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Bogota hosts World Metropolitan Day 2022

  7 October - Bogota and Online  

As part of World Metropolitan Day, Bogota, Metropolis and UN-Habitat celebrate a global conversation about the relevance of care as a framework for strengthening metropolitan governance.

Reorganising metropolises around care means putting at the centre of governance and planning, the conditions to ensure the well-being of the people, the planet and democracy. Care not only offers an opportunity to transform the way we approach people's well-being, but also to rethink our relationship with natural resources and the way we ensure peace-building around the world. A metropolis of care goes beyond the boundaries of the big city and requires solidarity and empathy.

Under an overarching and innovative approach to care, metropolises can move towards a holistic and multisectoral approach that uses care as a transversal and cohesive element connecting gender, housing, mobility and environmental policies, and changing our approach from competing across boundaries to collaborating effectively in light of global challenges.

Objectives

• Gather global visions and experiences to design cities around the overarching framework of care and strengthen metropolitan governance and cooperation capacities.

• Strengthen governance capacities and cooperation in metropolitan spaces.

• Reflect on a roadmap to move towards a Caring Metropolises Framework that allows the world's large metropolises to face and respond to the current global emergency.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:15 Opening remarks

• Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá

• Jordi Vaquer, Metropolis Secretary-General

• Elkin Velásquez, Regional Director LAC, UN-Habitat

8:15 – 9:15 Panel 1. Metropolis of care: redrawing borders with empathy

• Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá

• Nicolás García, Governor of Cundinamarca

• Carolina Cosse, Mayor of Montevideo

• Elkin Velásquez, Regional Director LAC, UN-Habitat

Moderator: Jordi Vaquer, Metropolis Secretary-General

9:15 – 10:15 Panel 2. Challenges of Territorial Associativity Schemes

• Cesar Camilo Hernández, Director of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga

• Pablo Marcelo Maturana, Subdirector of Cooperation of the Metropolitan Area of Valle de Aburrá

• Juan Francisco Bernal, Director of Asocentro

• Ricardo Agudelo Sedano, Director of RAPE

Moderator: Cristhian Ortega, Director of the Observatory of urban and regional dynamics

10:15 – 10:50 Metropolitan Region Bogotá Cundinamarca: A single Territory

• Patricia González Avila, Secretary for Regional Integration, Government of Cundinamarca (Colombia)

• Wilson García, Mayor of Zipaquirá (Colombia)

• Samir Abizambra, Councillor of Bogotá (Colombia)

Moderator: Consuelo Ordoñez, Director of Regional, National and International Integration of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá

10:50 – 11:00 Wrap-up

Jordi Vaquer, Metropolis Secretary-General

Information to participate

https://www.youtube.com/c/Secretar%C3%ADaGeneraldelaAlcald%C3%ADadeBogot%C3%A1

Organised by Bogota, Metropolis and UN-Habitat.