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Japanese extends support to Afghan government through UN-Habitat
	Kabul, 5 Mar 13 The Government of Japan last week approved JPY2,187 million (approximately USD23.77 million) of grant assistance to UN-Habitat for its Community-Based Municipal Support Programme in five Afghan cities.


First beneficiaries of the Indian Housing Project receive their houses in Sri Lanka
	Northern Province, Sri Lanka, 20 Feb 13 Less than six months after the commencement of the Indian Housing Project in the North of Sri Lanka, several home owners have already completed reconstructing their houses.


UN-Habitat and partners in second phase of housing Sri Lankan conflict victims
	Colombo, 28 Jan 13 UN-Habitat is extending its partnership with the European Union (EU), Government of Australia (AusAID) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to implement the second phase of the housing recovery project for conflict affected families. The project “Improving Living Conditions in Returnee Areas of Sri Lanka through Housing” will be implemented over the next 30 months- to mid-2015- in the North and East. The project will assist 4,000 conflict affected families in the districts of Killinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar and Batticaloa to reconstruct and repair their damaged houses.


The world we want – UN-Habitat in Vietnam
	Hanoi, 22 Jan 13 UN-Habitat this month led a joint United Nations consultative group in Vietnam to understand better the aspirations, problems and opportunities of the urban poor in the cities of Hanoi and Danang.


Shoring up against disaster
	Islamabad, 28 Nov 12 The Pakistan Planning Commission and UN-Habitat Pakistan this week held a conference on Creative Cities and National Urban Policy aimed at helping the country’s cities shore up better against natural disasters which have taken a heavy toll in Pakistan in recent years.


A new urban training programme in Myanmar
	Yangon, 11 Sept 12 The Urban Research and Development Institute (URDI) this week launched its first training on sustainable urban land management as part of new collaboration between the Government and UN-Habitat supported by Norway.


Shoring up cities against disaster
	Rio de Janeiro, 21 Jun 12 UN-Habitat on Wednesday launched a new programme on Wednesday calling on Heads of State and governments at the Rio +20 conference to provide a framework to help make cities around the world safer from disasters.


UN-Habitat at the World Cities Summit
	Singapore, 19 Jun 12 UN-Habitat’s Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, will address the World Cities Summit 2012 in Singapore next month when she will have the opportunity to meet world leaders, mayors and the business community to discuss new ideas on liveable and sustainable cities.


UN-Habitat and partners resettle Pakistan's flood victims
	Thatta, Pakistan, 30 May 12 UN-Habitat, the German manufacturer BASF and the government of Japan this week put a smile on the face of the villagers of Gul Mohammad Gandhro near Thatta, Sindh Province of Pakistan who were victims of the floods of 2010 by resettling them.


UN-Habitat inaugurates new homes for Pakistan flood victims
	Charsadda, Northwest Pakistan, 26 Apr 12 UN-Habitat has inaugurated thousands of new single room homes for the victims of devastating floods in a country already bracing itself for further flood devastation this year

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