CAHF at the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Informal Settlements | 13:30 - 15:00 | 07 April 2016 | Pretoria, South Africa

The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) will be hosting a side event at the Habitat III Thematic Session on Informal Settlements in Pretoria, South Africa. The event, titled, Housing microfinance as a tool for informal settlement upgrading in Africa, will include presentations by CAHF, the African Union for Housing FinanceDW Angola, Positive Planet and Select Africa. We will explore the role of housing finance in dealing with informal settlements, and the necessity of creating an enabling environment for housing microfinance to do so.

If you are interested in attending the Thematic Meeting, and our side event, you can register by 01 April here: https://www.habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/pretoria

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Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa
About the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Informal Settlements

The Thematic Meeting will explore approaches and strategies in the inter-related areas of tenure security and housing, livelihoods, safety, and governance. From the meeting, a declaration with the participants' key policy recommendations will be formed. It will be considered as an official input to the New Urban Agenda.

About Habitat III

Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which takes place every 20 years. It convenes various stakeholders from across the world to find solutions for the complex challenge that result from urbanisation. The result of Habitat III will be the New Urban Agenda, with the intention of creating a pattern of sustainable urban development fostering a new model of city. The latest Draft Africa Common Position, the continent's input for Habitat III, is the Abuja Declaration, which you can read here
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