japan The public symposium, co-organized by UNCRD and United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), was held at the U Thant International Conference Hall, UNU, Tokyo, Japan on 22 March 2012. A full report of the proceedings…

Date: 29 February 2012 Place: Bogota, Colombia In the context of the IPLA initiative and supported by UNCRD, the Zero Waste policy, launched in January 2012 by the new Bogotá Mayor, is advancing in a sustained way, under the leadership of Agendabogotá (an IPLA member), and the Bogota Zero Waste team…

Date: 29 February 2012 Place: Bogota, Colombia In the context of the IPLA initiative, the proposal of Zero Waste is being positively advanced in Bogota under the leadership of Agendabogota and its Bogota Zero Waste team comprising social organizations, entrepreneurs, and academicians, and supported…

Date: 27 February - 2 March 2012 Place: Nagoya and Tohoku region (Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima), Japan The Great East Japan Earthquake, which affected a wide area of East Japan on 11 March 2011, was unprecedented in its scale and nature. The earthquake was the fourth largest in the world and the…

Date: 23 February 2012 (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM) Place: Nagoya, Japan This meeting aims to introduce the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) to the private sector and discuss the needs and challenges in waste management-related businesses, services…

Dates: 14-15 December 2011 Place: UN Complex, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya Introduction The regional workshop is being organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD…

Date: 4-6 December 2011 Place: New Delhi, India Venue: Manekshaw Centre, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 110 070, India UNCRD, jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD)-India, WHO/SEARO, and Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ), co-organized the Sixth Regional Environmentally Sustainable…

Dates: 21 November - 5 December 2011 Place: University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana Background The aim of the training course is to improve the capacity of district planners and other government officials in sustainable district development planning and enable them to design and implement…

Date: 14-18 November 2011 Place: Nagoya, Japan Between today and 2050, the world population is expected to increase by 2.3 billion, and the population living in urban areas is projected to grow by 2.9 billion, to a total of 6.3 billion in 2050. To address this challenge of rapid urbanization and in…

Dates: 6-10 November 2011 Place: Grenoble, France UNCRD-LAC promotes expansion of its network of collaboration with relevant organizations for the exchange of experience and information, and to strengthen technical cooperation support to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the area…

Dates: 26-28 October 2011 Place: Lima, Peru As part of the activities for the promotion and expansion of the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services to Local Authorities (IPLA). A number of interested organizations in LAC countries have engaged in the initiative, since it…

Dates: 17-29 October 2011 Place: Rundu, Namibia Background The main objective of the training workshop is to train Namibian planners and Councillors from the different regions of the country on effective decentralization and regional development policies and practices. The course also aims at…

Date: 17-18 October 2011 Place: Daegu, Republic of Korea Declaration for Moving towards Zero Waste through IPLA (PDF) The ISWA World Congress 2011, with the theme of Waste Management for Low Carbon and Green Growth Society, provided an excellent opportunity to discuss the role of local authorities…

Date: 5-7 October 2011 Place: Singapore Theme: Technology Transfer for promoting the 3Rs Building on the increased awareness/understanding on the significance of the 3Rs at the policy level, and to foster the development, adaptation, and scaling up of environmentally friendly 3R technologies, the…

Dates: 21-24 September 2011 Place: Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Background The main objective of the seminar is to foster understanding of the effects of climate change on food security in Africa and Asia, and to critically examine some of the policy options available to these countries to promote…

Date: 7 September 2011 Place: Santiago, Chile As s an input to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), UNCRD-LAC Office actively participated together with the other UN Agencies involved in the initiative in the discussion and presentation of the final document to LAC…

Date: 3 September 2011 Place: Soacha, Colombia This workshop is part of the activities developed in the implementation of Phase 2 of the technical support provided by UNCRD to integrate the human security perspective in the UN Interagency Project being developed in Soacha, Colombia. The purpose of…

Dates: 28-31 August 2011 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Background The UNCRD Africa Office and University of Denver, in partnership with the University of Nairobi, have been conducting a research-cum-training project in northern Kenya. Within the overall context of human security, this project aims to reduce…

Date: 26-28 August 2011 Place: Ahmedabad, India From the Third Forum in 2008, eight South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) actively participated in the Forum and through their intergovernmental body, South Asia Co-operative…

Date: 21 August-1 September 2011; and 15-26 April 2012 Place: Nagoya, Japan The two training courses entitled "Strengthening Multi-sectoral Planning and Budgeting Capacity in Oromia Region, Ethiopia" were conducted from 21 August to 1 September 2011 and from 15 to 26 April 2012. The decentralization…

Date: 17 August 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia In collaboration with the UNCRD Environment Program UNCRD-LAC amply supported the launching and promotion of IPLA in Latin America and the Caribbean through the implementation of a diversity of activities. Relevant ones included the establishment of IPLA…

