UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme [to 21 November 2015]

UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme [to 21 November 2015]
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[Selected Announcements]

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Nairobi hosts GLTN partners’ meeting
Nairobi 12 November 2015— The sixth Partners’ meeting of the Global Land Tool Network was successfully held in Nairobi in early November, in an event that saw the 70 Partners of the network as well as well as other stakeholders in the land sector across the world gather to deliberate on various issues affecting the network and the land sector general…
Posted November 12, 2015

The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is an alliance of global, regional, and national partners contributing to poverty alleviation through land reform, improved land management, and security of tenure, particularly through the development and dissemination of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools. Secure land tenure and property rights are fundamental to shelter and livelihoods, as well as to the realization of human rights, poverty reduction, economic prosperity, and sustainable development…Through GLTN, UN-Habitat continues to work towards this with partners, including international civil society organizations, international finance institutions, international research and training institutions, donors, and professional bodies.