The Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme will hold its second session (OEWG-H2) from 22 to 23 October 2025. The session will be held at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.


Overview

 

 

The roadmap for 2025 includes virtual intersessional meetings for member states, nominated experts and other stakeholders to pursue the work on the identified thematic areas, and a second meeting of the Working Group (OEWG-H2).

 The virtual intersessional thematic meetings are being rolled out with two sessions for each topic to cater for different time zones, according to the following schedule: 

Housing Finance: 24th June 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Tenure Security: 25th June 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Informal Settlements: 26th June 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Social Housing: 27th June 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Sustainability: 16th September 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Definitions: 17th September 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

Monitoring framework: 18th September 2025 10:00-1:00pm EAT (English, Russian, Arabic) and 4:00-7:00pm EAT (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

The draft recommendations drawn from these virtual thematic intersessional meetings will be compiled in a summary that will be presented at the OEWG-H2, with similar processes taking place in 2026, 2027 and 2028 with a comprehensive set of housing policy recommendations presented at the third session of the Habitat Assembly in 2029.

Provisional Agenda
Programme
Pre-session Documents
In-session Documents
Statements
Post-session Documents
Registration

 

 

Registration is found here

Intersessional Thematic Meetings
Housing Finance - Background Paper and Draft recommendations (Initial draft)

Tenure Security - Background Paper and Draft recommendations (Initial draft)

Informal Settlements - Background Paper and Draft recommendations (Initial draft)

Social Housing - Background Paper and Draft recommendations (Initial draft)