ACHIEVEMENTS
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To date the African Union has:
  • run 7 training courses for 237 middle and senior management in housing finance institutions (in Nairobi and Harare). Discussions are underway to establish an African Union Training Institute in Harare
  • sponsored 16 people to international and regional training courses for housing finance
  • facilitated staff exchanges among organisations regionally and internationally
  • participated in drawing up the Global Shelter Strategy through both private and public sector initiatives
  • organised and run a workshop resulting in the Mangochi Recommendations on Shelter and Urban Development in East and Southern Africa (Malawi, 1987)
  • organised and run a workshop on Informal Lending Organisations in Africa (Kenya, 1995)
  • held meetings, seminars and workshops in Nairobi, Lagos, Windhoek, Harare, Gaborone, Maseru, Mauritius, Cairo and Alexandria
  • hosted the International Union for Housing Finance Annual General Meeting and Conference, Malawi 1992
  • facilitated the formation of national associations of housing finance institutions in Kenya and Nigeria
  • liaised with international organisations and donors negotiated capital grants and loans on behalf of  members for specific housing projects
  • provided position papers on African housing finance at various international forums, including the Environmental Summit in Brazil in 1992
  • commissioned a series of Country Position Papers on member countries
  • brought out the Housing Faculty of the Wharton School Programme of the University of Pennsylvania in August 1999

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