Dates: 11-12 August 2011 Place: Valparaiso, Chile This Forum was held in the context of the project implemented by UNCRD-LAC in collaboration with the University of Blas Pascal of Argentina under the UNESCO Chair for Human Security and Regional Development, with the support and participation of the…

Dates: 11 August - 4 November 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia The outcomes of project on Human Security Assessment undertaken in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region from 2006 to 2008, generated the interest of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services of Bogotá (UAESP, Spanish Acronym), which…

Date: 27 July-10 September 2011 Place: Nagoya, Japan 1st Course: 28 September - 7 November 2009 2nd Course: 5 July - 20 August 2010 Over the past several decades, we have observed rapid population growth and economic expansion as a result of industrialization and urbanization. Though this has led to…

Date: 30 June-1 July 2011 Place: Santa Marta, Colombia UNCRD-LAC supports the initiative for the integration of the Caribbean Region since 2009, and part of this initiative is the development of the metropolitan corridor Santa Marta, Cartagena and Barranquilla, the three main cities of this region…

Dates: 30 June - 1 July 2011 Place: Santa Marta, Colombia UNCRD-LAC supports the initiative for the integration of the Caribbean Region since 2009, and part of this initiative is the development of the metropolitan corridor Santa Marta, Cartagena and Barranquilla, the three main cities of this…

Date: 22-24 June 2011 Place: Colombia Declaration EST Declaration - Bogota Declaration (2011, Eng) EST - Declaración de Bogotá 2011-2020 (Sp) UNCRD-LAC supported the implementation of the Sustainable Transport Forum for Latin America FTS 2011, held from 22 to 24 June 2011 in the city of Bogotá…

Date: 20 May 2011 Place: Manila, Philippines The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) of the Government of the Philippines officially launched the the National Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Strategy on 20 May 2011 in Manila, Philippines. The EST Strategy has two…

Dates: 17-18 May 2011 Place: San José, Costa Rica UNCRD-LAC was invited to contribute in the International Workshop entitled "Regional Workshop on Human Security", in recognition of the Office's experience capitalized on human security, and the technical cooperation support provided to the UN…

Dates: 16 May - 30 June 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia In response to the request of the Bogotá City Planning Office, UNCRD-LAC initiated a study aimed at defining a set of proposals applicable to Bogotá7s territorial, economic and fiscal urban policies, to facilitate their adaptation to the land use…

Date: 12 May 2011 Place: New York, USA International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) was officially launched. Venue: Conference Room B, (NLB), UN HQs, NY Organizers: Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan UN Department of Economic and Social…

Dates: 9 May - 4 June 2011 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Background The Regional State of Oromia is the largest region both in terms of population and geographical size. Like any other region in Ethiopia, the regional state is faced with a growing demand for qualified district and regional…

Date: 9 May 2011 (10:00 AM - 1:00 PM) Place: New York, USA Venue: Organizers: UNCRD, UN HABITAT Lecturers: Dr. Graham Alabaster, UN HABITAT Sustainable Waste Management in World's Cities - Challenges and Opportunities (PDF) Mr. Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator, UNCRD…

Dates: 3-11 May 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia Under its technical assistance framework, and in response to an invitation from the UN System in Colombia, UNCRD provides support to the Inter-Agency project entitled "Improvement of human security conditions of the vulnerable population in Soacha…

Dates: 6 April-18 June 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia In collaboration with the Departamento of Cundinamarca, the Public Administration School (ESAP), and the National Planning Department of Colombia, UNCRD-LAC conducted training on human security and integrated regional development concepts for the…

Dates: 4-15 April 2011 Place: Civil Service College of Singapore Background The UNCRD Africa Office, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), organized training courses on "Urban and Regional Development Planning and…

Dates: 30-31 March 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC, in collaboration with the City of Bogotá, the Departamento of Cundinamarca, the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia, Foro Semana, and UNDP (among others), implemented the International Forum on Regional Development…

Dates: 28-31 March 2011 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Background Since 2004, the UNCRD Africa Office has been providing technical assistance to the Ewaso Ng'iro North Development Authority (ENNDA) of Kenya to build its capacity in regional development planning and plan preparation. ENNDA is a statutory…

Dates: 21-23 March 2011 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Background The UNCRD Africa Office and University of Denver, in partnership with the University of Nairobi, have been conducting a research-cum-training project in northern Kenya. Within the overall context of human security, this project aims to reduce…

Dates: 9 March - 26 April 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia The outcomes of project on Human Security Assessment undertaken in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region from 2006 to 2008, generated the interest of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services of Bogotá (UAESP, Spanish Acronym), which…

Dates: 23-25 February 2011 Place: Masinga Dam, Kenya Background TARDA is the oldest of the six regional development authorities that the Government of Kenya created in 1974 for effective management of natural resources and the environment, and preparation of regional development plans to enhance…

