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Guadalajara (Mexico), 22 August (EFE).- Civic participation and politics close to neighborhoods and people are key to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, experts said in Mexico at the summit agreed on Monday by Habitat International gathered for Latin America and the United States were Caribbean 2022.
During the opening table of the summit, which will be held in the city of Guadalajara until August 24, Elkin Velásquez, UN-Habitat’s regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, said that getting close to the people is a priority.
“It can allow us a mobilizing action on a scale that achieves concrete actions and establishes specific roadmaps in each of Latin America’s 16,000 communities. The next task is the revolution of proximity, in which each neighborhood (neighborhood) has a territorialization project for global agendas,” he explained in his speech.
He pointed out that nations have not fully succeeded in bringing the global agendas into the life of communities and families, which have an important not only with their organization, but also through actions that contribute to improvements in the short and medium term Factor of change can be their quality of life.
The international official added that a “region as polarized” as Latin America can find a transversal reference in global agendas that does not respond to a political ideology or a particular party, but to the interests of all citizens.
In his participation, Aníbal Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia, Colombia, emphasized that in order to strengthen global agendas around justice, housing and sustainability, the active participation of citizens is essential and that public policies emerge from their needs and initiatives.
“There is a lack of more involvement from below, there cannot be a top-down global agenda, but bottom-up, there cannot be a global agenda of countries, there must also be an agenda of regions, cities, communities and also the Universities involving young people and citizens,” he stressed.
As an example, he cited the actions that have emerged from groups and civil society organizations to advance issues such as reducing the use of plastics and increasing greener modes of transport such as bicycles, which have an impact on the goal of sustainability nationally and globally.
The Colombian official suggested that each community in the region promote concrete actions and strategies to measure the progress they have made towards the Sustainable Development Goals so that national governments know where to strengthen their public policies .
Nearly 1,700 governments, professionals, academics and civil organizations from all countries in the region are participating in the 2022 International Summit on the Habitat of Latin America and the Caribbean to develop a common urban agenda. EFE
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