UNDP Geographic Information System Specialist Jobs in Kenya
UNDP Geographic Information System Specialist Jobs in Kenya
BackgroundThe United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements.
It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UN-Habitat is playing a key role implementing the Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in September 2015 as well as the New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. The Planning, Finance and Economy Section (PFES) of UN-Habitat supports countries in developing urban planning methods and systems that address current urbanization challenges.
It promotes urban planning approaches to address urban expansion and transformation.
The Urban Planning and Design Lab (Urban Lab) is a UN-Habitat initiative to promptly respond to the requests from national and local governments to support sustainable urban development.
The Urban Lab is an integrative facility within the agency where innovative processes and partnerships are translated into tangible and transformative solutions to address complex urban challenges.
Throughout the process, the Urban Lab acts as a neutral broker, managing knowledge in complex environments to resolve multi-sectoral, multi-scalar and multi-stakeholder challenges.
The Urban Lab brings together a multidisciplinary team of urban planners, environmental, data-science, mobility, legal and financial experts, providing a holistic and proactive approach to sustainable urbanization.
Hence, the Lab captures the necessary
thematic disciplines, experts, actors, and stakeholders.
In this context, the Urban Lab applies an integrated approach to systemic and strategic planning to deliver transformative change for sustainable urbanisation and to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in alignment with the New Urban Agenda.
The Global Public Space Programme aims to improve the quality of public spaces and helps cities become more sustainable by providing policy advice, capacity development, knowledge sharing, and support for public space regeneration and improvement.
The overall goal is to support local governments in creating and promoting socially inclusive, integrated, connected, environmentally sustainable and safe streets and public spaces, especially for women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
More concretely, the programme maps public spaces and works with cities to develop city-wide strategies and urban development frameworks.
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