AMMAN, 28 January 2019 – UN-Habitat launched a new project to gather data on seven cities in Yemen to support them in coping with the impact of the ongoing conflict. The meeting, hosted at in Amman, brought together 22 participants, including 13 Yemeni high level participants from national and city levels, to launch the project
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Call for Expressions of Interest for Cooperation Partners for Agreement of Cooperation Waste SDG indicator Joint monitoring and capacity development for Africa: Date first published: 10 February 2019 Deadline for submissions of EoIs: 20 February 2019 Introduction Unprecedented urbanization imposes many environmental challenges to cities. Solid waste,
LAGOS, January 2019 – Thousands of people watched a live debate between five candidates aiming to become the President of Nigeria who discussed the country’s housing situation. The candidates in the election scheduled for 16 February all agreed on the urgent need to focus towards on housing to ensure social and economic development was a
CONSULTANT TERMS OF REFERENCE Issued on 18.01.2019 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT DUTY STATION: Home Based FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Local Migration Expert, Consultant DURATION: Output based DEADLINE: 4 March 2019 BACKGROUND Internal and international migration movements in the greater Mediterranean region have a direct and long-lasting impact on the development of urban areas in the region,
Megaprojects such as infrastructure development or industrial parks can have a major impact on the economic, social and environmental conditions of entire cities and their residents, for whom the investments should ideally generate benefits. A study of urban and regional development in Belarus has enabled UN-Habitat to analyse integrated planning and implementation of urban development
