News in 2023
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The UN-Habitat Roadmap to Recovery - Harnessing the Power of FIG to Meet
Global Challenges
September 2023
The FIG 2023- 26 agenda mirrors that of the UN Habiat Habitat
Professionals Forum (HPF),
by ensuring our continuing membership in this UN network.
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Call for your action
Would you be interested to discuss the ways in which the
power of our land, natural and bult environment professional
community can be further harnessed in implementing the Roadmap.
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This is explained below:
Eliminating the world’s unacceptable, deep-rooted, and long-standing
inequalities in wellbeing and life-chances is the shared goal of all
peoples. This goal cannot be achieved without harnessing the expertise
and experience of all professionals, including the surveyors, wherever
they practice.
FIG works internationally to achieve its global development agenda, as
exemplified by its contribution to UN organisations such as the Habitat
Global Land Tool Network, UN GGIM, FAO and World Bank. Our international
impact is reinforced by engaging across disciplines through the Habitat
Professionals Forum (HPF),
the partnership of professionals who work together with the UN-Habitat
in promoting sustainable development. The HPF represents more than 15
million urban and regional professionals, including surveyors.
The challenges for professionals are great. Currently, urbanisation
continues at unprecedented rates, with professional capacities
struggling to match the growth of our cities. We must transform the way
we think and act, and do it together.
HPF Roadmap to Recovery
In 2022, the HPF Partners therefore prepared a post-covid and post-
conflict
Roadmap to Recovery. This Roadmap sets out 22 propositions on how we
can change the way we plan and manage our cities, regions, countries,
and communities. These propositions are presented into two parts,
general and specific themes, to advance the scientific knowledge-base
and best practices for sustainable and just development, including for
surveyors.
The Roadmap was formally adopted at the HPF’s annual general meeting
during the World Urban Forum 11 in 2022 at Katowice, Poland. It is being
promoted at a variety of events and activities e.g. national conferences
and Newsletters. It also includes international meetings e.g. the SDG
plenary session hosted by Plan Malaysia, UN-Habitat’s Roundtable events,
and the Pacific Urban Forum. In addition, it is engaging new
international partners in its endeavour, for example, International
Society for Urban Health (ISUH).
The Roadmap is a working document. The HPF partners have therefore
started to implement the RoadMap with an audit of their own activities.
In addition, despite their existing heavy commitments, the HPF members
are organising five task groups on promoting the following: the New
Urban Agenda; greater engagement with Communities; the value and
financial stability of Heritage; an International Landscape Convention;
and a Framework of Rights to the City.
The HPF is discussing with its members the ways in which the power of
our land, natural and bult environment professional community can be
further harnessed in implementing the Roadmap. Therefore the HPF would
welcome any FIG members who want to contribute to or even take a lead in
our endeavours by contacting the FIG leadership. The UN Habitat HPF
Roadmap team are also happy to answer any questions through
habitatprofessionalsroadmap@btinternet.com.
The members of HPF:
Vincent Goodstadt and Diane Dumashie
27 September 2023
