Webinar "Inclusive Cities for All: COVID-19 Urban Response"

 

Inclusive Cities for All: COVID-19 Urban Response

Interactive Discussion of Venice Declaration Signatories
in Observance of the World Cities Day 2020

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Organized by
International Federation for Family Development
and Universidad Nove de Julho · UNINOVE (Brazil)
with the collaboration of
Veneto Region (Italy)
State of Carinthia (Austria)
Department of Bouches-du-Rhône (France)
Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy)
Government of the State of Parana (Brazil)
Regional Union of Municipalities of Attiki (Greece)
Municipality of São Paulo (Brazil)
City of Vicenza (Italy)
and European Local Inclusion and Social Action network (ELISAN)
and the participation of
United Nations - Habitat New York Liaison Office
and United Nations DESA Division for Inclusive Social Development

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
10:00 - 11:00 NYC time
15:00 - 16:00 Central European Time
Virtual Conference Room · Zoom Meeting ID: 864 0211 5579

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PROGRAMME

Please, note that this programme is subject to change, and will be regularly updated.

Welcoming Remarks
 
Olivier Yao
World President of the International Federation for Family Development

Opening Remarks
 
Roberto Ciambetti
President of the Veneto Regional Council
Vice-President of the Bureau, European Committee of the Regions

Interactive Discussion

2020 Annual Report Jose Eduardo Storopoli UNINOVE University (Brazil) Project Academic Coordinator

Carinthia Report Beate Prettner Deputy Governor of Carinthia (Austria) Vice-President of ELISAN

Q & A

Statements
 
Gianna Zamaro
Director of Social Policies and Disabilities,
Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy)
Valdemar Bernardo Jorge
Secretary of Planning, State of Parana (Brazil)
Georgios Markopoulos
President, Regional Union of Municipalities of Attiki (Greece)
Rodrigo Massi
International Relations Coordinator, Municipality of São Paulo (Brazil)
Francesco Rucco
Mayor of Vicenza (Italy)
Jean-Max Trouillet
President of the Steering Committee,
European Local Inclusion and Social Action network (ELISAN)

Venice Declaration Signing Ceremony

Closing Remarks
 
Chris Williams
Director of the UN-Habitat New York Liaison Office

Concluding Remarks
 
Daniela Bas
Director of the United Nations DESA Division for Inclusive Social Development

Moderator
 
Nora Urrea
Vice-President of the International Federation for Family Development

BACKGROUND NOTE

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an unprecedented global crisis, with thousands of lives lost, millions of families affected, and with poor and densely populated areas paying the highest toll. Many urban settlements have reacted rapidly and effectively to contain the virus, mostly thanks to first responders commitment, local authorities’ readiness and families confinement collaboration.
 
Although, shortcomings have been exposed in many urban areas putting extra pressure on the social protection, education, health, and welfare systems, resulting in increased stress for families. Local and regional authorities have a critical task to protect all family members, stall the pandemic and prepare their communities for recovery and strengthened resilience. At the same time, the impact of COVID-19 has re-shaped urban life around the world. Local communities have played a key role in contributing to keeping people safe and maintaining some economic activities.
 
In this crisis as in many others, the family unit has proven to be one of the main agents for recovery, governance, protection and development within societies and thus cornerstone for the post-COVID-19. If families are these crucial development agents, an adequate environment is needed to facilitate their role. Local authorities should be considered the family unit as an important social agent to respond, recover, prevent and prepare for the ongoing challenges.
 
The recognition of communities’ value must be maintained beyond the virus outbreak. In the transition to a new sustainable urban normality, local communities must play an expanded role supporting government stimulus packages for employment creation, delivery of essential services, ensuring a green-economic transformation, the provision of adequate shelter and public space and reestablishment of local value chains. The Inclusive Cities for Sustainable Cities project is a worldwide alliance promoted by the International Federation for Family Development that aims to be inclusive of sustainable families by being responsive to their needs in these ten issues, based on 2030 Agenda and Habitat III and under the leadership of the Veneto Region in Italy: Housing, New Technologies, Education, Healthcare, Safety, Clean Air, Transportation, Affordability, Leisure and Tourism, and Vulnerable Families. Their commitment consists of presenting once a year the results in those topics and attending an annual Conference organized to share good practices.
 
