| Quarterly Newsletter 3 / Urban October 2023 |
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Welcome Right to the City activists!
On the occasion of the International Day of Care and Support and the World Day for the Right to the City, during Urban October 2023, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) calls for the promotion and support of diverse and inclusive economies, a Right to the City component, to fulfill just, inclusive, safe and sustainable cities, villages and human settlements, defined as commons essential to a full and decent life.
To do that, GPR2C members and allies:
📢 launch a campaign
📗 share a collective publication
🗨️ hold an online event
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Today we are launching the global campaign “The best urban economies are diverse inclusive”, in the framework of the World Day for the Right to the City and the International Day of Care and Support. The campaign aims to shed light on alternative systems that guarantee decent livelihoods and work for all, contributing to the strengthening of community ties and care for the environment; to share the thematic paper, and; to showcase public policies and community-led initiatives.
Diverse and inclusive economies correspond to one of the eight components of the Right to the City. Under the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City, a city/human settlement with diverse and inclusive economies is defined as one that safeguards and ensures access to secure livelihoods and decent work for all inhabitants, recognizes de value of other alternatives to the current capitalist system, which include the values that represent the global desire for transformation (e.g. social and solidarity economy, care economy, informal/popular economy), recognizes and supports the domestic care and community work developed largely by women and ensures the full development of women and girls.
Through this framework, the Right to the City recognizes the importance of developing alternative forms and approaches to the current economic models fuelled by increased privatization and for profit trends, resulting in mounting inequalities and exclusion, worsening of life conditions and increased concentration of power and resources on the hands of a few, including the expansion of instances of corporate capture of public institutions. This means advancing towards other systems that are not based on maximizing profits, but on guaranteeing decent livelihoods and work for all, contributing to the strengthening of community ties and care for the environment. In this sense, this component has a key transversal role as it is central in protecting the collectively defined public and social interest, ensuring a just and environmentally balanced use of urban and rural spaces and common resources.
Parting from this general definition, three structuring pillars can be identified within the scope of diverse and inclusive economies: Social and Solidarity Economy, Informal Economy and Care Economy.
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This document describes some of the main pillars of diverse and inclusive economies under the Right to the City framework, their inclusion and linkage with international agreements and agendas, as well as presenting a set of enabling actions that can be taken at the local level to promote and leverage diverse and inclusive economies, and support those who drive them.
It has been co-produced with the GPR2C members: RIPESS, Streetnet, Urgenci, and WIEGO.
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Online Event
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An open discussion on key pillars of diverse and inclusive economies under the Right to the City framework as portrayed in the publication, such as the Social and Solidarity Economy, the popular/informal economy and the care economy, identifying and discussing how to put forwards concrete actions at the local level to promote and leverage diverse and inclusive economies, and support those who drive them.
The event will be held online and will count with interpretation in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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🤝Thank you all for your Right to the City activism and support!
Henrique, Kelly, Isabel, Lorena, Nelson and Sophia
Support Team
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“The Right to the City is the right of all inhabitants, present and future,
permanent and temporary to use, occupy and produce just, inclusive and
sustainable cities, defined as a common good essential to a full and decent life”.
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