Habitat Professionals Forum; (2024) The International Participatory Charter for Urban and Territorial Development to Deliver the New Urban Agenda. Habitat Professionals Forum: Cairo, Egypt.

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This International Charter for Participatory Urban and Territorial Development (the International Participatory Charter) is based on our shared understanding that it is the right of all peoples not only to take part directly in shaping the decisions that their governments take, but also for them to have direct agency in shaping their urban environments and territories, building consensus and co-creating solutions to address common challenges. In doing so participation promotes democratic, transparent, trusted and accountable governance in support of and in addition to representative democratic processes. The preparation of this International Participatory Charter has been driven by the need to tackle the unacceptable territorial inequalities that exist across communities, cultures and geographies in terms of social conditions, economic opportunities, and exposure to human-created and natural threats. The voices of disadvantaged and threatened peoples must be heard if the planning, design, and management of change is to give hope for a more equitable, just, and regenerative world. The work by the Habitat Professionals Forum (HPF, the UN’s association of Built Environment Professions) in preparing this International Participatory Charter has taken place on ancestral Indigenous lands that span the globe, including the territory of the confederations of Indigenous Peoples and First Nations on all continents. Therefore in particular we acknowledge these Peoples, their elders past, present and emerging and their unceded connection to these territories, and their custodianship as an act of truth and reconciliation. We respect the integral role that Indigenous Peoples have in planning and managing the land, waters and seas for the well-being of their people, families, communities, and Nature. We acknowledge the harmful impacts that the development of urban habitats and corresponding policy and governance schemes have had on Indigenous Peoples and other equity-deprived groups, and their environments. We acknowledge and actively embrace the responsibility of all - professionals, civil society and business as well as national and local governments - to be agents of positive change, in partnership with and support for those same communities. The ‘doomsday clock’ is ticking. This International Participatory Charter is prepared in the context of global radical uncertainty. There is an urgent need for tactical urbanism combined with medium-long term initiatives that progressively transform institutions and practices in order to launch fast-track, smallscale, low-cost and short-term initiatives. A framework was proposed in the Roadmap to a Just and Regenerative Recovery launched by the 2022 Habitat Professionals Forum at the World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland, in support of the principles set out in the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning. Participation is central to these International Guidelines. This Charter therefore sets out the Principles and Articles that support the International Guidelines. It is supported by supplementary documents with a Toolbox for Bridging the Democratic Deficits in participatory Planning, and Case Studies that demonstrate these Principles and Articles. The application of this Charter will progress Urban and Territorial Planning ‘reform’ that is required globally. The International Participatory Charter prepared by the HPF is to be adopted by its members individually. The Charter is also being promoted by the HPF for adoption by public, private and civil organizations engaged in urban and regional development, and where possible integrated into the regulatory regimes in the individual countries. (Link for updates).

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