AASCTF Smart Cities – Inclusive Cities Capacity Building Program - Module 1 Report: Access to Services and Infrastructure

The Smart Cities–Inclusive Cities Capacity Building Program of the ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund (AASCTF) is regional initiative centered on a series of dialogues with key city actors pursuing reforms in the gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) space.

Inclusive European Cities - Designing for living systems

Mateusz Mastalski from Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen gave a presentation on inclusive European cities and designing for living systems. Through a design study in the city of Copenhagen, he highlighted that the old way of developing cities is long gone, and that there is a need to change people's mindsets completely. He also underscored the importance of not only building communities, but also being part of the larger ecosystem where people live and work together with nature.

Working in inclusive cities in ASEAN region

Sumaya Saluja from The Asia Foundation (TAF) followed Mr. van Etten's presentation by laying the context of some of the work undertaken by TAF under the AASCTF's Inclusive Cities Dialogues program why inclusion is important. The program is designed around a series of issue-specific dialogues to deepen participants' collective understanding of inclusion-related challenges while at the same time energizing a network of reformers, activists, and practitioners to build momentum for inclusive reform in their own cities.​

Online Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation course and UN-Habitat capacity development

Henrik Bregnhøj of Good Deed Consulting gave an overview of UN-Habitat Learn, UN-Habitat's online learning platform on sustainable urbanization launched in 2020. He also shared more information about their new course offering, an online Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation course that aims to help participants design and implement a strategy and actions for an Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation intervention.​