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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions, More...
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Demolitions in Jeddah turn residents into `strangers` |
By :AFP |
22 April 2022 |
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – The Saudi doctor still had 15 years left on the loan he used to build his family`s "dream" home in Jeddah when bulldozers razed it to the ground, turning his life into "hell".
The operation was part of a $20-billion clearance and construction project that stands More...
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
By :Joseph Schechla |
24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit More...
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Egypt’s ‘Best Practice’ toward 2030 SDGs |
By :World Bank |
07 September 2021 |
UN Lists Upper Egypt Local Development Program as a Best Practice to Achieving Results Towards 2030 SDGs
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The Upper Egypt Local Development Program is strengthening the capacity of local government to deliver quality infrastructure and services and improve the environment for private sector development and job creation in four governorates.
The More...
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Gazan Entrepreneur Finds Hope in Hardship |
By :Rory Quick, MEMO |
23 April 2019 |
The young founder of two innovative projects believes that the Gaza Strip needs entrepreneurs and innovators who fight daily challenges.
GAZA CITY—Talking to Majd Mashharawi in Amman’s Books@Cafe, it is clear that she is used to making difficult decisions. She explains that when she was 18, her father gave her a choice: Either More...
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory |
By :HIC-HLRN |
10 July 2017 |
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NUA Reporting in 2018 Crucial |
By :Gregory Scruggs, Citiscope |
11 May 2017 |
2018 reporting period will prove critical for New Urban Agenda, advocates say
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NAIROBI—Although 2017 is not yet halfway over, advocates for the New Urban Agenda on sustainable cities already are looking to next year as critical for embedding the agreement aims among national governments.
That’s because the recent Habitat III conference set More...
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New Urban Agenda, A/71/L.23 |
By :UN General Assembly |
21 November 2016 |
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Palestine: Kuwaiti Fund for Gaza Reconstruction |
By :Palestinian news& info agency |
20 September 2016 |
More than 300 families whose homes were destroyed during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza are expected to receive financial aid from the Kuwaiti fund, Minister of Public Works Mufeed Hasayneh said on Tuesday.
He said in a statement that the money will be disbursed to 305 families to help them rebuild More...
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Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016 |
By :Habitat III Secretariat |
10 September 2016 |
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