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| Statement on the occasion of the kick-off of the Secure tenure event Davao City, Philippines |
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Davao City, Philippines
This event is a unique opportunity for me to meet directly with those who are among our most important partners and those for whom UN-HABITAT is dedicating most of its effort. They are the urban poor who live in precarious situations, in unhealthy slums and also unfortunately, very often, in areas that are prone to risks. They are also the local authorities who struggle to provide to their citizen a decent and safe shelter.
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| Address on the occasion of the visit to Muntinlupa City, Philippines |
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Muntinlupa City, Philippines
I am honoured to be here with you today to participate in this important event. I would like to thank Honourable Jaime Frenedi, Mayor of the City of Muntinlupa, the honorable members of Muntinlupa City Council, and the citizens of Muntinlupa City, for inviting me to visit your City and see directly the impressive accomplishments that you have achieved here to the benefit of the underprivileged members of your community.
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| Speech on World Habitat Day in Brussels |
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Brussels, Belgium
Every year since 1985, when it was first designated by the General Assembly, World Habitat Day has been celebrated on the first Monday of every October. On this day we are asked to reflect on the conditions of the living environment or our habitats, focusing on the state of human settlements and on progress made, and persistent and new challenges for their sustainable development. This year it has been decided that we should reflect on the theme of city to city cooperation.
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| International Conference on Sustainable Building |
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Oslo, Norway
It is a great honour and privilege for me to address this important Conference in the presence of distinguished dignitaries from nearly seventy countries representing the research community, property owners, the construction industry and authorities in this beautiful country of Norway. It is indeed very heartening to note that this conference is a result of cooperation among an impressive array of partners representing the government, private and public sector, research and financial institutions.
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| International Forum on Urban Poverty in Marrakech, Morocco |
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Marrakech, Morocco
It is a great honour and privilege for me to address this important Conference in the presence of the most important dignitaries in this beautiful country of Morocco and I would like to thank His Majesty, the King of Morocco, and his government for making it possible for all of us to gather here to discuss how best we can solve the problems of urban poverty all over the world.
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| Message of the Executive Director on World Habitat Day 2001 |
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The theme of this year's World Habitat Day celebrations - "Cities without Slums" - is one that concerns us all, collectively and individually. One billion poor people live without adequate shelter and basic services in slums and squatter settlements.
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| Opening statement by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director UN-HABITAT - Naples, Italy, 2 October 2006 |
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Naples
It gives me great pleasure to celebrate the global festivities of World Habitat Day this year from this beautiful city of Naples. Naples is a gateway to the Mediterranean, and renowned centre of history, culture, art – and urban and architectural splendour. The planning of settlements such as Pompei, just down the road from here, still guide and inspire us in our quest for liveable cities. So it is with a special word of appreciation to Your Worship, Ms. Iervolino Russo, the Mayor of Naples, for so generously offering to host this important annual event.
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| Address by Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director of UN-HABITAT On the occasion of the West Africa High-Level Peer Exhange on Government Enablement of Private Sector Lending for Affordable Housing |
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Accra, Ghana
It is a great privilege to present this keynote address at a conference called to see how governments can help and encourage the private sector to invest in a noble, worthwhile and most important cause – affordable housing for the poorest of the poor.
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| Address to the Group of 77 in Geneva By Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director & Director-General United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Geneva – 18 January 2007 |
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Geneva
It is a great honour for me to appear before you today, in my capacity as the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), to address the first meeting, in 2007, of the Group of 77 in Geneva. As some of you might recall I have had the pleasure of appearing before your meetings at the time I served as the UNCTAD Director for the Office of the Least Developed, Land-locked and Island Developing States. I was also serving at the time as the Executive Secretary of the Third UN Conference for the Least Developed Countries. I have always been gratified by the strong support, which the Group of 77 has always extended to the weaker among them. So I am pleased to be back. And I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you everything of the best for 2007
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| Remarks by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Director UN-HABITAT, At the first meeting of the Advisory Council of the UN-HABITAT Warsaw Office on 25 February 2007 |
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Warsaw
It gives me great pleasure to address this gathering of Honourable Ministers, distinguished bankers, local authorities and so many other important people playing key roles in shaping a brighter future for this region. I wish to open my remarks with special words of thanks: Firstly, thank you, Honourable Minister Aumiller, for hosting this event and for giving us your valuable time to serve as Chair of this first Advisory Council
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| Statement by Dr. Anna K. Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at the first plenary session of the 21st Session of the Governing Council for UN-HABITAT |
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Nairobi
This session of the Governing Council has before it some very important issues and equally important decisions to make. For this reason, we have been working arduously with the Committee of Permanent Representatives and its Bureau to ensure that the programme and the organisation of work allows for a judicial balance between dialogue and decision making.
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| PRESENTATION by Mrs ANNA K.TIBAIJUKA, UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL of the UNITED NATIONS and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of UN-HABITAT to the PLANNING CONVENTION of the Royal Town Planning Institute |
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The QEII Conference Centre,Westminster, London
I would like to start by thanking the Royal Town Planning Institute for inviting me to address you today. I would like to congratulate the Institute, and particularly Jim Claydon, its President, and Robert Upton, its Secretary-General, for giving a high profile to issues of international development in your Convention. I understand Robert is unwell and I wish him an early recovery. I would also like to acknowledge Clive Harridge, your Immediate Past President, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver last year. The RTPI made a powerful contribution to the Forum, a gathering of over 10,000 people from around the world, and its effort was crucial in putting planning back on the international agenda, from whence it has been missing for at least the last twenty years.
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| Statement from Anna K. Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director UN-HABITAT On the occasion of the closing of Housing and Property Claims Commission (HPCC) |
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Pristina, Kosovo
UN-HABITAT welcomed the invitation from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kouchener, in mid-1999 to assist the UN Mission in Kosovo to address a range of issues including local governance, rebuilding a land administration system and infrastructure in Kosovo, and developing the means to ensure restitution for people who lost their properties, and to help regularize informal transactions during the decade from 1989 to 1999. It is the celebration of the handover of the last case resolved by the Housing and Property Directorate and the Housing and Property Claims Commission that we are here for today, and I am proud that UN-HABITAT has been recognized for its contribution in to this most deserving endeavour.
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Message of the Executive Director on World Habitat Day 2001
Message of the Executive Director on World Habitat Day 2001