UN-HABITAT Global Survey

Participate in UN HABITAT’s Global Survey

As part of a strategy review to assess how best to continue to support its partners and enable them to achieve key objectives, UN-HABITAT is collaborating with IHS to launch a world-wide survey.

The purpose of the survey is to understand the main issues relating to land and housing policies – if land policies are pro-poor (if they are to help correct the disadvantages that poor people typically suffer in many areas of land policy) – so the conditions that affect policy implementation and modalities can be better understood. In addition, these factors could highlight key areas in which UN-HABITAT could contribute. In short, the analysis of the survey will orientate UN-HABITAT closer to understanding better how to achieve its mission, namely, to ‘provide shelter for all’, while ‘promoting socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities’.

The survey is of stakeholders who define, influence or implement policymaking across the world.

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Indonesia, Jakarta Alumni event

Ritz-Carlton hotel, Jakarta
31 October 2008

We have great pleasure in inviting all alumni in Indonesia to join us for an exciting dinner event hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). As a networking opportunity and a round-table event, the Diner pensant, or working dinner, promises to be productive.

IHS is affiliated to EUR as the International Institute of Urban Management is part of both the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Erasmus School of Economics.


Please confirm your attendance by 20 October by emailing Ms Petra Meiboom at the Alumni Office: meiboom@...

Essay competition

Shortlist of competition entries
To mark the 50^th anniversary of IHS, the institute is holding a competition to round up the many compelling essays received from IHS alumni reporting from around the world. The writings outline experiences of and approaches to changes in the housing and urban development arena during the last 50 years or expected in the coming decades.

The jury panel comprises IHS alumni Claudio Acioly (Chief Housing Policy, UN HABITAT), Nick Taralunga (Director, IHS Romania) and Azza Sirry (Director, Urban Training Institute, Cairo, Egypt). A shortlist will be drawn up and the winner announced in mid October. The winning essayist will be awarded a place on an IHS executive course in 2009.