UN-Habitat assembly set to provide platform to address urban challenges

Senior officials from Kenya and the UN Human Settlements Programme, known as UN-Habitat, have expressed their optimism that the upcoming first UN-Habitat Assembly will provide a platform for member states to discuss and find solutions to the current and expected urban challenges.

The assembly will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 27.

James Macharia, cabinet secretary in the Kenyan Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works, said the event will provide significant opportunities to form strategic alliances to advance sustainable urbanization and human settlements agenda.