The High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) have identified Human Rights as one of five interlinked elements that are critical to make the UN “fit for purpose” in achieving the post-2015 development agenda: universality, integration, equality, human rights and the data revolution.

To ensure that there would be effective engagement
by African countries in the process of generating an
‘Urban Agenda’ for the 21st century which recognizes
the ever-changing dynamics of human civilization, the
Governments of Nigeria and Ghana have committed to
facilitate an active, evidence-based and highly inclusive
Preparatory Process for Habitat II, with all stakeholders
from across the continent in atendance, through a project
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The shortage of finance for housing has long been recognized as one of the obstacles to the provision of housing for low-income households.