Bossaso, 24 November 2016 – Bossaso Municipality, in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland, launched its first ever urban development plan at a town hall meeting this month. The planned city extension will accommodate urban growth and bring public services closer to communities in Puntland’s economic hub. The plan is the first one that adopts the planning standards and principles of Punt land’s Urban Regulatory Framework, approved by the government in November 2015.

Cameroon, 24 November 2016 – The Special Council’s Fund for Mutual Assistance, FEICOM in its French acronym, celebrated its second edition of the Camero

Goma, 23 November 2016 – UN-Habitat, in close collaboration with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a USD 12 million land programme that seeks to promote peace and stability.

Nairobi, 16 November 2016-- On the occasion of the World Summit of Local and Regional Governments – 5th UCLG Congress and the Habitat III Conference, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments (GTF), UNDP and UN-Habitat have announced the launch of the virtual platform: www.LocalizingTheSDGs.org

Ramallah 14 November 14, 2016-- UN-Habitat in partnership with the State of Palestine Ministry of Local Government, and with technical support from the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem launched a new publication that documents the spatial plans prepared with Palestinian communities in the Israeli controlled Area C of the West Bank.

Kabul, 16 November 2016- Rapid and unbalanced growth of urban population, the more people come to the cities from rural ar

Ramallah 15 November 2016-- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) launched the third edition of the Spatial Visioning Reflections Magazine, with special focus on the occupied Palestinian territory.

UN-Habitat in collaboration with the International Urban Training Centre are organizing a 4-day training workshop ‘Land Readjustment as a to

Mogadishu, 10 November 2016—UN-Habitat has launched a programme intended to give Somali youth a greater say in issues affecting their lives.

Known as Shaqeyo (‘to work’ in Somali), the programme is anchored on the understanding that the youth can play an active and valuable role in bringing peace and development to their country.

Nay Pyi Taw, November 7, 2016—UN-Habitat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Rural Development (DRD) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of the Government of Myanmar.
It is envisioned that by the end of the new MoU in 2018, over 1.8 million people in 1,314 villages (25 townships) would have benefited from WASH, community infrastructure, electricity and housing projects.