This week-long professional development course provides participants the opportunity to develop knowledge and systematize their understanding of the urban informal economy, as well as to develop instruments of economic analysis on informality, land markets and price formation, and the processes that generate informal settlements in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants deepen their knowledge of the economic dimension of the urban informal economy, technical intervention mechanisms, planning and scale program management, and mechanisms of regularization of tenure of the land through the analysis of experiences and cases in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions. The course is developed in collaboration with the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat), the General Directorate of Planning and Territorial Development (DGODT) and the Agency to Promote Development Initiatives (APID) of Dominican Republic.

El taller explora la implementación de políticas de desarrollo urbano y captura de plusvalías derivadas de la transformación del sistema aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México y fomenta cooperaciones interdepartamentales entre varias agencias gubernamentales mexicanas y el Instituto Lincoln de Políticas de Suelo para optimizar el impacto social del nuevo sistema aeroportuario. Adicionalmente proporciona un foro de discusión para analizar el marco institucional y los instrumentos necesarios para garantizar que el nuevo aeropuerto redunde en beneficio de la ciudad en su conjunto y de los sectores más desfavorecidos del oriente de la aglomeración.

In collaboration with the Congress for New Urbanism and the Public Sector Consortium, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is hosting a two-day capacity-building seminar focusing on strengthening the fiscal health of local governments on May 16th and 17th, 2016. Our objective is to help city officials strengthen their ability to track, manage, and sustain the fiscal health of their communities, guided by Systems Thinking practices.

Schedule:
Monday:  8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM