Round-Table Event in the context of the IVth EU-Africa Summit: for an African Urban Agenda

This special Roundtable is organized in the context of the IVth EU-Africa Summit taking place in Brussels, April 2-3, 2014. Following previous summits that took place in Cairo (2000), Lisbon (2007) and Tripoli (2010), the IVth EU-Africa Summit dedicated to "Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace", will address topics including peace, security, investment, climate change and migration.

In follow-up to the successful side-event organized at European Development Days in December 2013, and in agreement with UN-Habitat’s call for an African urban agenda in development policies, this formal side event to the Summit is held to discuss urbanization and cultural spaces and what it means for people, propsperity and peace. To this effect, some 40 leading specialists and thinkers from international organizations, pan-African organizations, academia, and the private, public and civil sectors are gathered.