Nairobi, May 2018 – H. E. Prof Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, Governor of Kisumu County on Friday, 18 May 2018 paid a courtesy call to the new Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Madam Maimunah Mohd Sharif in a bid to formalize and strengthen UN-Habitat’s engagement with the County. UN-Habitat has been supporting the County of Kisumu since
This is the fourth Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the six-year strategic plan (2014-2019). The annual report is meant to communicate, in a transparent and accountable manner, the impact of UN-Habitat’s work as well as the use of resources by the Organization. The report, has been prepared in response to the Governing Council
The Revised UN-Habitat Evaluation Framework (2016) has helped to increase evaluation focus, coverage and generated evidence performance. The evaluations conducted in 2017 were diverse covering country programmes (Afghanistan); global programmes (World Urban Forum7, Achieving Sustainable Urban Development, Global Land Tool Network); Subprogrammes (Urban Planning and Design); regional offices (Regional Office for Arab States) and Corporate
This year and on this very day, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Eight percent of the 8,300 known animal breeds are already extinct, and 22 percent are vulnerable to extinction. Only one percent of the more than 80,000 tree species in the world have been studied
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on: 22 May 2018 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat DUTY STATION: Home-based FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Evaluation of the Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in Lusophone Africa Project DURATION: Total 4 weeks over June 2018 to August 2018 SUPERVISORS / REPORTING ARRANGEMENT Head of UN-Habitat HQs Evaluation Unit; Project Manager UN-Habitat, Regional Office
Dubai, May 2018 – The 11th cycle of the Dubai International Award for Best Practices in improving the living environment was hosted by Dubai Municipality and UN-Habitat at the Dubai World Trade Centre. 10 winning practices were chosen from 524 submissions received from 89 countries. A Technical Advisory Committee comprising 10 technical experts familiar with
Accra 16 March 2018—The Canadian government who was the main donor of WASH DPC Project has expressed its satisfaction for the way the initiative was executed. In a post project interview in Accra, the First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian High Commission Francis Bedros was however convinced that the project would have done with more
Accra, 16 May 2018— “The comparative advantage that the UN has in executing a project of this magnitude is that it can tap into a pool of one of the most talented people from around the world. At Unicef we had a big team dedicated to this project both at the country headquarters and on
Accra 16 May 2018—World Health Organisation (WHO) is satisfied with the unity of purpose exhibited by the various UN agencies involved in the WASH DPC project. Ghana Country Director Owen Laws Kaluwa says: the success rate of the project was reasonably high considering that this was the first time we were working together as different
Rapidera, 16 March 2018—The Reverend Brother Franklin Birikpe is in an upbeat mood and says that he has seen God’s grace. And he has every reason to be happy. As the principal of Saint Joseph Primary School in Hain of Rajidera District in the Upper Western Region, he has seen his institution grow from strength
