29 April 2015, Nairobi. Following the Governing Council side-event on Human Rights, Uchenna Emelonye, a panellist at the event and the Senior Human Rights Advisor for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nairboi, is interviewed to share OHCHR’s expertise on human rights and urban development.
Tuesday 28 April 2015-- Winners of the 2015 World Habitat Awards were presented at the 25th Session of the UN- Habitat Governing Council in Nairobi.
Naypyitaw, 23 April 2015 – Participants at a workshop recently held in Naypyitaw agreed upon the initial vision for the “climate resilient, low-carbon, resource efficient development, as contribution to sustainable development of Myanmar”.
Nairobi, 20 April 2015 – UN-Habitat has launched a new web portal featuring a wealth of city data based on its extensive research into some of the most pressing urban trends of recent decades.
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airobi, 17 April 2015—The 25th session of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat kicked off in Nairobi with calls to use urbanisation as an opportunity to harness the economic potential of cities for growth and development.
Nairobi, 16 April 2015 — The city of Kuala Lumpur, the host of the ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) in 2018 declared on Thursday that they were up to the task.
Nairobi 16 April 2015—A group of Kenyan journalists drawn from various media houses on Thursday benefited from talks delivered at the Urban Journalism Academy.
The journalists heard from their counterparts from an American news agency Citiscope as well as the Director of the Regional Office for Africa at UN-Habitat Ms. Axumite Gebre-Egziabher.
UN-Habitat´s Youth Mentorship programme will for the second time, partner with mentors to increase the capacity of youth-led organizations it supports. Twenty-two organizations in Africa, Asia Pacific, Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean, were selected this year to receive both a grant and training. These youth-led groups’ work span various sectors, from technology and agriculture to governance, education and poverty reduction. This linkage is aimed to start in the second quarter of 2015.
Afghanistan
“Community-led Urban Infrastructure Programme (CLUIP)”
Total Budget: USD20million
by Inés Sánchez de Madariaga
2015 and 2016 will be two very important years for three global agendas at the United Nations. Firstly, the gender equality agenda marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing World Women’s Conference in which gender mainstreaming was recognized as a main tool for promoting gender equality in all fields of policy.