The Ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9), taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2018, has been recognized by the General Assembly resolution 70/210 as the first session to have a thematic focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Habitat III.
Visit the WUF9 website in the next weeks for more information.
Nairobi, 22 January 2018-- Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Mr.James Macharia has urged the country’s urban sector stakeholders to work together towards the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). Speaking to participants at the just concluded National Urban Forum (NUF) held on 15 - 16 January 2018 to concretize Kenya’s position ahead of the WUF9, Mr.
Dubai Municipality 16 January 2018—A five-member jury drawn by the Dubai Award Secretariat as well as UN-Habitat this week began the evaluation process for the 11th cycle of the Dubai International Award for Best Practices.
Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, 15 January 2018 – UN-Habitat in partnership with UN Women, Palestinian Housing Council, Aisha Association for Woman and child protection, and GGateway are creating a safe and inclusive public space in Al-Shaima’ neighbourhood in Beit Lahia city in order to improve the urban environment and the living conditions of residents, in particular children and you
Kalobeyei, Turkana, 9 January 2018---Kalobeyei Youth Photography Group has been established with the support from UN-Habitat through the funding Government of Japan.
Havana 8 January 2018-- Within the framework of the project "Support for sustainable urban development programs in Latin America and Central America: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Cuba", the Tool for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in Cuba was recently unveiled in Havana, Cuba.
Secretary-General Guterres expressed his gratitude to Dr. Joan Clos for his dedicated service to the Organization on 22 December 2017, coinciding with the end of his tenure as Executive Director of UN-Habitat on 31 December 2017.
Nairobi, 30 December 2017 - Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, and Sara Hradecky, High Commissioner of Canada to Kenya visited Mathare, one of the largest informal settlements in Kenya to learn more about United Nations Human Settlements Programme work in informal settlements.
Kalobeyei 27 December 2017— A senior diplomat from the Japanese embassy in Nairobi Mr. Ito Yo last week visited the construction site of UN-Habitat’s community centre for refugees and host community to see firsthand the progress of the project.
During the visit where he was well received by both the project beneficiaries and UN-Habitat staff members, an impressed Mr. Yo had a long talk with the site engineers and contractors getting the finer details of the development.
Kalobeyei, 22 December 2017 – UN-Habitat has been supporting integrated refugee and host communities in Turkana County, Kenya with support from the Government of Japan since 2016.