Rio de Janeiro, 11 December 2014 – UN-Habitat and the City of São Paulo have entered an agreement to promote debate around the challenges to sustainable urban development. The Mayor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, and the Director of the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Elkin Velásquez, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to firm up the existing partnership between the two institutions.
Juba 9 December 2014 - UN-Habitat is providing safe water to people of South Sudan within a short period of time while having a positive impact in the lives of the residents. Ezo Kapoeta, Gok Machar counties are beneficiaries of the second phase Quick Impact Project. The project also offers capacity building for caretakers, training in operation & maintenance, hygiene awareness and sensitization.
Kogelo, Kenya 10 December 2014—The grandmother to United States President Mama Sarah Obama has thrown her weight behind the UN-Habitat pioneered One Stop Youth Centres to help addressing unemployment. According to Mama Sarah, the problem of youth unemployment was not only acute in her own country Kenya, but the entire African continent and beyond.
Bogota 9 December 2014 - Habitat for Humanity International (HfHI) and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) recently joined efforts to implement the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) with the aim of applying the tool to support neighbourhood upgrading program in Ciudadela Sucre settlement, which is located in the Municipality of Soacha, Colombia. More than one year later, STDM has been customized to manage and analyze data from both household enumeration and settlement profiling exercises for eleven neighbourhoods in Ciudadela Sucre.
Elementaita, Kenya 9 December 2014 - A group of experts from the GLTN/UN-Habitat and other top notch experts and thinkers in the field of land readjustment from different parts of the world gathered at Elementaita, Kenya for five days, from 24 to 28 November 2014, to write a simple, easy to read book on participatory inclusive land readjustment (PILaR).
Nairobi, 8 December 2014 – The Government of Germany has strengthened its support for long term partner UN-Habitat through new funding totalling EUR 1.8 million (USD 2.2 million).
Nairobi, 5 December 2014: The Director of Youth Affairs from the Kenyan Ministry of Devolution and Planning, Mr. Stephen Jalenga, opened a three-day workshop on Evidence-Informed Policies on Youth Development in Africa at the UN in Nairobi earlier this week.
Aiming at building momentum for youth development in the region, the workshop brought together civil society, statisticians, youth and ministry officials to discuss effective ways of policy formulation, implementation and monitoring towards youth development.
Global Consultation on Localizing SDG’
Turin, Italy 13th -15th October 2014 - The Local Government and Decentralization Unit (LGDU) attended, the global consultation on localizing SDG’s in Turin, Italy. This was the last event amongst many of a process of national and regional consultations regarding the role and future of SDGs at the local level.
Dubai Municipality press release -- Dubai Municipality has announced the 11 winners of the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment (DIABP) at its 10th cycle. Dubai will host a special ceremony to distribute prizes at the end of this year.
This came at a press conference held by the Municipality on Wednesday, attended by Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, director general, Khalid Zayed, Salah Amiri, Salem Bin Mesmar, assistant director generals of Dubai Municipality.
Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, 4 December 2014- Ly Son Island's leaders hope to transform it into an ecotourism centre, Tran Ngoc Nguyen, Chairman of the island's People's Committee, said at a seminar yesterday.