Nairobi 13 April 2016--The English version of the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning (IG-UTP) has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the UN-Habitat website, making these Guidelines the most popular publications ever in less than a year of the date of publication.
Figure 1: Top ten downloaded publications from UN Habitat website
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Toronto, 13 April 2016-- A roundtable discussion on the prospect to connect the monitoring of urban Sustainable Development Goals to UN-Habitat City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) was held in Toronto, Canada. The meeting was hosted by International City Leaders (ICL), and the International Centre for Urban Management (ICFUM), supported by UN-Habitat and UNDP.
Nairobi, 13 April 2016 - Over 100 participants from Nairobi County recently gathered at the UN Headquarters in Nairobi to validate the recently concluded Nairobi Open Public Spaces Assessment and Inventory. This is the first ever inventory of the public spaces in the capital city of Kenya.
Bossaso, 11 April 2016-- The Bossaso “Lot 2” road project commenced on 12 October 2015 and was completed in February 2016. This road construction project, funded by Italian Cooperation, provides a vital link in the ongoing improvement of transportation infrastructure around Bossaso Port in Bossaso, Puntland State of Somalia.
Pretoria, 11 April 2016—On the sidelines of the Habitat III Thematic Conference on Informal Settlements, held in Pretoria, South Africa, the Government of the Republic of South Africa and UN-Habitat, jointly hosted the Women’s Caucus for engendering the Conference Declaration.
Luanda, 7 April 2016 – UN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira last week visited Angola where she held high level meetings with government officials aimed at strengthening the partnership between the agency and the African nation.
Nairobi, 8 April 2016—UN-Habitat last month hosted and honored the first cohort of Emerging Community Champions.
These are young people who have made remarkable achievements and continue to inspire hope, provide leadership both at the community level and seek to better the world.
Pretoria, 9 April 2016: UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Progamme (PSUP) has launched the ‘Up for Slum Dwellers - Transforming a Billion Lives’ campaign.
Barcelona, 6 April 2016.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme mourns the death of Dame Zaha Hadid, one of the most celebrated and iconic architects and urban design figures of our time. Known as an architect who consistently pushed the boundaries of architecture and urban design, her work experimented with new spatial concepts, intensifying existing urban landscapes and encompassing all fields and levels of design.