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| Construction training manual tested in Hargeisa |
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Somaliland, 6 May 13
The Sustainable Employment Creation and Improved Livelihoods for Vulnerable Communities in Mogadishu (SECIL) project has developed a manual titled Practical Field Guide to Building Construction for Post-conflict Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Development. It details the essential parts of a building structure and provides information about standardized quality benchmarks, context-specific testing methods, skilled working principles for various construction sectors, and essential occupational safety standards. |
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| Road signs installed in Hargeisa |
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Somaliland, 6 May 13
Under the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery, UN-Habitat has been implementing the Urban Road Classification and Road Naming in Hargeisa Project, which was initiated as a pilot project to help create a foundation for the development of an urban road network plan for fast-growing Hargeisa. UN-Habitat has supported the Municipality of Hargeisa through the project’s technical committee to develop a technical specification guideline for manufacturing and installing the street/road signage in Hargeisa. |
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| Urban road planning support to Garowe Municipality |
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Somaliland, 6 May 13
Garowe Municipality, assisted by UN-Habitat, has completed the implementation of the first phase of the pilot project Development of a Road Network Development Plan and Road Demarcation for Garowe. The project has resulted in the development of the Road Demarcation Development Phase Plan 2012–2035; during the first phase, around 7 km of roads, as new extensions of the main road, were demarcated to secure the future routes from encroachment by informal building construction. |
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| Leadership, conflict management, and gender training in Gabiley, Bossaso, Jariban, and Garowe |
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Somaliland, 7 Nov 12
As a part of a local government capacity-building programme, UN-Habitat this year conducted a series of trainings on Local Leadership Management, Conflict Management, and Gender and the Involvement of Women in Local Governance in Gabiley (Somaliland), Bossaso (Puntland), and Jariban (Puntland). |
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| Improving governance through waste management |
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Puntland, Bossaso, 7 Nov 12
Solid waste management projects and a solar street lighting project are improving sanitation, hygiene, health, environmental conditions, and living standards in three municipalities in Puntland – Bossaso, Gardho, and Garowe. The projects address service delivery in the solid waste sector and increase the protection of vulnerable urban populations through better street lighting. These activities are under the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery, and it was established that only those municipalities with functional councils could receive the grant of USD 75,000. |
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| Mogadishu markets rehabilitated |
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Mogadishu, 7 Nov 12
SAACID has been partnering with UN-Habitat since 2005 to build local government capacity in all 16 districts in Mogadishu and rehabilitate high-priority public sector infrastructure throughout the city. Barduuro Market in Hamarweyne District was built in 1972, under the regime of Siad Barre.
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| Tawakal community shelter project for the displaced reaching completion |
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Galkayo, 1 May 12
The Tawakal settlement was established in 2006, when a piece of land was made available to internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had come from south central Somalia, many with previous roots in Galkayo. The Tawakal IDP Community Shelter, Settlement Planning, Basic Sanitary Facilities, and Housing Construction Project was conceived after UN-Habitat carried out a strategic planning exercise with members of the community in June 2010. The community members expressed a strong desire to be able to develop their settlement as a planned community, legally recognized as a municipality under Puntland territory, with the help of UN-Habitat. |
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| Improvement of Burao and Bossaso local government offices completed |
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Somalia, 5 Oct 11
Work on the Burao municipal offices wrapped up in May 2011 and included a new council meeting hall, upgraded sanitary facilities, and general improvements of the municipal premises. The new Burao Council Hall is one of the first buildings in Somaliland with an improved roof design that incorporates locally manufactured concrete tiles. Compared to the commonly used iron-sheet roofs, the tiles offer much better protection against local weather conditions, provide better air circulation, and are more durable. They also have green credentials, being produced in Burao in an environmentally sustainable way. |
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| New schools provide access to education for 2,000 Mogadishu children |
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Somalia, 5 Oct 11
In March, UN-HABITAT agreed with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to construct schools for 2,000 school-age internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu. The initiative accesses unused funds from the project entitled Improvement of Living Conditions of IDPs in Jowhar, Baidoa, and Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somalia programme moved rapidly to locate and assess sites with NGO partner SAACID, produce a high quality and cost-effective design, and conclude an agreement with UNICEF to manage the schools as part of their Emergency Education Initiative. This pilot project is an IDP component of the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery’s Participatory District Rehabilitation in Mogadishu Project. |
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| Tawakal community shelter project of 420 houses gets going |
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Somalia, 5 Oct 11
Over the last five years, UN-HABITAT, in collaboration with the Government of Puntland State of Somalia, has helped improve the lives of 18,022 people in Puntland. In Bossaso, Garowe, Xaafuun, and now in Galkayo, UN-HABITAT has planned new settlements, constructed permanent shelters, and upgraded existing settlements. At the beginning of this year, the Government of Japan donated USD 1.5 million to the UN-HABITAT Somalia Programme for the construction of low-cost houses and sanitation facilities for the Tawakal community of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Galkayo, to be completed by December 2011. |
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| Training of trainers on land, property, and housing rights in the Muslim world |
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Somalia, 5 Oct 11
Following the UN-HABITAT Global Land Tool Network’s 2010 launch of a formal training package on land, property, and housing rights in the Muslim world, the UN-HABITAT Somalia Programme held a training of trainers from 4 to 8 April 2011 in Nairobi. Siraj Sait, a main contributing author of the training package, conducted the training for staff from Somaliland, Puntland, and Nairobi. Examining actual land cases from Somalia and other countries, the training course targets trainers in the land sector who can then disseminate key land administration concepts in Somalia. Training for local authorities will be carried out in the last quarter of 2011. |
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| UN-HABITAT Somalia Programme contributes to Japanese tsunami relief fund |
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Somalia, 5 Oct 11
Following the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March of this year, the UN-HABITAT Somalia Programme responded by gathering contributions from programme staff as well as beneficiaries of Japan-funded projects over the years. Donations came in from Hargeisa, Garowe, Bossaso, Galkayo, and the head office in Nairobi. Residents of Hargeisa’s Ayaha settlement in particular sent their contributions together with heartfelt condolences and deep appreciation for the assistance Japan has given them. The Mayor of Hargeisa, Husein Mohamoud Jiciir, and the Mayor of Garowe, Abdiaziz Nur Elmi Koor, sent condolence letters to the Government of Japan via the country’s representative in Kenya, Ambassador Toshihisa Takata. |
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