2015 — In cooperation with the Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD), UN-Habitat organised an executive leadership programme for the newly elected county governors of Kenya. Two conferences were held, one in September and one in November.
The goals of the programme are i) to strengthen Governors capacity to handle challenges and opportunities arising from urbanization in counties; ii) intensification of the dialogue between county governors and the national government regarding urban challenges and opportunities faced by the counties; and ii) collective discussion on the challenges and opportunities of urbanization by the county governors with the objective of contributing their inputs into the national government’s work on urban development and the international processes relating to urbanization issues by the drafting of an urban statement.