Chair: Mr. Graham Alabaster - Head of Geneva Office, UN-Habitat 

Welcoming remarks: Shipra Narang Suri, UN-Habitat

Session 1: Case Study presentations

Presentations:

1. Ms. Shipra Narang Suri – Chief, Urban Practices Branch, UN-Habitat
2. Representative of Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
3. Ms. Lucy Slack – Commonwealth local government forum (CLGF)
4. Ms. Pamela Carbajal – Urban health and regional planner, UN-Habitat
5.  Dr. Fiona Shenton - BOVA Network 
6. Ms Cecilia Anderson – Global Public Space Programme, UN-Habitat
7. Mr Michele Di Marco Téchne coordinator, World Health Organization

OPENING CEREMONY

MEETING 1:

Programme Management Meeting (Closed)
Facilitator: Dr. Asad Mohammed

Harnessing Innovative Technologies to Support Resilient Settlements on the Coastal Zones of the Caribbean 

WORKSHOP 1

Sub-theme: The evolving nature and challenges of Caribbean urbanization
Session Moderator: Mr. Michel Frojmovic, Acacia Consulting and Research (Canada)

Title: Urbanisation beyond the shoreline: An interactive Workshop to explore spatial planning for the Blue Economy
Presenter: David Robin, Coordinator of Ocean Governance and Fisheries, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS Commission)
Panelists: Cassander Titley-O’Neal, Environmental Systems Ltd (BVI); Rory Baksh, Dillon Consulting (Canada); Allanson Cruickshank (St. Vincent & the
Grenadines); Emily Davis, Dillon Consulting (Canada)

Sub-theme: Policy and legislative responses to urbanization
Session Moderator: Dr. Sigrid Heirman
(University of Antwerp)

• Urbanisation in the Commonwealth – need
  for action - Eleanor Mohammed, MCIP
  (President, Commonwealth Association of
  Planners)
• Urbanization, Governance and the Spatial Revolt the Food Vendors in Kingston- Robert
  L. Kinlocke and Aleem I. Mahabir (University
  of the West Indies, Mona)
•  Imposed Eligibility Criteria in Funded Housing
  and Settlement Programmes in the
  Caribbean? - Wayne Chaman Huggins
  (University of the West Indies, St Augustine)

Sub-theme: Urbanization and social issues
Session Moderator: Dr. Carol Archer (University of
Technology)

• The role of sustainable cultural heritage in
  urban development: A case study of
  Georgetown, Guyana – Odessa Harris (MSc
  Student, University of Guyana)
• Kampong Mariënburg Lab, anticipating on
  community-based culturally resilient
• transformations - Marleen Goethals, Johan De Walsche,
  Dirk Laporte (Belgium)
• An Investigation of the Living Conditions of
  an Impoverished Inner-City
  Community: A Case Study of Tiger Bay,
  Georgetown, Guyana – Ronald Sampson (MSc
  Student, University of Guyana)
• Child Unfriendly Urbanisation - Earl Bailey
  (Jamaica)

Sub-theme: Informality, public health risk
reduction and the urban environment
Session Moderator: Ms Fayola Azore
(Central Housing & Planning Authority, Guyana)

• Institutional Design for Sustainable
  Urbanization: The state of play in the
  Caribbean - Eris Schoburgh (Jamaica)
• Informal Community’s Resilience to Flooding:
  A Case Study of Plastic City, Guyana
  Misenga Baird,Onika Beckles, Ramona Duncan,
  Fabion Jerrick, Danielle Johnson (MSc Students-
  University of Guyana)
• Comparative Policy Research on Urbanization
  in India and China – Mohammed Faraz
  (University of Reading –England)
• Analyzing the historic change of green spaces
  in Paramaribo by determining the
  spatial distribution using GIS and Remote
  Sensing - Razia Taus, Lisa Best, Louise
  Willemen (Suriname)

PANEL DISCUSSION 1:

Moderator: Dr. Charisse Griffith-Charles (University of the West Indies)
Title: Regional approach to addressing inequalities in land rights

Panelists: Caren Williams (Belize Platform of Land Actors), Allanson Cruickshank (Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Land Actors Platform), Dr. Sunil Lalloo

(Trinidad and Tobago Land Alliance), Dr. Jody Daniel (Grenada Land Actors), Euthalia Philgence (Saint Lucia Land Actors Platform)

MEETING 2:

Project Management Meeting (Closed)

Facilitator: Dr. Charisse Griffith-Charles (University of the West Indies)
Platform to strengthen the role of Local Land Actors in improving the quality of life
of people impacted by inequity in land rights in five Caribbean territories

