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Cairo 10 March 2016—Together with its Egyptian partners, General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP), the New Urban Communities Authority and the technical consultant (Bearing Consultancy), UN-Habitat on Thursday launched the economic assessment of Al Alamein New City. The economic assessment aims to analyze financially the future revenues of planning Al Alamein New City. An analysis that
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The Cross-Cutting issues focused within UN-Habitat are human rights, gender, the youth and climate change. As part of the UN family, UN-Habitat is mandated to respect, promote, and protect human rights in all of its activities. In 2003, the UN Common Understanding on the Human Rights Based Approach to Development Programming was adopted to ensure
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10 March, Erbil – UN-Habitat recently organised a high-level capacity building workshop with over 60 participates from Iraqi governorates and the Ministry of Planning representatives under the Local Area Development Programme (LADP) jointly implemented by UNDP and UN-Habitat, funded by the European Union. The workshop was held in Erbil, Iraq to discuss the National Strategic Urban
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09 March 2016, Hanoi – At the recent 7thHigh Level Seminar on Environmentally Sustainable Cities in Vietnam, UN-Habitat promoted the issues of sustainable urbanisation, city planning, resilient city development and youth advocacy, in the context of the mobilisation of cities and stakeholders towards Habitat III, the UN conference on sustainable urban development taking place in October
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Download PDF VERSION   CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT                                                                                                            Issued on: 03 March 2016 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT DUTY STATION: Kakuma, Turkana County, Kenya FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Project Assistant DURATION: 6 month (with possibilities of extension subject to availability of funding) CLOSING DATE: 10 March 2016   BACKGROUND The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by
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Download PDF Version CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT                                                                                                            Issued on: 03 March 2016 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT DUTY STATION: Nairobi, Kenya FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Project Administrative Assistant DURATION: 6 month (with possibilities of extension subject to availability of funding) CLOSING DATE: 16 March 2016   BACKGROUND The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN
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Download PDF Version   Terms of Reference for Consultancy Issued on 4 March 2016 Organization: UN-Habitat Duty Station: Nairobi Functional Title: Monitoring and Reporting Consultant Consultancy duration: 12 Months Closing Date: 17 March 2016   Background The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations system’s designated agency for addressing human settlements issues
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Nairobi, 2 March 2016- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has received USD 15 million from the Government of Japan to implement two projects in Iraq: “Gender-sensitive Durable Shelter Support for Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq” and “Promoting Urban Recovery in Newly Liberated Areas in Iraq.” The conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and
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Download PDF Version   CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT                                                                                                            Issued on: 1st March 2016 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT DUTY STATION: NAIROBI FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Finance Assistant (2 positions) DURATION: 6 Months CLOSING DATE: 14th March 2016   BACKGROUND The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the
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Gaza, 02 March 2016– UN Habitat through a partnership with Dutch Creative Industries Fund deployed a team of four planning and architectural experts from Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany for a technical exchange with Gazan planners, engineers and community representatives in the context of developing detailed local outline plans for Abu-Reida and Al-Najar neighborhoods in the Municipality