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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

Region: East Africa  
Country: Kenya
Contact Details:

United Nations Avenue
UN Complex
Girgiri 00100
Kenya
Tel: + 254220624652
Fax: + 25420624265
Contact: Clarissa Augustinus
http://www.unhabitat.org

Description: The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The agency's 2002-2003 budget is US$300 million and comes from four main sources - 80 per cent in the form of contributions from multilateral and bilateral partners for technical cooperation, 10 percent in earmarked contributions from governments and other partners, including local authorities and foundations, with 5 per cent from the regular UN budget and 5 per cent in the form of voluntary contributions from governments.
Coalition Programme Activities:

Expert Group Meeting on Land Policy Indicators, Addis Ababa, 3-4 May 2007
Global Land Tool Network GLTN
Advocacy ECOSOC 2005 Land and Conflict - Ministerial Round table
EU Consultation

Aims and objectives:

UN-HABITAT contributes to the overall objective of the United Nations system to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. Its partners range from governments and local authorities to a wide international cross-section of Non-Governmental Organisations and civil society groups.

Programmes and Activities:

UN-HABITAT also has some 154 technical programmes and projects in 61 countries around the world, most of them in the least developed countries. These include major projects in post-war societies such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Somalia, Iraq, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to name a few. They focus on promoting shelter for all, improving urban governance, reducing urban poverty, improving the living environment and managing disaster mitigation and post-conflict rehabilitation.

Target Groups Help governments create policies and strategies aimed at strengthening a self-reliant management capacity at both national and local levels.
Focus:

UN-HABITAT runs two major worldwide campaigns – the Global Campaign on Urban Governance, and the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure. Through these campaigns and by other means, the agency focuses on a range of issues and special projects which it helps implement.

 

 
 
Secure access to land helps reduce poverty

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