CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat DUTY STATION: Home based with availability to Travel FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Housing Policy Expert, Consultant DURATION 01 February 2018 – 31 July 2018 CLOSING DATE: 31 Jan 2018 BACKGROUND The New Urban Agenda acknowledges that housing finance is a pre-requisite for sustainable and inclusive cities and
Dubai Municipality 16 January 2018—A five-member jury drawn by the Dubai Award Secretariat as well as UN-Habitat this week began the evaluation process for the 11th cycle of the Dubai International Award for Best Practices. The Jury will select a final 10 winners from the 110 projects which qualified to this stage from the Technical
Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, 15 January 2018 – UN-Habitat in partnership with UN Women, Palestinian Housing Council, Aisha Association for Woman and child protection, and GGateway are creating a safe and inclusive public space in Al-Shaima’ neighbourhood in Beit Lahia city in order to improve the urban environment and the living conditions of residents, in
Nairobi, 12 January 2018– At the close of 2017, Botswana and Tunisia were getting prepared to monitor and report on SDG 11, with the support of the UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Observatory team and the UNECA to monitor and report on SDG 11. In October 2017, UN-Habitat and UNECA organized a technical workshop on the importance
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Kalobeyei, Turkana, 9 January 2018—Kalobeyei Youth Photography Group has been established with the support from UN-Habitat through the funding Government of Japan. The 10-member host community group was formed in the initial stages of the project inception in 2016, with the key objective of supporting UN-Habitat in doing a rapid visual documentation exercise through photography
This book present the results of the pilot to assess the institutional capacities, both functional and technical of 3 metropolitan areas of the state of Jalisco, to better understand the capacity building requirements to address the challenges of the metropolitan development faced by these cities. The book present a quick diagnosis of the state of
Havana 8 January 2018— Within the framework of the project “Support for sustainable urban development programs in Latin America and Central America: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Cuba”, the Tool for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in Cuba was recently unveiled in Havana, Cuba. The purpose of this document is
