Statement of the Executive Director On the occasion of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration Marrakech, Morocco, 10-11 December 2018
UN-Habitat signs open letter to urban policymakers calling for urgent action to limit global warming
10 December - UN-Habitat and several other organizations have signed an open letter, calling on urban policymakers to take immediate action ensure that their strategies keep global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
UN-Habitat presents initial city prosperity results for Siberian City
Tomsk, Siberia, Russia-, November 2018 – UN-Habitat presented the preliminary results of its UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) for Tomsk, the first Russian city to implement the urban diagnosis framework. The presentation was made during a panel discussion on “The City of the Future, the Role of the University” at Tomsk University’s Third University City Forum.
Plastic upcycling set to make Nairobi Informal Settlement a cleaner place
NAIROBI, December 2018 – UN-Habitat presented the youth of Mathare, one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, with the area’s first plastic shredding machine to help combat the huge rubbish problem.
The Mathare Environmental One Stop Centre was given the machine to open an Upcycling Centre, shredding plastic that can be turned into useful household items such as plates and plant holders.
Residents, diplomats and UN-Habitat staff join hands to clean up Nairobi
NAIROBI, 3 December 2018 - A large crowd of residents from one of Kenya’s biggest slums, Mathare, joined UN-Habitat staff members and diplomats for the Nairobi County Government’s monthly clean up.
The volunteers, who included UN-Habitat’s Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, walked through one of the main streets in the informal settlement collecting, raking, brushing and digging up some of the huge amount of rubbish on the streets.
Egypt’s Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities signs Swiss funded “Hayenna”: Integrated Urban Development Project
CAIRO, Egypt –29th November 2018
UN-Habitat and the Global Green Growth Institute sign a global Memorandum of Understanding on sustainable and green urban development
KIGALI, 29 November 2018 – UN-Habitat and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) have signed a global Memorandum of Understanding to promote cooperation on sustainable, climate-resilient and green urban development at the Africa Green Growth Forum.
UN-Habitat Executive Director unveils Youth Declar-Action at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference
Nairobi, 27 November 2018 – Speaking on the second day of the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif urged national and regional governments, mayors, regional development oganizations, UN entities and development partners to examine the findings of the UN-Habitat Youth Declar-Action and adopt its recommendations.
New and strengthened partnerships for resilience action at Barcelona Resilience Week 2018
November 2018, Barcelona, Spain - Barcelona Resilience Week (BRW) brought together over 200 participants to discuss how to face the resilience challenges of our time.
The week focused on harnessing the commitment of initiatives such as the Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient action, the Making Cities Resilient Campaign, city-to-city cooperation programmes and good practices from cities, academia, private sector, and civil society, to scale-up resilience action at the global level.
UN-Habitat and Port Vila, capital of Vanuatu, sign official commitment on resilience building
November 2018, Barcelona, Spain -- The Lord Mayor of the capital of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Albert Sandy Daniel, and the Head of UN-Habitat’s Urban Basic Services Branch, André Dzikus, signed a Letter of Agreement (LoA) on 12 November to implement the City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT), a key UN-Habitat’s tool for building resilience at the urban scale.