SDG Café – SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (in Dutch)

We are excited to invite you to our inspiring SDG Café centring on SDG11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. In collaboration with VNG International This link opens in a new tab and SDG Café This link opens in a new tab this event hopes to explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding sustainable urban development.

Currently, over half the population lives in cities, making them not only the epicentre of change, but also of opportunity. At the same time, rapid urban growth brings challenges, from environmental problems to social inequality. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) This link opens in a new tab of the United Nations guide our cause as we work together to create inclusive, safe and sustainable cities by 2030.

During this event, speakers from various organisations will join the conversation on different themes including access to justice, climate change within the context of cities, and more!

Just as with any good café, afterwards there will be a chance to mingle and converse with one another.

We hope to see you there so that you can add your voice to this important discussion!

Event Programme

14.30 Walk-in

15.00 Start of the Café

Welcome and mutual acquaintance. 

• Presentation of the day: Thea Fierens
• Explanation of the Cafe’s theme: the future-proof inclusive resilient city, with a focus on access to justice. By Jos Walenkamp.
• Keynote presentation by Maurits van Barendrecht and Tim van den Berg from The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law.
• Two contributions on the future-proof city from actual practice and best practices, where good governance is a key to giving everyone access to justice, delivered by Renske Steenbergen, deputy director VNG International and Antonio Frank, PhD candidate, on slums in Luanda. 
• Pitches: If you would like to pitch your ideas on this topic, for example because you have a start-up, or a project or plan or you are looking for cooperation, please sign up at Thea.Fierens@gmail.com 
• Discussion and dialogue: How can we improve and accelerate inclusiveness, access to justice for all residents? 

17.00 Networking drinks around the speakers and pitchers of this cafe. Opportunity to make arrangements with others, share knowledge and not leave the Cafe without a date. 

18.00 Closing.

Please note that this event will be in Dutch