Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and the Habitat III process

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1. Please write your name and the contact details of your organization

Name *

Organization *

City/Town *

Country *

E-mail Address

Contact person and contact e-mail *

WEB Address *

Would you like to receive HIC's News Bulletin?

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2. What are the core areas of HIC competence your organization is currently engaged in? (check all that apply)

Habitat and sustainable environment

Human rights to habitat (housing, land, water)

Social production and managing of housing/habitat

Women/gender issues in habitat

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3. What habitat themes interest you/your organization most? (check all that apply)

Access to natural resources

Adverse possession

Agriculture

Architecture

Armed / ethnic conflict

Basic services / Energy

Basic services / Infrastructure

Basic services / Solid waste

Basic services / Water&sanitation

Children and housing/habitat

Climate change

Collectivization

Commodification

Commons

Compensation

Cultural Heritage

Demographic manipulation

Destruction of habitat

Disaster mitigation

Discrimination

Displacement

Dispossession

Education (research, teaching, training)

ESC rights

Extraterritorial obligations

Financialization

Financing

Food (rights, sovereignty, crisis)

Forced evictions

Gender

Gentrification

Globalization, negative impacts

Health

Historical heritages sites

Homelessness

Housing cooperatives

Housing crisis

Housing rehabilitation / upgrading

Housing rights

Human rights

Informal settlements

Inheritance rights

Land rights

Livelihoods

Megaprojects

Microfinances / microcredits

Migration

Neighbourhood rehabilitation / upgrading

Occupation (foreign, military)

Population transfers

Post-disaster reconstruction

Privatization

Property rights

Public / social housing

Reparations / restitution / return / rehabilitation etc.

Resilience

Right to the city

Rural planning

Security of tenure

Social Function of Property

Social Production of Habitat

Squatting / occupation

Subsidies

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / the Post-2015 agenda

Sustainable environment

Technologies

Temporary shelter

Transitional Justice

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing

UN system

Urban planning

Women and housing/habitat

Youth and housing/habitat

Others

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4. What do you perceive as the role of HIC in your organizations work / struggle? (check all that apply)

A global context for your local work

Attract global public attention to your organization

Find partners, form alliances

Identify needed expertise

Offer your services

Solidarity

Technical assistance

Mobilization and action

Analytical support

Monitoring and reporting violations

Urgent Actions

Accessing international forums

Resource mobilization

Other

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5. Regarding the advocacy strategy of your organization, please chose the bodies and processes that you are involved in among the following options (check all that apply)

Advocating before local and national authorities

Advocating before regional and international institutions

Advocating before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Advocating in UN HRC Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Advocating before the Committee for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Advocating before UN Habitat

Advocating before UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Advocating before Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)

Other

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6. How would you like to participate in HIC’s 40^th anniversary (2016) (check all that apply)

Public event inside the Habitat III Conference (Quito, October 2016)

Public event outside the Habitat III Conference (Quito, October 2016)

Organizing a local event in your city

Other public event [describe in the field hereunder]

Contributing to HIC anniversary publications

Providing photos/graphics for HIC anniversary publications

Contributing to HIC anniversary video production

Participating in HIC general assembly in Quito and subsequent party

Not interested

You can write your proposals and suggestions

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7. How would you describe the Habitat III and the National Reporting Processes in your country?

It has been transparent and open to Civil Society actors

It has been transparent but closed to Civil Society actors

It has not been neither transparent nor open to Civil Society actors

Please, describe briefly these processes and list your main sources of information (UNHabitat, CSOs, States, etc.)

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8. How is your organization engaged in the national / regional preparations and/or reporting process toward Habitat III?(check all that apply)

Participation in a national alliance Habitat III (civil society alliance or with other actors, please specify in the textbox below)

Participation in a national "Urban Forum"

Participation in a national "Habitat Forum"

Organization of local/national ad hoc activities

Active in the National Habitat Committee

Active in the local version of the “World Urban Campaign”

Preparing a national parallel report based on UN-Habitat “National Habitat III Reporting Guidelines”

Preparing a national parallel report based on local criteria

Preparing a parallel report using HIC “National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool”

Looking for technical support for a national parallel reporting effort

Other national processes

Not engaged

Participation in a regional alliance about Habitat III (civil society alliance or with other actors, please specify)

Active in the Expert Group Meetings

Active in a regional UN Economic Council/UN-Habitat consultation

Preparing a regional parallel report based on UN-Habitat “Regional Habitat III Reporting Guidelines”

Preparing a regional parallel report based on regional-specific criteria

Preparing a parallel regional report adapting the HIC “National Habitat III Parallel-reporting Tool”

Looking for technical support for a parallel regional reporting effort

Other regional process(es)

Not engaged in a regional process

You can write a brief description of your engagement and the achievements / challenges so far

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9. How were you or your organization involved in the Habitat II process in 1996?(check all that apply)

Participated in National Habitat Committee

Participated in PrepCom1

Participated in PrepCom2

Participated in PrepCom3

Participated in International Facilitating Group (IFG)

Participated in drafting IFG “treaty” or other policy paper

Participated in national delegation at Habitat II

Participated in NGO Forum at Habitat II

Monitoring implementation of the Habitat II commitments since 1996

Other

Did not participate

You can write a brief description of your participation and overall evaluation of the process and outcomes

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10. How are you or your organization engaged in the Right to the City Movement? (check all that apply)

Part of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C)

Participated in international meeting on the Right to the City (Mexico, October 2013)

Participated in international meeting on the Right to the City (São Paulo, November 2014)

Participating in one of the GPR2C Working Groups

Participated in Right to the City debates inside the World Social Forum

Published materials on the Right to the City

Engaged in training activities on the Right to the City

Participate in Right to the City advocacy in my/our city

Other

Not involved in the Right to the City Movement

You can write a brief description of your engagement

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1. Please write your name and the contact details of your organization

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2. What are the core areas of HIC competence your organization is currently engaged in? (check all that apply)

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3. What habitat themes interest you/your organization most? (check all that apply)

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4. What do you perceive as the role of HIC in your organizations work / struggle? (check all that apply)

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5. Regarding the advocacy strategy of your organization, please chose the bodies and processes that you are involved in among the following options (check all that apply)

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6. How would you like to participate in HIC’s 40th anniversary (2016) (check all that apply)

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7. How would you describe the Habitat III and the National Reporting Processes in your country?

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8. How is your organization engaged in the national / regional preparations and/or reporting process toward Habitat III?(check all that apply)

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9. How were you or your organization involved in the Habitat II process in 1996?(check all that apply)

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10. How are you or your organization engaged in the Right to the City Movement? (check all that apply)

6. How would you like to participate in HIC’s 40^th anniversary (2016) (check all that apply)