Housing without Money - The WORLD URBAN FORUM III AN INTERNATIONAL UN-HABITAT EVENT ON URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Vancouver, Canada June 19-23, 2006 ignores the financial basis of urban development. Only two sessions stress financial issues but with no participation from the private banking sector neither in sponsoring nor in contents. Seen the great importance the Community Reinvestement and Responsible Credit movement gives to fair finance in housing and access to affordable mortgage credit it is a pity that the UN still things that with Microlending and the World Bank the problems for the third world can be solved. The proceedings and a participant list will be available (approximately July 3) on the UN-HABITAT website: www.unhabitat.org/wuf. We document the two sessions which have at least the word "finance" in their title. For the next session 2008 in Nanjiing, China NCRC and ECRC could probably help the UN to come to some of the basic problems of urban discrimnation, gentrification, ghettos and exclusion through the allocation of housing credit. 08:30 – 09:30 PLENARY SESSION Partnership and Finance Location: Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre – Exhibit Hall A Economically vibrant cities are now committed to partnerships with a range of stakeholders at local, national and international levels; enabling the leveraging of resources for investment, learning from each other’s best practices, and enhancing productivity. In addition, this plenary will address the links between urban safety and security, economic growth and poverty reduction. Moderator: Katherine Sierra, Vice President and Network Head, Infrastructure, World Bank, USA Speakers: Mohammad Yousaf Pashtun, Minister of Urban Development, Government of Afghanistan; Pat Jacobsen, Chief Executive Of. cer, TransLink, Canada; Pape Diop, Mayor of Dakar; President, National Assembly, Senegal (TBC) 10:00 – 12:00 Dialogue 2 – Municipal Finance: Innovation and Collaboration Location: Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre – Ballroom C Municipalities around the world are facing the dilemma of the need for a strong fiscal base to create and maintain infrastructure and services amidst pressure to lower taxes to attract foreign and domestic investment. Financial mismanagement greatly affects the ability of local authorities to sustain the provision of municipal infrastructure and services to their constituents. Despite these constraints, there are many innovations, reforms, and partnership arrangements with the private sector and civil society to remedy this. Facilitator: Anwar Versi, Editor, African Business, United Kingdom Commentators to include: Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Economic Growth and Trade, USAID, Government of the United States of America; Lamine Mbassa, Director of Economic and Financial Affairs, Communauté Urbaine de Douala (CUD), Cameroon; Jawaid Akhtar, Managing Director, Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation, India; Fernando Damata Pimentel, Mayor of Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Katherine Sierra, Vice President and Network Head, Infrastructure, World Bank, USA ID: 37577 Author(s): iff Publication date: 13/06/06     URL(s): UN Habitat III Vancouver 2006

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