Dates: 22 February ‐ 1 April 2011 Place: Bogota, Colombia Since 2009, UNCRD-LAC supports 25 municipalities that surround the City of Bogotá in the revision, adjustment, and harmonization of their territorial and land-use plans to address fundamental social, economic, and environmental issues that…

Date: 16-18 February 2011 Place: Tokyo, Japan Programme Chair's Summary List of Participants The CSD-19 Intersessional Conference on Building Partnerships for Moving towards Zero Waste was organized jointly by UNDESA, UNCRD, and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. The meeting was attended by…

Dates: 5 January - 19 May 2011 UNCRD-LAC supported preparatory activities of CSD 19 (held in February 2011) and in building the International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA) in Latin American and the Caribbean Countries, launched in May 2011. A number…

Date: 23 December 2010 Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh The final draft of the strategy was endorsed by the Government of Bangladesh in November 2010, and its official launching was declared by chief guest, Dr. Hasan Mahmud, MP, Honorable State Minister, Ministry of Environment and Forests in December 2010…

Dates: 5-24 December 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC, and the UN agencies with a regional mandate in Latin America and the Caribbean, was invited to contribute in the interagency discussion and document to assess progress and gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on…

Dates: 25 October - 6 November 2010 Place: Swakopmund, Erongo Region, Namibia Background The main objective of the training workshop is to train the Namibian planners and councillors on effective decentralization and regional development policies and practices. The course also aims at equipping the…

Dates: 22-28 October 2010 Place: San Sebastian, Spain Over the past few years, UNCRD-LAC has expanded its network of collaboration with relevant organizations to strengthen exchange of experience and information and technical support to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the area of…

Date: 16 October 2010 Place: Catagena, Colombia Over the past two years, UNCRD-LAC has strengthened alliances with other UN agencies such as the UN-Habitat and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in three working areas: (1) Training; (2) Technical Assistance, and; (3) Research. In October…

Dates: 6-7 October 2010 P lace: Cordoba, Argentina Under the framework of the capacity building programme on human security and integrated regional development for the Central Region of Argentina (initiated in 2008), UNCRD-LAC's coordinator was invited to deliver the introductory keynote of the III…

Date: 4-6 October 2010 Place: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Second Regional 3R Forum in Asia was held from 4-6 October 2010 in Malaysia. The objectives were to: Contribute towards improved understanding and strengthened regional consensus in terms of policy options that promote the 3Rs towards…

Dates: 1 October - 1 December 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia Since 2009, UNCRD-LAC supports 25 municipalities that surround the City of Bogotá in the revision, adjustment, and harmonization of their territorial and land-use plans to address fundamental social, economic, and environmental issues that…

Dates: 8-24 September 2010 Place: Gaborone, Botswana Background The overall objective of the in-country training programme is to train planners and government officials in effective district development planning and project planning and management towards supporting decentralization programmes of…

Dates: 1 September - 15 December 2010 Place: Soacha, Colombia Under its technical assistance framework, and in response to an invitation from the UN System in Colombia, UNCRD is providing support to the Inter-Agency project entitled "Improvement of human security conditions of the vulnerable…

Dates: 23-25 August 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD, UN/ECLAC, the Municipality of Milan, and the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. The course is directed to approximately thirty participants from Chile and Colombia, and is aimed at providing tools for participatory project formulation…

Date: 23-25 August 2010 Place: Bangkok, Thailand Venue: Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok The Fifth Regional EST Forum in Asia was jointly organized by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) of the Kingdom of Thailand, Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MOEJ…

Dates: 3-5 August 2010 Place: Bandung, Indonesia Background The main objective of the seminar is to discuss the impact of climate change on poverty and examine the policy options available to policymakers in terms of mitigation and adaptation to climate change to reduce its adverse effects in the…

Dates: 1 August - 14 November 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia The outcomes of project on Human Security Assessment undertaken in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region from 2006 to 2008, generated the interest of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services of Bogotá (UAESP, Spanish Acronym), which…

Date: 27-29 July 2010 Place: Hai Phong City, Viet Nam With the financial assistance of the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MOEJ) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), UNCRD has been providing needed technical assistance to the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and…

Dates: 28-30 June 2010 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Background The main objective of the training workshop is to build the capacity of the community leaders in conflict resolution techniques to bring about sustainable peace in the region and to discuss the implementation of strategies and tools which were…

Date: 20 June 2010 Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh With the financial assistance of the Government of Japan, UNCRD has been providing needed technical assistance to the Department of Environment (DoE)/Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF)-Bangladesh to develop its national 3R strategy since the…

Date: 1-11 June 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia / Barranquilla, Colombia In 2004 UNCRD-LAC initiated a South-South Cooperation Programme for Latin American countries on Capacity Building for Integrated Regional Development Management, focusing on human security to respond to the increasing demand from…

ITC 38 - Completion Report ITC 38 - Newspaper Articles The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) has been promoting sustainable regional development through its training and research activities. As its flagship programme, it conducted the Thirty-Eighth International Training Course…

Dates: 5 May - 10 June 2010 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Background The broad objective of the training programme is to strengthen the capacity of planners on effective district and local development planning and implementation by ensuring the availability of skilled and competent manpower at…

Date: 6-7 April 2010 Place: Cartagena, Colombia Responding to the invitation received from the Latin American School for Cooperation and Development to collaborate with the implementation of a training module on Integrated Regional Development which initiated in 2009, UNCRD-LAC implemented the…

Dates: 5-16 April 2010 Place: Singapore Background Information The main objective of the training course is to improve the African planners' skills and knowledge in urban and regional development planning. By focusing on the successful experiences of Singapore, the course aims at assisting African…

Date: 25 March 2010 - 21 April 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC is supporting since 2009, 25 municipalities surrounding the City of Bogotá in the revision, adjustment, and harmonization of their territorial and land-use plans to address fundamental social, economic, and environmental issues…

Date: 18-19 March 2010 Place: Tokyo, Japan Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) is responsible for reviewing progress in the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development; as well as for providing policy guidance to follow up the Johannesburg Plan of…

Date: 16 March 2010 Place: Seoul, Korea The United Nations Forum on Climate Change Mitigation, Fuel Efficiency and Sustainable Urban Transport was held at the Korea Press Center in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 16-17 March 2010. The Forum was hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea through…

Date: 12 March 2010 (8:30am- 1:00pm) Venue: Salon Pergola 1 del Hotel onesta Posada del Inca - El Olivar -Lima (El Olivar Pancho Fierro 194, San Isidro), Lima, PERU Co-organizers: Centro de Estudios y Prevencion de Desastre (PREDES) Participants: 70 (Registration in advance would be required)…

Dates: 22 February - 6 March 2010 Place: Karas Region, Namibia Objective The main objective of the current training workshop is to train the Namibian planners on the skills and tools of preparing and implementing effective regional development policies and practices. More specifically the training…

Date: 18 February 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia The forum organized in conjunction with the CIDER, served as a space to launch the UNCRD-LAC publication on Human Security Assessments in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region, and disseminate and discuss the findings of the work undertaken from 2006 to 2009…

Dates: 8-9 February 2010 Place: Nomad Palace Hotel, Garissa, Kenya Background Information The main objective of the workshop is mainly to launch the report, “Human Security and Conflict in Northern Kenya: Assessment, Capacity-Building and Operational Tools to Promote Sustainable Livelihoods and…

Date: 24 January 2010 Under UNCRD-LAC’s South-South Cooperation Programme, and in continuation of the training programme initiated in November 2007, UNCRD-LAC will implement the Third Training Workshop on Human Security and Regional Development with Focus on Risk Management and Climate Change for…

Date: 18 January 2010 - 19 March 2010 Place: Bogota, Colombia The outcomes of the Human Security Assessment project undertaken in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region from 2006 to 2008, generated the interest of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services of Bogotá (UAESP, Spanish Acronym), which…

Date: 17-20 January 2010 UNCRD held a Symposium and Expert Meeting, "International Symposium on Urban and Climate Risk Management for Sustainable Development", from 17 to 20 January 2010. The public symposium, on 18 January 2010, was organized as part of the 4th APEC Emergency Management CEO's Forum…

Dates: 16-18 December 2009 Place: Sportsman's Arms Hotel , Nanyuki, Kenya (Office: UNCRD Africa Office)

Date: 12 December 2009 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam The Viet Nam Strategy was officially lunched in December 2009 and became an integral part of the "National Strategy of Integrated Solid Waste Management to 2025, Vision to 2050" and was approved by the Prime Minister of Viet Nam visa Official Decision No…

Date: 9-11 December 2009 Place: Sololá, Guatemala Under the Project on Human Security and Regional Development in Latin America, UNCRD-LAC will implement a workshop to introduce the human security and regional development approach in the formulation of territorial municipal plans from a sustainable…

Dates: 3-4 December 2009 Place: Thompson's Fall Hotel Nyahururu, Kenya (Office: UNCRD Africa Office)

Date: 27-28 November 2009 Place: Kobe, Japan "International Symposium on Disaster Management for Sustainable Regional Development"- 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of the UNCRD Hyogo Office" The two-day symposium including key note speech, panel discussions, film presentations, and exhibitions…

Date: 22 November 2009 Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates: 18-19 November 2009 Place: United Nations Office, Nairobi, Kenya Background The meeting was held as part of a larger effort to improve capacities of countries emerging from conflict to integrate sustainable development principles into development strategies and thereby increase the likelihood…

Date:11-12 November 2009 Place: Tokyo, Japan The Regional 3R Forum in Asia was successfully launched at the Inaugural Meeting held on 11-12 November 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Fifteen Asian countries that participated in the meeting agreed on the Tokyo 3R Statement, voicing their support and interest in…

Date: 2-5 November 2009 Place: Bogota, Colombia This Introductory Training Module is an integral part of the semi-virtual postgraduate training course jointly implemented by UNCRD, the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile, UN/ECLAC, and the Municipality of Milan, targeted to approximately thirty…

Date: 15 October 2009 Place: Kobe, Japan Co-organized with Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage-Ritsumeikan University and UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Hyogo Office (Supported by Hyogo Prefecture, Yomiuri Shimbun Co. Ltd.) About 200 people form local…

Date: 13 October 2009 - 13 October 2010 Place: Santa Marta, Colombia The meeting was led by UNCRD-LAC. Experts discussed the main institutional and governance challenges of the process of construction of the Caribbean Region, including the Metropolitan Corridor of the three main districts of the…

Date: 10 September 2009 Place:Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates: 7-23 September 2009 Place: Gaborone, Botswana Introduction Since independence, Botswana has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, averaging 9 per cent per year from 1967 to 2005. In order to sustain this growth, it established a system of national development planning which…

Under the framework of the Horizontal/South-South Cooperation Programme in Capacity Building for Integrated Regional development Management, and as a continuation of the training activities developed jointly by UNCRD-LAC and the Ministry of Housing, Environment and Territorial Development of…

Date: 13-25 August 2009 Place: Bogota, Colombia UNCRD-LAC organized workshops to support the municipalities surrounding the City of Bogotá in the revision, adjustment, and harmonization of their territorial organization and land-use plans to address fundamental social, economic, and environmental…

Date: 5 August 2009 - 24 December 2009 Place: Bogota, Colombia The outcomes of the Human Security Assessment process undertaken in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region from 2006 to 2008, generated the interest of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services of Bogotá (UAESP, Spanish Acronym), which…

Date: 6 July 2009-12 August 2009 Place: Nagoya, Japan UNCRD conducted a five-year series of training course on human security, which was launched in 2005. The fifth training course was conducted from 6 July to 12 August 2009 with seven participants from Lao PDR, Myanmar, and the Philippines…

Dates: 25-27 June 2009 Place: Singapore Introduction Climate change is an emerging threat to humanity. It has become a major concern in both developed and developing countries since it impacts all important sectors of the economy, including agriculture and forestry, hydrology and water resources…

Date: 14 May-24 June 2009 Place: Nagoya, Japan ITC 37 - Completion Report ITC 37 - Newspaper Articles The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) conducted the Thirty-Seventh International Training Course in Regional Development (ITC 37) in Nagoya from 14 May to 24 June 2009. The ITC…

Dates: 11 May - 6 June 2009 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Background Districts are currently delegated to plan and implement development plans or projects at the grass-roots level in the Oromia Regional Government of Ethiopia. Currently, about 301 districts (aanaas) and more than 6,250 villages…

Date: 26-28 April 2009 Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh Venue: Hotel Sheraton, Dhaka, Bangladesh Under the overall framework of the Asian EST Initiative and in line with recommendations made in the Aichi Statement and Kyoto Declaration, UNCRD in cooperation with the Government of Indonesia organized the In…

Date: 21-23 April 2009 Place: Jakarta, Indonesia Venue: Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta, Indonesia Under the overall framework of the Asian EST Initiative and in line with recommendations made in the Aichi Statement and Kyoto Declaration, UNCRD in cooperation with the Government of Indonesia organized the…

Dates: 14-27 April 2009 Place: Civil Service College of Singapore Background The UNCRD Africa Office and Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with the Civil Service College of Singapore, organized the first phase of a training course on "Urban and Regional Development Planning and…

Dates: 25-27 March 2009 Place: Nairobi, Kenya Introduction The main objectives of the in-house seminar will be to discuss and review the literature review prepared by the resource persons, and to review the results of the field trip conducted to northern Kenya from 16 to 21 March 2009 in a bid to…

Date: 24-26 February 2009 Place: Seoul, Republic of Korea Venue: Grand Hyatt Seoul (747-7 Hannam 2-Dong, Yongsan-Ku, Seoul, Republic of Korea) The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) of the Republic of Korea, and the…

Dates: 23 February - 7 March 2009 Place: Oshakati, Namibia Background The UNCRD Africa Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development (MRLGHRD), Government of Namibia and the Finnish Government organized and implemented the first and second…

Dates: 4-6 February 2009 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Introduction First, the programme focuses on the training of planners and development managers of ENNDA in emerging concepts and issues of regional development, including a regional approach to development, techniques of data collection and analysis…

