Nairobi 14 November 2017—The First session of the Young African Think’rs (YAT) will be held in Nairobi starting from Wednesday 15th of November. The meeting is informed by the fact that exclusion from the economic, political, and social life of youth in developing countries breeds disillusionment, hopelessness, and upheaval. Research has found links between youth
Geneva 14 September 2017–UN-Habitat and UNECE co-organized a final regional workshop of the UNDA 9th tranche project “Strengthening national capacities for sustainable housing and urban development in countries with economies in transition”. The workshop was held in Geneva on 10 November to discuss experiences, best practices of and lessons learned in the implementation of the
Download PDF Version CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on 15 November 2017 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT, Future Saudi Cities Programme DUTY STATION: UN-HABITAT Office in Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Urban Planner Specialist GRADE: I-ICA-2 DURATION: 12 Month contract CLOSING DATE: 30 November 2017 BACKGROUND The United
Call for Expressions of Interest Training of trainers in Cameroon on the assembly of solar street lights and the construction of improved cook stoves Date of publication: 14 November 2017 Deadline for submission of Expressions of Interests: 28 November 2017 Introduction Energy access in poor urban and peri-urban areas of Cameroon
Bonn, 13 November 2017 – At a day dedicated to cities and climate change, UN-Habitat’s Deputy Executive Director highlighted the importance of engaging women in climate action. The first high-level day of the UN’s COP23 climate change summit focused on Sustainable Development Goal 11, an opportunity to promote the linkage between cities and climate change.
Bonn, 12 November 2017 – City commitments to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions announced at the UN climate change summit in Bonn, represent nearly seven million people, or roughly one in every 10 people on the planet. The commitments, made under the Global Covenant of Mayors and presented in a new impact document at COP23,
Call for Expressions of Interest Training of trainers in Cameroon and Kenya on solar street light and solar lantern assembly Date of publication: 13 November 2017 Deadline for submission of Expressions of Interests: 27 November 2017 Introduction Energy access in poor urban and peri-urban areas of Kenya and Cameroon remains very
Bonn, 11 November 2017 – A new initiative launched today by UN-Habitat and its partners brings together associations of urban and regional planners from around the world to contribute to the debate and decisions on climate action. While urban areas account for around two-thirds of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions from global energy use, one
Madrid 9 November 2017—In the framework of the joint initiative between the European Commission, UNISDR and UN-Habitat, ‘Making Cities More Sustainable and Resilient’, UN-Habitat has initiated a series of training sessions for technicians from the cities of Asunción (Paraguay) and Maputo (Mozambique). Asunción and Maputo are two of the pilot cities already implementing UN-Habitat’s City
Download PDF Version CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on 09 November 2017 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat, Iran DUTY STATION: Tehran, Iran FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Senior Urban Policy Consultant DURATION START DATE Three and a half months November 2017 CLOSING DATE: 22 November 2017 CONTRACT TYPE LICA-UNOPS BACKGROUND The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the
