Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa honourable Cyril Ramaphosa, will on Thursday, 7 April 2016 deliver a key note address during the UN Habitat III Thematic conference on Informal Settlements at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria.
The conference will be preceded by an Urban Journalism Academy and a media briefing on the 6 April 2016 to be addressed by the Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Secretary General of UN Habitat III Dr Joan Clos. The Urban Journalism Academy is a pioneering and innovative initiative to engage journalists and media professionals who are already interested or involved in urban development and human settlements with reference to social, economic and economic issues facing cities in the 21st Century.
Under the theme - From slums to integrated safe, resilient and suitable human settlement, the conference is in preparation for Habitat III and will explore approaches and strategies in the inter-related areas of tenure security and housing, livelihoods, safety, and governance. For this purpose, lessons learned, challenges, pro-poor solutions, and partnership mechanisms will be shared.
About 500 delegates from governments and civil society across the globe are expected to come up with an agreed framework and global action plan to inform the New Urban Agenda to be adopted at the Habitat III in Ecuador scheduled for October 2016
Among other dignitaries attending the conference are twenty ministers from different countries and the Secretary – General of UN Habitat, Dr Joan Closs.
Members are advised to respond with their full details (ID number/passport, organisation, contact number and designation by Friday, 1st April 2016.
Details are as follows
Date: 6 to 8 April 2016
Time: 9h00
Venue: CSIR, Pretoria
For more information contact:
Ndivhuwo Mabaya
Cell: 083 645 7838
For R.S.V.P and further information please contact Tebogo Mosima at tebogo.mosima@dhs.gov.za or 072 1711021 / Teboho Montse at teboho.montse@dhs.gov.za 082 886 6721
