The Regent Park World Urban Pavilion (Pavilion) is a collaboration between the Urban Economy Forum Association and UN-Habitat with the support of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and The Daniels Corporation. The Pavilion partnership was launched on November 12th, 2020, by the Honourable Ahmed Hussien, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and the Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), John Tory, Mayor of the City of Toronto and Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Head of Knowledge and Innovation at UN-Habitat and Reza Pourvaziry, Chair of Urban Economy Forum.
The Pavilion is a global platform to inspire action and advocate for sustainable urban development with stakeholders across all sectors, using data and information to support evidence-based policy decisions supported by people-oriented, innovative solutions to development challenges faced by human settlements around the world. The Pavilion is guided by UN-Habitat’s SDG Cities flagship program which seeks to accelerate the realization of the SDGs by providing cities with monitoring and evaluation systems that define baselines through which to measure progress.
The Pavilion is a core partner of the Urban Economy Forum series, an annual global conference held in Toronto that convenes urbanists for conversations on sustainable urban development issues and how to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Founding Resolution, Urban Economy Forum 2019
The resolution adopted by the first Urban Economy Forum inter alia states: “We will support the establishment of a Regent Park Urban Pavilion in Toronto, Canada of urban excellence to show case and facilitate sharing science, research and innovation in urban revitalization, including a focus on social, technological, digital and nature-based innovation, robust science-policy interfaces in urban and territorial planning and policy formulation and institutionalized mechanisms for sharing and exchanging information, knowledge and expertise that community-collected, high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability, geographic location, and other characteristics relevant in national, subnational and local contexts”