What do girls and women, remittances and tax have in common? They need a higher place on the list of priorities at this year’s U.N. Habitat Conference, according to the global development experts who spoke to Devex on the sidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Africa Summit in Paris, France.
Development professionals will come together the week of Oct. 17 for the third U.N. Habitat conference in Quito, Ecuador. Twenty years have passed since the last U.N. Habitat conference, and stakeholders at the OECD told Devex it can’t wait another 20 years to see certain priorities ticked off the list.
The goal of the conference is to get renewed commitment from global leaders for sustainable urban development, assess progress, address urban poverty and take stock of new and emerging urban challenges. The conference aims to set the New Urban Agenda as its outcome document, which lays out plans for implementation and syncs objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