Dates: 15-17 December 2008 Place: Nairobi, Kenya Background The training workshop targets government agencies and institutions, both central and local, and key actors including the NGOs involved in monitoring and evaluation. This workshop should have a significant impact in terms of enhancing the…

Dates: 17-29 November 2008 Place: Gaborone, Botswana Background The overall objective of this capacity-building programme is to train planners and government officials in the requisite skills for effective district development planning and project planning and management towards supporting the…

Date: 12 November 2008 Place: Bangkok, Thailand Kyoto Declaration (2008, 34 cities) Kyoto Declaration Signing Event (2008) - Agenda The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Ministry of the Environment of Government of Japan, and the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia)…

Date: 22-23 October 2008 Place: Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia held a one-day meeting to which about fifty central and local government officials were invited. The meeting confirmed that differences of localities must be taken into consideration in setting up programmes in the strategy, and that the…

Date: 29 September-1 October 2008 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam Viet Nam had three consultations in the North Region (Hanoi), Central Region (Hue), and South Region (Ho Chi Minh City), inviting about seventy, fifty, and eighty participants, respectively. The meeting confirmed that differences of localities…

Date: 17-18 September 2008 Place: Tashkent, Uzbekistan This two day conference was aimed at providing a platform to disseminate the lessons of the project, to share the experiences in the region, and to develop regional strategies to promote school safety and disaster education. The objectives are…

Date: 9-10 September 2008 Place: Suva, Fiji The Regional Workshop on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction is an initiative developed by the Education Task Force as a first step to demonstrate the long term commitment of this partnership to integrate disaster risk reduction into the Education sector…

Dates: 17-19 June 2008 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Background The overall objective of the training workshop is to train the participants in techniques of harmonizing and integrating spatial and sectoral data and analyze and put them in thematic areas to prepare a draft regional plan. More specifically…

1. Date: 24 May 2008 2. Venue: Lalitpur, Nepal 3. Organizers: - UNCRD - Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC)/ Ministry of Physical Planning and Works (MPPW)/ Nepal - Earthquake Risk Reduction and Recovery Preparedness Programme for Nepal (ERRRP)/ UNDP Nepal - National…

Date: 19 May 2008 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam Organizer: UNCRD Institute for Strategy and Policy for Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)-Viet Nam Participants (PDF) Over 80 experts and stakeholders participated including: Relevant ministries…

Dates: 12 May - 7 June 2008 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Background The broad objective of the training programme is to strengthen the capacity of the Regional State of Oromia for effective local and regional development planning and implementation by ensuring the availability of skilled and…

Date: 17-18 April 2008 Place: Jakarta, Indonesia Following the "First National Consultation Meeting for the Formulation of National 3R Strategy for Indonesia" in September 2007, the National Expert Consultation was successfully organized as follows. Organizer UNCRD Ministry of Environment-Indonesia…

Dates: 15-28 April 2008 Place: Singapore Background The main objective of the training course is to provide African planners with requisite knowledge and analytical skills to design effective, socially acceptable, and environmentally sound sustainable urban and regional development policies and…

Date: 17-19 March 2008 Place: Singapore Venue: Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore The third Regional EST Forum was co-organized by National Environment Agency (NEA) / Ministry of Water Resources and Environment of Government of Singapore, Land Transport Authority (LTA) / Ministry of…

Dates: 13-16 December 2007 Place: Masinga Dam, Kenya Background The overall objective of the workshop is to upscale the analytical skills of the planners to review the data collected, carrying out data analysis and projection of future regional development scenarios. The specific objectives of the…

Dates: 13-16 November 2007 Place: Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania Background This seminar is organized by JICA in collaboration with UNCRD Africa Office, to explore the decentralization process and report on the findings of case studies which were commissioned by JICA in the three East African countries…

Date: 1 November 2007 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam Organizer UNCRD Department of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (DoE/MONRE) Participants (PDF) About 60 participants including the relevant ministries of the central government local government academia NGOs Private sector Agenda…

Date: 8-10 October 2007 Place: Bangkok, Thailand Jointly organized by UNESCO, UNICEF, UNESCAP, UNCRD, UNOCHA, IFRC, ASEAN, ADRC, ADPC, ASB and UN/ISDR Asia and Pacific. The Regional Workshop on Education for Disaster Risk Reduction is an initiative developed by the Education Task Force as a first…

Date: 19-20 September 2007 Place: Jakarta, Indonesia Organizer UNCRD the Ministry of Environment (MoE)-Indonesia Participants (PDF) About 50 participants from the following organizations Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Trade Ministry of Health Department of Public Work Department of Tourism, and…

Dates: 17-29 September 2007 Place: Greiter's Conference Centre, Windhoek, Namibia Background The main objective of the training workshop is to train the Namibian planners and councillors on effective decentralization and regional development policies and practices. The course also aims at equipping…

