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Training stakeholders on sustainable urban planning and housing in BelarusGrodno, 1 June 2018 From 31 May to 1 June 2018, in Grodno, republic of Belarus, over 75 people (including 30% women), participated in the workshop on “Sustainable urban planning and housing: national priorities of the Republic...
- Posted June 22, 2018
Foreign direct investment key to Africa’s development, new UN-Habitat report saysUN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira launched a new report that investigates the effect of foreign direct investment on the continent’s cities. The State of African Cities 2018 report says that foreign firms and investors in...
- Posted June 21, 2018
UN-Habitat Partnership Strategy – 2017-2022The importance of stakeholder participation and partnerships towards achieving sustainable development is expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16 and 17, and in numerous paragraphs of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), (1, 4-6, 11, 15, 21,...
- Posted June 21, 2018
UN-Habitat Pledges to Support Sustainable Blue Economy ConferenceUN-Habitat will provide support to the 1st ever global Sustainable Blue Economy Conference (SBEC) that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 26 – 28 November 2018 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). The SBEC focuses on...
- Posted June 21, 2018
- Improving Tenure Security in Afghan Cities
Kabul, 06 June 2018. The Government of Afghanistan is using GIS, Remote Sensing and ICT technologies to collect and analyze property data for purposes of improving tenure security in urban areas. Through the City for All program,...
- Posted June 8, 2018
- Youth, Gender Empowerment and Sustainable Urbanization
Kabul, 06th June 2018. Massoda Mahmoodi and Lema Jaheed are two female engineering students from Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU) who participated in the first batch of the UN-Habitat’s Professional Practice Programme (PPP). The PPP is a three to...
- Posted June 8, 2018
UN Under-Secretary-General Arcot Ramachandran, First Executive Director of UN-Habitat April 6, 1923 – May 17, 2018UN Under-Secretary-General (USG) Arcot Ramachandran, who died on 17 May 2018, at the age of 95, was the first Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, UNCHS (Habitat), now the United Nations Programme for...
- Posted May 28, 2018
Photo Contest “Visions of the Urban Future“Urban Futures will illustrate ideas from around the world about the future of urban development and cities. Rather than focusing on technological innovation, infrastructure and mobility we understanding the city as a social space. A citizen science...
- Posted May 18, 2018
A Handing Over Ceremony of Multi-Purpose Flood Shelter, Emergency Water tank and Concrete Drainages took place on April 24, 2018 in Ward No.14 in Pakokku, Magway Region24 April 2018 A Handing Over Ceremony of Multi-Purpose Flood Shelter, Emergency Water tank and Concrete Drainages took place on April 24, 2018 in Ward No.14 in Pakokku, Magway Region. The European Union funded Myanmar Climate Change...
- Posted April 27, 2018
Talanoa and Beyond: Raising Ambition with Cities and RegionsThis publication was prepared as a joint submission to the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue process by UN-Habitat, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and GIZ, in April 2018. The technical contribution responds to all three questions posed by...
- Posted April 27, 2018
Land Conference in Sudan to discuss challenges and opportunities for peace and stability through good land governanceThrough the support of Qatar Fund for Development and the United Nations Darfur Fund in Sudan; UN-Habitat, UNDP, FAO, the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Physical Development (MoENPD), and Darfur Land...
- Posted April 25, 2018
Message on the occasion of World Malaria DayToday, we mark World Malaria Day. I would like to join the world in remembering the millions of people who have died from malaria or who have suffered from malaria this past year. Nearly half the world’s...
- Posted April 25, 2018
Utilizing Minecraft to design Wadi El Joz Community Garden in East JerusalemEast Jerusalem, April 17th, 2018 – UN Habitat in partnership with Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights, Al Enaya Community Center and the Green Mosques Youth Group inaugurated Wadi Al Joz community garden, which was developed as...
- Posted April 23, 2018
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Sri Lanka Officially Opens Community Infrastructure Initiatives Implemented by UN-Habitat in Nuwara Eliya District.6 April 2018, Nuwara Eliya. The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Mr. Lee Heon declared open a number of community infrastructure interventions in Nuwara Eliya District today. Funded by the Korea...
- Posted April 20, 2018
Annual Progress Report 2016 : Demonstrating Results of the Strategic Plan 2014-2019This is the third Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the six-year strategic plan (2014-2019) prepared in accordance with the Governing Council resolution 25/3 of April 2015. The strategic plan is being implemented through three successive...
- Posted April 18, 2018
Annual Progress Report 2015 : Implementation of the Strategic Plan 2014-2019The 2015 Annual Progress Report marks the second update on the implementation of the six-year strategic plan for 2014-2019 approved by UN-Habitat’s Governing Council in April 2013, and is in accordance with Governing Council resolution 25/3 of...
- Posted April 18, 2018
Annual Progress Report 2013 : Implementation of the Medium Term Stragetic Implementaion Plan 2008-2013This is the fourteenth and final progress report on the implementation of the medium-term and institutional plan (MTSIP, 2008-2013. It captures cumulative progress made towards achievement of the planned results for the six year period, but focuses...
- Posted April 18, 2018
Annual Progress Report 2012 : Implementation of the Medium Term Stragetic Implementaion Plan 2008-2013This is the 13th progress report on the implementation of the MTSIP, 2008-2013. It captures cumulative progress made towards achievement of the planned results of the MTSIP at country, regional and global levels in 2012. The report,...
- Posted April 18, 2018
Annual Progress Report 2011 : Implementation of the Medium Term Strategic Implementation Plan 2008-2013This is the 11th progress report since the start of the implementation of UN-Habitat’s Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan (MTSIP) in 2008. The report is submitted in accordance with Governing Council (GC) resolution 22/7, paragraph 7, which...
- Posted April 18, 2018
Is Sri Lanka one of the Least Urbanised Countries on Earth?18 April 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Population data suggests that Sri Lanka is one of the least urbanised countries on earth. Recent spatial analysis challenges this representation, suggesting rapid urban expansion in peripheral areas is not captured...
- Posted April 18, 2018