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UN-HABITAT and Eritrea  
Nairobi, 5 Dec 07
Mrs. Tibaijuka received the new Permanent Representative to UN-HABITAT from Eritrea on 5 December 2007. She told the envoy, Mr. Salih Omer Abdu, that under the first United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the period 2002-2006, UN-HABITAT had implemented the low-cost housing delivery system for Eritrea.
UN-HABITAT water and sanitation office opened in China  
Beijing, 3 Sept 07
UN-HABITAT has announced that it will open a new office in Beijing, China as it expands the agency's Water for Asian Cities Programme. The office, to be based at the National Training Centre for Mayors, is planned under an agreement signed last week with the National Mayor’s Training Centre of Ministry of Construction.
Getting water and sanitation to the world’s slum dwellers  
Stockholm, 21 Aug 07
UN-HABITAT and its partner, the Asian Development Bank, hosted a seminar during the World Water Week convention in Stockholm at which a series of leading global experts discussed the latest thinking on getting water and sanitation to slum dwellers as a cornerstone of sustainable slum upgrading.
UN-HABITAT launches new global water alliance  
Stockholm, 15 Aug 07
A new Global Water Operators Partnership Alliance aimed at improving water and sanitation access for the poorest of the poor was launched at the World Water Week convention in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday.
World Water Week: Water for Thirsty Cities  
Stockholm, 14 Aug 07
World Water Week opened in the Swedish capital this week with impassioned warnings by the Prime Minister, Mr. Frederik Reinfeldt, and UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, that the world was not doing enough to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without safe access to water and basic sanitation by 2015.
Tibaijuka signs partnership with Coca-Cola  
Nairobi, 18 Apr 07
UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Tuesday signed an agreement with Coca-Cola India announcing that they will collaborate to improve community access to water and sanitation in India and Nepal.
UN-HABITAT’s young environmental entrepreneurs lead the way for urban development  
Nairobi, 16 Apr 07
Recent graduates of the UN-HABITAT Environmental Entrepreneurship Programme are showing the potential of young people for leadership for urban development.
China strengthens its collaboration with UN-HABITAT  
Nairobi, 15 Apr 07
China’s Vice Minister for Construction, Ms. Wenjuan Fu renewed her government’s commitment to work with UN-HABITAT towards sustainable urbanization during a meeting with the agency’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka.
UN-HABITAT marks World Water Day  
Nairobi, 22 Mar 07
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, raised the alarm over the one billion people, many of them in urban areas, who do not have access to safe water. She appealed for urgent action to improve provision for water to the urban poor.
Highlighting shelter and urban planning priorities in Eastern Europe and beyond  
Warsaw, 28 Feb 07
UN-HABITAT’s work in the transition economies of Central, Eastern and Southern European States, took a boost at the First meeting of the Advisory Council of the UN-HABITAT Warsaw Office, the agency’s newest regional centre.
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