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77th session of the Committee on Housing and Land Management

13 - 16 September 2016
Geneva Switzerland

The 77th session of the Committee on Housing and Land Management brought together high-level representatives of governments and stakeholders from the UNECE region and observers to discuss the implementation of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing, the Committee's Strategy for Sustainable Housing and Land Management in the ECE region 2014-2020, its programme of work for 2016-2017, and national policies on housing, urban development and land management. A number of side events were organized back to back with the Committee session.

Detailed schedule of events

Overview of schedule of events

13 and 14 September 2016

77th session of the Committee on Housing and Land Management.

Draft detailed programme       ENG RUS 

Please see below the annotated provisional agenda and related documents.

15 September 2016

Conference "The Housing Policies of our Future: How to make them Work".

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16 September 2016

Workshop “Strengthening national capacities for sustainable housing and urban development in countries with economies in transition” - (on invitation only), Room XVI. Draft Agenda ENG RUS

Urban Agenda for the EU: Housing Partnership Meeting - (on invitation only), Room S4.

Official documents

Document title ENG FRE RUS
Report of the 77th session
ECE/HBP/188
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Annotated provisional agenda
ECE/HBP/187
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Activities of the Committee on Housing and Land Management since the seventy-sixth session
ECE/HBP/2016/1 
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Guidance for the implementation of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing
ECE/HBP/2016/2
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Draft Programme of Work of the Real Estate Market Advisory Group for 2017-2018
ECE/HBP/2016/3
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The Key Performance Indicators on Smart Sustainable Cities to address the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
ECE/HBP/2016/4
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Recommendations for capacity-building activities on urban planning in countries with transition economies in the ECE region
ECE/HBP/2016/5
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Finalisation of the Country Profile on Housing and Land Management of Uzbekistan
ECE/HBP/2016/6
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Draft Executive Summary of the publication "Country Profile on Housing and Land Management - Republic of Armenia"
ECE/HBP/2016/7
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Unofficial documents

Document title ENG FRE RUS
Informal Note 1. Draft Declaration “Housing in liveable cities” PDF    
Informal Note 2. Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including on the development of the indicators PDF    
Informal Note 3: Housing migrants: challenges and practices in the UNECE region PDF    
Informal Note 3a: Project proposal on energy efficiency standards for buildings PDF    
Informal Note 3b: Terms of reference for the Joint Task Force on Energy Efficiency Standards in Buildings of the UNECE Region for 2016-2017 PDF    
Informal Note 5. United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) global initiative PDF    
Informal Note 6. Literature review on informal settlements and recommendations for the development of guidelines on informal settlements PDF    
Informal Note 7: Evaluation of the role of the UNECE Country Profiles on Housing and Land Management from 1996 to 2015 PDF  

Presentations

Day 1
Title ENG RUS

Nicolaas Beets, Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations
Keynote

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Roi Chiti, Secretariat of Habitat III 
Information on the preparations towards Habitat III and the draft new Urban Agenda
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High-level session on the implementation of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing 
Karam Hasanov
Chairman, State Committee on Property Issues, the Republic of Azerbaijan
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Denitsa Nikolova
Vice-Minister of Regional Development and Public Works of the Republic of Bulgaria 
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Doris Andoni
Director General, National Housing Agency, Albania
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Alena Rakava
Advisor, Ministry of Architecture and Construction, Belarus
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Andrey Chibis
Representative of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities, the Russian Federation
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Brian Mark Evans
Head of Urbanism, Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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HABITAT III Urban Lunch: presentation of the Habitat III Regional Report for the UNECE region
Frederic J. Saliez
Human Settlements Officer, UN-Habitat
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and perspectives for its implementation on housing and urban development in the UNECE Region
Michael Kunz
Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Development and Gender Unit, Office of the Executive Secretary, UNECE
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Tiina Luige
Chief of Section, Statistics Division, UNECE (tbc)
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Achieving access to affordable adequate housing
Gulnara Roll
Head, Housing and Land Management Unit, UNECE
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Orna Rosenfeld
Lecturer, Sciences Po, L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris, France
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Christophe Lalande
Leader, Housing Unit, Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch, UN-Habitat
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Magnus Hammar
International Union of Tenants
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Activities of the Real Estate Market Advisory Group
Giampiero Bambagioni
Chair of REM
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Day 2
Energy efficient housing
Stefanie Held
Section Chief, UNECE Sustainable Energy Division
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Nicholas Gazzard
President, Co-operative Housing International, Ontario, Canada
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Sylvain Labbé
COFFI, Président-directeur general, Bureau de promotion des produits du bois du Québec on cooperation with COFFI
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Elshad Khanalibayli
Chair of the Working Party on Land Administration
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Amie Figueiredo
Secretary of the Working Party on Land Administration, UNECE
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Marko Čanovic
General Director for Housing, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism of Montenegro
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Rik Wouters
Managing Director, EULIS; and Senior Land Administration Expert, Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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Activities of the Committee on urban planning
Remy Sietchiping
UN-Habitat
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Tatiana Khabarova
UN-Habitat
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United Smart Cities
Domenica Carriero
Smart Cities Project Coordinator, UNECE secretariat
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Daiva Matoniene
Deputy Minister of Environment, Lithuania
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Andres Jaadla
Covenant of Mayors
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Country profiles on housing and land management
Cecilia Batac
Country Profiles Programme Coordinator, Housing and Land Management Unit, UNECE
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Tursun Akhmedov
Director, Institute of Social studies under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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Armen Ghularyan
Deputy-Minister of Urban Development, Armenia
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Bakytzhan Kachakov
Head of Economic Analysis, Committee for construction, housing and communal services, Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan
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