The Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All was established pursuant to resolution 2/7 on adequate housing for all, adopted by the United Nations Habitat Assembly of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat Assembly) at its second session, held in Nairobi from 5 to 9 June 2023. In that resolution, the UN-Habitat Assembly decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental expert working group to consider and make recommendations to the Assembly on the development and content of policies for accelerating progress towards the universal achievement of safe, sustainable, adequate and affordable housing, and requested the expert working group, subject to the availability of resources:

a) to assess the state of efforts progressively to realize adequate housing for all;

b) to identify policy best practices for the progressive realization of adequate housing and, as appropriate, examples of such best practices and the contexts in which they were developed;

c) to propose a framework for measuring and reporting on the adequacy of housing across diverse national and local contexts;

d) to consider the progress made in implementing the UN-Habitat programme of work related to adequate housing;

e) to map and evaluate existing multilateral and bilateral support for the development and implementation of effective housing policies, programmes and projects; and

f) to report on its recommendations to the Assembly at its third session.

In the same resolution, the UN-Habitat Assembly decided that the working group’s activities and programme of work would be determined in consultation with the Executive Board.

Pursuant to that provision, the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), at its first session of 2024, held in Nairobi from 6 to 8 May 2024, adopted part (c) of decision 2024/3, by which it decided that the first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All would be held for a duration of three days, from 9 to 11 December 2024, in Nairobi, and decided on the agenda for the session.

Accordingly, the first session of the Intergovernmental Expert Working Group was held at the headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi from 9 to 11 December 2024. The session was held fully in person, with provision for listening online.

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