As detailed by the Manifesto signed by all participants in the last annual meeting of the participants in the project, it is necessary to outline the model of a city that places the citizen at the center of its concerns and becomes responsive to the many challenges of the urban future, as a shareable and inclusive city which places family care as the basis for it. The report to be presented in this celebration is a first step towards this design for the future, enriched with lessons learnt during the pandemic.
 
The new law of the Veneto Region on ‘Interventions to support the family and natality’ is also a good example in the application of those principles.

DISCUSSION POINTS

1. Support local governments and family evidenced-based interventions, integrated community / family data, mapping and analysis
   a. Health: measures compatible with subsistence, food security, access to water and sanitation
   b. Housing: burden on rent and mortgages, homeless shelter and quarantine designated facilities.
   c. Safety: safe urban mobility and transport, especially first responders.
 
2. Mitigate economic impact and initiate recovery by:
   a. Care: mitigate the economic impact, take into account the informal sector.
   b. Recovery: local and regional fiscal recovery plans to consider family units and members.

GLOBAL PROJECT

This project, promoted by the International Federation for Family Development under the leadership of the Veneto Region, is directed to cities and territories that wish to actively contribute to goal SDG11 and be responsive to the family needs. Their commitment is detailed in the Venice Declaration.

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David Nabarro, Special Envoy of WHO DG on COVID 

 The Covid is being very hard for children. It has come to stay, like HIV, many people will be infected all over the world, it not only kills people but the consequences and the disease are also serious. It is not always easy to have a vaccine, there are many viruses with which there is no vaccine, we do not know if children will be the first to be vaccinated or not, it will go to the group that needs it most, but it cannot know if children will be the first from the tail". Children may have the virus but they can pass it on to the environment and in turn they are the least affected but infect others who are more vulnerable, so it is difficult to say which will be the first group to be vaccinated on the day the vaccine appears .all families are unique and different. She receives many letters from parents concerned about bringing the virus home from school. It is a truly complex issue, I cannot offer a different answer, you have to be realistic.We must know who has the Virus, it is the most important thing. PCRs are technically complicated, it is a super-technological machinery, that is why it is immensely difficult all over the world to do so many PCRs, that is why it is so important to develop rapid tests, they are the test antigens, there will be 120 million doses of this test will be ready In the next 6 months He wants billions of these tests for everyone to do to all schools in the world and Non-Invasive for children will be very important.

El Covid está siendo muy duro para los niños. Ha venido para quedarse, como VIH, mucha gente será ingfectada en todo el mundo, no sólo mata a gente sino las secuelas y la enfermedad también son graves. No siempre es fácil tener una vacuna, hay muchos virus con los que no se tiene vacuna, No sabemos si los niños serán los primeros en vacunarse o no, irá al colectivo que más lo necesite, pero no puede saber si los niños serán los primeros de la "cola" . Los niños puede que tengan el virus pero pueden pasarlo al entorno y a su vez son los que menos afectados resultan pero infectan a otros que sí son más vulnerables, por eso es difícil decir cuál será el primer grupo en ser vacunado el día que aparezca la vacuna.todas las familias son únicas y diferentes. Recibe muchas cartas de padres preocupados por si traen el virus de la escuela a casa. Es un tema verdaderamente complejo, no puedo orecer una respuesta diferente, hay que ser realista .Debemos saber quién tiene el Virus, es lo más importante. Los PCR son complicados técnicamente, es una maquinaria supertecnológica, es por esto que es inmensamente difícil en todo el mundo hacer tantos PCR, por eso es tan importante desarrollar test rápidos, son los antígenos test, estarán 120 millones de dosis de este test estarán  listas en los próximos 6 meses.El quiere billones de estos test para todo el mundo para hacerlo a todas las escuelas del mundo y No Invasiva para los niños será muy importante.

