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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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