Commonwealth Association of Planners

You're invited to contribute to our manifesto, 'How can young people within the Commonwealth help to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 11, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable?' - SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15TH MARCH...

CAP was an active participant in the United Nations COP23 Climate Change conference held in Bonn from 30 October – 17 November 2017. In particular, CAP participated in the launch of the Planners for Climate Action initiative as part of the COP23 Human Settlements day on the 11 November...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 and the subsequent New Urban Agenda radically changed the global policy agenda for cities and the context for town planning. In particular they placed an explicit emphasis on the need for the holistic planning of settlements and made challenging commitments to improving health. However, the challenge of integrating this radical policy framework - securing collaboration across urban policy - remains daunting...

CAP has been supporting a pilot project by the Prince’s Foundation for Building Communities (PFBC) to develop a toolkit to help planners in cities in developing countries across the commonwealth and beyond. This led to a very successful workshop that took place in Sierra Leone on 4th and 5th December 2017...

CAPs Secretary-General Clive Harridge recently met with Deependra Prashad, Secretary of the India Chapter INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism) and representatives from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture. The meeting took place at the University of Delhi and focussed on how INTBAU and the School of Planning and Architecture could help CAPs Rapid Urbanisation Project...

Read Dr Lauren Andres' blog on the SAPER project which CAP is supporting. This is a major project reviewing the planning curriculum in South African Higher Education. The project is being led by a team from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University and the University of the Free State in Bloemfuntein.

CAP was one of a number of organisations that was a Partner to the International Federation of Housing and Planning’s (IFHP) Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) held over three days in Belfast.

Read Clive Harridge's report on the UTC event here...

IFHP is hosting an Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) in Belfast - incl. Dublin trip - to assist with the implementation of the UN Habitat's New Urban Agenda. They are delivering this UTC with their partners as part of the World Urban Campaign (WUC) .

Clive Harridge will representing CAP at the 'Urban Lab 3' event during the campus on the 1st of June...

The capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, will host the Ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) in 2018. UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, as the convener of WUF, announced the decision on Monday 3 November as the culmination of a six months bidding process...

CAP members are busy around the world in their respective Institutes and also in international working groups working on the New Urban Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals and preparations for the next World Urban Forum to be held in Malaysia in February 2018...