#UN-HABITAT

[worldhabitatday]

High-Level Opening Ceremony of the Global Observance of the World Habitat Day 2023.

UN-Habitat, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, believes that these models can be localised and scaled up through the Global Partnership for Local Investment, where experiences are shared to build a local finance framework for cities and communities, to help distribute existing funding and finance to where it can deliver the greatest impact.

The local finance framework integrates three key solutions to facilitate this access:

Cities Investment Facility (CIF)

UN-Habitat/UNCDF Guarantee Facility for Sustainable Cities

Rapid Own Source Revenue Analysis (ROSRA)

PROGRAMME

Get the World Health Day 2023 Programme.

Watch the High-Level Opening Ceremony of the Global Observance of the World Habitat Day 2023.

#un-habitat #urban residents #resilient cities #urban development #urban recovery #urban resilence #Global Partnership for Local Investment #urban areas #World Habitat Day #Sustainable Cities #Cities Investment Facility (CIF)

[pmldailynews]

Minister Dangiwa calls for collaboration between Shelter Afrique and UN-Habitat to tackle housing crisis in Africa

Minister Dangiwa calls for collaboration between Shelter Afrique and UN-Habitat to tackle housing crisis in Africa

NAIROBI — Nigeria’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, who doubles as the Chair of the Executive Board of UN Habitat and the Chair of the 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Bureau of the Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB), is advocating for a strategic partnership between Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB) and UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human…

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#Shelter Afrique Development Bank #top #UN-Habitat

[wtisd]

Citizen Science, Governance Innovation, Challenges Mapping and Local Pacts for the Future (STI Forum Side Event).

At this side event to the UN STI Forum 2024 the organizers will present programs and tools, like e.g. the Challenges Mapping methodology and Web3 Technology enabled Local Pacts for the Future as concrete examples on how science, technology and innovation can be harnessed to accelerate progress towards youth focused Sustainable Development Goals implementation, climate action empowerment and multilevel multi-stakeholder governance innovation.

Watch the Citizen Science, Governance Innovation, Challenges Mapping and Local Pacts for the Future (STI Forum Side Event)

#citizen science #web3 technology #digital governance #pact for the future #UN-Habitat #STI Forum #united nations youth #unep #side-events #multi-stakeholder #sustainable development goals #sustainable digital future for all

[internationalyouthday]

Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future. 

Concrete solutions for an inclusive and successful summit of the future and youth focused multi-level governance innovation, in line with SDG 16. The ECOSOC Youth Forum 2024 side event entitled "Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future" is being organized by the UN ECOSOC accredited civil society organization IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the International Youth Conference (IYC), GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc., UN Habitat - Youth Programme, UN Environment - Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch and AFS Intercultural Programs.  This event aims to discuss pathways towards youth-led transformative change and effective youth participation in the UN system in the context of preparations for the UN Summit of the future.  A key agenda item of the event are the exploration of the feasibility and the collaborative planning of organizational details of an "informal Youth Summit of the Future", a proposal that has been developed by members of the Internation Youth Conference (IYC). The proposed informal Youth Summit of the Future will feature non-state actors' led programs and events focused on youth capacity building, strategy development, edutainment and action planning, envisioning transformative global governance innovation. The informal Youth Summit of the Future programs will be supported by the side event organizers, and enabled by solutions, that have been developed by the Global Challenges Action Empowerment partnership GloCha (like Local Pacts for the Future, Challenges Mapping, GloCha Streaming TV, DigitalArt4Climate, GloCha Festival, ..) which help leveraging youth creativity and knowledge for global and local action towards the SDGs.

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Watch the Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future –Pathways towards youth led transformative change (Youth Forum Side Event)

Hybrid event: UN DGC Civil Society Resource Center 801 First Avenue, UNITAR Building, 2nd Floor Zoom Registration:

#youth led transformative change #ecosoc youth forum #side-events #young people #unitar #summit of the future #informal meetings #un-habitat #unep #u.n. economic and social council #global actions #local actions #sdg16 #youth creativity and knowledge #informal Youth Summit #hybrid events

[worldcitiesday]

Remarks by the UN-Habitat Chief on the High-level Opening of World Cities Day 2023.

Opening remarks by Maimunah Mohd Sharif, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), on the High-level opening of World Cities Day 2023 (31st of October).

#urban october #31 october #World Cities Day #UN-Habitat #Instambul #Youtube

[worldyouthskillday]

Highlight the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development.

