A Handing Over Ceremony of Multi-Purpose Flood Shelter, Emergency Water tank and Concrete Drainages took place on April 24, 2018 in Ward No.14 in Pakokku, Magway Region. The European Union funded Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) Programme was designed to strengthen capacity in Government, private sector and civil society actors and to facilitate the ...

February 2018 With the coordination of the International Cooperation Study Program by Fukuoka Prefecture Government and the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and Pacific ROAP, six students from different universities in Fukuoka including Kyushu University, Jo Gakuin University, Seinan Gakuin University, University of Teacher Education made a three-day study visit to UN-Habitat, Myanmar and its ...

   14th Hitachi Young Leaders Initiative – Sustainable Urbanisation Through Collaborative Creation 10th – 13th July 2017 – Myanmar The 14th Hitachi Young Leaders Initiative (HYLI) was recently hosted in Yangon, Myanmar from 10th-13th July. HYLI’s mission is to identify and nurture potential Asian leaders who are among the best and brightest students in Asia. ...

      July 2, 2017 Yangon A Handing Over Ceremony for a unique housing project for the poorest and most vulnerable families took place this morning in Dagon Seikan Township in Yangon Region. The Government of Japan funded UN-Habitat to provide housing and basic services facilities for most poor and vulnerable families in the vicinity ...

  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 ...