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Ban appoints Clos Secretary-General for Habitat III summit
	New York, 31 Aug 12 United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed UN-Habitat's Executive Director, Dr. Joan Clos, Secretary-General for the Habitat III summit conference at which world leaders will gather to discuss the global urban agenda.


Pupils learn flood risk management in Kampala
	Kampala, 23 Aug 12 Pupils at Outspan Primary School in Bwaise, a poor, flood-prone neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda, are learning how to collect meteorological data – and, along the way, something about how climate change increasingly will affect their lives. Two times a day they measure the amount of rain that has fallen over the past several hours at their school grounds. They then jot down observations on the duration of the rainfall and its effect in terms of flooding of their school yard.


Government of India and UN-Habitat to reconstruct 16,800 h ouses in Sri Lanka
	Colombo, 15 Aug 12 The Government of India last month signed an agreement with UN-Habitat to assist the reconstruction of 16,800 houses for conflict affected returnees in the Northern Province of the neighbouring Sri Lanka.


UN-Habitat and UNESCAP join hands in solid waste management project
	Karachi, 15 Aug 12 UN-Habitat and UNESCAP have launched a pilot project for Solid Waste Management in the cities of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Mardan.


Malawi villagers benefit from disaster risk management infrastructure
	Blantyre, 8 Aug 12 Communities living in the area of Traditional Authority Makhwira, Chikhwawa District of the Lower Shire River Valley in Southern Malawi have benefited from disaster risk management infrastructure which comprises a safe haven and eight demonstration houses.


Youth on the Move in the UN – Taking stock of the Youth 21 initiative
	New York, 2 Aug 12 Youth’s engagement globally, and more specifically within the UN system, was the focus of the Youth 21 Stock Taking meeting held earlier this month at the UN-Habitat offices in New York.


Tackling slum problems in Zambia
	Lusaka, 1 Aug 12 The Zambian government last week invited a broad range of experts, central and local government officials and community representatives to discuss new ways of dealing with the country's slum problems. French


UN-Habitat signs MoU for Somalia
	Nairobi, 1 Aug 12 UN-Habitat and the Human Relief Foundation last week signed an Agreement of Cooperation to provide technical support to a project in Somalia

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