Guadalajara 6 March 2017-- As a follow up of the Habitat III Special Session in Quito, last October, the City of Guadalajara (State of Jalisco) in collaboration with UN-Habitat recently launched the Laboratory of Policies for Safer Cities.

Mwanza, Tanzania 22 February 2017 – Residents of Mwanza Town of Tanzania will soon start benefitting from a water and sanitation project undertaken through the UN-Habitat championed Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Programme (LVWATSAN).

Gerson H. Lwege, Minister of Water and Iirrigation (MoWI) recently officiated at the signing ceremony of two between Mwanza Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (MWAUWASA) and the two contractors working on the project.

Nairobi, 21 February 2017-- Supported by UN-Habitat, the Computing for Development Laboratory (C4DLab) of the University of Nairobi recently launched its new bike sharing program.

Nairobi, 14 February 2017 – The Executive Director of UN-Habitat has issued a statement confirming that the majority of Governing Council members have agreed that the twenty-sixth Governing Council will be celebrated in Nairobi from 8 to 12 May 2017 at the organization’s headquarters in Nairobi.

Details and formal communications will follow.

Monrovia, 14 February 2017 – The critical contributions a National Urban Policy could bring to safeguard Liberia’s sustainable urbanization was deliberated during two workshops in the country’s capital city Monrovia.

Naivasha, 14 February 2017 - UN-Habitat’s first technical meeting on human settlements indicators for SDGs opened today with more than 50 participants from the Kenya national government, national statistics agency, the private sector, academic institutions, non-profit organizations and other UN agencies.

Kalobeyei, 13 February 2014-- On a mission to the Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement Development Programme (KSEDP), UN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira announced that the agency would bring together policy and research work from a global level to the field in a normative and a scientific way.

Nairobi, 13 February 2017-- During a working meeting held at UN-Habitat headquarters recently, the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) presented the key findings of its 2016 Yearbook on Housing Finance in Africa.

Maputo, 8 February 2017-- The Sub-Regional Technical Centre for Disaster Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience (DiMSUR) is one step closer to become a strong institution in Southern Africa after Mozambican Cabinet approved the proposal to host it in that country.

Kabul 6 February 2017 - UN-Habitat will support the redevelopment of the Kabul riverfront in the historic core of the city.