Sub-theme: Urbanization and social issues
Session Moderator: Ms Linda Johnson-Bhola
(University of Guyana)

• Advocating for Youth Housing: Potential urban policy interventions
  for at-risk youth in the Caribbean - Kizzann Sammy, Abigail Moriah,
  Sonide Simon (Canada & Florida)
• The city of Cap-Haitien between
  national heritage and vulnerable
  urbanization - Chedlet JULIEN;
  Stravensky GRANVIL; Marc Eddy
  PAUL (Campus Henri Christophe de
  l’Université d’Etat d’Haïti à
  Limonade, Haiti)
• Street Vending in cities in developing
  countries: St. Vincent and the
  Grenadines Experience - Benarva D.
  Browne (St. Vincent and the
  Grenadines)

Sub-theme: Policy and legislative responses to urbanization
Session Moderator: Dr. Marlyn Morris (Morris
Training and Consultancy Services, Canada)

• An alternative Governance Model for
  partnership between Community-Based-
  Organisations and Government in pursing
  sustainable urbanization in the Caribbean -
  Wayne Chaman Huggins, Dr. Asad
  Mohammed, Dr. Priya Kissoon (University
  of the West Indies, St Augustine)
•  Advancing human rights through urbanization:
  A Caribbean Perspective- Shomari Atsu Jones
  (Barbados)
• Determining the effectiveness of adopting the
  Synoptic Planning Theory in contemporary
  planning: A case study of East Mocha Arcadia,
  East Bank Demerara - Lloyd Souvenir, Odessa
  Harris, Sheldon Howell (MSc Students-
  University of Guyana)
• Plugging the Leak: Exploring lost
  revenue streams in Caribbean
  property ownership - Kizzann
  Sammy, Miguel Angel Sanjines
  (Canada)

Sub-theme: The transformation of rural areas
through urbanization
Session Moderator: Ms Angelika Namdar
(Anton de Kom University, Suriname)

• Ecosystem-based spatial planning in
  complex rural landscapes - Jamille Haarloo,
  Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname
  (CELOS) (Suriname)
• Coastal urbanization in the context of sea
  level rise. The example of the “50 pas
  géométriques” area in Martinique - Audrey
  Pastel, Pascal Saffache (Martinique)
• Peri-urban Development and Food Crop Loss
  in Ibadan, Nigeria (1986-2019) - Saeed
  Ojolowo (Nigeria)

Sub-theme: Policy and legislative responses to urbanization

Session Speaker: Mr. Rafael Forero, UN-Habitat Representative

Urban Planning: the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals -

Understanding the CUF from the global perspective, as mandated by the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs.

Session Moderator: Mr. Rawle Edinboro (University of Guyana)

Moderator: Dr. Claude Gooding

POSTERS:

• Public Participation as a tool for Sustainable Community Development:
  A Case Study of East Mocha-Arcadia, East Bank Demerara - Lloyd Souvenir,
  Odessa Harris, Sheldon Howell (MSc Students, University of Guyana)
• Cap-Haïtien entre urbanisation et ‹‹citéisation›› -Jennie-Lande Dorival,
  Jeaddan-Sheal Joseph, Sophonie Sylvain (Haiti)
  Interpreter: Ms Nikita Archer

Moderator: Mr. Alim Hosein

FILM:

Ganga Dhaara: Sacred Spaces
Dr. Perry Polar and Dr. Sharda Patasar (Trinidad &
Tobago)

POSTER:

Climate Crisis in New York City: Improving the
Resilience of Astoria Houses- Katrina Gustafson
(USA)

Panel 2:

Session Moderator: Dr. Asad Mohammed (blueSpace Caribbean)

Innovation in the Management of Coastal Communities in the Caribbean: HIT RESET Caribbean (Open)
Panelists: Aaron Mohammed; Samantha Chadee, Joel Houlder, Dr Carol Archer, Simeone Lewis, Dr Ronald Roopnarine

Sub-theme: Resilient urbanization
Session Moderator: Dr. Faith Kasim
(University of Guyana)

• Imagining the Future of Caribbean Urbanization After the Fracture and
  Climate Change - Hervé Sabin, Nyugen Smith, Marvin Fabien and
  Marie Vickles (Haiti, Texas, Martinique, Miami)
• Billiton as link. The way to a sustainable future for Onverdacht,
  Suriname - Sarah Adriaenssens, Siel Leemans, Yentl Wulteputte
  (Suriname and Belgium)
• Creative Place-making, An Urban Regeneration Tool - Israel Mapp,
  Bukola Tijani (Barbados)

