Saint Petersburg 12 June 2017 -- This year’s Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was held over three days with a keynote speech by the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and attended by more than 14,000 thousand participants from 143 countries. Guests of the Forum included Presidents and Prime Ministers, as well as 45 Ministers from 30 countries.
The SPIEF, being held since 1997, is one of the best-attended events on business and economy.
Saint Petersburg 13 June 2017-- A two-day international conference recently held in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg highlighted the importance of public space for wellbeing in cities.
Ouagadougou, 12 June 2017—A project targeting some 30,000 residents of Bissighin area located in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso are seeing the fruits of development initiatives resulting from a USD 100,000 Community Managed Fund project.
Cape Town, 13 June 2017 -- Over a dozen experts met in Cape Town last week to lay the foundation for another companion to fast track the implementation of the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning (IG-UTP).
Washington 13 June 2017-- A group of statisticians and land property rights experts recently met at the World Bank offices in Washington D.C., with the objective of developing the preparatory requirements for supporting the reclassification of the Sustainable Development Goal
06 June 2017 - When land associated violence rocked her Bunia hometown in Ituri Province, Ms. Louise Tajeki gathered her earthly possessions and together with her family fled to Beni in another part of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003.
It was not until months later when the situation stabilised that she was able to move back to her home, having tasted the bitter fruits of communal warfare. This flight made her experience firsthand the problems evictees go through.
Nairobi 9 June 2017-- The Government of Italy is providing a soft loan to the Government of Kenya to improve solid waste management in Ngong town, a satellite urban centre of the capital city, Nairobi.
Paris, 7 June 2017 – Tunisian Minister for Equipment, Housing and Territorial Development, Mohammed Saleh Al Arfaoui, and UN-Habitat Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos recently signed an agreement to establish a country office in the Tunisia.
The agreement was signed during a side event at the Second International Conference on National Urban Policy (ICNUP) held in Paris recently.
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Issued on 7 June 2017
ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION:
UN-Habitat office in Tehan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Turkana, Kenya, 31 May 2017 – UN-Habitat invited ministers, Chief officers, directors and expert officers to discuss the content of the draft plan for Kalobeyei Refugee Resettlement, including potential issues and development projects leading up to implementing the settlement development.