Date: 27 June 2007 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam UNCRD is technically supporting DOE/MONRE-Viet Nam for its National 3R Strategy formulation project, which is financially supported by ADB, Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan, and Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). In order to…

Date: 23-24 April 2007 Place: Kyoto, Japan OUTCOME DOCUMENT Kyoto Declaration (2007, 22 cities) Organizers Organizers United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan Institute…

Date: 27-28 February 2007 Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh Organizer: Department of Environment of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), UNCRD The Waste Concern Supporter: Ministry of the Environment-Japan Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) South Asia Co-operative Environment…

Dates: 19 February - 23 March 2007 Place: AICAD, Juja, Kenya Course Objectives The principal objective of the course is to provide mid-career planners with requisite knowledge and skills in formulating and implementing effective local/regional development policies and plans. The course seeks: To…

Date: 15-16 February 2007 Place: Manila, Philippines Organizer: ADB, UNEP Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP), UNCRD, and IGES Participants: Countries from East and Southeast Asia, International, regional organizations including UNEP/IETC, UNEP/ROAP, UNCRD (Kazunobu Onogawa, C.R.C. Mohanty)…

The International Symposium: Culture of Disaster Management in the Context of Housing and Urbanization, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan organized by UNCRD and Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka as part of the Housing Earthquake Safety Initiative (HESI) project.

Date: 11-12 December 2006 Place: Yogyakarta, Indonesia Venue: Hyatt Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Organizers and Supporting Organizers Co-Organizers: Ministry of the Environment, Republic of Indonesia Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan United Nations Centre for Regional Development…

Dates: 20 November - 2 December 2006 Place: Windhoek, Namibia Course Objectives The main objective of the training workshop is to train the Namibian planners on effective regional development policies and practices. The course also aims at equipping the participants with the techniques of conducting…

Date: 6-8 September 2006 Place: Jakarta, Indonesia Organizer: Ministry of Environment-Indonesia, UNCRD, and IGES Participants: MoE-Indonesia, key government Ministries/agencies, industry associations, the Bandung Institute of Technology (BIT), and UNCRD (C.R.C. Mohanty and Ken Shimizu) The meeting…

Dates: 4-6 September 2006 Place: Mombasa, Kenya Background The overall objective of the workshop is to train participants in regional development strategies and programmes and formulation of a regional plan matrix. The specific objectives are to train planners and development managers in…

Dates: 26-28 July 2006 Place: Isiolo, Kenya Background The broad objective of the in-house seminar is to analyze the data the planners collected and also identify any data gaps that might exist. The specific objectives are: To review data collected by the planning teams for a regional development…

Date: 19 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006 Place: Vientiane, Lao PDR; Ha Noi, Viet Nam; Phnom Penh, Cambodia As part of the national component of the EST project and as a follow-up to the Aichi Statement adopted by 14 Asian countries, UNCRD organized the In-country EST Policy Dialogue-cum-Training Workshops in…

Date: 1-2 June 2006 Place: Kathmandu, Nepal UNCRD organized an international workshop on "Keeping Schools Safe from Earthquakes" on 1-2, June in Kathmandu jointly with National Society for Earthquake Technology- Nepal (NSET) in association with Ministry of Education and Sports, Government of Nepal…

Dates: 3-29 April 2006 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Background The broad objective of the training programme is to strengthen the capacity of the Regional State of Oromia for effective local and regional development planning and implementation by ensuring the availability of skilled and…

Dates: 13 February - 17 March 2006 Place: AICAD, Juja, Kenya Course Objectives The course objectives are: To strengthen the institutional capacity of African countries for regional planning by training planners working with governments and other relevant organizations in effective skills and…

Organizers: UNCRD and the Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment (MoE)-Indonesia Participants: Representatives from MoE-Indonesia and other relevant governmental agencies, JICA, private sector and civil society, JICA, and UNCRD (C.R.C. Mohanty and Kuniaki Makiya) As a follow up to the…

Dates: 20-22 December 2005 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam Organizers: UNCRD and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Viet Nam Participants: Vietnamese governmental officials from relevant ministries, national experts, and staffs of UNCRD (C.R.C. Mohanty and Ken Shimizu) As an integral part of…

Dates: 29-31 August 2005 Place: Mombasa, Kenya Objectives The broad objective of the in-house workshop is to examine and review the data and information collected by the provincial and district planners to prepare a draft regional development plan and formulate appropriate strategies. The specific…

Date: 1-2 August 2005 Place: Nagoya, Japan As a follow-up to the outcome of the Manila Policy Dialogue in January 2004, the First Meeting of the Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia was held on 1-2 August 2005 in Nagoya, Japan under the over all framework of the…

Dates: 28-30 June 2005 Place: Nairobi, Kenya Objectives An overall objective of the workshop is to draw lessons from Eastern and Southern African countries on the approaches to the evaluation of impact of public policies on poverty reduction. In addition, it is to support the development and to…

