Advocacy

ComHabitat works to advocate CCGHS priorities and international goals on human settlements within the Commonwealth and the wider international community.  ComHabitat differs from other agencies and programmes in its position in relation to the CCGHS, and the lead position that Ministers have for facilitating implementation of the Habitat Agenda and achieving the Millennium Development Goals most relevant to human settlement development.  ComHabitat's networking and advocacy stems from both this unique position, and its base in partnerships between the sectors that are critical to implementing the Habitat Agenda.

ComHabitat and its partners attend key international meetings and events, concerned with human settlements and wider development issues, such as the World Urban Forum and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).  ComHabitat and CCGHS have produced a series of papers to advocate their concerns at these and other meetings.  CCGHS usually meets in the wings of UN-Habitat meetings, providing a forum for Ministerial discussion of the wider meeting agenda. 

ComHabitat is developing a Network to facilitate a broader engagement by many more organisations and individuals in the CCGHS process, please contact us if you would like to become involved and kept up-to-date with our work.