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The International Forum on Urban Poverty (IFUP) is a partnership
of local authorities, NGOs and CBOs, academics institutions,
bilateral and multilateral agencies working for the eradication
of poverty according to a strategy based on sound governance,
partnership and the participation of people living in poverty.
The features of poverty - increasingly urban and spreading
over all the countries of the South and the North - have been
analysed at the Florence Conference in November 1997. This
international Conference launched IFUP as a framework for
awareness-raising and the exchange of experience on urban
poverty at a global level and for supporting initiatives directed
to its elimination.
The Programme of IFUP will initially address special areas
of interest for which it will define immediate plans of action:
Global and Regional activities directed to raise awareness
of the urgency of urban poverty and to create linkages between
people and organisations active in this field, and the Informal
Settlements, Urban Safety, Urban Transport and Urban Children
themes.
The central principle of IFUP recognises that interventions
on the eradication of poverty need the participation of the
people living in poverty, in partnership with the agencies,
institutions, social movements and communities active in this
field. This principle appears in the definition of objectives,
outputs, activities and resources corresponding to these areas
of intervention.
REPORT OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON URBAN POVERTY
English, French
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