The Technical Secretariat
of Urban 20

NIUA @U20

NIUA is pleased to serve as the technical secretariat of Urban20 for the year 2023, while India holds the G20 Presidency. This once in a lifetime opportunity is augmented by NIUA’s initiatives on the priorities of this year’s U20 summit. Furthermore, as India’s leading “think and do tank” on urban development, this is more than just an occasion to learn; it’s also a chance to highlight India’s innovative triumphs to the world’s urban complexities. Since the 6th U20 aims to move from intention to action, and to draft a roadmap for global change, we must work to ensure that we leave a sustainable environment for our future generations. NIUA is excited to take on this role going ahead and promote quick and inclusive development!

Hitesh Vaidya | Director, NIUA

Priority Areas
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  • Concerted action and behavioural change across the urban ecosystem - day to day lives of people, government policies, industry actions etc.
  • Recast prevalent legal, policy, financial and technological instruments to localise global agendas
  • Rethink policies, regulations and processes to mainstream ‘just transitions’ that leave no one behind
  • Awareness, engagement and empowerment to nudge environmentally responsible individual choices and behaviour
  • Focus on circular economy, low carbon mobility, green energy, urban farming
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  • Reform institutional and regulatory frameworks to protect and revitalize vulnerable water resources and ecosystems
  • Mainstream integrated and sustainable urban water management practices
  • Ensure equitable and safe access to water through accountable service delivery
  • Reduce incidents and impacts of water-related hazards like water logging, urban flooding and droughts
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  • Improve uptake of climate financing instruments particularly by cities in the developing world
  • Create enabling environment at the global, national and sub-national levels for ensuring the flow of climate finance
  • Build capacities and ‘readiness’ of cities for attracting and accessing climate finance
  • Facilitate standardization of definitions, processes, rating and monitoring systems
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  • Hybrid planning and governance models to respond to new spatial patterns of urban growth such as peri-urban areas, corridors and conurbations, mega-regions etc.
  • Shift from a ‘regulatory’ to a ‘strategic’ urban planning framework
  • Reshaping existing built-environments through ‘urban regeneration’ to adapt to emerging needs and imperatives of sustainable development
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  • Strengthening local identities, practices and economies to ensure long-term resilience
  • Reinforcing the ‘sense of place’, boosting creative and cultural economies, protecting historical city fabrics
  • Leverage traditional place-specific knowledge, solutions and frugal innovations.
  • Government strategies to promote local economic development and strengthen traditional socio-economic networks
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  • Foster an inclusive and non-discriminatory digital economy.
  • Global and national frameworks for supporting large scale roll-out of digital public goods
  • Incubation ecosystems for spurring and maturing digital innovations
  • Transfer of technology and sharing of smart solutions among cities
  • Data sharing protocols to ensure data-driven decision-making and encourage further re- search
Events

03

Jan

Rourkela U20 Event
City Events

03

Jan

Aizawl U20 Event
City Events

03

Jan

Bengaluru U20 Event
City Events

05

Jan

Satna U20 Event
City Events

07

Jan

Aurangabad U20 Event
City Events

08

Jan

Coimbatore U20 Event
City Events

08

Jan

Vadodara U20 Event
City Events

10

Jan

Coimbatore U20 Event
City Events

12

Jan

Muzaffarpur U20 Event
City Events

18

Jan

Ujjain U20 Event
City Events

20

Jan

Nagpur U20 Event
City Events

22

Jan

Tiruppur U20 Event
City Events

24

Jan

Rajkot U20 Event
City Events

24

Jan

Faridabad U20 Event
City Events

24

Jan

Ujjain U20 Event
City Events

24

Jan

Pune U20 Event
City Events

25

Jan

Gwalior U20 Event
City Events

26

Jan

Karnal U20 Event
City Events

26

Jan

Kavaratti U20 Event
City Events

30

Jan

Guwahati U20 Event
City Events
Partners
U20 Team

Kanak Tiwari

Nilesh Rajadhyaksha

Anusha Mishra

Shashank Mishra

Tarini Gupta

Swati Pradhan

Kapil Kumar

Juhi Sah

Kaveri Bahure

Sneha Ravani

Harsh Shah

Amasikha Dey

Sundus Usmani

Arunkumar Subramanian

Nimisha Jha

Apoorv Agrawal

Akarsha Jamuar