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Financing for shelter and urban development
Nairobi, 11 April, 2005 – Government ministers and senior officials from around the world agreed during the UN-HABITAT Governing Council that poor people are not high-risk borrowers as micro-financing initiatives around in many countries have shown.
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The 20th session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT) is scheduled to be held from 4 to 8 April 2005. The meeting will take place at UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Two special themes, on:
1. Involvement of civil society in improving local governance; and
2. Post-conflict, natural and man-made disasters assessment and reconstruction.
Implementing and monitoring the goal of the United Nations Millennium Declaration on improving the lives of slum dwellers.