HIC co-learning spaces are cross-regional, multi-session encounters open to all HIC Members, Friends and allies to generate and multiply emancipatory learning practices applied on the defense of human rights related to habitat.
> What makes our co-learning spaces unique experience?
They are cross-regional
The pedagogic approach
A diverse team of facilitators
The learning models
They are cross-regional
The pedagogic approach
A diverse team of facilitators
The learning models
> Thematic focus of each Co-learning Space
Civil Society Action for climate justice and social production of habitat – phase 2023-24
This second phase will endeavor to support and enhance the efforts of HIC Members and allies to prioritize, strategize, learn and act together by building their social force for mobilization, collective action and advocacy on climate justice and social production of habitat across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East/North Africa.
Climate justice
Social production of Habitat
Civil Society Action for Gender and Land Policy Impact – phase 2021-2022
The first phase of the co-learning spaces emerged as a response to HIC Member priorities to strengthen the social force of HIC in key thematic areas that included Feminist Approaches to Habitat, Land Rights and Multi-Sphere Advocacy. Along these 3 tracks, the co-learning spaces aimed to uphold and defend human rights related to habitat bringing to the fore a feminist habitat agenda while equipping Members and Allies for collaboration in policy-level engagements and advocacy toward human rights-based solutions to habitat problems as they manifest across the HIC regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Latin America.
Feminist approaches to habitat
Multi-level advocacy
Land rights
> Reflections
> Beyond the co-learning spaces:
Interregional working groups on Feminist Approaches to Habitat and Human Right to Land
The need for continuous engagement and further interregional collaborations on Feminist Approaches to Habitat and the human right to land, was evident upon the conclusion of the Co-Learning spaces. The participants and facilitators were highly motivated to keep the ties and extend the opportunity to continue the interregional conversation and work collectively on the identified common issues and strategies. This has informed the HIC-GS action towards supporting its members and allies into creating active working groups on feminist approaches to habitat that would build on the foundations set by the co-learning space and serve as space for joint work and collaboration between HIC members in global advocacy activities and initiatives related to gender, feminism and women’s rights and their intersection with habitat rights.
Focus of the working group
- Cross-regional coordination and advocacy around key priorities and processes;
- Supporting the mainstreaming of gender equality in HIC’s global advocacy;
- Supporting cross-regional coordination between HIC members for global advocacy;
- Deepening discussions and knowledge exchanges that started in the co-learning space:
Membership
Open to all HIC Members and Allies with an interest in the thematic focus.
HIC regional working groups
Priority areas
Advocacy spaces
- Universal Periodic Reviews (of human rights records in all 193 UN member states)
- UN Special Rapporteurs (March 2023 – Right to Housing in context of climate change)
- Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
- General Comment on the Human Right to Land
- UN Commissions (CSW, CSocD)
- UN Committees (CEDAW)
- Agenda 2030: SDGs and the VNRs
- HLPF – 6 (Water & Sanitation) ,7 (Affordable & Clean Energy) , 9 Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure, SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities) ,17 (Partnerships to Achieve all SDGs)
- New Urban Agenda – UN Habitat (Executive Board, Habitat Assembly, Committee of Permanent Representatives, WUF)
- Habitat Assembly – Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) + annual Conference of Parties (COP) – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
> Feminist Approaches to Habitat
Based on the results of the survey addressed to HIC members and allies, the feminist approach to habitat emerged as a key and necessary theme with about 85% of the responses indicating an interest in participating and learning in the co-learning space on feminist approaches, particularly in these key areas; Policy Analysis and Advocacy Strategies, feminist urbanism and habitat and Human Rights Norms and Standards on Women’s Rights Related to Habitat.
Links to Session Materials.
Feminist Approaches to Habitat Co-Learning Space
Multi-level Advocacy Co-Learning Space
Session 2
Recordings
Resources
Session 3
Recordings
Resources
Session 4
Recordings
Resources
Feminist Approaches to Habitat
62 accepted applications, with interest from across the world in the syllabus: 11 Africa Region, 40 Latin America Region, 8 MENA and 3 from other regions
> Multi Level Advocacy
Feminist Approaches to Habitat.
Based on the results of the survey addressed to HIC members and allies, the feminist approach to habitat emerged as a key and necessary theme with about 85% of the responses indicating an interest in participating and learning in the co-learning space on feminist approaches, particularly in these key areas; Policy Analysis and Advocacy Strategies, feminist urbanism and habitat and Human Rights Norms and Standards on Women’s Rights Related to Habitat.
Links to Session Materials.
Multi Level Advocacy
105 accepted applications, with interest from across the world in the syllabus: 45 Africa Region, 29 Latin America Region, 25 MENA and 6 other
> Land Rights
Feminist Approaches to Habitat.
Based on the results of the survey addressed to HIC members and allies, the feminist approach to habitat emerged as a key and necessary theme with about 85% of the responses indicating an interest in participating and learning in the co-learning space on feminist approaches, particularly in these key areas; Policy Analysis and Advocacy Strategies, feminist urbanism and habitat and Human Rights Norms and Standards on Women’s Rights Related to Habitat.
Links to Session Materials.
Land Rights
90 accepted applications, with interest from across the world in the syllabus:40 Africa Region, 28 Latin America Region, 12 MENA and 10 Other