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Partnership forwards New Urban Agenda in Saudi Arabia
	Riyadh, 19 Dec 13 HRH Prince Mansour Bin Moteab Bin Abdel Aziz, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs(MOMRA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Dr. Jon Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat,have signed a four-year programme of cooperation agreement for the development of the “Future Saudi Cities” Programme.


Partnership towards Energy Efficiency buildings in East Africa
	Nairobi, 19 Dec 13 romote academic capacity building and knowledge transfer for energy access, efficiency and low-carbon technologies in the field of sustainable housing.


UN-Habitat Launches New Tool to Strengthen Urban Resilience
	Barcelona, 19 Dec 13 UN-Habitat has launched a new initiative to help the growing number of urban dwellers cope with the rising costs and impacts of natural disasters and man made threats.


IDP settlement planning and strategy presented in Mogadishu
	Somalia, 16 Dec 13 Since the 1990s, armed conflict in Mogadishu and recurring famine in southern Somalia has resulted in the protracted and massive displacement of thousands of families – population movements of up to 20,000 people within a single week into or out of the capital. Since 2007, when fighting between government forces and anti-government militias intensified, an estimated 400,000 people have fled from the war zones in Mogadishu and settled along a 20-kilometre stretch of road leading out of the city. This has become known as the ‘Afgooye Corridor’ and is the largest single concentration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world.


ARCADIS and UN-Habitat extend partnership to improve urban quality of life
	Nairobi, 10 Dec 13 ARCADIS, a leading natural and built asset design and consultancy firm, and UN-Habitat, the United Nations Agency for Human Settlements, have announced today to extend their collaboration for another two years until the end of 2015.


Korean company to support UN-Habitat’s work in Kibera
	Nairobi, 9 Dec 13 Grand Korea Leisure Co. Ltd, a Korean-based private company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UN-Habitat to work on sustainable economic development for residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi.


Urbanisation: an emerging topic at European Development Days 2013
	Brussels, 2 Dec 13 Concluding two days of dialogue and exchange on possible options for the post-2015 development framework,


UN-Habitat Partners with TomTom to ease urban congestion
	Barcelona, 2 Dec 13 Navigation provider TomTom (Tom2) has announced a partnership with UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme


UN-Habitat trains Asia Pacific Youth Fund grantees
	Mumbai, 2 Dec 13 UN-Habitat has carried out training for the winners of the Youth Fund in Mumbai to enable them to run their identified projects more effectively.

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