Yangon 28 April 2017 – UN-Habitat successfully held an international experience sharing workshop on slum upgrading, bringing together leading experts from the region and Myanmar  to help identify  possible solutions to Myanmar’s growing slum problem. UN-Habitat in partnership with DUHD, with support of Cities Alliance, invited four outstanding international experts on slum upgrading to ...

   March 31, 2017 Closing Ceremony of 3rd National Carpenter Training, 2nd and 3rd National Masonry Training took place this morning under DFID funded BRACED project at Thuwanna Central Training Center, Ministry of Construction, Yangon Region. Training were jointly organized by the Ministry of Construction, Myanmar Engineering Society, National Skills Standard Authority and UN-Habitat, in order ...

  “Under ECHO funded “Myanmar Consortium for Community Resilience (MCCR” Program, 5 days training on “Post Disaster (Earthquake) Rapid Damage Assessment” started on 28th March in Yangon Technological University (YTU). This training is jointly organized by UN-Habitat, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Austria and Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia ...

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 March, 2017 – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today between UN-Habitat and the Relief & Resettlement Department (RRD) of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR) of the Government of the Union of Myanmar. UN-Habitat has been an active partner of RRD in promoting disaster awareness and ...

Six students of the International Cooperation Leadership Programme in Fukuoka Prefecture who are studying at different universities in  Fukuoka visited UN-Habitat, Myanmar and its projects sites from 6-8 March 2017. On the first day, students visited URDI (Urban Research and Development Institute) where UN-Habitat Country Programme Manager, Mr. Bijay Karmacharya and senior staff briefed them ...

    Myanmar has joined the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development with a large delegation headed by HE U Win Khaing, Minister of Construction, in Quito, Ecuador from 17 to 20 October. The conference – known as Habitat 3 – is a platform for the United Nation’s member states to affirm ...

    November 4, 2016 – Today at Nay Pyi Taw took place the MoU signing ceremony between UN-Habitat and the Department of Rural Development (DRD) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of the Government of Myanmar. For the last five years UN-Habitat and DRD have coordinated to provide support to most impoverished ...

Workshop on Provisional Findings of the Laputta and Pakokku Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments and National Training to conduct assessments 3-4-5 October 2016 On Monday the 3rd, more than one hundred participants from States and Regions and National institutions participated at the presentation of the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance Programme (MCCA) and Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) ...

    World Habitat Day in Myanmar 3 October, 2016 Yangon, MYANMAR World Habitat Day, with the theme: Housing at the Centre, was celebrated in Myanmar as the Myanmar Government makes affordable housing a priority. On 2 October, UN Habitat representatives joined members of communities from a slum area in Hlaing Tharyar Township in Yangon’s ...

Dr Joan Clos Message on World Habitat Day 2016 Executive Director of UN-Habitat and Secretary-General of Habitat III Our cities and homes define who we are, in many ways. They determine whether we will have access to education and job opportunities. They define our ability to lead a healthy life and the level of our ...