HABITAT III: Thematic Meeting: Informal Settlements, Pretoria, 7-8 April 2016

The Habitat III Thematic Meeting: Informal Settlements, 7-8 April 2016, Pretoria, South Africa, "will explore approaches and strategies in the inter-related areas of tenure security and housing, livelihoods, safety, and governance. Planning and policy interventions aimed at improving the living conditions of informal settlements dwellers face key challenges, such as tenure security, land availability, provision of infrastructure, services, and socio-economic facilities, availability of appropriate construction materials and building technologies, poverty, high unemployment, and vulnerability.

The Habitat III Thematic Meeting will involve a wide range of participants that will deliver policy recommendations in the form of a final participants' declaration, that will be considered as an official input to the New Urban Agenda."