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TIMEVENUE
Monday, 16 April
The MDG Town
9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.- 4.30 p.m.
Tent, front lawn
Opening Press Conference with new President of the Council
1 p.m. – 1.30 p.m
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Tuesday, 17 April
The MDG Town
9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.- 4.30 p.m.
Tent, front lawn
Morning press briefing with UN-Habitat spokesperson
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Launch of joint UNEP/UN-Habitat/City of Nairobi Environment Outlook
11 a.m. - Noon
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Nairobi launch of Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future
Noon – 1 p.m.
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Donor community discussion of the preliminary results of the mid‑term review of the Water Sanitation Trust Fund to the Advisory Board of the Fund
12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m
Conference Room 2
Bahrain: Making policy a reality
12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Conference Room 4
Women’s Land Access Trust meeting
12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Conference Room 6
From technical cooperation to national policies
12.45 p.m. – 2.30 p.m
Tent, lower fountain

Joint press conference to launch
UN-Habitat’s Business Partnership for Sustainable Urbanization and
UN-Habitat’s new partnership with Coca-Cola (India) to improve access to water and sanitation for marginalized communities in India and Nepal.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
“Forced evictions – towards solutions?” Launch of the second report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Commonwealth Consultative Group on Human Settlements (CCGHS) (requires registration)
2 p.m. – 5 p.m
Conference Room 3
People’s process of recovery: New directions of UN-Habitat post‑disaster projects in Asia
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Conference Room 4
Cities and Climate Change
2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Conference Room 12 (Rooftop)
Innovations in pro-poor water and sanitation governance
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conference Room 11 (Rooftop)
Wednesday, 18 April
Urban planning in the Lake Victoria region
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Conference Room 12 (Rooftop)
Morning briefing with UN-Habitat spokesperson
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Round-table on women and land
9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Conference Room 11 (Rooftop)
Preparing for sustainable urbanization: Launch of the multi-media source book Adaptive and proactive strategies for urban planning
Noon
Press Conference Room (Lower Library)
Pro-poor land management for sustainable urbanisation – achievements and way forward, by Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
12.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Conference Room 12 (Rooftop)
Lessons learnt from the Settlement and Integration of Refugees Programme (SIRP) in Serbia for Countries in Transition
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Conference Room 11 (Rooftop)
Habitat Programme Managers meeting
2.30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Conference Room 8
World Olympiad for Urban Design (WOUD-2008) and Urban Sustainable Development Program(USDP)
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conference Room 12 (Rooftop)
Thursday, 19 April

Local-to-local dialogue

9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conference Room 12 (Rooftop)
Housing sector incentives and market re-engineering measures
12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Conference Room 2
Bottom-up legal empowerment
1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Conference Room 4
Launch of Phase 3 of the Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS) programme
2.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Conference Room 11 (Rooftop)


Group Meetings

Venue
African Group
Conference Room 1
Arab GroupConference Room 5
Asia and Pacific GroupConference Room 7
Central and Eastern European Group (CEE)Conference Room 8
European UnionConference Room 4 (on Sunday, will move to room 14 during the week)
Group of 77 and ChinaConference Room 1
Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) Conference Room 3
Japan, United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (JUSCANZ) and Western European and Others (WEOG)Conference Room 13 (Rooftop)
NGOsC-226 (UNESCO)
Women’s CaucusConference Room 6
AMCHUDConference Room 1
 
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