Date: 30 April 2005 Place: Tokyo, Japan The importance of reorienting the production and consumption pattern through effective implementation of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) principles has been widely recognized in various national and international fora. While it is understood that the…

Dates: 4-30 April 2005 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Training Objectives The broad objective is to strengthen the Regional State of Oromia for effective local and regional development planning and implementation by ensuring availability of skilled and competent manpower in the region.The…

Dates: 14 February - 18 March 2005 Place: AICAD, Juja, Kenya Background The Africa Training Course (ATC) on Local and Regional Development Planning and Management is a multi-dimensional programme for human and institutional capacity building initiated by UNCRD Africa Office in 1995, in collaboration…

Dates: 27-29 October 2004 Place: Mombasa, Kenya Background The Government of Kenya requested the UNCRD Africa Office to assist the Physical Planning Department, Ministry of Lands, Settlement & Housing, to train its planners in requisite knowledge and skills for effective regional development…

Date: 17 September 2004 Place: Nagoya, Japan Participants: 13 from 9 participating organizations and 5 from UNCRD The objectives of the workshops were; to promote sustainable production and consumption (SPC)/3R (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) activities in the developing countries of Asia, through…

Date: 6 -14 September 2004 Place: Vientiane, Lao PDR; Ha Noi, Viet Nam; Phnom Penh, Cambodia The objectives of the Inception Meeting were (a) to bring together the relevant institutions and stakeholders involved in the EST process, (b) to discuss and finalize a detailed work programme/activities…

Dates: 10-11 August 2004 Place: Nanyuki, Kenya Outline The training is expected to help ENNDA and other stakeholders in the preparation of a regional development plan for the basin, by building on and utilizing the existing data and information gathered during the first phase of our technical…

Dates: 23-25 June 2004 Place: Mombasa, Kenya Background In the recent past, the Government of Kenya has adopted regional development planning framework as strategy for implementing environmental management and local economic development programmes and projects in coastal region. The coastal region…

Dates: 26-28 May 2004 Place: Isiolo, Kenya Outline Kenya has adopted regional development planning as one of its main economic development strategies during the last four decades. The Government of Kenya, towards this goal requested the UNCRD Africa Office to design and carry out an in-country…

Dates: 5-27 April 2004 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Outline Oromia is the largest and most populous region in Ethiopia. Endowed with diverse agro-ecological zones, Oromia has a dominant position in Ethiopia's economy. It is the leading producer of coffee, fruits, oil seeds, cotton, tea and…

Dates: 16 February - 19 March 2004 Place: AICAD, Juja, Kenya Objectives: Principal Objectives: To provide mid-career planners with requisite knowledge and skills in formulating and implementing effective local/regional development policies and plans. To broaden the knowledge of the participants on…

Date: 16-17 January 2004 Place:Manila, Philippines Organizers: Department of Transportation and Communications, Government of the Philippines Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) Outcome Document Manila Statement (2004) Objectives…

Dates: 27-28 November 2003 Place: Nyahururu, Kenya Background The broad objectives of the workshop are to: (a) discuss implementation of Nyandarua district regional development plan; (b) exchange experiences gained and lessons learnt from Nyandarua capacity building programme; (c) identify and…

Dates: 28-29 August 2003 Place: Nairobi, Kenya The above workshop will be held by the UNCRD Africa Office in collaboration with UN/DESA and UNDP. The workshop will discuss how to organize future programmes for capacity-building in local administration through South-South cooperation based on the…

Dates: 7-29 April 2003 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Objectives To strengthen the institutional capacity of OBPED for local and regional development and planning by training its planners in project planning and management; To upgrade the capacity of the planning staff at the Bureau Head Office…

Dates: 19 February - 22 March 2003 Place: Nairobi, Kenya Background UNCRD Africa Office, Japan International Cooperation Association (JICA) Kenya, African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Kenya is conducting the Eighth Africa Training Course…

Dates: 10-22 June 2002 Place: Singapore Objectives The objectives of the training workshop included To improve the participants' knowledge and understanding of the broad range of urban issues to be addressed by African countries; To provide opportunities for African planners to learn from the…

Date: 13 May - 4 June 2002 Place: Adama (Nazareth), Ethiopia Objectives of the Training To strengthen the institutional capacity of OBPED for local and regional development and planning by training its planners in project planning and management; To upgrade the capacity of the planning staff at the…

Date: 22 Apr 2002 - 4 May 2002 Place: Thailand The UNCRD Africa Office, in collaboration with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), organized a training course in information technology (IT) from 22 April to 4 May 2002. Assumption University hosted the course which was organized to…

Date: 2 Mar 2002 - 16 Mar 2002 Place: Malaysia Recognizing the importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in economic development, from 2 to 16 March 2002, the UNCRD Africa Office, in collaboration with the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme, organized the Malaysia-UNCRD…