UN-HABITAT URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES PROGRAM AND PILOT PROJECTS

Abstract

This chapter presents UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages: Guiding Principles Program and Projects. It begins by presenting an overview of the development of the program and its relations with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda. The paper then presents the developing process of the Urban-Rural Linkages: Guiding Principles and Framework of Action (URL-GP). This process was initiated in 2018 and culminated in 2019 with over 130 stakeholders from UN agencies, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector agreeing to ten Guiding Principles and eleven entry points in a Framework for Action to strengthening urban-rural linkages. After the successful launch of the URL-GP, the main task for UN-Habitat has been to guide member states, local governments, and territorial actors for strengthening urban-rural linkages by applying the Guiding Principles and the Framework for Action. The last section of this paper presents the learning materials and tools that UN-Habitat has developed with inputs from experts for applying the URL-GP to actual geographic locations at different scales (small, intermediate, and large cities, territories, countries).