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| Seeking better understanding of rural-urban linkages |
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, 4 Dec 03
At a time of rapid urbanization in Africa, institutions of higher learning have been challenged to highlight the importance of rural-urban linkages. UN-HABITAT's Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, posed this challenge at the Sokoine University of Agriculture 2003 convocation held on 27 November 2003. In her speech, Mrs. Tibaijuka stated that the strength of these linkages would determine the living conditions of people in both urban and rural areas of Africa. Such disciplines as agricultural economics needed to be linked to urban economics through regional development planning methods, cultural anthropology, geography, social research, ecology and engineering.
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| Urbanization in China |
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, 11 Nov 03
Delegates at an international conference on sustainable urbanization in Weihai, China, have called on governments to devise better ways of dealing with the growing number of slums and squatter settlements around the world.
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| Striving for crime-free, safer cities |
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Durban, 10 Nov 03
UN-HABITAT’s Safer Cities Programme and eThekwini Municipality are jointly organising an international conference in the South African city of Durban aimed at keeping up efforts to reduce crime and insecurity in towns and cities around the world. The conference on Sustainable Safety: Municipalities at the Crossroads will be held from 25-28 November.
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| Celebrating World Habitat Day from Rio to the farthest and poorest corners of the globe |
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, 6 Oct 03
From Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, to Johannesburg, South Africa, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tbilisi, Georgia, and scores of other countries around the world, World Habitat Day was celebrated with fanfare, pomp, ceremony and warnings from local and world leaders of worsening conditions in urban slums.
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| Hope rising for AIDS sufferers in Africa |
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, 25 Sept 03
AIDS sufferers in cities across sub-Sahara Africa are set to benefit from a new strategy to fight the pandemic at the city level, an international HIV/AIDS conference in Nairobi was told this week. According to a new report presented at the conference, in cities and towns where the majority of sufferers live, a new strategy a is set to make a difference.
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| From the back streets to the catwalk |
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, 15 Jul 03
Children from the slums and back streets of Nairobi swapped their everyday wear for the latest high fashion to join Miss Universe and Miss Kenya on the catwalk at a fundraising evening to highlight the plight of street children. The 12 July event was arranged as part of the Exodus Initiative of the German Foundation for World Population (DSW).
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| UN-HABITAT at the World Water Forum in Japan |
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, 11 Mar 03
UN-HABITAT will play a key role at the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, to mark World Water Day on 18 March, where it will raise issues of concern about how cities cope with water management. At the opening ceremony, the agency will sign a memorandum of understanding with the Asian Development Bank aimed at forging a new Water for Asian Cities partnership similar to UN-HABITAT's highly successful Water for African Cities programme.
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| UN-HABITAT in action across Asia |
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Fukuoka, 11 Feb 03
A team of 23 experts are currently visiting some 1,000 municipal offices and schools in Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture to raise UN-HABITAT’s profile and explain its activities in the region. The promotional campaign, which started December 10 is scheduled to run through March 2003 with a series of lectures and exhibitions. The campaign is one of a number of core activities spearheaded by the agency’s Fukuoka regional headquarters for Asia.
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| UN-HABITAT gains in expansion of UN Africa HQ |
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Nairobi, Kenya, 3 Feb 03
The United Nations this week started work on a US$ 13 million project to expand its African headquarters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. A colourful ceremony marking the start of a major new office expansion was attended by delegates gathered for the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Kenyan Environment Minister Newton Kulundu, Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson, in his capacity as outgoing president of the UNEP governing council, Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, and Klaus Toepfer, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. |
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| Government of Kenya and UN-HABITAT to Upgrade Slums |
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Nairobi, 16 Jan 03
Honourable Raila Odinga, the new Minister for Roads, Public works and Housing of the Government of Kenya and Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the "Slum Upgrading Programme for Kenya". The programme hopes to improve housing, infrastructure services and the overall livelihoods of people living and working in informal settlements. One of the major goals is to ensure that the poor are given some form of security of tenure so that they can participate in the improvement of the urban environment. The programme will begin by working on slum upgrading in Nairobi and Kisumu, the lessons learned will then be replicated in other urban areas in Kenya.
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