UN-Habitat has joined schools in the Lake Victoria region for soap donations and demonstrations to celebrate Global Handwashing day.
Children at the schools had the opportunity through their health clubs to learn the importance of hand washing with soap as one of the most cost-effective ways of preventing diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases which account for the majority of all child deaths.
Nairobi, 14 July 2014: UN-Habitat, the Kenya Property Developers Association, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the Architectural Association of Kenya, the Kenya Green Building Society and Italy’s “Politecnico di Milano” have delivered training in sustainable design principals and energy efficiency to building practitioners in Nairobi.
The second phase of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative will kick off next month, it has been announced.
The transport sector is a vital enabler of economic activity and social connectivity, but is also the second largest and one of the fastest growing energy end-use sectors, representing 23% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The bulk of energy used by the transport sector (about two-thirds) is accounted for by passenger transport while the rest is consumed by freight transport. According to the International Energy Agency, greater uptake of electric vehicles will form an important part of a low-carbon technology pathway for transport (IEA 2012).
Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of five East African Nations met last week to discuss an initiative to improve the water, sanitation and environmental conditions in the Lake Tanganyika Region.
The meeting, convened by the East African Community and UN-Habitat sought endorsement and ownership of the feasibility report for the programme in fifteen identified cities and towns. It included ministers and permanent secretaries responsible for water and environment from the five countries that share the basin; Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.
Some 30 young people drawn from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda gathered in Karen, Nairobi, last week for a training organized by UN-Habitat called ‘Hands-on training course on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies for Youth Empowerment’.
The training, running from 8 to 12 July 2013 was held by UN-Habitat in conjunction with the Climate Action Programme for Schools and Youth (CAPSAY).
It addressed the need to engage young people and enable them to become active proponents of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies within their communities.
The 37th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) ended on Sunday bringing to a close an event which brought together local and international organizations and companies to showcase their products as well as services.
UN-Habitat as part of the 20 United Nations agencies in Tanzania also participated in the fair under the United Nations Tanzania Delivering as one.
The governments of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have signed a declaration supporting the scaling up of the UN-Habitat’s Mekong Region Water and Sanitation (MEK-WATSAN) Initiative.