The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) is a partnership between several United Nations entities and the higher education community, currently chaired by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the Sulitest Association - a non-profit organization and online platform aimed at improving sustainability literacy for all. Other United Nations partners include UNESCO, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative, United Nations University, UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD, UNITAR, United Nations Office for Partnerships and United Nations Academic Impact.

The Vision Statement by the Secretary-General on Transforming Education, "Transforming Education: an urgent political imperative for our collective future" – the formal outcome of the Transforming Education Summit held in 2022 – notes that education is a great enabler, but today, in many cases, it is also the great divider. The Vision Statement further notes that education is in crisis and requires our immediate, mid-term and longer-term responses including a fundamental rethinking of the purpose and content of education, grounded in two principles of a new social contract for education, namely ensuring the right to quality education throughout life and strengthening education as a public endeavor and a common good. Each year, HESI organizes a global forum as a special event to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) – UN’s main platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level - to highlight the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development. In 2023, HLPF (10-19 July 2023, New York) will be held under the theme “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”. It will also review in-depth Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation, and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals, and include 41 Voluntary National Reviews by member States on their implementation of the 2030 Agenda.The HESI 2023 Global Forum, which will be held on 17 July 2023 as an in-person event at UNHQ, will place a particular focus on understanding the challenges and opportunities to accelerate the recovery from COVID-19 and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda at all levels, in line with the theme of HLPF in 2023.The Forum aims to:

Provide a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in higher education to accelerate the recovery from COVID-19 and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda at all levels.

Build a higher education sector that is accessible to all and leaves no one behind.

Highlight and boost key higher education initiatives that drive implementation of the 2030 Agenda through education, teaching, and learning - particularly around SDGs under review at HLPF (Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation, and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals,).

Spotlight the levers of sector transformation, including cross-institutional partnerships or evolving practices in higher education quality metrics, academic publications, or increased demand for green jobs.

Convene an evolving and action-oriented conversation on the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development.

#higher education #sdg4 #United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) #Youth skills #sustainability #GlobalGoals #UNESCO #United Nations Environment Programme #United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative #United Nations University #UN-HABITAT #UNCTAD #UNITAR #United Nations Office for Partnerships #United Nations Academic Impact #panel discussion

[internationaldayofzerowaste]

Foster the environmentally sound management of waste - 2023 High-level meeting on Zero Waste.

Zero-waste initiatives can foster sound waste management and minimize and prevent waste. This contributes to reducing pollution, mitigating the climate crisis, conserving biodiversity, enhancing food security and improving human health.

The United Nations Environment Programme and UN-Habitat will facilitate the observance of the Day. All Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and relevant stakeholders are encouraged to implement zero-waste initiatives at local, regional, subnational and national levels.

The President of the United Nations General Assembly will convene a one-day high-level meeting on Zero Waste on Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 10 am EDT, in the General Assembly Hall.

The meeting will provide a platform to exchange the experiences and success stories of Member States in developing and implementing solid waste management solutions and technologies, including innovative projects and programmes such as local and national zero-waste initiatives to foster the environmentally sound management of waste.

#Zero-waste initiatives #waste management #International Day of Zero Waste #High-level meeting #Zerowaste #30 March #United Nations Environment Programme #UN-Habitat #Conferences

[sheltiechicago]

The design for the floating city of 10000 inhabitants

Milan Design Week - Among the designers are those from UN-Habitat, Oceanix and BIG, who have submitted a rendering of the world’s first floating, sustainable community for 10,000 residents.

#floating city #future architecture #milan design week #un-habitat #oeanix #big #floating sustainable community

[olderpersonsday]

UN Habitat: “Having a roof over one’s head is not enough: older persons’ right to adequate housing” [virtual]

WEBINAR to observe the International Day of Older Persons 2022. When and Where?

Date: Tuesday, 4 October

Time: 9:00-10:00 EST / 15:00-16:00 CET

Additional Information:

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Registration

#older persons #Right to adequate housing #housing #webinars #International Day of Older Persons #UN-HABITAT

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

UN Habitat wrote a long report on the State of Lebanese cities in 2021. On page 134, I saw something that surprised even me:

Water access standards is one of a range of determinants of slum living conditions. By definition, there are substantial differences between slum and non-slum households in terms of access to water and sanitation. The non-inclusion of slum settlements from service provision is often directly related to the legal tenure of the land in question. The UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme promotes the ‘need to enact laws and policies to dissociate the tenure status from service provision’ (WWAP, 2019:105). Palestinian camps, officially not connected to the public network, are relevant urbansited instances

I may be the first person on the planet to read page 134 of this report.