Sub-theme: Urbanization in a digital era
Session Moderator: Dr. Anna Perriera
(University of Guyana)

• A Bluegreen Actor Network for Paramaribo-
  North - Helena Neyt, Romanie Paeps, Anke
  Peleman (Belgium)
• Historic Repeat Photography as a Tool for
  Examining Landscape Change on Barbados -
  Jyade A. Fritz, Casey D. Allen (Barbados)
• Use of Geo-spatial Technologies in Planning
  Associated with Informal Settlements - Mark
  Leipnik (USA)
• Urban Planning: Digital tools for a Sustainable Future in the urban area of
  Georgetown City in Guyana - Isidro Ubaldo
  Espinosa, Guillermo Velasco, Ricardo Ochoa
  (Guyana)

Sub-theme: Policy and legislative responses to
urbanization
Session Moderator: Dr. Perry Polar (blueSpace
Caribbean, Trinidada & Tobago)

• Diverse housing policy to tackle urban sprawl
  in Paramaribo - Sigrid Heirman, Tom Coppens,
  Nadia Molenaers (Belgium)
• Development of a Sustainability Index for
  Urban Land use Practices in Suriname - Sherina
  A. Soekhlal, Angelika S. Namdar (Anton de
  Kom - Suriname)
• Urban Planning Policy and the Development of Divided Cities in Dependent Capitalist
  Countries- A. M. Alabi, O.J. Omirin (Nigeria)

PANEL DEBATE:

Moderator: Dr. Catarina Camarinhas (UN-ECLAC)
Sustainable urbanisation and some priorities for the sub-region

Panelists: Diego Aulestia, UNECLAC; Roi Chiti, UN-Habitat; Alvaro Monett, UNECLAC; Fiona Littlejohn, UNECLAC

Moderator: Dr Patrick Williams
SESSION (Open):

Work of the Caribbean Planners’ Association

Speaker: Ms Carolyn Trench-Sandiford (Belize)

Sub-theme: Water management in an urban context
Session Moderator: Dr. Temitope
Oyedotun (University of Guyana)

• Adaptation Measures to Counteract the Effects of
  Climate Change with a focus on Water Resources
  Management and Flood Alleviation
  (AMCECC) - A. Karima Degia, Ricardo
  D. Marshall, Dr. Janice Cumberbatch
  (Barbados)
• Thermal Hydrolysis and its relevance for
  waste reduction and energy recovery in
  Urban Municipal and Industrial
  effluents within the Caribbean - Alex J.T. Harewood, Dr. Elon Cadogan (Belize)
• Innovative Membranes for Enhanced
  Water Management - E. Cadogan, Alex J.T. Harewood (Belize)
• Performance Evaluation of a Central
  Wastewater Treatment Plant in Jamaica: Case Study of Soapberry
  Wastewater Treatment Plant -
  Wayneworth G. Hamilton (Jamaica)

Sub-theme: Resilient urbanization
Session Moderator: Ms Germane Stewart
(Central Housing & Planning Authority, Guyana)

• Towards a Greener and more Liveable Paramaribo: The importance of Urban
  Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities - Lisa
  Best, Louise Willemen, Nina Schwarz, and
  Rudi van Kanten (Suriname & The
  Netherlands)
• Is it urban growth or urban expansion or is
  it both? What is Guyana’s story? - Davon Van-Veen (University of Guyana)
• Improved drainage for sustainable livelihood
  in a proposed model community on the East
  Bank of Demerara, Guyana – Andrew
  Metzger, Dahlia Durga, Karen Bannister,
  Mary Samaroo (MSc Student, University of
  Guyana)

PANEL DISCUSSION 3:

Moderator: Mr. Graham Alabaster (Chief, UN-

Habitat Geneva Office) 

COVID recovery and the role of public spaces to promote
health and well-being during the pandemic

Panelists: Pamela Carbajal (Global Public Space Programme, UN-Habitat); Ms. Carolina Piedrafita (
Senior Urban Specialist, Inter-America Development
Bank); Representative from Santo Domingo; Mr. Rogier
Vanden Berg (Director, World Resource Institute, USA);
Ms. Carolyn Trench-sandiford (President, Belize
Association of Planners, Belize); Dr. Gerry Eijkemans
(Unit Chief Health Promotion and Social Determinants of
Health, PAHO)

Sub-theme: Resilient urbanization
Session Moderator: Ms Donnel Bess- Bascom (Central Housing &; Planning Authority, Guyana)

