Opening Ceremony & Scroll of Honour Award Ceremony – World Habitat Day 2024 (Querétaro, Mexico)

As our world urbanizes at an unprecedented pace, young people, particularly in Africa and Asia, are becoming a prominent portion of urban populations. This year’s observance will explore ways to actively involve new generations in shaping their urban environments through participatory processes and leadership opportunities at the local level.

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• Opening by the Master of Ceremonies

• Ceremony of the Concheros

• Video presentation of Querétaro 

Welcome Address

• Felipe Fernando Macías Olvera, President of the Municipality of Queretaro.
• Fernando Carrera Castro, Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Mexico.
• Peter Grohmann, Resident Coordinator of the UN System in Mexico.
• Mauricio Kuri González, Governor of the State of Queretaro. Edna Elena Vega, Secretaria de Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano.
• Edna Elena Vega Ragel, Minister of Agrarian,
  Territorial and Urban Development.
• Enrique Javier Ochoa Martínez, Undersecretary of
  Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs of Mexico. 
• Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).

Scroll of Honour Award Ceremony

• Introduction by moderator
  Ekaterina Bezgachina, Chief of
  Communications, UN-Habitat.

• Acknowledgement remarks by recipients of
  UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award.

• Winner 1: Fatiha El Moudn, Mayor of Rabat,
  Ville de Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco.

• Winner 2: María del Mar Mozo Muriel, Alcaldía
  de Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia.

• Winner 3: Dato Rumaizi Baharin, Mayor of Ipoh,
  Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh, Ipoh Perak, Malaysia.

• Winner 4: Allen Kong, Ocean Grove, Australia.

• Winner 5: David Satterthwaite, London, United Kingdom.

• Cultural Performance.