UN-Habitat and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) jointly convened the second regional partners forum in Bangkok, Thailand on 28-29 November 2017. On the agenda for this meeting was the deliberation on strategies and priorities to ensure the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in the Asia Pacific region.
Tomsk, 4 December, 2017 – Tomsk State University has become the first in the country to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with UN-Habitat. The two bodies will cooperate in such fields as innovations, education and research. The data generated by the research and new training programs launched at the University will help urban planning and
This toolkit outlines the key themes of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals with regards to UN-Habitat’s mandate to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development lays out 17 targets along with 169 corresponding targets that
30 November 2017, Bellagio Italy – Despite an estimated one billion people around the world living in slums, many global data collection exercises including censuses do not track spatial distinctions of populations living in places identified as slums. Today, slums are often invisible in official statistics, generally hidden within urban averages. Yet the spaces people
Nairobi, November 27, 2017– UN-Habitat has signed a cooperation agreement with the Politecnico di Milano, Italy to carry out a feasibility study for the closure of the Ngong Town illegal dumpsite and to design and construct a modern integrate municipal waste to energy plant. Solid waste arises from a wide range of human activities including
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on 24th November 2017 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat DUTY STATION: Nairobi FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Consultancy services to support resource mobilization and project implementation for WASH DURATION Six months CLOSING DATE: 01 December 2017 BACKGROUND The Urban Basic Services Branch (UBSB) aims at increasing equitable access to urban basic services
Download PDF Version China: Consultant – World Cities Day (application deadline: 4 December 2017)
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Kindly note that the UN Habitat-IOM-UCLG joint OpEd is now available in French and Spanish.
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On 13th – 16th November, UN-Habitat kick-started the Public Space Programme in Kalobeyei though a first participatory design workshop with youth from refugees and host communities. In addition to the host community, seven different nationalities were involved in the workshop. The Public Space Programme will establish a network of public spaces designed, implemented and maintained
November 21, 2017, Some fifty-seven persons and dignitaries of the Ministry of Town Planning, Housing and the Living Environment, the media and the United Nations gathered in the conference hall of the Ministry to witness the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Togo and UN-Habitat. Prior to the signing, three
