Kaluga, Russia, 15 March 2019 – UN -Habitat and the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities Sector of the Russian Federation (Minstroy), the Kaluga Region Government, and a non-profit organization Digital economy have jointly convened an international forum on Smart City: Application guide in the Russian city of Kaluga.

Nairobi, 20 March 2019-- On the last day of the just concluded 4th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), 24 young men and women from the Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG) hosted Precious Plastics, a group of young Kenyans who process plastic waste and turn it into market ready products.

Nairobi, 19 March 2019—UN-Habitat Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif and Prof. Wu Jiang, the Executive Vice President of Tongji University last week jointly launched two publications on rehabilitation of polluted urban rivers and guidelines for net zero carbon villages in Yangtze Delta Region.

Nairobi, 13 March 2019 – UN-Habitat and UN Environment, together with ICLEI, UCLG and Cities Alliance, co-hosted the first Cities Summit during the Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4) in Nairobi. Held under the theme Innovation for Livable and sustainable Cities: Multi-level and Integrated Urban Systems, the Cities Summit provided a forum for high level dialogue between mayors, ministers, private sector leaders and civil society representatives.

Baghdad, Iraq - 11 March 2019 – The Ministry of Planning and the Council of Ministers Secretariat in Iraq have launched the National Platform for Reconstruction and Development jointly with UN-Habitat. The platform provides up-to-date information on key reconstruction and development projects.

We are pleased to invite you to our workshop on:

"Unification of the Egyptian Code for Principles and Requirements of Smart City Planning, Management, Operation and Sustainability".

At Cairo Mariott Hotel, Zamalek, Cairo| Egypt

The event is co-organised with the General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP), the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), and the Urban Training Institute (UTI).

Vientiane, Laos PDR, 12 March 2019 – Heavy rainfall across Lao PDR during the months of July and September 2018 caused massive devastation. The collapse of the dams in Xe-Pien Xe-Namnoy led to severe flooding across the country with the province of Attapeu being the worst affected.

NAIROBI, March 2019 – UN-Habitat is organizing an eight-day training course to develop skills and know-how in transport sector policy and implementation

The course, which will be in the form of an interactive, problem solving workshop, will run from 25 April to 2 May 2019 is organized by the Capacity Development Unit and Urban Mobility Unit, specifically the Urban Pathways programme  at IUTC Eco-complex  in Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 6 March 2019 -The Government of Japan and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) have exchanged no

Kisii, Kenya: The stakeholders in solid waste management in  Kisii town, Kenya, provided inputs to the draft long term strategy for solid waste management in the town. The strategy was prepared UN-Habitat in consultation with Kisii town authorities. The Strategy Document is one of the three outputs under the ongoing UN-Habitat and Kisii County Project.