CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on: 05/12/2018 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION UN-Habitat, City Planning, Extension and Design DUTY STATION Nairobi/ Kenya FUNCTIONAL TITLE Public Space Designer and Urban Planner Urban Planner CONTRACT TYPE Consultant POST DURATION 12 months, Start Date 05 February 2019 CLOSING DATE 12/12/2018 BACKGROUND The
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issue Date: 12 December 2018 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit, Urban Planning and Design Branch, UN-HABITAT DUTY STATION: NAIROBI FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Urban Planning Officer DURATION: 12 months START DATE 1 January 2019 BACKGROUND The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the mandated UN Agency working towards
Katowice, Poland, 5 December 2018 – UN-Habitat has made an unprecedented offer to support governments to include urban issues in their long term plans for climate action. The UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, made the statement on helping governments to address urban dimensions in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in a video statement
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
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
The first newsletter on the second phase of the Urban-LEDS project, or “Accelerating climate action through the promotion of Urban Low Emission Development Strategies” has been released. The project is implemented by UN-Habitat and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) and funded by the European Union. The project supports local governments and partners to integrate low
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,
Nairobi 8 October 2018 – President Uhuru Kenyatta led Nairobi Governor Mr. Mike Mbuvi, Executive Director of UN-Environment Mr. Erik Solheim and UN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director Mr. Victor Kisob among others, in clearing up garbage at the Uhuru Market in Nairobi on Saturday 5 October 2018. Ministry of environment officials, county government officials and management
CAIRO, Egypt –29th November 2018 In the context of the signed framework agreement between the Government of the Swiss Confederation and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt regarding Technical and Financial Cooperation ratified on 26th of November, 2013, the project agreement was signed by the Egyptian government and the Swiss government in April
The annual rate of population growth in the last census period (2001-2010) has reached 7.6%, the country’s population is projected to reach 2.2 million by 2030. The youth population aged between15-30 years comprises 30% of the total population; thus the Kingdom of Bahrain has embarked on the development of appropriate initiatives and schemes to meet
