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Youth-led organizations working to improve urban living conditions in developing countries can now seek financing for their projects through a new UN-HABITAT fund provided by Norway, the agency announced on 25th March.
Among eligible countries are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
UN-HABITAT?s Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka has been named one of three winners of the 2009 Goeteborg Award, the prestigious 'Nobel Prize in Environment'.
The curtain came down on Friday 3 April, on the 22nd Session of the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT which was described as the most successful ever in the agency?s history.
Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka
