Beyond Boundaries Session 10: Engaging Communities for Sustainable Cities

About this session

SDG 11 calls on us to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This session will showcase actions and research that place the voices of diverse communities at the heart of sustainable urban development. Through presentations from expert practitioners and researchers, we will explore development challenges in Havana, London, Kisumu and Delhi, and reflect on how collaborative research with communities and local authorities can help respond to them. This will be followed by a live Q&A session.

Speakers

Chair: Professor Audrey Prost

Professor of Global Health in the Institute for Global Health

Professor Audrey Prost is a social anthropologist with training in epidemiology. Over the last 12 years, she has worked on developing and evaluating community interventions to improve maternal and child health in close partnership with the Indian civil society Ekjut, in eastern India. Audrey is the Director the UCL Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents and co-Chair of the UCL Grand Challenge for Cultural Understanding.The focus of her work is evaluating community engagement approaches to improve women’s, children’s and adolescent health.

Nicky Gavron

Member of the London Assembly and London Sustainable Development Commission, UK

Nicky Gavon has a track record in urban policy development for the government. She has been at the forefront of developing sustainable planning policies for London. In 2000, she became the first statutory Deputy Mayor of London. Leading London’s response to climate change, she introduced policies and programmes to reduce C02 emissions across energy, water, waste and transport.

Dunu Roy

Director, Hazards Centre, New Delhi

Dunu Roy has worked pan India dealing in various sectors, ranging from FREA to World Wide Fund for Nature, to setting up own enterprise in a village. He believes that most of the developmental activities are micro-experiments limited to a few clusters of villages and sectors like healthcare and education. According to him, the problem lies in not understanding what people want.

Priyanka Sharma

Project Coordinator, Urban Development, Ekjut, Ranchi, India

Priyanka Sharma has been working in the public policy industry for many years. She leads the Ekjut humanitarian projects on capacity building, fighting malnutrition and inequities and sustainable environment within the organisation’s vision of “a world where every human being has a right to life with dignity, a world that respects and celebrates every life and diversity”.

Dr Emily Morris

Research Fellow, UCL Institute of the Americas

Dr Emily Morris is an economist at UCL, specialising in economic development. Prior to UCL, her career included employment as an economics teacher, lecturer at the University of Sussex’s Institute for Development Studies and SOAS, senior analyst for Latin America  &  the  Caribbean at the Economist Intelligence Unit,  and  country economist  for  Central America at  the Inter-American Development Bank.  

Joining instructions

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All sessions will include subtitles or closed-captioning in English. All video recordings and presentation materials will be made available after the event. If you have any accessibility requirements, please do not hesitate to contact beyondboundaries@ucl.ac.uk

This session is part of Beyond Boundaries: Realising the UN Sustainable Development Goals. See all conference sessions here.