Green and Resilient Cities

Six speakers and choose to attend one of two parallel sessions, from 10:10 to 12:00, Thursday, 29 November 2018:

1. Green Sanitation in Cambodia
2. Greening Innovation in Cambodia

Unprecedented and unregulated urban growth is placing immense strain on Cambodia’s urban centres, in particular Phnom Penh. Overwhelmed wastewater and solid waste management systems have become the norm in the capital, placing growing pressure on basic service provision, leading to detrimental environmental and public health impacts, and threatening to undermine the capital’s resilience.

A greater focus on urban planning, enforcement and investments is required to generate resilient growth for decades to come, securing jobs, protecting livelihoods and ensuring the long-term sustainability of Cambodia’s urban centres. Learn from practitioners and innovators engaged in integrated planning and policy development and implementation in green infrastructure and innovation in Cambodia.

Inclusive Cities

Ten speakers and choose to attend one of two parallel sessions, from 13:15 to 16:00, Thursday, 29 November 2018:

1. Child-friendly Cities
2. Making Cities Shared and Just

Vibrant, liveable and safe cities can only be realised through well-planned and enforced urban planning. In Phnom Penh, children, marginalised and vulnerable groups often find themselves excluded from the socio-economic benefits brought about by urban development be it jobs, education, training and opportunity. In outer Phnom Penh, infrastructure and service provision lags behind the rest of the city, and land tenure security remains scare.

Urban poor communities are coming under threat as real estate development dictate the growth of the city, with implications of the long-term sustainability and vitality of the capital. In this session, we hear from specialists, practitioners and policy makers engaged in making cities more inclusive spaces for children, vulnerable and marginalised groups in Cambodia and abroad.

Housing For All

Five speakers in one session, from 08:30 to 12:00, Friday, 30 November 2018

While Phnom Penh is witnessing an unprecedented residential building boom, much of this aimed at middle to high-income buyers. Cambodia now faces a severe shortage of housing for low-income earners and households across Phnom Penh as well as secondary cities in Cambodia. Although an affordable housing policy has been enacted in Cambodia, low cost housing projects remain sporadic, and comprehensive housing projects for residents most in need remains scant.

Meanwhile, a number of urban poor communities in Phnom Penh continue to be live under the threat of displacement due to increasing land values fuelled by the capital’s development boom and a lack of tenure security. While threats of displacement may linger for years, many urban poor households are vulnerable to day-to-day man-made or natural hazards, for example flooding, fire, poor sanitation and industrial pollution. Learn from development partners from Cambodia and Thailand who bring a wealth of experience working in and upgrading urban poor communities.

Field Trips, Masterclass & Networking Evening

Field Visit #1. World Vision Cambodia: Sammaki 4 Urban Hub, Phnom Penh
When: 13:15 – 16:15, Friday 30 November

Field Visit #2. Space for Architecture / Khmer Architecture Tours: Conservation as Green Planning, a tour of Central Phnom Penh
When: 13:15 – 16:15, Friday 30 November

Field Visit #3. People in Need: Drone demonstration for mapping Urban Poor Communities
When: 13:15 – 16:15, Friday 30 November

Masterclass #1. Adobe Earth Bricks making with The Room Design Studio
When: 13:15 – 16:15, Friday 30 November

Free City for All! Networking Evening
With The Room Design Studio and Nickie M. Lam Photography
When: 18:30 – 20:30, Friday 30 November Where: FCC The Mansion