Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka - Award winner 2009, Göteborg Award for sustainable development

Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and since2000 the Executive Director of the UN-HABITAT, the world organisation's settlement program with a mandate to promote socially and environmentally sustainable cities and towns. Under her watch the importance of UN-HABITATs active role has grown tremendously.
Based on the Millennium Declarations goal 2020 to lift 100 million sluminhabitants
out of poverty, Dr. Tibaijuka - pugnacious, aggressive and with a prominent African and third world perspective - is leading a successful global undertaking that includes water supplies and empowering women to improve their surroundings.
As one of the initiators of Cities in Climate Change Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka is also advancing the practical climate work being carried out in major cities.

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• Göteborgspriset
• UN-HABITAT

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! on your award