Raji Tajudeen, Head, Division of Public Health Institutes and Research, Africa CDC 

We must know what proportion of the population of Africa suffers from the virus. We have the problem of asymptomatic infected people. That is why we must have a test. The people most affected have also been the elderly. We must also know if the mobilization of the Virus makes it more virulent or less. Every Tuesday of the week they assess the status of the evolution of the Virus.One reason why in Africa the virus has caused less damage is because they have a lot of experience with other infections in the past, today they have a coordination throughout the African continent that is very positive, also coordination of the continent at the level of Ministries, the community. Engagement is fundamental and is very well established, after Ebola they have learned a lot, cholera, polio, HIV, all of this has prepared them for COVID 19, the role of the private sector is fundamental (it has dedicated an economic part to medical aid), and finally ensure that it is a question of all sectors at the same time, all involved in society and committed.

Debemos saber qué proporción de la población de Africa padece el Virus. Tenemos el problemas de personas infectadas asintomáticas. Por eso debemos disponer de test. Las pesonas más afectadas han sido también las personas mayores. Debemos también saber si la movilización del Virus lo hace más virulento o menos. cda martes de la semana valoran el estado de la evolución del Virus.Un motivo por lo que en Africa el Virus ha causado menos daño es porque tienen mucha experiencia por otras infecciones en el pasado, hoy tienen una coordinación en todo el continente africano que es muy positivo, tanbién coordinación del continente a nivel de Ministerios, el comunity engagement es fundamental y está muy bien trabado, tras el Ebola han aprendido mucho, cólera, polio, VIH, todo ello les ha preparado para el COVID 19, el rol del sector privado es fundamental (ha dedicado parte económica en ayuda médica), y finalmente asegurar que es una cuestión de todos los sectores a la vez, todos envueltos en la sociedad y comprometidos.

Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

Children have been affected by Covid 19 for many reasons, not just health (lack of socialization, parents at work, etc.). Now the main preventions are already more incorporated in our routines (hand washing, social distance, mask), it is an opportunity to reinforce confidence in the vaccine (when it is ready). The issue is that we do not know how to act in a situation like this, it is new and puzzles us and at the same time it is essential to share among people what we need, to build a "way of acting", we have time to do it until the appearance of the vaccine .we must "build trust in the authorities, in the future vaccine, we must trust the teacher, the family doctors who care for us", we must discard conspiracies, false news, rumors (for example that 5G technology causes the Covid 19), we must work on resilience, we must take care of nutrition, health, take care of ourselves.

Ahora las principales prevenciones están ya más incorporadas en nuestras rutinas (lavado manos, distancia social, mascarilla), es una oportunidad para reforzar la confianza en la vacuna (cuando esté lista). El tema es que no sabemos cómo actuar ante una situación como esta, es nuevo y nos desconcierta y a la vez es fundamental compartir entre las personas qué necesitamos, para construir una "forma de actuar", tenemos tiempo de hacerlo hasta la aparición de la vacuna.debemos "construir confianza en las autiridades, en la futura vacuna, debemos confiar en el profesor, en los médicos de familia que nos atienden", debemos desechar las conspiraciones, las noticias falsas, los rumores (por ejemplo que la tecnología 5G causa el Covid 19), debemos trabajar la resiliencia, debemos cuidar la nutrición, la salud, cuidarnos.

Luwei Pearson, Associate Director and Chief of Health Programme, UNICEF

What is in the shadows will be light, in April we saw that something was broken, in May there was a more straight evolution. In India girls were more affected than boys. We must have a global picture of the world of the moment we are in. Why close all schools if perhaps some can remain open. We must analyze where to apply economic and budgetary resources. We must learn from other countries with transparency to improve.

Lo que hay en las sombras será luz, en abril vimos que se rompía algo, en mayo hubo una evolución más recta. En India las niñas resultaron más afectadas que los niños. Debemos tener una foto global del mundo del momento en qué estamos. Porqué cerrar todas las escuelas si quizás algunas pueden permanecer abiertas.Hay que analizar dónde aplicar los recursos económicos y presupuestarios.Debemos aprender de otros países con transparencia para mejorar.