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Advancing the GLTN Islamic mechanism: Workshop on how to train on Islamic land law  
Nairobi, 27 Jan 09
Twenty experts— representing academia, civil society, international development organizations and the private sector—last week concluded a GLTN Workshop in Nairobi to provide feedback on a training package on Islamic land law and discuss its wider dissemination including strategies for adapting and utilizing the package for different stakeholders. Participants from Egypt, India, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Niger, Senegal, Somaliland, Tunisia and Uganda, amongst others, illustrated the diversity of the Muslim world and the need for local adaptations.
UN-HABITAT at CSD 16 - No sustainable development without sustainable urbanization  
Nairobi/New York, 5 May 08
"With half of the world's population living in cities, there can be no sustainable development without sustainable urbanisation,"
Experts to discuss transparency in land administration  
Nairobi, 26 Jan 07
UN-HABITAT and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), in cooperation with the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) have held a three-day expert group meeting on Transparency in Land administration at the UN headquarters in Nairobi , Kenya on 29-31 January 2007. Land remains a highly complex and contentious issue, UN-HABITAT said in a statement. “It is a critical element in achieving target 11 of the Millennium Development Goals on “Cities without slums”. It is also a critical element in the wider development agenda. There is a clear and urgent gap between the vast demand for skills in this area, and the capacity to deliver at different levels.
 
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