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Urban Thinkers Campus: Shaping Urban futures with Sustainable Housing, Mobility, and Green Infrastructure
UHPH-MENA, in collaboration with the German Jordanian University, Connective Cities MENA, Habitat for Humanity Jordan, Resilient Urban Planning and Development (RUPD) GbR, TU-Berlin, and Saint Joseph University of Beirut, co-organized this 3-day event that brought together over 100 experts from Jordan, MENA, and Europe.
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Dialogue on Housing in Lebanon 2024
In June 2024, Habitat for Humanity Lebanon held a full-day event entitled “A Dialogue on Housing in Lebanon” in Beirut. The Dialogue was organized in collaboration with the UN-Habitat Lebanon Country Programme, the Beirut Urban Lab (BUL) at the American University of Beirut, and the Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
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Best Practices in Housing Innovation across the Global South
This webinar brought together experts from across civil society in the Global South to share their best practices in housing innovation.
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Urban Thinkers Campus: Heat Stress Resilience – Translating Strategy into Urban Climate Action
UHPH-MENA, in collaboration with GIZ Egypt, RUPD Gbr, Cairo University, and TU-Berlin, co-organized this 2-day event that brought together over 100 experts from across the region to discuss urban heat stress.
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Workshop: Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements in Egypt & MENA
UHPH-MENA cooperated with Habitat for Humanity Egypt to co-host a workshop bringing together stakeholders in the field of adequate housing, to discuss approaches to enhancing climate resilience in unplanned/informal settlements, with a special focus on heat stress.
Habitat for Humanity Egypt Workshop -
The human development impacts of upgrading informal settlements in the MENA region
UHPH-MENA will host a virtual roundtable discussing Habitat for Humanity’s report on improving informal settlements’ housing in the Middle East’s potential socioeconomic impacts on a national scale
Virtual Roundtable Discussion -
Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections
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Financing Informal Area Upgrading through Land Value Capture
The Middle East and North Africa Urban Housing Practitioners Hub (MENA-UHPH) is organizing a virtual panel discussion that seeks to explore the use of land value capture instruments to fund the upgrading of informal areas.
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The MENA Housing Forum 2022
The MENA Housing Forum is part of a global series of housing forums organized by Habitat for Humanity in collaboration with partner organizations in different regions of the world.
Cairo Forum -
Lebanon Housing Dialogue 2022
The Lebanon Housing Dialogue was a full-day event held in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and the Beirut Urban Lab (BUL), and was part of a series of national forums in Jordan and Egypt preceding the MENA Housing Forum organized by Habitat for Humanity International
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Jordan Housing Forum
This national forum will bring together stakeholders and representatives from the public and private sectors, civil society, local and international NGOs and donor agencies contributing and influencing the housing sector in Jordan.
Amman Forum -
Egypt Housing Forum
Within Egypt’s rapidly evolving housing ecosystem, the forum intends to uncover questions about housing availability for the poor and vulnerable.
Cairo Forum
Events
We facilitate and organize events and webinars promoting a common vision towards inclusive and sustainable housing for all, across the MENA region.