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Strengthening Sino-African city ties  
Beijing, 12 Sept 12
China has established a USD 1.6 million (RMB 10 million) fund to help train officials and professionals in African local authorities, provide new scholarships for African students in China and build better industrial and commercial partnerships.
Learning Cities  
Barcelona, 2 Nov 11
Cities are on the rise as nations and states see their control and importance shrinking, delegates at a conference on 'learning cities' were told last month.
Urban Climate Change Adaptation Course concludes in Korea  
Gangwon , 15 Oct 11
Urban planners and decision-makers from 10 Asian countries concluded a course on cities and climate change adaptation. The course which focused on vulnerability assessment and climate change action plans helps cities improve their planning and response to climate change.
UN-HABITAT and Gangwon Province of the Republic of Korea sign partnership agreement  
Nairobi , 12 Oct 11
Building on its existing collaboration with the International Urban Training Centre (IUTC) in the Korean Gangwon Province, UN-HABITAT's Executive Director, Dr. Joan Clos signed a new 5 year agreement with the Governor of Gangwon Province Moon-soon Choi to continue the agency's support to the Centre.
Iranian city presents Local Agenda 21 report to UN-HABITAT  
Nairobi , 19 Aug 11
Officials from the Iranian city of Rafsanjani on Tuesday presented their Local Agenda 21 report to the UN-HABITAT Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos.
Learning about our work  
Nairobi, 15 Aug 11
In June 2011 a 10-month internal staff development programme was launched to deepen the knowledge and skills of UN-HABITAT staff in urban planning, urban legislation and governance, urban economy and finance, and slum upgrading. The programme includes in-depth sessions for UN-HABITAT's experts as well as broader training for other colleagues exposed to the topics for the first time.
East African towns benefit from training and capacity building programme  
Nairobi, 28 Jul 11
Eleven towns in the Lake Victoria Basin are now able to provide improved urban management and basic services following the recent completion of an integrated programme of training and capacity building which targeted municipal councils, service providers, NGOs, Multi-Stakeholder Forums and Community-Based Organizations.
Building capacity to build capacity: Strengthening training institutions for sustainable urban development.  
Nairobi, 28 Apr 11
Representatives of training institutions from 27 countries around the world convened in Nairobi to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face for building the capacity of their government and civil society counterparts to address the pressing development challenges of today.

Iranian city seeks help to re-invent itself  
Nairobi, 24 Mar 11
Some 5000 years old and ready to re-invent itself would be the best way to describe of the Iranian city of Rafsanjan.
Vietnam holds a national housing strategy workshop  
Hanoi, 16 Mar 11
UN-HABITAT and the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam organized a workshop on "Consultation and Technical Assistance to National Housing Development Strategy toward 2020, vision of 2030".
Women as the solution: a hard lesson learnt  
Buchanan, Liberia, 8 Mar 11
Over 50 government officials gathered in Buchanan Liberia’s second largest city to assess the impact of local leadership training involving some 3000 county staff held over the past two years.
Re-building Liberia in a "small-small" way  
Gbarnga, Liberia, 20 Aug 10
At a workshop on Local Economic Development in Gbarnga this week, Liberia's Internal Affairs Minister Harrison Karnwea Sr. challenged local government participants to develop strategies that target the common man and woman.
Training on gender and land governance draws to a close  
Naivasha, 23 Nov 09
UN-HABITAT and the Global Land Tool Network last week held a three-day workshop to test a new training course on improving gender equality and grassroots participation in land governance.
UN-HABITAT renews cooperation with Israel  
Nairobi, 7 Sept 09
UN-HABITAT and Israel’s National Agency for International Development Cooperation – MASHAV have renewed their cooperation agreement.
Gender training on local governance takes off in Israel  
Haifa, 3 Sept 09
A comprehensive two-week gender course for trainers of local governments is underway in Haifa, Israel.
Professionals discuss city planning  
Nairobi, 27 Aug 09
A group of 28 urban professionals from 18 countries in Africa, Asia and South America gathered in Nairobi from Monday for the third edition of ‘Sustainable Communities’ course on how to use city planning as a tool for sustainable development.
UN-HABITAT joins partners of the Decade of Roma Inclusion  
Belgrade, Serbia, 4 Sept 08
UN-HABITAT has joined the international partners of the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 at the invitation of the Decade’s Presidency, currently held by Serbia.
UN-HABITAT receives USD 2 million from Britain for Pakistan reconstruction  
Islamabad, 28 Feb 08
UN-HABITAT this week received additional funding of USD 2 million from the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom to strengthen its training and technical assistance for the victims of a Pakistan earthquake who lost their homes.
Transparency in land administration  
Kumasi, Ghana, 30 Jan 08
Some 30 participants from the West Africa region last week congregated at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), for a an eye-opening training on transparency in land administration. Organised jointly by UN-HABITAT and the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) the workshop attracted participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
UN-HABITAT trains Tanzanian officials  
Dar es Salaam, 7 Nov 07
UN-HABITAT last month held special slum upgrading training sessions for newly elected councilors from four municipalities in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam as part of a support building programme.
 
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