As presented by the Women Leaders Global Initiative at the Networking Event Women Led Business supporting Women Led Cities, Nexus Latam & Brazil would like to join efforts with UN-Habitat, UNCDF and BlendGroup, to catalyze the Women Global Leaders Initiative, starting with Latin America. We are analyzing cities where the pilot could be implemented, as Bogota and Cali / Colombia, São Paulo - where WL understandings have already started. UN recognizes women leadership as a real driver for positive change orientated by and for SDGs, and bringing cities as the space for the convergences. UN coordinates and promotes the WOMEN-LED GLOBAL INITIATIVE, a Coalition of selected and representative group of women leaders committed to the promotion of the acceleration and achievements of the SDGs, through cities and the 2030 Agenda. It will be a co-building process to create a strong women leaders community, as a space of promotion of the SDGs with equity and women inclusion. Strengthening and encouraging Faith Communities that work together to drive local bottom-up evidence-based transformation and channel financial resources from faith-based entities at the global level. Women-led Global Initiative specialized programmes mobilized through women-led businesses supporting women mayors and their cities. Provides training and technical backstopping for each of the SDG Cities tracks in collaboration with Global Hubs. Facilitates exchange of experience and practices amongst women leaders, provides seed investment into transformative projects and supports larger scale investment through business networks and the City Investment Facility

1. Implementation of Compressed Air Pipeline Systems to transition 500 residents living in traditional fossil-fuel dependent communities to clean energy by 2024. 2. Support and sponsor the training of 4 young professionals in Alberta to develop climate literacy and technical expertise to contribute to climate action, sustainable urbanisation and discourse

Improve the living standard of the slum with impact on providing infrastructures, tree planting , and community participation.

1. 'Sustainability In-Built' is our motto for all actions or services we take/provide 2. Providing access to quality education at pre-school stage is our objective - we intake 30 to 40 students from economically/socially deprived communities. Children are between 3 to 6 years of age. 3. Providing access to 10 to 15 Students from community to 'after school' education. This creates conducive environment for them which they lack at home. 4. Create awareness amongst stake holders about the Sustainability through Seminars and Contact Programs - We committ to hold 10 such events during the period of two years. 5. We In-Build the Sustainability Features in allbour Projects we Consult for

Over the course of the action, we will develop a toolkit of resources, based on experience, of how libraries can play an active role in transformational local development. This will include focus on regeneration, security (working with CERLALC), a culture of lifelong learning (working with UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning), democratic engagement and decision-making, and wellbeing. The toolkit will include both higher level reference texts, such as the freshly renewed IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, case studies and checklists. The logic behind the action is that libraries, including their collections, spaces and staff, have a unique contribution to make through allowing people to engage with and use information more skillfully and effectively. This is a precondition for better decision-making, as well as engagement in economic, social, political and cultural life. The immediate impact, we hope, will be to encourage a new level of activism among libraries and those responsible for them within local and regional governments in favour of mobilising the field to realise its potential to drive change. We also hope that it can act as a reminder to broader local and regional governments that in libraries, they have a valuable, pre-existing resource which can be engaged in order to achieve policy goals. The longer term outcome, we hope, is that libraries are more systematically mobilised in order to support the achievement of wider policy goals, thereby supporting positive community transformation in the context of sustainable urbanisation.

Sustainable Innovation Zones and Communities in Porto Alegre and Santo Angelo, Brazil; Panama City, Panama; Western Sydney, Australia; Wheaton/Montgomery County, Maryland (US); Poznan, Poland; and in many other cities and countries by 2030 will reduce greenhouse gas emissions; grow businesses, jobs, and incomes through Sustainable Innovation; promote green energy, sustainable mobility, and circular economy solutions; and generate inclusive prosperity to help transform communities, cities, and urban regions and enable the world to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Climate Agreement, New Urban Agenda, and Sendai Framework by 2030. Each individual Sustainable Innovation Zone/Community develops its own goals and measures ongoing progress in accomplishments through a wide variety of data sources and institutional methodologies.

GPEAN will continue to be involved in the WUF and Urban Thinkers Campus Events. GPEAN is committed to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and promotion of SDG’s and will work towards that end through World Planning Schools Congresses where pressing issues such as mitigation and adaptation to climate chance, equity, social inclusion, socio-spatial justice and equal distribution of resources, equal access to basic services, sustainable mobility, climate justice and just transition etc. will be addressed as major themes. GPEAN Dialogues Series will also continue to focus on these thematic areas publishing scientific research in these areas and continue to be an important vehicle to share knowledge. GPEAN will also focus on these themes through various seminars and round table discussions it organizes and will contribute to the sharing of knowledge and experience in these areas and raise awareness. Most importantly, GPEAN will continue to encourage the inclusion of these thematic areas in the curriculum of planning schools of its member associations.

The Global Disability Innovation Hub will lead inclusive design thinking of cities by influencing and working with partners and produce an evidence-based global action report on how to deliver inclusive design in cities, co-produced with persons with disabilities and local partners – in support of the SDGs and NUA. This report will be applicable to all cities seeking to be more inclusive and will be produced and in the public domain by WUF12.

We will continue to work on urban issues with persons with disabilities living in informal settlements, helping to enable their participation and inclusive citizenship – including through Assistive Technology (AT). The impact will be to bring these voices to the conversation, supporting more inclusive outcomes and cities as a result. This work can be measured by considering the additional participation that has taken place and tracking the inclusive outcomes as a result.

This research will provide much needed evidence on the transformative impact of urban development initiatives that address climate resilience and inclusive of persons with disabilities simultaneously. Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change and therefore a resilient future cannot exist without the inclusion of persons with disabilities in climate action. This evidence will provide case studies that can support our partners and influence their work in the first instance. The impact will be measured by the uptake of the research and tracking the momentum of the movement for disability inclusive and climate resilient cities. Our hope is that by next World Urban Forum our library of case studies will have grown to evidence the synergy between the movements for disability inclusion and climate resilience - creating an inclusive and equitable future for all.