Inauguration Ceremony of Census Office GIS Laboratory Islamabad

The Government of Pakistan Statistics Division in collaboration with UN-Habitat and UNFPA jointly inaugurated the 5th Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory on 7th May, 2012 in Islamabad.
The GIS Laboratories will serve as a platform for developing and enhancing the capacity of the existing GIS for the four provincial offices of the Population Census Organizations in Pakistan.
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Training of trainers on Housing Land and Property Rights

A series of trainings on a newly published Land and Property Rights guide are being conducted by UN-Habitat Islamabad in 10 different locations. The training manual was based on UN-Habitats “Housing Land and Property guide” that aims to enhance the capacity of government officials especially working in the revenue department at a district and provincial level in terms of knowledge about land and property rights.
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UN-Habitat and Serena Hotels join hands on Earth Day, 2012

UN-Habitat partnered with Islamabad Serena Hotel to celebrate Earth Day 2012 through a tree plantation and waste reduction campaign with UN-Habitat facilitated Environment Clubs in urban schools. The main objective of this campaign was to increase awareness and appreciation of the earth’s natural environment among the students participating, their teachers as well as their parents.
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UN-Habitat Regional Director for Asia Pacific inaugurates one-room shelters for flood affected people in Charsadda

The Regional Director of UN-Habitat Asia and Pacific, Mr. Toshi Noda visited Union Council Dheri Zardad and village Babook Qualay in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and inaugurated one room shelters constructed in response to the floods of 2010.
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Inauguration Ceremony of Census Office GIS Lab Quetta

An inauguration ceremony of GIS Lab (established by UN-HABITAT/UNFPA) has been held on 14-April-2012 at Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (BPS)/Population Census Office Quetta. Federal Secretary of Statistic Division Mr. Sohail Ahmed inaugurated the GIS Lab. The distinguished gusts, Federal Secretary of Statistic Division Mr. Sohail Ahmed, Chief Census Commissioner,
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Photo Contest

Submit a High Resolution Photo of Your City, Town, Village at UN-HABITAT PAKISTAN

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World Water Day 22nd March, 2012

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.
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UN-Habitat and Government of Pakistan hold meeting on disasters

UN-Habitat Pakistan in coordination with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) last month organized a two day "National Conference on Learning from Disasters".
The main aim of the conference in Islamabad was to bring together government officials, line departments, United Nations agencies, International NGOs, the civil society and other participants who were involved in humanitarian relief and recovery work specifically in the housing reconstruction sector to share their experiences.Read More

National Conference on Learning from Disasters 2012

The second day of the "National Conference on Learning from Disasters" continued with focus on the role of the media towards disaster risk mitigation and preparedness. Chief guest Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the media plays a very important role in impacting the masses but it must play a constructive role and highlight the emergent need for disaster preparedness.
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National Conference on Learning from Disasters organized by NDMA and UN-HABITAT from 22-23 February, 2012

UN-Habitat in collaboration with NDMA has arranged a two-day National Conference on Learning from Disasters from 22-23 February, 2012 in Islamabad. The purpose of this conference is to bring national and international attention on the post disaster recovery process, specifically on housing, reconstruction and rehabilitation. The conference is based on the lessons learnt from the natural calamities that have affected Pakistan since 2005.
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Tree Plantation Campaign in flood affected areas of Pakistan

UN-HABITAT's mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable urban and rural development. In this regard UN-HABITAT is launching a ‘tree plantation campaign’ from 15 January to 15 February 2012 in the flood affected areas to mitigate the negative impact of flood 2010,post disaster interventions and its associated consequences.

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A Guide on Land and Property Rights in Pakistan

A Guide on Land and Property Rights in Pakistan has been designed and prepared by UN-HABITAT in the context of PSFRP. It is merely compiled to facilitate the basic understanding of the major principles of Pakistani land administration system.

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Guidelines for Community Infrastructure

This guidelines provides some typical designs and cost estimates for some common kinds of community infrastructure to be reconstructed/rehabilitated in the country. The guidelines will help technical managers, engineers, sub engineers, communities and builders who are involved in rehabilitation, reconstruction of community physical infrastructure.

