• Recently unplanned development and rapid urban growth is a major issues in a number of developing countries, particularly in Asia. They are recognizing needs for spatial planning (e.g. national master plan) and requesting JAPAN for support and guidance.
• New Urban Agenda was endorsed at the HABITAT III (Oct 2016, Quito),
  Japan presented the importance of establishing a platform to support Spatial Planning including urban, rural, regional planning, which caught a great attention and interest from various countries.

Established in August 2018

Communications and knowledge sharing

Conferences

• The 6th SPP meeting was held in Balikpapan, Indonesia, in November 2023.
• At WUF11, an event related to SPP was held, in June 2022.

Social media

• Facebook, website

Capacity building/development

• Co-organizing training sessions with JICA (6 weeks every year)
• Bilateral meeting and seminar by MLIT Japan (upon request)

Multi-lateral Support 2018-19