9 March 2017-- Two opening ceremonies were held recently in Mannar district to commemorate the successful completion and handover of several learning facilities and teachers’ quarters through the project “Sustainable resettlement through community-driven improvement of the learning environment in Mannar district, Sri Lanka”.

Nairobi, 8 March 2017, International Women’s Day – On his first visit to Kenya as Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres visited a community space in Mathare, home to approximately 800,000 people and Nairobi’s oldest slum, to meet members of the community benefiting from UN programmes and partnerships.

Kiambu, 8 March 2017-- The County Government of Kiambu and UN-Habitat recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to collaborate in the areas of revenue enhancement and local economic development in the county.

Vientiane, 6 March 2017-- Approximately 47,000 people in 189 settlements in three southern provinces of Attapeu, Saravan and Sekong will soon have access to better climate resilient infrastructure when the just launched climate change project rolls out community-level implementation. The project with a total budget of USD 4.5 million will build capacity at national and sub-national levels to tackle climate change challenges.

Mogadishu, 28 February 2017-- Benadir Regional Administration recently conducted an informal learning exchange with the eThekwini (Durban) Municipality’s Municipal Institute of Learning and the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Guadalajara 6 March 2017-- As a follow up of the Habitat III Special Session in Quito, last October, the City of Guadalajara (State of Jalisco) in collaboration with UN-Habitat recently launched the Laboratory of Policies for Safer Cities.

Mwanza, Tanzania 22 February 2017 – Residents of Mwanza Town of Tanzania will soon start benefitting from a water and sanitation project undertaken through the UN-Habitat championed Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Programme (LVWATSAN).

Gerson H. Lwege, Minister of Water and Iirrigation (MoWI) recently officiated at the signing ceremony of two between Mwanza Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (MWAUWASA) and the two contractors working on the project.

Nairobi, 21 February 2017-- Supported by UN-Habitat, the Computing for Development Laboratory (C4DLab) of the University of Nairobi recently launched its new bike sharing program.

Barcelona, 20 February 2017—UN Habitat’s is hosting the exhibition “Where will we go?” in the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, in Barcelona, Spain.

The audio-visual production held under the auspices of UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Programme is by renowned photo-journalist Kadir van Lohuizen and is running from February 17th through March 17th, 2017 exploring the plight of people permanently displaced as a result of the impact of a changing climate.

Nairobi, 15 February 2017 – A two-day conference on urban innovation in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is underway at the UN Complex, Nairobi. This initiative is hosted by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in partnership with the Linköping University and University of Borås, Sweden. The symposium discussed ways in which cities can help improve the quality of life through better health care and in particular sexual and productive health and rights.