Table of Contents

Foreword

The Lyon Commitment

Part 1 Opening Ceremony and Introduction

• 1.1 Opening Addresses
• 1.1.1 Mr. Raymond Barre - Mayor of Lyon


• 1.1.2 Mr. Claude Bartolone - Minister of the French Government in Charge of Urban Affairs


• 1.1.3 Mr. Thierry Lemaresquier - Director of the Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division at UNDP


• 1.1.4 Mr. Christian Philip - Deputy Mayor of Lyon


• 1.1.5 Mr. Abdul Aziz Al-Adsani - President of the World Associations of Cities and Local Authorities Coordination (WACLAC) and President of the Arab Towns Organisation (ATO)


• 1.1.6 Mr. Daniel Biau - Executive Senior Coordinator at the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS)


• 1.1.7 Mr. Mamadou Diop - Mayor of Dakar and Co-President of the UNDP Advisory Board of Mayors


• 1.1.8 Mr. Lucien Duquesne - Deputy Chairman of ATD Quart Monde
• 1.2 Introduction

• 2.1 Urban Poverty and Urban Development Cooperation - A Common Challenge Calls for Common Action
• 2.1.1 UNDP's Urban Development Cooperation


• 2.1.2 The International Forum on Urban Poverty


• 2.1.3 Decentralised Cooperation


• 2.1.4 Majority Urban Poverty


• 2.1.5 France's Urban Development Cooperation
• 2.2 Innovative Programmes Against Urban Poverty - Comprehensive Strategies To Tackle a General Problem
• 2.2.1 The Programme of Rosario


• 2.2.2 The Programme of Lisbon


• 2.2.3 The Programme of Alphen aan den Rijn


• 2.2.4 The Programme of Bonn


• 2.2.5 The Programme of Munich


• 2.2.6 Debate and Conclusions
• 2.3 Original Initiatives Against Urban Poverty: Specific Projects for Addressing Specific Needs
• 2.3.1 Infrastructural Aspects - Lomé and São Paulo


• 2.3.2 A Social Aspect - Berne


• 2.3.3 A Political Aspect - Delhi


• 2.3.4 An Economic Aspect - Ithaca


• 2.3.5 A Cultural Aspect - Paris


• 2.3.6 Debate and Conclusions
• 2.4 Creating Employment and Generating Means of Subsistence in Cities - Focusing On A Key Issue
• 2.4.1 Employment and the Informal Sector


• 2.4.2 Employment in Bamako


• 2.4.3 Employment in San Francisco


• 2.4.4 Debate and Conclusions
• 2.5 Panels: UNDP's Programmes `LIFE' and `HIV/AIDS'
• 2.5.1 Panel: LIFE


• 2.5.2 Panel: HIV / AIDS

• 3.1 Workshop A - City-to-city Cooperation and Interaction between Municipal Governments and Civil Society
• 3.1.1 City-to-City Cooperation - Lyon-Montreal-Santiago de Chile and Besançon-Douroula

3.1.2 Interaction between Municipal Governments and Civil Society - Dakar and Bursa
• 3.2 Workshop B - New Ways of Financing Poverty Reduction
• 3.2.1 Local Economy and Finance in Developing Countries - Western Africa


• 3.2.2 Local Finances in Industrialised and Developing Countries


• 3.2.3 Municipality - NGO Partnerships for Financing Anti-Poverty Action


• 3.2.4 Private Corporations in Partnerships Against Poverty - Medical Production


• 3.2.5 The Samu Social in Paris - An Example of a Broad Partnership Against Urban Poverty


• 3.2.6 Debate and Conclusions
• 3.3 Workshop C - Cities' Needs that Could be Adressed by the Alliance and Its Programme of Activities
• 3.3.1 Communication - A Global Mass Media Campaign, an Internet Forum for Local Communities, and a Participatory Urban Information System Against Poverty


• 3.3.2 Human resources - Volunteers Against Urban Poverty


• 3.3.3 Financial tools - A World Solidarity Fund for Cities


• 3.3.4 Debate and Conclusions

• 4.1 Closure Addresses
• 4.1.1 Mr. Jacques Chirac - The Many Faces of Urban Poverty


• 4.1.2 Mr. Charles Josselin - An Upward Spiral Against Urban Poverty


• 4.1.3 Mr. André Soulier - Proximity and Globalisation


• 4.1.4 Mr. Norbert Burger - Pertinence, Partnerships, and Exchanges
• 4.2 Final Statement

Annex 2: Evaluation of the Forum

Annex 3: Media Coverage

Annex 4: Documentation

Organised jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the City of Lyon with the collaboration of the World Associations of Cities and Local Authorities Coordination (WACLAC) and the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie, of the Government of France

World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty
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