World Urban Forum X, Roundtable on Youth and climate. Abu Dhabi, 12.02.2020 I will speak on the role of the global sports movement and the potential of its billions of young people all over the world – organized or unorganized – to make sports carbon neutral. The almost endless […]
World Urban Forum X, side event on Connecting culture and innovation to enhance women’s economic empowerment for the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Abu Dhabi, 11.02.2020 On behalf of Habitat Norway, Helge Onsrud made the following presentation about women’s economic empowerment in Norway: […]
Roundtable 11.02. 2020 organized by Habitat for humanity/UN Habitat at World Urban Forum 2020 My interest for the role of culture as a development tool emerged 20 years ago. I was then Country Director Development at the Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In charge among other things for a cultural […]
De aller fleste byene i Afrika, Asia og Latin Amerika har enorme uløste oppgaver når det gjelder infrastruktur for vannforsyning, kloakk, elektrisitet, for å nevne det viktigste. Mange byer i «nord» har store utfordringer. Også i Norge er vedlikehold av vann- og kloakksystemene i stor grad forsømt. Det er mer […]
Ved åpningen av det tiende «World Urban Forum» (WUF) i Abu Dhabi i helgen kommer jeg på et sitat fra Michael Bloomberg, tidligere ordfører i New York, presidentkandidat og ledende pådriver for globalt by-samarbeid (C 40). Han sa det slik: «Vi i byene utgjør myndighetsnivået nærmest flertallet av verdens befolkning […]
Norwegian Mapping Authority invites to Networking Event on Integration of geospatial data to support smart and resilient societies taking place at the World Urban Forum on 10 February at 4:30PM.
We are excited to join over 10,000 participants to address one of the most pressing urbanisation issues: the right to adequate housing. Together with Orangi Pilot Project we will be screening The Rebel Optimist at the UN-Habitat Better Cities Film Festival. Find us in the program here.
Tools for improving land administration in transition economies in Europe […]
The seminar clearly showed, that much has happened since Norway together with other donor countries launched the spesific focus on Land rights and created the Legal Empowerment Commission in 2005. This commission, led by M. Albright and H. de Soto, delivered its report to the Secretary General of the UN […]
Deputy Directors, friends, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Habitat Norway it is an honour and a pleasure to welcome all of you to this workshop. A particular welcome to the two Deputy Directors Marit Brandtzæg of NORAD and Victor Kisob of UN Habitat. With colleagues Oumar Sylla and […]