UN Habitat Best Practice and Local Leadership Award was be presented in Dubai on 29th March 2011 to the Luanda Urban Poverty Programme – LUPP. The Awards are announced every two years. This is the highest international award possible for such work. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is theUN 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. The Municipality of Dubai sponsors this UN Habitat Best Practice and Local Leadership Award as testimony to the significant impact and results achieved by LUPP and that it is “a concrete solution to the problems faced by communities”.
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