Purpose of CFP: To promote development of strategies and implementation of activities for strengthening advocacy work and capacities of key actors in scaling up influence on land and housing policies from city to national level. Submission Start Date: 21 November 2018 Submission Deadline Date and time: 02 December 2018, 5:00 P.M. Nairobi Time Project
Today, World Children’s Day, is an occasion to recognize the future. Children embody our potential to change the world. As we celebrate World Children’s Day today, let us reflect on our obligation, to our generation and theirs, to ensure that they are heard, and that their rights respected. I have had the immense privilege of
November 19, 2018, Yangon – A Handover Ceremony for the Yoma Housing Project – Phase II for the poorest and most vulnerable families recently took place this morning in South Dagon Township in Yangon Region. Yoma Housing was constructed under the funding of the Government of Japan/JICA and implemented by UN-Habitat. The Phase I of the
Amman, November 16, 2018 – Under the leadership of Mr. Walid Masri, Minister of Municipal Affairs (MoMA) of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, UN-Habitat and MOMA convened the launching workshop to initiate a national consultation on the development of a National Urban Policy (NUP) for Jordan. The workshop gathered national and local authorities, UN and
Tunis – International partners joined efforts with the United Nations system in Libya to support and boost their Libyan counterparts’ capacity to design, develop and implement social policies including a stronger community participation in the framework of efforts to stabilize and develop Libya. UN-Habitat and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) disseminated the findings of five
Two debate tournaments read the youth’s pulse on compelling urban issues in the Philippines—from climate change and equitable urbanization to recovery from armed conflict On October 28, UN-Habitat Philippines rounded out Urban October with the conduct of Manila Urban Debates, held at the Ateneo de Manila campus in Quezon City, in partnership with the Ateneo
Barcelona, Spain, 12 November 2018 – Members of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign agreed to step up their efforts during the Committee Meeting hosted by the chair, UN-Habitat, at the start of Barcelona Resilience Week 2018. More than 4,000 cities have signed up to the Campaign, launched in 2010, which encourages cities to pledge to
Nairobi, November 9, 2018 – UN-Habitat has recently joined the World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)) for a global crowd-solving challenge for designs of Resilient Homes. The goal of this challenge is to generate designs for resilient, low-cost and sustainable small houses that can be built
NAIROBI, November 7, 2018 – UN-Habitat and the One Planet Network have developed an innovative way to improve sustainability of new housing projects and make green housing affordable. The SHERPA App helps users to overcome social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges in project implementation to ensure sustainability in housing projects. SHERPA uses simple language and
November 2018 – The Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) was established by the German Government, has just celebrated its second birthday. Since its launch in October 2016 at the Habitat III conference in Quito, TUMI has trained over 1,500 urban mobility decision-makers and provided seed funding to scale-up and replicate innovative pilot projects . The
