Saint Petersburg 12 June 2017 -- This year’s Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was held over three days with a keynote speech by the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and attended by more than 14,000 thousand participants from 143 countries. Guests of the Forum included Presidents and Prime Ministers, as well as 45 Ministers from 30 countries.
The SPIEF, being held since 1997, is one of the best-attended events on business and economy.
Saint Petersburg 13 June 2017-- A two-day international conference recently held in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg highlighted the importance of public space for wellbeing in cities.
Washington 13 June 2017-- A group of statisticians and land property rights experts recently met at the World Bank offices in Washington D.C., with the objective of developing the preparatory requirements for supporting the reclassification of the Sustainable Development Goal
06 June 2017 - When land associated violence rocked her Bunia hometown in Ituri Province, Ms. Louise Tajeki gathered her earthly possessions and together with her family fled to Beni in another part of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003.
It was not until months later when the situation stabilised that she was able to move back to her home, having tasted the bitter fruits of communal warfare. This flight made her experience firsthand the problems evictees go through.
Nairobi 9 June 2017-- The Government of Italy is providing a soft loan to the Government of Kenya to improve solid waste management in Ngong town, a satellite urban centre of the capital city, Nairobi.
Turkana, Kenya, 31 May 2017 – UN-Habitat invited ministers, Chief officers, directors and expert officers to discuss the content of the draft plan for Kalobeyei Refugee Resettlement, including potential issues and development projects leading up to implementing the settlement development.
On 17 and 18 May, an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) was held in the city of Belém, Brazil, for debating the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in the Amazon Region. Organized by UN-Habitat with the support of the State Government of Pará and Dialog Institute, the event put emphasis on two themes: “Funding System for Sustainable Urban/Territorial Development in the State of Pará” and “Towards Sustainability of Cities and Human Settlements in the Amazon Region”.
Bunia 26 April 2017—UN-Habitat has successfully spearheaded a project that saw hundreds of the Wambuti pygmy families get settled in Mambasa Territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri Province
17 May 2017; Quezon City, Philippines - Responding to the compelling challenges of rapid urbanization and climate change, the project “Building Climate Resiliency through Urban Plans and Designs” was launched on 17 May 2017 led by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Christopher Lao together with key government agencies involved in planning for urban development and climate change.
Cairo, 21 May 2017 - As Egypt continues to exert all efforts for enhancing living conditions of its inhabitants, and in line with the Egyptian development vision 2030 and its urban development targets, the Ministry of Housing - represented in the Informal Settlement Development Fund- together with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Egypt are initiating a new cooperation entitled