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). 

Accordingly, the first session of the Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All was held at the headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi from 9 to 11 December 2024. See here the report and the Chairs’ summary. The elected co-chairs, France and Kenya, developed a road map for 2025 which 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 will roll out with two sessions for each topic to cater for different time zones, according to the following schedule: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monitoring framework: 18^th 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 the virtual thematic intersessional meetings will be compiled in a summary that will be presented at the second session of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Adequate Housing for All (OEWG-H2), to be held in Nairobi from 22 to 23 October 2025. Similar processes will take place in the following years (2026-2028); a comprehensive set of housing policy recommendations will be presented at the third session of the Habitat Assembly in 2029. Such recommendations will already guide policy reform at country level before 2029 and will inform other key multilateral processes.