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National Workshop “Evidence-based policies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals: sustainable housing and urban development in Albania”

02 - 03 May 2019
Tirana Albania

The United Nations Economic Commission of Europe (UNECE) and UN-Habitat are organizing a workshop “Evidence-based policies for sustainable housing and urban development in Albania to achieve Sustainable Development Goals”.

The workshop will discuss the role of evidence in crafting sustainable housing and urban development policies in Albania with focus on the approaches to data collection and management in the context of the SDG11. The workshop is part of the UNDA project “Evidence-based policies for sustainable housing and urban development to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals”, which is aimed to assist the governments in the collection and analysis of the national data on housing and urban development for the development of policies in these sectors.

Draft agenda

English      Albanian

Report of the workshop

Presentations

DAY 1

Opening and welcome

Introduction to the UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management     PDF (Eng)
Gulnara Roll, UNECE

Session 1:  Achieving the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the SDG 11 – Challenges and Progress to Support the Implementation in the Republic of Albania

SDGs in Albania: Progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals     PDF (Eng)
Oriana Arapi, Prime Minister's Office, Republic of Albania

Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals and SDG11 - Challenges and Progress to Support Albania's Implementation     PDF (Alb)
Vjollca Simoni, National Statistical Agency of Albania,INSTAT

Session II. Approaches to the Implementation and Review of the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda and SDG 11 in the UNECE region

Achieving SDGs in Albania: the Contribution of SDG Indicators to Evidence-based Policy-making for Sustainable Housing and Urban Development at National and Local Levels     PDF (Eng)
Agata Krause, UNECE and UN-Habitat Expert on Sustainable Development

Session III.Innovative Approaches to Evidence-based Policy-making in the Context of SDG11

Using data to create smart(er) sustainable cities and regions     PDF (Eng)
Anna Mitriaieva, CBS Urban Data Centre, the Netherlands    

Low-cost urban data capacity building towards SDG 11     PDF (Eng)
Matteo Tarantino, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Measuring SDGs and Urban Open Data - the case of Milan     PDF (Eng)
Simone Tosoni, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

Conference on Achieving SDGs in Albania: contribution of SDG indicators to evidence-based policy-making at national and local levels     PDF (Eng)
Geoffrey Payne, Geoffrey Payne and Associates, London, UK

Session  IV.  Challenges  and  Opportunities  for  Crafting Evidence-based  Policies  for  Sustainable Urban Development with a Focus on Housing in the Republic of Albania

The  Impact  of  Recent  Policy  Developments  on  Evidence-based  Policy-making  in  Republic of Albania - the cases of the Housing Code and the Local Housing Plan     PDF (Alb)
Doris Andoni, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Republic of Albania

Monitoring Platform: Designing an indicator framework for the implementation of sustainable development objectives of planning documents     PDF (Eng)
Anisa Qorri, National Territorial Planning Agency, Republic of Albania

Current Approaches to Production and Management of Statistical Evidence for Housing Policies in the Republic of Albania     PDF (Eng)
Ervin Shameti, Directorate of Regional Statistics and Geoinformation

Production and Use of Evidence for Policies on Sustainable Urban Development with a Focus on Housing at the Local Level     PDF (Alb)
Anisa Ruseti, Social Services, Municiaplity of Tirana

Production and Use of Evidence for Policies on Sustainable Urban Development with a Focus on Housing at the Local Level     PDF (Eng)
Anisa Mance, Territorial Planning, Municipality of Tirana

Session V.Current and Future Indicators for Evidence-Based Policies for Sustainable Urban Development with a Focus on Housing in the Republic of Albania

Selected housing- and urban development-related targets of the 2030 Agenda     PDF (Eng)
Agata Krause, UNECE and UN-Habitat Expert on Sustainable Development

DAY 2

Contribution of sustainable development indicators into evidence-based policy-making for sustainable housing and urban development at local level     PDF (Eng)
Agata Krause, UNECE and UN-Habitat Expert on Sustainable Development

Promoting smart sustainable cities through the use of Key Performance Indicators     PDF (Eng)
Gulnara Roll, UNECE