By and large, Palestinian camps in Lebanon are located in the middle of urban areas. The existing water infrastructure might not be ideal but it exists.

Lebanon decided long ago to deny Palestinian access to municipal water.

One would think that some NGO might have written about this over the past 75 years. But it is really hard to find anyone even elliptically talking about this.

Interpal says, "Palestinian refugees are forced to buy unregulated drinking water from local vendors." The World Health Organization says, "In Shatila, drilled wells within the camp provide water for drinking and other domestic purposes. These wells are managed by entrepreneurs who sell the water to residents, and distribute it as drinking water to households."

No one seems to ask why Lebanon never extended their water supply that already surrounds the camps into the camps themselves. And the people who clearly know about this don't seem to be very bothered by it. 

#lebanon #water #palestinians #palestinians in lebanon #un habitat

[thatmooncake]

Not immune to wanting to love and be loved by my faves but sometimes I just wanna be nothing more than a cartoon ghost in their universe. They don’t get to see or interact with me but sometimes I give them an invisible poke on the shoulder to liven them up a bit.

#Fablespeaks #like sometimes I just want to see them when it’s not in relation to me you know? #I just want to observe them in their (un)natural habitat

[worldhabitatday]

Press Conference: UN-Habitat on housing and the upcoming World Urban Forum.

The UN-Habitat, the United Nations entity responsible for sustainable urban development – is pleased to invite editors and reporters based in Nairobi to a media briefing on 22 February at the UN complex in Gigiri.

#United Nations Human Settlements Programme #un-habitat #human settlements #habitats #sustainable urbanization #urban planning #World Urban Forum #affordable housing #adequate housing #housing rights #housing

[thepastisalreadywritten]

#United Nations #migratory species #wildlife conservation #climate change #habitat loss #pollution #illegal hunting #illegal fishing #International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List #Wildlife Conservation Society #U.N. Biodiversity Conference #Amazon River #conservation #wildlife #UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)

[fractallogic]

GUESS WHAT it’s 2:30 in the morning and I took my sleep pills 45 min ago and I’m still awake

Know why?

It’s because I didn’t take my sleep pills, I took my MORNING pills, one of which is bupropion, which is the like. “up and at ‘em” pill to get me out of bed in the morning

I did just take my actual sleep pills, though, so hopefully I’ll be down for the count in like 20 min.

But Jesus Christ self why did we do this

#am I just incapable of being a functioning human anymore #I’ve done this for years with no problem #and yet. #during the same period of time I’m trying desperately to un-fuck my sleep schedule and habitat #THIS shit #listen self I know I said we could get spicy potato tacos tomorrow around lunch time #but that didn’t mean ‘be awake super late and just get up at noon’

[0nelittlebirdtoldme]

Renfield will end up with a whole Jurassic Park and honestly I am proud of him

#dracula daily #july 19th #renfield bug boy in his (un)natural habitat

[worldcitiesday]

High-level opening ceremony to mark World Cities Day 2023.

On October 31st, the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2023, under the theme Financing sustainable urban future for all, will explore how we can unlock transformative investment in urban planning and achieve adequate fiscal decentralization. ----------------

-- Programme

- 11:00 – 11:45 Opening address by the Master of Ceremony

• Welcome addresses by high-level representatives of the Government of Türkiye

• Welcome address by the UN Secretary-General

• Welcome address by the USG and Executive Director of UN-Habitat

- 11:45 – 12:00 Keynote address by special guest -

-12:00 – 12:10 Cultural performance

- 12:10 – 12:20 Presentations on financing sustainable urbanization • Video of the Sustainable Human Settlements Foundation • Video of the Zero Waste Initiative by the Government of Türkiye

- 12:20 – 12:25 Videos on the theme of World Cities Day and on Urban October

- 12:25 – 13:05 Speeches by international speakers

- 13:05 – 13:15 Presentation of special citation awards

- 13:15 – 13:30 Closing of the morning session by the Master of Ceremony

#transformative investment #urban planning #fiscal decentralization #Financing sustainable urban future for all #panel discussion #UN-Habitat #cities #High-level opening ceremony #world cities day