Nairobi, 01 December 2015- ‘Justicia Urbana’ by Fabian Todorovic from Chile, an illustration of inequality of the urban space, is the winner of the 2015 Urban October Design Competition. The image illustrates the inequality of the urban space through the representation of the street and the distribution of the transport space.
Johannesburg 1 December 2015—UN-Habitat and the Technical Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Urban Resilience (DiMSUR) presented two innovative projects for building urban resilience in Southern Africa this morning at the Africities Conference in Johannesburg. In his welcoming remarks, Prof.
Johannesburg, 01 December 2015 - The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of the Rotterdam Erasmus University (HIS/Erasmus) and Oxford Economics today revealed, at the AfriCities Conference in Johannesburg, a major new programme to assist urban economic development in Africa through foreign direct investment.
Johannesburg 01 December 2015—The Africities 2015 kicked off in Johannesburg on Sunday with urbanisation taking the centre stage. In his official opening speech, South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation gave UN-Habitat a vote of thanks of sorts when he quoted extensively from its State of African Cities Report 2014.
Reflecting on implementation of low emission development initiatives
South Africa, 01 Dec, 2015 - Over the last three years seven fast growing municipalities in South Africa have been teaming up to explore ways to enhance transition to a low emissions development model.
Johannesburg, 30 November 2015—Cities have a primary role to play to Fast-Track the end of the AIDS epidemic by 2030 says report by UN-Habitat and UNAIDS.
Nairobi, 27 November 2015—On a visit to the United Nations compound on Thursday, Pope Francis gave an endorsement to the Habitat-III Conference, planned for Quito in October 2016, saying it could be a significant occasion for identifying ways of responding pressing urbanisation challenges.
Hargeisa, 27 November 2015-- Through the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery, UN-Habitat is supporting the implementation of a Financial Management Information System (FMIS) in Somaliland. FMIS is a World Bank–supported automation solution that enables governments to plan, execute, and monitor their budget by assisting in the prioritization, execution, and reporting of expenditures.
Ramallah, 25 November 2015—UN-Habitat and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) have joined forces with local and national partners to elaborate a series of spatial visions for the heartland of the West Bank region which includes East Jerusalem
San Salvador, November 25, 2015 - The fourth edition of the Central Funders Forum took place in Sal Salvador last week with strong calls for decentralization of housing policies. Representatives of NGOs, banks, international cooperation and the United Nations, also discussed the promotion of decent housing for low-income families in the region.