Small Discussion focussing on UN Habitat III

The Small Discussion focussing on Habitat III-Surabaya

Disscussion:

• 1.       Chronological I get that chance to be selected of UN habitat discussion
• 2.       The discussion about
• 3.       The conclusion
• 4.       The upcoming event in New York City
• 5.       The upcoming event in Quito, Ecuador

Assalamualaikum wr.wb

Good evening everybody. How are you doing ? hope getting fine. ;)
Today, id like to talk about the event of UN Habitat. Well, it will be refered to a share. So, if you have any idea of the discussion, you can have a mouth.

So, it actually is unbelievable for me for getting that chance. When I got that email of selected pasrticipant, I thought it was just like kidding, or something. But its absolutely not kidding. So I was excited.

Ok, well  have you already knew about anything UN Habitat ?

UN Habitat is an International Organization that has worked by United Nation.

So, it has a holding to develop the slum areas, bad sanitation, and to serve the better environmental for youth and children. The focuss is about urban development.

For defining the new programmes of UN Habitat alongthis year, they held the IYMM (Indonesia Youth Meeting Movements) in Jakarta, UYM (Urban Youth Meeting) in Surabaya, and Prepcom III (Preparatory Committee) in Surabaya.

As known as me, IYMM took a dialoge that concern about the good environmental. I think that’s a ll that I knew, for further information you can go subscribe its website.

I will continue to UYM. Urban Youth Meeting had 4 wide issues :

1.       Urban Equity & Youth Development : UN Habitat GSUYR 2015/2016

2.       Eco-Friendly Urban Development

3.       Urban Youth Against Extremism

4.       Empowering Youth through Urban Local & Informal Economy

It has total about 300 participants from Taiwan, Tiongkok, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Manila, Nepal, India, South Afrika, USA, Holland, etc.

As known as me, most of Indonesian participants are from ITB, IPB, UGM, and ITS, as they concern about urban and environmental.
There were two side parallels, and I took Urban Equity & Youth Development : UN Habitat GSUYR 2015/2016 as the first parallel, and Empowering Youth through Urban Local & Informal Economy as the second one.

In the first parallel, the speakers were :

1. ·     Mr. Douglas, omg he is just an amazing person. He helped the children in Afghanistan, the victims of the war. And so many. He is from UN Habitat Unit.
2. ·         Prof. Oyebanji, He is the director of UN Habitat.
3. ·         Prof. Barsha, from Nepal. He is a National Researcher
4. ·         Miss. Vanna Sook, UN Habitat for Cambodia.

We mainly discussed about the previous programmes of UN Habitat, and what they hace done so far to help maintaining the urban issues. They had done so many projects.

Such as :

The second parallel, the speakers were :

1. ·         Mr. Hasyim Zaidi, from Oxfam Asia Regional Centre.
2. ·         Mrs. Brenda Castro, Asia-Pacific Urban Development Manager.
3. ·         Christian Sabilal Pussung, Brilliant Indonesia Group
4. ·         AIESEC leader, mr. Diaz

There were about 40 participants in that forum, they were from Vietnam, Tiongkok, USA, and Nepal. And we all had time to speech about our background of organizations. So, I talked about GMBU. At the first time, they thought it was an English name. But when I described it as Garda Muda Bibit Unggul, they kinda be like “oh, that’s a local organization.” I told that we have concern about the social issues, especially to integrate the governance sustainable programmes to develop the appropriate education for children and youth. As I concern, we have already took a part for helping the poor people to be able to get the high education. That we talked about the urban issues, it provides a complex problems from all the dimension, such education, environment, health, economic, security, proper settlements, and so on. So, we should integrate all the sectors to get one wide establishment to urban development. Some of our programmes are monthly discussion about the current issues of Indonesia, Social movement for Education assistance, and making an entrepreneurial program, such as “Agent Travel”. And we already worked currently about 3 months. As we more likely to open the employment opportunities for getting job. What makes our Agent Travel different from the other is, despite of just getting fun from travelling, we do travel for purpose. Such, we do socialize to the people how important to keep the environmental clean. Indeed, we concern not only in education sector, but also economic and environment.

There were some of the other local organizations, like ARKOM Jogja, Zero Waste Movement, and C2O. they were local organizations, but had international name, so they didn’t quite surprised.

There were some of the international organizations that took part of the discussion : World Vision International (WVI), UNDP Asia-Pacific, SDG Movements, AIESEC, and Urban Care.

Actually, when I told them about the GMBU, mr. Christian suggested me to change its name for being more Internationalized. And I just like “Ok, thank you sir” and he kept telling me that GMBU programs are good.

And for the prepcom III, I joined as the member of UN MGCY exhibition. So, we promoted UN MGCY to the comers.

I will tell you what UN MGCY is. So UN MGCY is the United Nations Major Group Children and Youth.

It has a part to maintain the children and youth for getting the better sustainable living. Its secretary is in NYC. Actually, they are very welcome for local organization to get engaged with them, as long as it has an international name. Mrs. Sharoon (the leader) told me that the name of the organization is very important, as she said that the members of UN MGCY are from over the world. In that booth, we talked much about maintaining the standart of environmental for youth and children.

There were around 70 exhibitions from International Organizations. And as I ever excited join the UN MGCY was that I met a lot of amazing people there, such as good motivators. They had so many great experiences as the good negotiators. I learnt many things from them. And I consider that my self was just nothing. It makes me get to be open minded person, not easy to judge someone. And being more patient. And I addicted to be a part of organization events.