• The emergence of ‘Green Building’ in
  the Caribbean and its anticipated
  impact on urban real estate - Sunil
  Lalloo, Mark Farrell and Derek de
  Gannes (Trinidada & Tobago)
• Rapid Planning Toolkit for Urban
  Expansion - Alice Preston-Jones, Ben
  Bolgar, Clive Harridge (The Prince’s
  Foundation & Commonwealth
  Association of Planners)
• Increasing Urban Resilience through
  Infrastructural Projects: An Urban
  Infrastructure Resilience Scorecard -
  Renelle Sarjeant (Barbados)

Sub-theme: Informality, public health risk
reduction and the urban environment
Session Moderator: Ms Shanomae Rose
(University of Guyana)

• Port-au-Prince (Haiti) between urban growth
  and vulnerabilities: case of the watershed of
  the Bois-de-chêne River - Louis-Marc Pierre
  (State University of Haiti)
• Optimized Landfill Site Selection Using an
  Integrated Approach of GIS and Multi-
  Criteria Decision Analysis: An Evaluation of
  the Riverton Watershed - Stephney S.
  Duhaney (University of Technology, Jamaica)
• Another side of sustainable development?
  Examining the psychosocial geographies of
  inequity and exclusion in the Urban Ghetto -
  Aleem I. Mahabir and Robert L. Kinlocke
  (University of the West Indies at Mona,
  Jamaica) Child Unfriendly Urbanisation -
  Earl Bailey (Jamaica)

Sub-theme: Urbanization in a digital era
Session moderator: Dr. Tom Coppen
(University of Antwerp)

• Social Media Utilisation for the Reportage of
  Disasters by the National Emergency
  Management Agency in Nigeria -
  Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Ismail
  Adedapo Oyerinde (University of Guyana &
  Nigeria)
• An examination of the digital divide and its
  implications for social and economic
  development in selected Jamaican
  communities - Romario A. Anderson, Robert
  L. Kinlocke (Jamaica)
•  Benefits of Developing an Address Reference
  System: The United States Virgin Islands - L.
  Christopher George, Martha McCart wells
  (Virgin Islands)

PANEL DISCUSSION 4:
Moderator: Dr. Patrick Williams
(University of Guyana)
Approaches to traffic management in the city of Georgetown: Alternative Solutions

Panelists: Patrick Thompson, Ministry of
Public Works; Eon Andrews, President
Minibus Association; Colvern Venture,
Engineer, Mayor & City Council,
Georgetown; Ramesh Ashram, Traffic
Department (Guyana)

PANEL SESSION 5:
Moderator: Dr. Marlyn Morris
Smart cities and community development: the
panacea for integrated implementation and achievement of the SDGS & sustainable

livelihood in the 21 st Century and beyond

Panelists: Peter Voldeng, Tristan Blackwood,
Roland Braithwaite, Clarence Winter, Alex Esomonu
(St Lucia and Canada)

Sub-theme: Resilient urbanization
Session Moderator: Dr. Claude Gooding (US –Virgin Islands )

• Sports and Entertainment: The Vehicle to Urban Economic Resilience - Kemar Bogle
  (National Environment and Planning Agency- Jamaica)
•  Anticipating new typologies for mid-scale peri-urban farmstead as drivers for sustainable development. The case of
  Mariënburg, Suriname - Nathan De Feyter, Johan De Walsche, Marciano Dasai
  (Belgium/Suriname)
•  Are 15-minute Neighbourhoods Right for The Caribbean? - Steve Kemp (United Kingdom)

WORKSHOP 2:

Moderator: Dr. Carol Archer (University of Technology, Jamaica)

Online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module on climate change and resilient cities for planners working in the Eastern Caribbean

POLICY DIALOGUE:

Moderator: Mr. Emrah Engindeniz (Regional Programme Advisor, UN Habitat)

Informal settlements and COVID-19

Panelists: Michel Frojmovic(Affiliate); Rajack, Robin Michael (IADB); Roxanne Campbell; Joan Dove

THE WAY FORWARD: URBANIZATION AND URBAN POLICY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Session Moderator: Dr. Asad Mohammed (blueSpace Caribbean)

Reflections: Elkin Velásquez, Regional Representative, UN-Habitat/Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Carol Archer – UTECH; Mr. Rawle Edinboro - Chair-LOC; Ms. Angelika Namdar, Anton de Kom- Surinam; Dr. Yolanda Alleyne, Physical Planning and Natural Resources

Management

CLOSING CEREMONY