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Termes de Référence APPEL D’OFFRES POUR LE RECRUTEMENT DE CONSULTANTS DANS LE CADRE DU PROJET SANITA VILLES DURABLES   VACANCY NOTICE N° :   ORGANISATIONAL LOCATION : ONU-Habitat, Regional Office for Africa LIEU D’AFFECTATION : Conakry, Guinée et à domicile TITRE / FONCTION : Experts internationaux et nationaux DURÉE : 2 mois par étude DATE
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Submission period Friday 7 June, 2019 – Friday 12 July, 2019 Description About GWOPA The Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) is a UN-Habitat programme focused on strengthening public water utilities around the world and enhancing collaboration between them. Water and Sanitation Utilities have a critical role in achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Call for Expressions of Interest for Cooperation Partners for Agreement of Cooperation URBAN PATHWAYS – Supporting Low Carbon Plans for Urban Basic Services in the context of the New Urban Agenda Date first published: 13 June 2019 Deadline for submissions of EoIs: 27 June 2019 Introduction The United Nations
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Freetown, 10 June 2019 – As a follow up on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and advocacy, outreach and mobilisation for the World Urban Forum 10, UN-Habitat in collaboration with Ministry for Lands, Housing, and Environment (MLEH) recently organised a National Urban Breakfast and Dialogue in Freetown. The theme of the dialogue –
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Our Preamble We, the participants at the first Global Stakeholders Forum held during 25 and 26 May 2019 on the eve of the first UN Habitat Assembly at Nairobi, recalling the historic and indispensable role of partners in sustainable human settlement development since 1976, hereby commit ourselves to innovative and more effective cooperation in delivering
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President U Win Myint announced the two new policies – the National Environmental Policy and the Myanmar Climate Change Policy – at an event marking World Environment Day in the capital. More than 400 attended the announcement, including senior government officials from Union ministries, states and regions and representatives from civil society, academic institutions, businesses
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Nairobi, 27 May 2019 – During the first day of the inaugural UN-Habitat Assembly, Ministers met to discuss  Infrastructure, Cities and Local Action: Mobilizing Commitments for the SG’s Climate Action Summit 2019. Delegates focused on one of the nine tracks being discussed at the UN Secretary-General’s  Climate Action Summit in September namely Infrastructure, Cities and
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NAIROBI, 30 May 2019 – UN-Habitat, World Green Building Council and Chatham House signed an MoU during the 1st UN-Habitat Assembly to develop a regional agenda for sustainable recovery, regeneration and reconstruction for the Arab region. The MoU was signed by Mr. Mohamed Asfour, Regional Head, MENA Network, World Green Building Council and Dr. Erfan Ali, Director
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NAIROBI, 29 May 2019 – UN-Habitat and the Government of the Republic of Yemen signed the Host Country Agreement during the bilateral meeting between the UN-Habitat Executive Director and HE the Prime Minister of Republic of Yemen, organized during the 1st UN-Habitat Assembly between 27 and 31 May 2019. During the bilateral meeting held between
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The first Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the World Cities Report (WCR) 2020 was held between May 7 and 8, 2019 at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was made possible by generous support from the International City Leaders in partnership with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Cities Pavilion, the Center for