Geneva, October 2018 – Policymakers and urban experts from North and Central Asia have met in Geneva to discuss the Future of Asia and Pacific Cities 2019 Report and exchange experiences on managing challenges to sustainable urbanization that are unique to the region.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 18 October 2018 – Minecraft is an online block by block building game in which players create their own unique world using 1x1m blocks. UN-Habitat facilitators have been helping local school children to set priorities for their communities using Minecraft.
The Urban Legislation Unit in collaboration with the Participatory Slum Upgrading Unit of UN-Habitat hosted an expert group meeting on the Slum Upgrading Legal Assessment Tool on 11 & 12 October 2018 in Sarova Panafric Hotel at Nairobi, Kenya.
Nairobi, 17 October 2018 - A rapid assessment of approaches to collecting city level data reveals a mixed bag of results with huge variations not only in how each country defines urban, but also in how urban level data is collected.
UAE will be first Arab country to host landmark United Nations Forum
The lecture focuses on introducing the fast growing concept of tourism to economically less developed areas, also known as slum tourism, the ethical issues that it needs to deal with, its governance and the ways it may contribute to local development.
UAE will be first Arab country to host landmark United Nations Forum
Conakry, Guinea, 8 October 2018 – The Ministry of City and Territorial Development in Guinea has partnered with UN-Habitat to train one hundred youth on Prevention of urban insecurity through the manufacture, assembly, installation and maintenance of photovoltaic solar street l
Delhi, 9 October 2018 - Findings of research conducted since 2016 by UN-Habitat, Oxford Brookes University (OBU), The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), and Development Alternatives (DA) were presented at a national workshop on Mainstreaming Sustainable Social Housing in India Project (MaS-SHIP).
Tribute by UN-Habitat’s Executive Director
On behalf of the entire UN-Habitat family, I would like to express my deep and most heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Jockin Arputham, President of the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India and the Slum Dwellers International (SDI), who passed away on 13 October 2018.