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UN
envoy on housing evictions appoints UN-HABITAT manager for Zimbabwe
United
Nations News Service
July 08, 2005
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6E4PD5?OpenDocument&rc=1&cc=zwe
As head of the
United Nations urban development agency, the UN Special Envoy investigating
the humanitarian aspects of housing and market evictions in Zimbabwe
today said she would appoint a programme manager to help the Government
of the Southern African country with its urbanization programme.
"As UN
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the
UN agency responsible for housing and urban development, I recognize
the need to immediately support the UN country team by appointing
a UN-HABITAT programme manager, with immediate effect," Anna
Tibaijuka said as she wound up a nearly two-week-long fact-finding
tour of Zimbabwe.
The programme
managers of UN-HABITAT, officially known as the UN Human Settlements
Programme, are urban planning and management experts who work with
Governments at all levels on "providing adequate shelter for
all and developing sustainable settlements in a globalizing world,"
Ms. Tibaijuka said.
"The reason that UN-HABITAT had not stationed a programme manager
in Zimbabwe in the past is that statistics had suggested that urbanization
was not yet a critical issue in the country," she added.
Ms. Tibaijuka,
who arrived on 26 June to assess the humanitarian aspects of the
evictions, also examined the adequacy of the Government's arrangements
for those displaced during the southern African winter, the official
capacity to provide for basic needs and the ability of the UN and
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to respond to humanitarian
requirements.
After criss-crossing
the country, she is scheduled to leave Zimbabwe's capital, Harare,
tomorrow for Nairobi, Kenya, where UN-HABITAT is headquartered,
and said she would report on her visit to UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan.
He would then
decide how the international community could "further assist
the Government and people of Zimbabwe with the challenges I have
seen on the ground," she said.
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