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The Indus River Game

UN-HABITAT pakistan has launched an interactive game called 'The Indus River Game'. It is Disasater Risk Reduction initiative for the 'Pakistan Settlements Flood Recovery Programme' funded by the Government of Japan.

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Calendar for the year 2012

A Disaster Risk Reduction approach to embracing the new Year, with preparation and caution, UN-HABITAT has launched its calendar for the year 2012.

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Six point poster

A flood resistant construction poster has been launched for the flood affected communities. Its main purpose is to simply highlight 6 key features towards making a shelter more resistant to floods.

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Implementing with the community

The community partcipation booklet has been launched to assist the communities in understanding their role in UN-HABITAT. It is community driven integerated reconstruction approach.

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150 winterized transitional shelters and 100 latrines constructed in Skardu, Gilgit Baltistan

UN-HABITAT and NDMA has successfully completed 150 winterized transitional shelters and 100 latrines with support of International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS). These shelters have been constructed using local materials and incorporated DRM elements using sand bags and plastic sheets. Latrines have been constructed using adobe blocks and CGI sheets for protection. The shelters will provide relief for the people especially in the winter season.

1,118 one-room shelters completed in District Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab

532 have been completed in Tehsil D.G. Khan and 586 shelters in Tehsil Taunsa. 371 shelters have also been completed in Muzaffargarh, Punjab for the beneficiaries of the super floods of 2010. With the completion of these shelters, the people of Punjab can look forward to building back their lives. More shelters are under construction in other areas of Punjab and rapidly nearing completion in the coming months.

1,706 one room shelters completed in Jacobabad, Sindh

UN-HABITAT has successfully completed 1,706 one-room shelters in Jacobabad Sindh, for the flood affected people where through the financial support of UKaid and Youth Action for Pakistan as implementing partners.A one-room shelter is a rectangular shaped 20 square meter structure that can accommodate up to seven people. With its one door and window, it serves as a core room to which beneficiaries can add further rooms, depending on their resources.

Government to redefine urban, rural areas for ongoing population census

In order to explore full potential from urban areas, the government has decided to redefine the rural and urban areas for the 6th ongoing Population Census of Pakistan.
"Our country is still known as a rural country but the reality is on the other way round. We should change the definition of urban and rural areas", Dr. Nadeem ul Haq, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission said while addressing the National Conference.

Workshop on End Project Evaluation

The Ministry of Disaster Management, Government of Pakistan in collaboration with UNICEF, Plan International, UN-HABITAT and Water Aid is hosting a three-day workshop on End-of-Project Evaluation for phase I and Mid-term review and action plan for Phase II of this programme from December 12th – 14th, 2011 in Islamabad.The workshop is being held in purview of the project “Early Recovery on Rural Sanitation in other 19 flood affected districts of Pakistan”

World Toilet Day and Mother Child Week celebrated globally and locally.

The UN-HABITAT social team of Union Council Jherruk celebrated World Toilet Day in village Saleh Jamari to emphasize the importance of sanitation and hygiene. 19th November was declared World Toilet Day by the WTO and it is celebrated by water and sanitation advocates all over the world.
Through a series of activities such as a walk, games, poems and jokes, related to the importance of toilets and its hygienic use

UN-HABITAT has launched a global campaign to fight against climate change

UN-HABITAT has launched a global campaign to fight against climate change which is celebrated every year in October. The theme for this year was “cities and climate change”. This was the first time that the event was held in Pakistan at such a large scale. Cities of Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta were involved in the effort.Government officials, diplomats, academia and communities and United Nations officials were present on the occasion.

World Habitat Day event at Japanese School

On Monday 3rd October 2011, World Habitat Day was commemorated all over the world. In Pakistan, it was observed with conferences at the regional offices of Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Karachi. Simultaneously, a World Habitat Day event took place at the Islamabad Japanese School.