Marrakesh, Morocco 20 November 2018 - Thousands of local government experts are attending the Africities 8 summit to discuss improving people’s lives in Africa’s urban areas by adopting sustainable development policies.
Today, World Children’s Day, is an occasion to recognize the future. Children embody our potential to change the world. As we celebrate World Children’s Day today, let us reflect on our obligation, to our generation and theirs, to ensure that they are heard, and that their rights respected.
November 19, 2018, Yangon - A Handover Ceremony for the Yoma Housing Project – Phase II for the poorest and most vulnerable families recently took place this morning in South Dagon Township in Yangon Region.
Yoma Housing was constructed under the funding of the Government of Japan/JICA and implemented by UN-Habitat.
Amman, November 16, 2018 - Under the leadership of Mr.
Tunis – International partners joined efforts with the United Nations system in Libya to support and boost their Libyan counterparts’ capacity to design, develop and implement social policies including a stronger community participation in the framework of efforts to stabilize and develop Libya.
Barcelona, Spain, 12 November 2018 – Members of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign agreed to step up their efforts during the Committee Meeting hosted by the chair, UN-Habitat, at the start of Barcelona Resilience Week 2018. More than 4,000 cities have signed up to the Campaign, launched in 2010, which encourages cities to pledge to build resilience under the theme “My City is getting ready!”.
Nairobi, November 9, 2018 - UN-Habitat has recently joined the World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)) for a global crowd-solving challenge for designs of Resilient Homes. The goal of this challenge is to generate designs for resilient, low-cost and sustainable small houses that can be built for less than $10,000 for people living in vulnerable areas, affected by natural disasters. The deadline for design submissions is November 30, 2018.
NAIROBI, November 7, 2018 - UN-Habitat and the One Planet Network have developed an innovative way to improve sustainability of new housing projects and make green housing affordable. The SHERPA App helps users to overcome social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges in project implementation to ensure sustainability in housing projects.
November 2018 - The Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) was established by the German Government, has just celebrated its second birthday. Since its launch in October 2016 at the Habitat III conference in Quito, TUMI has trained over 1,500 urban mobility decision-makers and provided seed funding to scale-up and replicate innovative pilot projects .
The Initiative aims to support cities to transform their transport systems and move towards policy and investment decisions to support sustainable mobility.