The Executive Director of UN-Habitat conveys to you her wishes of a Happy Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dog, celebrated today on 16th February. May this year bring good fortune and strong collaboration as we join efforts to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda
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Download PDF Version VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on 14 February 2018 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat DUTY STATION: Nairobi FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Archives Assistant (GS-4) DURATION Two Years CLOSING DATE: 23 February 2018 BACKGROUND UN-Habitat Archives and Records Management Programme ensures proper record keeping system and archiving of documents to support institutional memory and encourage organization
Focus put on youth livelihoods and participation in decision-making During the World Youth Festival (WYF) where over 20,000 youth from 150 countries gathered in Sochi, Russia, UN-Habitat met with the National Youth Council of Russia to discuss possible joint activities to address the endemic issues of employment and the meaningful participation of youth in
Investing in informal settlements and slum upgrading can leverage the socio-economic potential of sustainable urbanization and transformation leading to “inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable communities and cities” worldwide. In African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries especially, large scale interventions in informal settlements and slum upgrading have not taken off considerably to achieve transformational reduction in
Kuala Lumpur, 9 February 2018 –The UN-Habitat Executive Director today announced the theme of World Cities Day 2018: Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities. The announcement was made at the World Cities Day Forum held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the Ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) currently underway. The Executive Director was joined
Kuala Lumpur, 8 February 2018 – The Prime Minister of Malaysia, His Excellency Najib Razak, opened the World Urban Forum in an official ceremony today with participants celebrating the energy building for implementing the New Urban Agenda. Speaking at the opening, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Shariff said: “With its genuine openness
The prevailing model of urbanization still adheres to the rigidly technocratic Charter of Athens, whose strict functionalist separation of activities continues to dominate planning practices worldwide. The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda, which has just been published by Routledge, starts a discussion that both challenges this status quo and opens up new lines
We want our rights, we don’t want fighting and conflict. We don’t want religious differences, we want peace because we are all humans, said a young voice, originally from Myanmar, at the opening session, Hard Talk, of the Children’s Assembly hosted at WUF9 yesterday. The goal of the Children’s Assembly was to create ‘safe, smart
Download PDF Version VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on: 07 Feb 2018 ORGANIZATION UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) DUTY STATION: Kabul, AFGHANISTAN; travel to other provinces may be required for programme familiarisation LOCATION Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) Deputy Ministry of Municipalities (DMM) FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Senior Operation Advisor (International post) PROJECT
Kuala Lumpur, 7 February 2018 – The Assemblies for Women, Youth and Business opened today at World Urban Forum 9 in the Malaysian capital with speakers emphasizing the importance of inclusivity in our cities. In the first day of the week long meeting, the UN flag was raised in a ceremonial event which temporarily hands
