EAROPH Australia seeks fair, just and sustainable human settlements within the context of a flourishing healthy natural world. We are champions of change and connect practitioners to improve the quality of people’s lives and the environment.
Our mission statement
To plan, design and promote integrated, sustainable and resilient human settlements, and encourage best practice planning, development and management through advocacy, the sharing of knowledge and good practice, cooperation and good governance.
Our goals
To plan, design and promote integrated, sustainable and resilient human settlements, and encourage best practice planning, development and management through advocacy, the sharing of knowledge and good practice, cooperation and good governance.
Our goals
- To promote integrated, sustainable and resilient human settlements in Australasia and the Pacific region.
- To support excellence in planning, design, development and management to improve the quality of life and sustainability of communities.
- To grow and support EAROPH Australia’s membership base.
- To develop and share information to facilitate environmentally and socially responsible investment in sustainable human settlements.
- To support the implementation, review and reporting of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda in Australasia and the Pacific region.
Our purpose
The purposes of EAROPH Australia are to:
The purposes of EAROPH Australia are to:
- Consolidate and promote expertise in developing and maintaining sustainable human settlements.
- Provide a forum for collaboration among governments, the private sector and civil society in addressing Planning and Human Settlement issues.
- Promote personal professional development of its members to benefit the sustainability of human settlements.
- Facilitate the exchange of information, experience, ideas and insights among members for the ongoing improvement of human settlements.
- Foster links with organisations with similar interests in Australia and internationally, including other EAROPH National Chapters.
Objectives of EAROPH International
EAROPH aims to consolidate and continually promote the provision of better quality of life, housing and planning in the Asian, Australasian and Pacific region. The EAROPH region has been acknowledged as the most dynamic in the world in terms of economic growth, magnitude of urbanization, population size, and cultural diversity.
With the launch of the Langkawi Strategic Plan in 1996, EAROPH redefined its role and goals. These are:
EAROPH has been expanding its activities in various areas. These include:
EAROPH aims to consolidate and continually promote the provision of better quality of life, housing and planning in the Asian, Australasian and Pacific region. The EAROPH region has been acknowledged as the most dynamic in the world in terms of economic growth, magnitude of urbanization, population size, and cultural diversity.
With the launch of the Langkawi Strategic Plan in 1996, EAROPH redefined its role and goals. These are:
- To consolidate and promote expertise in Human Settlements in the EAROPH Region.
- To provide a forum for continuous collaboration between governments, private sectors and people in addressing Human Settlements issues.
- To promote personal professional development of its members.
- To provide expert technical support for members.
- To provide expert technical consultancy services on a commercial basis.
- To facilitate the exchange of information, experiences, ideas and insights among members.
- To foster links with organisations with similar interests in other regions.
EAROPH has been expanding its activities in various areas. These include:
- Arranging technical exchange programmes between countries.
- Organising international conferences and regional seminars.
- Running short-term technical training programmes.
- Conducting technical field visits to member countries.
- Promoting joint-venture urban development projects.
- Facilitating funding arrangements for project between donor agencies and beneficiary countries in the EAROPH region.
- Hosting public forums for key policy makers to highlight current issues, publishing bulletins and journals.
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EAROPH Australia is the Australian Chapter of the Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements
EAROPH Australia is the Australian Chapter of the Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements